Focus – Opinions and Features

By Steve Doherty I was bitten on the neck by a tick in 1996, while camping in southern Mississippi. But I didn’t notice or remove the tick until five days after I returned home. Looking back, I now recognize the subtle symptoms in the years following, such as hand rashes,... Read More »

By Casey Fillian Thirty-seven years ago, I went to summer camp in a heavily wooded area of New Jersey. I started coming down with odd symptoms a few weeks later. I had high fevers, exhaustion, muscle aches, a mysterious rash on my torso, and a knee swollen twice its size. For... Read More »

Cortney McCord delivered the following public comment at the Feb.28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. My name is Cortney McCord. I’m a 41-year-old registered nurse from Northeast Mississippi. On May 8, 2021, I found a deer tick on my leg. I developed an... Read More »

Jody Hudson delivered the following remarks as public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on Feb.28. Have we heard from a doctor yet? Is someone going to be able to help me? These were the same questions that my 22-year-old daughter Alex had asked over the... Read More »

Bonnie Crater gave the following public comment at the February 28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Bonnie Crater from Portola Valley, CA.  I co-founded the Bay Area Lyme Foundation which is the largest public charity funding Lyme disease research in... Read More »

Col. Nicole Malachowski delivered the following public comment to the February 28, 2022, meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group. I’m Colonel Nicole Malachowski, United States Air Force, Retired. Lyme disease & tick-borne illness pose a unique risk to military... Read More »

By Monica White In partnership with Lyme disease advocates from Colorado, Dr. Daniel Kinderlehrer recently held a webinar entitled Microbes and Mental Illness: PANS and Tick-Borne Infections. He discussed the varied presentations, diagnostics, and treatments for several pathogens... Read More »

By Jennifer Barrett As a third-year law student, I recently wrote a law journal article entitled: It’s About Lyme: Why Congress Must Enact Medical Insurance Coverage Laws for Lyme Disease Patients Now. It was published in Seattle University Law Review’s online companion journal,... Read More »

By Wendy Adams, Bay Area Lyme Foundation Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll have learned that tick-borne diseases are on the rise across the United States. Many theories exist as to why this is the case. However, most scientists that study ticks... Read More »