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The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group issued its 2018 Report to Congress a few weeks ago, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) doesn’t like it. In a six-page letter to the Working Group dated Nov. 26. 2018, the president of the IDSA, Dr. Cynthia Sears,... Read More »

The last meeting of the first phase of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was held on December 3, 2018. The panel recently submitted its 2018 Report to Congress. Nominations are open for the next phase of the Working Group, which will culminate in a second report to... Read More »

John Hopkins researchers:  Plant compounds may be better than current antibiotics intreating persistent Lyme bacteria. Oils from garlic and several other common herbs and medicinal plants show strong activity against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, according to a study by... Read More »

Mosquitoes and ticks trapped in amber, still carrying ancient infections, yield important clues about the spread of vector-borne diseases. by Steve Lundberg, Oregon State University The microorganisms that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and a variety of other illnesses today can be... Read More »

The Illinois legislature has unanimously overridden Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a bill to allow doctors more leeway in using antibiotics to treat Lyme disease. House Bill 4515 — also known as the Lauryn Russell Lyme Disease Prevention & Protection Law — was initiated by State... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has issued its first report to Congress. The document calls on the federal government to focus more resources on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. The panel was first convened in December 2017, in accordance with the... Read More »

The CDC’s 2017 Lyme disease statistics are in: 42,743 “reported” cases. Using the CDC’s own estimate that Lyme is under-reported by a factor of 10, that’s puts the yearly number at closer to 427, 430 cases, the highest it’s ever been. “Reported” means only those cases that meet... Read More »

Researchers shine light on the link between Borrelia spirochetes and a mysterious skin condition. Morgellons disease is frequently associated with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the agent of Lyme disease, as well as tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia (RFB), according to a study... Read More »

Here’s the final wrap-up of our tweets from ILADS’ recent annual conference in Chicago. This is compiled by LymeDisease.org blogger Lonnie Marcum. Click here for Friday tweets. Click here for Saturday tweets. See below for Sunday’s tweets. Read More »