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The long-awaited ninth meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group took place in Washington DC on June 4. Our Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the day’s proceedings. Move the scroll bar to view her tweets (and re-tweets and comments from LymeDisease.org President Phyllis Mervine.) Read More »

Less than 24 hours before the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) holds its June 4 meeting, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finally named its selections for the newest incarnation of the panel. Among the controversial choices is Dr. Eugene Shapiro.... Read More »

Two women from Fresno, California, are featured in a TV segment about Lyme disease. One, Jody Hudson, lost her 22-year-daughter Alex to the illness last year. She has since founded the Alex Hudson Foundation, to help make sure no other family has to go through what they did. The... Read More »

A new study entitled “Mixed Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori Biofilms in Morgellons Disease Dermatological Specimens” revealed that mixed bacterial biofilms are present within Morgellons disease skin specimens. The study, published in the prestigious journal... Read More »

(Update: Click here to sign our petition to remove Shapiro from the TBDWG.) The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has announced on its website that Yale pediatrician Dr. Eugene Shapiro has been named to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. So far, there has... Read More »

A report describing detection of the bacterial agent of Lyme disease in a genital lesion lends support to possible sexual transmission of the disease. The report was published in the prestigious Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports. It supports a pilot study... Read More »

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) is initiating a new state-wide active tick surveillance program. It will provide critical information on the distribution and abundance of ticks and the prevalence of current and newly emerging agents of human disease. These... Read More »

By Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University In a new case study, researchers at North Carolina State University describe an adolescent human patient diagnosed with rapid onset schizophrenia who was found instead to have a Bartonella henselae infection. This study adds to the... Read More »

Dr. Charles Ray Jones is the world’s leading pediatric Lyme specialist. He has treated well over 15,000 children from around the globe, over a period of more than four decades. He has helped countless more, by training doctors and sharing his vast knowledge at conferences... Read More »