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Routine tick monitoring last week turned up a Pacific Coast tick infected with tularemia. Also known as rabbit fever, it's a serious bacterial infection which can be spread to humans via tick bite or through direct contact with infected animals. The Pacific Coast tick is... Read More »

The Tampa Tribune looks at how hard it is to get properly diagnosed with Lyme disease in Florida. "We're lepers," says one advocate. "We can't get treatment. We are the new HIV/AIDS patients and we are being ignored by physicians and if they do let us... Read More »

Earlier in the week, the Fayetteville Observer profiled the plight of a North Carolina soldier in a story headlined: "Mystery illness upends lives of soldier, family." Today, the paper updates that story with the news that man will seek "radical" treatment for... Read More »

The Roanoke Times reports on the second meeting of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's task force on Lyme disease. Read More »

The American Library Association (ALA) has named the Lyme documentary to its list of 15 outstanding video programs that they recommend for library collections. It called UNDER OUR SKIN "a probing analysis of the controversial long term effects of Lyme disease, and the... Read More »

Certain brands of alcohol prep pads, swabs, and swabsticks have been recalled due to possible contamination. These are typically used to clean the skin prior to an injection. They are also used when changing the dressing on a PICC line (used by many Lyme patients receiving IV... Read More »

The UNDER OUR SKIN blog has created a useful graph showing that "official" cases of Lyme in the US have increased 94% over the last 5 years. The article also explain why there is such a large gap between reported and actual cases of Lyme, and how the reporting criteria... Read More »

The third installment of this newspaper's series on chronic Lyme takes a comprehensive look at a doctor who treats tick-borne disease outside of the IDSA guidelines. Find links all three parts here. Read More »

The Knight Science Journalism Tracker is a blog for science reporters. Affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it critiques science reporting with the stated goal of helping science journalists improve their own performance. It looks at the Chicago... Read More »