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The name “borreliosis” can refer to two distinct but similar infections: Lyme disease and tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF). Both diseases result from different subspecies of Borrelia. They exhibit many of the same symptoms and both are spreading geographically.... Read More »

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Northeastern University Chronic Lyme disease has frustrated doctors and patients alike for years. The severe, lingering symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, muscle and joint pain, arthritis, or cognitive difficulties, have disrupted patients’ lives and... Read More »

Research from UCLA suggests that many physicians may not have the knowledge or training to properly recognize how Lyme disease appears on the skin of Black people. In a study just published in the peer-reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, UCLA’s Dr. Dan Ly analyzed data... Read More »

The House of Representatives this week passed an amendment offered by New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, directing the federal government’s “watchdog” agency to investigate the Department of Defense’s (DOD) possible weaponization of ticks and other insects with Lyme disease... Read More »

News Center Maine, an NBC affiliate in Portland, provides regular coverage of issues related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. This week, the TV news show examined the alternative treatment of cold laser therapy. Click below to see Vivien Leigh’s report. Read More »

by Kris Newby Communications Director, Invisible International Monica Embers, PhD, director of the vector-borne disease research center at Tulane University School of Medicine, summarizes evidence that suggests that Lyme bacteria can survive long after standard treatment... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the August 26 meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Look below for her summary of what happened. (Slide the bar on the right to advance the images.) Read More »

Columbia Magazine (Columbia University in New York City) August 19, 2021 By David J. Craig …With a $16 million gift from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the group, led by Brian Fallon, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)... Read More »

US News and World Report, August 17, 2021 by Steven Reinberg Lyme disease can exact a significant mental toll as well as a physical one on its sufferers, a new study confirms. Patients hospitalized for Lyme disease had a 28% higher incidence of mental disorders and were twice as... Read More »