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The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will present its first report to Congress in December 2018. The federal panel has completed its draft report, which now goes to various government agencies for review. Anything more than copy edits will come back to the Working Group and... Read More »

Newsweek, July 26, 2018 By Abbey Interrante Tick-borne diseases may continue to get worse in the United States, public health officials say. A new paper from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reveals that diseases from ticks could become more... Read More »

The following is a press release from the National Institutes of Health, July 25, 2018. LymeDisease.org does not necessarily agree with all the points mentioned here. The incidence of tick-borne infections in the United States has risen significantly within the past decade. It is... Read More »

Here’s what we live-tweeted during the July 24 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Read More »

I was recently contacted by a reporter for a national news organization. She was blunt: why is your organization so opposed to a vaccine for Lyme disease? Note, she didn’t say “what is your organization’s opinion about it?” or “are you opposed to it?” She re-stated several... Read More »

A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest... Read More »

I recently submitted a projected cost of illness analysis for Lyme disease to the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group. (My full comments are here.) The conclusion is that the number of people with chronic Lyme disease likely ranges between 1 and 3 million and the annual... Read More »

The following is written by a 23-year-old woman who writes the Dreaming Panda blog, about her experiences coping with Lyme disease and PANS/PANDAS—an autoimmune condition that can be triggered by such infections as strep, Lyme disease, and others. By Iris Ainsley In 2012, when I... Read More »

By Kerry Lawless Looking back, it’s easy to see the signs, to recognize the symptoms, to know that it was Lyme disease. But in 2007, I had never heard of Lyme disease. It was something we still thought of as rare. Not as something you can pick up anywhere in Ireland. I got... Read More »