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Kristina Bauer of the Texas Lyme Alliance and the Disulfiram for Lyme website has posted two new YouTube videos, interviewing Dr. Daniel Kinderlehrer. They discussed his new book “Recovery from Lyme Disease: The Integrative Medicine Guide to Diagnosing and Treating... Read More »

By Melissa Wright COVID-19 has created a ‘new normal’ for many of us over the last year. The way we live, work, and shop for our daily needs has been drastically modified. An unprecedented number of people in the United States have contracted the illness and many have lost loved... Read More »

Birds play an underrecognized role in spreading tick-borne disease due to their capacity for long-distance travel and tendency to split their time in different parts of the world – patterns that are shifting due to climate change. Knowing which bird species are able to infect... Read More »

Update: The president signed this into law on Dec. 27, 2020. From Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action: Congratulations to all you Lyme advocates who played a key role in getting historic increases for Lyme disease funding passed by the House and Senate yesterday. The... Read More »

by Phyllis Mervine I started this organization more than 30 years ago to empower people with Lyme disease. Our aim: to change a medical system that ignores us, and to push for new tests and treatments to help people reclaim their lives. Three decades in, those goals are more... Read More »

Lorraine Johnson, CEO of LymeDisease.org, was interviewed on a podcast by Robert Herriman, editor of Outbreak News Today. The pair discussed the new Lyme treatment guidelines recently published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Herriman started out by asking... Read More »

The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) has issued new treatment guidelines for the tick-borne infection babesiosis. Previously, the IDSA’s recommendations for treating the illness were included in the group’s 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. Peter Krause, M.D., of the Yale... Read More »

By Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Bartonella bacteria are increasingly recognized as an emerging infectious disease threat. A new study by North Carolina State University researchers has found additional instances of Bartonella infection in humans who exhibited... Read More »

“The Monster Inside Me” is a documentary film seen through the point of view of a couple living and coping with Lyme disease. According to the film’s Facebook page, “We want to highlight the isolation, abandonment, anxiety, grief, rage, and depression... Read More »