A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest... Read More »

News release from Bay Area Lyme Foundation. July 12, 2018: Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced the results of the first citizen-scientist study to evaluate the prevalence of disease-carrying ticks... Read More »

Press release from FDA, July 10, 2018. (Editor’s note: fluoroquinolones are sometimes prescribed for Lyme disease treatment.) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is requiring safety labeling changes for a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to strengthen... Read More »

From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, July 9, 2018: In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19... Read More »

Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2018 by Sumathi Reddy Efforts to bring a vaccine for Lyme disease to the market have run aground amid heated debate over the years. Now, a European company is in the early stages of creating a vaccine for the increasingly common tick-borne disease.... Read More »

Press release from New York Assemblymember Didi Barrett, July 3, 2018: As New York enters the height of tick season, and as a new and rare tick-borne disease is emerging in the region, Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D – Columbia, Dutchess) announced the passage of two... Read More »

The Lyme community is very concerned about how the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will approach the question of a Lyme vaccine in its upcoming report to Congress. The following written comments regarding the Lyme vaccine were recently submitted to the TBDWG by... Read More »

Vox.com, July 27, 2018: By German Lopez Voters in Oklahoma on Tuesday elected to legalize medical marijuana, which makes the state the 30th to allow the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Oklahoma State Question 788 allows individuals 18 and older to obtain a medical... Read More »

From the Health and Human Services website: The seventh meeting of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held on July 24, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. The Working Group will review and vote on the content of the five chapters that will be submitted into the... Read More »