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The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) is initiating a new state-wide active tick surveillance program. It will provide critical information on the distribution and abundance of ticks and the prevalence of current and newly emerging agents of human disease. These... Read More »

Nicole Sommavilla first started experiencing bizarre, life-threatening symptoms when she was in college. It took four years to get properly diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease. Now a reporter with WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York, she tells her compelling story here. Read More »

New York State Sen. Jen Metzger, who has been diagnosed with Lyme disease on five different occasions, says she’s “extremely disappointed” that funding to combat the illness has been cut from the final budget. She vows to pursue other funding opportunities to combat tick-borne... Read More »

Bartonella, also called “cat scratch disease,” is often a co-infection of Lyme disease. It can be transmitted by fleas, ticks and cat scratches. The following podcast is from North Carolina State University. In it, Tracy Peake interviews Ed Breitschwerdt, infectious... Read More »

by Adam Piore Staten Island residents have another reason to apply insect repellent and obsessively check for ticks this spring and summer: the Asian longhorned tick. The population of the new, potentially dangerous invasive pest has grown dramatically across the borough,... Read More »

Legislation to give Lyme sufferers insurance coverage for antibiotics, testing and doctor visits today unanimously passed the Illinois House. HB 0889, sponsored by Representative Dan Swanson, amends the Illinois Insurance Code and makes conforming changes in the Health... Read More »

By Thomas Grier Recently, the National Institute on Aging, as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approved the acceptance of research to study the role of microbes in causing dementia. This announcement came right on the heels of a recent UK study detecting bacteria... Read More »

A Pennsylvania bill to require insurance coverage of Lyme disease treatment has passed the House Health Committee. It now moves on to the House floor. HB 629 would require health insurers to cover treatment plans for Lyme disease or related tick-borne illnesses, as prescribed by... Read More »

Many Lyme disease patients report severe chronic pain, numbness and tingling, even after they have supposedly “completed” treatment for Lyme disease. But up until recently, there hasn’t been an objective way to measure those symptoms. You had to report them to the... Read More »