The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition to protest the IDSA Lyme guidelines continues to grow–both in the United States and abroad. At this writing, 77 organizations in eight countries have endorsed the coalition’s rebuttal to the guidelines. (Update: 87 groups in... Read More »

The Pennsylvania State House Of Representatives passed HB 629 last April. This bill would provide access to care for Lyme disease and co-infections by requiring insurance coverage for clinical treatment including antibiotics and anti-microbials. The bill is now on the Senate... Read More »

Several ticks recently collected along the Lopez Canyon Trail in San Diego County’s Sorrento Valley have tested positive for tularemia. Tularemia, also known as “rabbit fever,” is often found in wild hares, rabbits and rodents. This is the sixth time this year that... Read More »

Syracuse.com, August 29, 2019 By Mary Beth Pfeiffer In one week recently, a Hudson Valley woman died from a paralyzing virus and an Ontario, Canada, boy suffered meningitis, both from the bite of a disease-toting tick. This year, in Central New York, conservatively hundreds will... Read More »

Lymevereniging, known in English as the Dutch Lyme Association, has endorsed the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition’s rebuttal to the IDSA’s Lyme treatment guidelines. There are now 67 organizations in the coalition, representing six countries: the US, Canada,... Read More »

When researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice high in the Tyrolean Alps some 5,300 years ago, they made a startling discovery. Secreted within the tangles of the ice man’s genetic code was evidence he’d been infected with a bacterial pathogen,... Read More »

The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition—formed to file a rebuttal to the new IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines—now has 58 member organizations from four nations. (Sept.6 update: 77 groups from eight countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and... Read More »

Entomology Today, August 22, 2019 By Melissa Mayer Scientists know a great deal about how blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) feed on hosts, such as whitefooted mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and woodland deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), but what happens after the ticks drink... Read More »

STAT News (Boston Globe Media), August 22, 2019 by Brittany Flaherty As the threat of Lyme disease grows and fears surrounding it spread faster than the ticks that carry the infection, researchers are developing two vaccine or vaccine-like approaches to prevent this increasingly... Read More »