Focus – Opinions and Features

Beth Carrison delivered the following remarks to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 8. Over the past several months, increased attention is being paid to minority health disparities. As written in the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group’s 2018 Report to Congress, cases... Read More »

Wendy Adams gave the following statement via telephone, during the July 8 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Wendy Adams of Bay Area Lyme Foundation, and I was a member of the inaugural Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, and most recently a member of the... Read More »

Dr. Elizabeth Maloney delivered the following remarks to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 8. Good morning. I am speaking with the support of ILADS’ board of directors. I co-authored ILADS 2014 guidelines. If you haven’t read our guidelines, please do. I’m here to... Read More »

By Rachel Leland As someone who has done more than my share of “sheltering in place” over the years, I’ve long been a fan of ordering things from Amazon. I buy everything from groceries to clothing to flashlight batteries. Heck, I even bought the dress I got married in from... Read More »

by Jennifer Shea In 2016, I had a flu-like illness with a sudden onset of neck and back pain. I suspected Lyme disease, so my physician ordered the two-tiered test. It was negative. Thus began a two-year quest to find the cause of my unrelenting neck pain and a growing list of... Read More »

By Meghan Ward As a young, adventurous girl, I loved exploring the outdoors and its beauty.  I grew up on Long Island, where the threat of ticks is high and playing in the woods did not reduce my chances of being infected. Around the age of seven, I was bitten by a tick and... Read More »

by Sandra Berenbaum “Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.”  ~Viktor Frankl All of my psychotherapy clients live in the Lyme world. Most have Lyme themselves and/or their children have Lyme. Now, of course, they all live in the COVID-19 world as well. Getting through these highly... Read More »

Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, April 29, 2020: At a time when it seems that everyone and their little sister has a conspiracy theory, not to mention during an ongoing global pandemic, a title like Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons might tempt... Read More »

Phyllis Mervine prepared the following remarks as public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Due to phone connectivity problems, however, she was unable to deliver them herself. Therefore, at April 27’s online meeting, they were read to the panel by... Read More »