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The Argus Leader, a South Dakota newspaper, reports about a Boy Scout who had to do his own research to discover his troubling symptoms were due to Lyme disease. Read More »

Last spring, the Lyme Disease Awareness Car garnered enough votes in the on-line "Sponsifier" race to win an official NASCAR helmet. The helmet will make some publicity rounds, and then will be enshrined at the office of Dr. Charles Ray Jones, so children he treats may... Read More »

The California Lyme Disease Association has officially changed its name to LymeDisease.org. As founder and chair Phyllis Mervine explains, the goals of the organization have not changed. Read More »

A Lyme disease awareness float took 4th place at the Four States Fair and Rodeo parade last weekend. It was sponsored and created by the Arklatex Lyme Support Group. Read More »

The California Department of Public Health and the DEET Education Program have posted the finalists in their Tick-Bite Prevention video contest. The public is invited to vote for their favorite. Anyone living in the US can vote, and each person can vote one time. Read More »

A workshop geared towards mental health professionals explored how Lyme disease can affect the brain in profound ways--psychiatric illness, cognitive problems, even eating disorders. Rhode Island TV station NBC-10 interviewed several of the speakers, including psychiatrist and... Read More »

News that Advanced Laboratories plans to release a blood culture test for Borrelia has ignited lots of interest in the Lyme community. Apparently these tests will be available within the next several weeks in all states except New York, California, and Florida. (Those states... Read More »

Guest blogger Liz Schmitz, of the Georgia Lyme Disease Association, analyzes the CDC's new report that correlates dog and human cases of Lyme in the US. She finds that while the concept of the report is good, its conclusions are based on flawed and subjective data. Read More »