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From Boston25 News, WFXT, May 23, 2019 by Jim Morelli It’s an infection transmitted by ticks that may not make you sick but could kill someone who gets your donated blood. It’s called babesiosis and the Food and Drug Administration just came out with strict new... Read More »

In a bipartisan effort to improve research, prevention, diagnostics, and treatment for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, U.S. Senators Susan Collins, of Maine, and Tina Smith, of Minnesota, today introduced the Ticks: Identify, Control, and Knockout (TICK) Act. If passed, it... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group is scheduled to meet in Washington DC on June 4. So far, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not announced new members of the group. However, the Infectious Diseases Society of America has posted on its website that... 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 »

From Healthday News, May 15, 2019: By Steven Reinberg As deer populations have exploded across America, moving from forests to suburbs to urban parks, they have brought the threat of Lyme disease to millions of city dwellers, a new study finds. In fact, the deer tick that spreads... Read More »

The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) will offer its first-ever meeting for medical professionals devoted specifically to mental health issues as they relate to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. It will be held September 7, 2019, at the San Francisco... Read More »

Since December, the Lyme community has been waiting to learn who will be appointed as new members  of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. You may recall, the 14-member panel was first formed in 2017, in accordance with the provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. The... Read More »

The mainstream “origin story” of Lyme disease in the United States goes like this: In the 1970s, a mysterious ailment afflicted a group of people in and around Lyme, Connecticut. Eventually, scientists determined it was caused by a spirochete transmitted by the bite of an Ixodes... Read More »

By Jenny Kravitz On January 3, 2019, my family’s whole world changed LITERALLY OVER NIGHT. Our once loving little man (now age 6) was filled with rage, aggression and hatred. He went from snuggling with me and loving me, to lashing out at me, telling me he hated me, wanted... Read More »