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The Sacramento County health department is warning the public to beware of ticks, after an eight-year Folsom boy caught tularemia, an infection carried by dog ticks. (Different from deer ticks, which carry Lyme disease.) The county health department then trapped 30 ticks in the... Read More »

The Sydney Morning Herald continues its coverage of the divide between experts who insist there is no Lyme in Australia, and the many patients who feel they've caught the disease there. One of them, Karl McManus, who was bitten by a tick 3 years ago while helping film a TV... Read More »

Virginia Savely, DNP, writes about Morgellons disease in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. Read More »

The state medical board has withdrawn plans to impose additional penalties against Dr. Jones. The Lyme-treating pediatrician had unable to locate a board-required monitor for his practice. Since he has now found one, the board canceled plans for a hearing on the matter. Read More »

This photo was taken at the Boston State House on June 30, 2010, just after Governor Duval Patrick signed the 2011 Massachusetts state budget, which includes an amendment which will protect physicians who treat Lyme disease for longer than 30 days. The bill is similar to... Read More »

An Australian woman has been granted the right to have her recently deceased husband's body tested for a disease that health officials say doesn't exist in Australia--Lyme disease. The man became acutely disabled three years ago, after being bitten by a tick in bushland... Read More »

New Hampshire has the highest number of Lyme disease cases per capita in the nation. Watch WMUR TV's one-hour "NH Chronicle" special on the subject. Read More »

The Hartford Advocate reports that time is running out for the controversial Lyme pediatrician. Read More »

Anchor/reporter Sharon Rose, of WCSH TV station in Portland, Maine, has produced a four-part series on chronic Lyme disease. In addition to her televised reports, the TV station's website has a lot of information about Lyme disease, as well as an invitation for Lyme patients... Read More »