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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 »

By Louisa Glynne, MIT Department of Biological Engineering Despite the fact that Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, with more than 400,000 new cases every year, there are no consistently accurate tests for Lyme. Known in the medical... 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 »

The last meeting of the 2019-2020 Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was held online on Dec.2. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the proceedings. Scroll below to see how the meeting played out. Read More »

The following is a press release from the Infectious Disease Society of America. Analysis from LymeDisease.org will be forthcoming. New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease have been developed by a... Read More »

By Kate Arthur, Illinois State University Few researchers have studied how a tick’s brain works, but that’s what caught the attention of Dr. Carola Städele. As a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, she studies a tick’s every move by recording them as... Read More »