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By Dana Parish, The Huffington Post, March 25, 2016 I just had a flashback. When I was diagnosed with Lyme, I knew little about it. I went to the first infectious disease doctor with my bullseye still present, asking lots of questions. Among them, are you sure this three weeks of... Read More »

French scientists collected Ixodes ticks from nine locations in northern France and tested them for 38 pathogens. They found that almost half of the ticks carried at least two diseases, while many carried up to five. Results have been published in PLOS, under the title... Read More »

Press release, March 17, 2016 DOVER – Noting that Delaware had the sixth-highest incidence of Lyme disease in the United States in 2013, House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf and Sen. Ernie Lopez filed two bills Wednesday recommended by a task force he co-chaired to prevent the spread... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Dana Parish A July 2014 wedding on Long Beach Island, New Jersey was the start of my nightmare. It was a beautiful weekend filled with love for two of our dearest friends who were, after 14 years... Read More »

Press release, March 14, 2016: Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) President Pat Smith has been appointed to the Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) Programmatic Panel for the Tick-Borne Disease Research Program (TBDRP), a new program in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of... Read More »

Student filmmakers from SUNY Broome Community College in New York explore the impact of Lyme disease in their local area.   Read More »

The following Lyme education events are scheduled in the coming months. Contact individual organizations for details.     April 30, Saturday. Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education Conference. Wiscasset, Maine. Keynote speaker: Dr. Dan Cameron, immediate past... Read More »

  In an op-ed piece in a Connecticut newspaper, two scientists from the Global Lyme Alliance call for more NIH funding for Lyme disease research.      Hartford Courant, March 6, 2016 It’s now 35 years since a corkscrew-shaped bacterium was identified as the... Read More »

Los Angeles, February 23 — LymeDisease.org, the leading research advocacy organization for Lyme disease, announced today that Lorraine Johnson, chief executive officer, has been invited by the White House to participate in the upcoming Precision Medicine Initiative Summit on... Read More »