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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 »

Donating Lyme-infected tissue to new Lyme BioBank, possible connection between Gulf War Syndrome and Bartonella, and a deep dive into mast cell activation syndrome were discussed on the second day of the 2018 conference of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.... Read More »

Bartonella, parasites and mast cell activation were among the many topics addressed at this year’s conference of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society in Chicago. Scroll down to see how LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the first... Read More »