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 »
IDSA publishes new Lyme disease treatment guidelines
30
NOV
2020
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 »
What makes ticks tick: researcher studies their every move
22
NOV
2020
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 »
Final meeting of Working Group is Dec. 2; submit comments by Nov. 23
20
NOV
2020
The Eighteenth Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will be held on December 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET. This is an online meeting and is open to the public. During this meeting, the TBDWG will finalize and vote on the 2020 report to the HHS Secretary... Read More »
All 8 insurance companies settle in Lyme patient lawsuit against IDSA
20
NOV
2020
All eight insurance companies named in Torrey v. Infectious Diseases Society of America have settled the case, according to journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer on Twitter. That’s the federal lawsuit filed by a group of Lyme patients against the IDSA, six authors of the IDSA Lyme... Read More »
Tweet summary of Nov.17 meeting of TBD Working Group
18
NOV
2020
LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the November 17 online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Click below to scroll through her summation of how the day played out. Read More »
Activist co-authors journal article on Colorado ticks and their diseases
16
NOV
2020
By Monica White Citizen science! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to co-author a newly published article in the “Journal of Medical Entomology.” It’s called Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Record for Argus radiatus... Read More »
Researchers identify a protein that can help protect against Lyme disease
13
NOV
2020
by Bill Hathaway, Yale University Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, they report Nov. 11 in the journal PLOS... Read More »
Researchers identify new Rickettsia species in dogs
12
NOV
2020
by Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that may cause significant disease in dogs and humans. This new yet unnamed species, initially identified in three dogs, is part of... Read More »
LDO achieved Gold level: Committment To Transparency