Written public comments to the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group’s June 4, 2019, meeting are finally available to the public. Comments to the TBDWG were due a week before the group met. Click here to read the comments on the Health and Human Services website.... Read More »

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has confirmed a case of Powassan virus infection in a Maine resident. This is the first case of the tick-borne illness in the state since 2017. Maine CDC received notification of the case this week from the New... Read More »

In 1975, Polly Murray of Lyme, Connecticut, called the State Department of Health to report an unusual pattern of symptoms affecting her family and her community, and listed over 40 cases of what would come to be known as Lyme disease. For the next 20 years, she worked hard to... Read More »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has agreed to add a disclaimer to the surveillance case definition for Lyme disease. The disclaimer says that the definition is “not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how... Read More »

On July 17, the Washington Post reported on the House of Representatives’ recent request for an investigation into allegations that Lyme disease may have been weaponized. New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith cited the recent book, BITTEN, when he proposed the amendment to... Read More »

The US House of Representatives last week passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey questioning a possible link between Lyme disease and biowarfare. It directs the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to investigate the “possible involvement of DOD... Read More »

Roll Call, July 15, 2019 By John M. Donnelly The House quietly voted last week to require the Pentagon inspector general to tell Congress whether the department experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects and whether they were released into the public realm — either... Read More »

Nearly 36 percent of patients with a tick-borne disease spent more than $10,000 on tests, treatments, appointments, and other costs associated with their disease, a new IGeneX survey found. The survey analyzed the cases of 198 patients from 2018 and 2019 who were teste... Read More »

More than 25,000 people have signed our petition to remove Eugene Shapiro from the federal tick-borne disease Working Group. Our thanks to everyone who has signed it and helped share our message. The petition is still open. It’s still an important way to register your... Read More »