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A bill requiring health officials to keep track of people who have died of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases has passed the New York State Senate and now goes to the Assembly. The bill (S.677A) requires coroners, pathologists and medical examiners to report promptly to the local... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has submitted its 2020 Report to Congress. The document is now available to the public on the Health and Human Services website. Click here to download your own copy.                 Read More »

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 »