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 »
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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 »
Galaxy Diagnostics launches new direct-detection test for Lyme disease
12
NOV
2020
Press release from Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc. Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc., has announced the launch of the Nanotrap® Urine Test for Lyme Borreliosis. This urine-based Lyme antigen test provides the most sensitive direct detection of Borrelia burgdorferi infection at all stages of the... Read More »
Giving Tuesday is just one way to support LymeDisease.org
09
NOV
2020
By Carolyn Degnan Giving Tuesday, started nine years ago as a national day of charitable giving, falls on December 1 this year. If you are a Giving Tuesday participant, we hope you’ll include LymeDisease.org in your donations. Support from individuals like you helps us continue... Read More »
Miss California USA kept mum about Lyme disease for 24 years
04
NOV
2020
People, November 4, 2020 by Joelle Goldstein Allyshia Gupta is embracing the truth about her health and revealing she has Lyme disease, more than 20 years after being diagnosed. Gupta, who was crowned Miss California USA in January, tells PEOPLE that she first learned she had... Read More »
Register for Nov. 17 meeting of TBD Working Group; comments due Nov. 6
30
OCT
2020
The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) meets next on November 17, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET. This online meeting is open to the public. Meeting Registration Register for the meeting here. Once registered, you will receive an email confirmation with a personalized... Read More »
Horowitz: Dapsone + doxy + rifampin very effective for chronic Lyme
28
OCT
2020
A groundbreaking in vivo clinical study conducted by Dr. Richard Horowitz has found that an eight-week course of the leprosy drug dapsone combined with doxycycline and rifampin is effective in improving symptoms in 98% of patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease/Post... Read More »
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