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Lyme Disease: The Musical (Original Cast Recording) will be released on music streaming platforms on July 28. It is the musical companion to the original dark comedy Lyme Disease: The Musical, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles in June 2022. The... Read More »

From the makers of The Quiet Epidemic: The Quiet Epidemic‘s film festival circuit has wrapped up with the ReelAbilities Film Festival in New York City, where our co-directors received an award for directing the film. Our producer Chris Hegedus and subjects Julia and Enrico... Read More »

Meghan O’Rourke, author of “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness,” will speak at the National Academies’ workshop on long-haul diseases in Washington DC June 29-30. O’Rourke’s book, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award, draws on her personal experience with... Read More »

by Jacquelyn Kauffman, Washington University in St. Louis On a cold spring morning, Washington University in St. Louis virologist Jacco Boon, PhD, and wildlife ecologist Solny Adalsteinsson, PhD, flap and drag a large white flag through a woodsy area on the western edge of St.... Read More »

by Washington State University Tick season is here, along with the increased danger of Lyme disease, and it turns out the tiny arachnids are even tougher than scientists previously thought. A recent study in Ecological Monographs shows blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are... Read More »

Melissa Bell, of the Florida Lyme Disease Association, is among those interviewed in a recent TV news story about Lyme disease. She spoke about how difficult it was to get Lyme testing when her then-11 year old son first became ill. Reporter Renata Di Gregorio,  of First Coast... Read More »

May 22-26 was “Tick Week” at News Center Maine, an NBC-affiliated TV station in Portland, Maine. Reporter Vivian Leigh filed the following daily stories: May 22: New ticks species and pathogens expanding into Maine So far this year, the Maine Center for Disease Control and... Read More »

Siri, a 17-year-old Nordic ski racer from Vermont, has suffered from chronic Lyme disease since she was a young child. She has undergone a variety of treatments, and her health has had its ups and downs through the years.. She’s featured in My Body Odyssey, a podcast about the... Read More »

The US Department of Agriculture has conditionally licensed an oral Lyme vaccine that targets mice. The substance is sprayed onto pellets and distributed in natural settings to be consumed by mice in the wild. That vaccinates the mice against Lyme bacteria, so they will not pass... Read More »