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By Barbara Keber, MD, and Holly Ahern We need a national public-private strategy that abandons our current low-impact approach to diseases brought by ticks. If you have not yet suffered with Lyme disease or one of the illnesses associated with the bite of a tick, you probably... Read More »

Dr. Sam Telford is an infectious diseases researcher at Tufts University. He recently published an article dismissing concerns about possible connections between Lyme disease and the US government’s past biowarfare research. Author Kris Newby responds.  Open letter to Dr.... 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 »

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 »

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 »

Journalist Apoorva Mandavilli writes in the New York Times about her family’s experience with Lyme disease. It’s called My son got Lyme disease. He’s totally fine. Here’s what she says in a nutshell: Four weeks of doxycycline [supposedly] cured her 9-year-old son of Lyme disease.... Read More »

Vox.com, June 25, 2019 by Kris Newby I opened a file drawer and pulled out 12.4 pounds of medical records organized in two large binders. Tucked inside the top binder’s front pocket was a grainy photo of my husband and me sitting on a misty beach on a small island near... Read More »

LymeDisease.org submitted written testimony last month to Congress, asking for Lyme disease funding to be increased to $202 million. Here’s what we said: Submitted by: Phyllis Mervine, President and Founder, LymeDisease.org Prepared for: House Committee on Appropriations,... Read More »