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The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met online to finalize details of its upcoming Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the proceedings. Scroll down to see what happened on Oct. 4. Click here to see Day 2’s summary.   Read More »

The Center for Lyme Action (CLA), a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., lobbies on behalf of the Lyme community. Its goal is to expand federal funding for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Here’s CLA’s latest message about what’s happening in Congress. Dear Lyme... Read More »

Maine is on track to break records for several tick-borne diseases this year. In a news release this week, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 1,900 cases of Lyme disease so far in 2022. This compares to about 1,500 last year. The agency also... Read More »

Health officials in Ireland claim there were only four cases of Lyme disease in their country last year. Dr. Jack Lambert, a professor of infectious diseases at University College Dublin’s School of Medicine, vehemently disagrees. In a recent segment on The Pat Kenny Show,... Read More »

An older person who resides in a rural area of Jackson County, Illinois, recently tested positive for the Heartland virus. According to state health officials, this is the third reported case of the tick-borne infection in Illinois since 2018. The state’s first two... Read More »

According to CDC statistics, there is little or no Lyme disease in the southern United States. Is that an accurate picture? Or is the illness vastly under-reported? Two experts in the field discuss these questions and more in a webinar called “Lyme in the South.”... Read More »

The Washington State Department of Health has reported the first locally acquired human case of the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis in a Washington resident. A Whatcom County man in his 80s was hospitalized with severe disease and is now in recovery. He was likely bitten by an... Read More »

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease. As described in a study published in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation,  Steven... Read More »

Leslie Griffith, who anchored the news for San Francisco-area TV station KTVU for over 20 years, has died, reportedly after a years-long battle with Lyme disease. She was 66. Griffith died Wednesday in Lake Chapala, Mexico, where she lived since 2016. After leaving KTVU in 2006,... Read More »