The Los Altos Town Crier--a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper--takes a comprehensive look at Lyme disease, profiling patients, a Lyme-treating physician, and the producer of Under Our Skin. Read More »
Do You Have Lyme Disease?
OPINION: "Don't try to convince the sick that they aren't sick"
21
JUN
2010
A Maryland Lyme activist takes an IDSA apologist to task, quite eloquently. Read More »
Bartonella
19
JUN
2010
Bartonella are bacteria that live inside cells; they can infect humans, mammals, and a wide range of wild animals. Not all Bartonella species cause disease in humans. Bartonella henselae causes an important emerging infection first reported in 1990 and described as a new species... Read More »
About Ticks
18
JUN
2010
Ticks are tiny crawling bugs in the spider family that feed by sucking blood from animals. If the animal is carrying Lyme disease spirochetes, the tick sucks them up as it feeds and they multiply in the tick’s gut. The tick may then transfer them into the next animal it feeds on. Read More »
Ehrlichia
18
JUN
2010
There are two kinds of ehrlichiosis, both of which are caused by tick-borne rickettsial parasites called Ehrlichia that infect different kinds of white blood cells. In HME (human monocytic ehrlichiosis), they infect monocytes. In HGE (human granulocytic ehrlichiosis), they infect... Read More »
Babesia
18
JUN
2010
Babesiosis is an infection caused by a malaria-like parasite, also called a “piroplasm,” that infects red blood cells. Babesia microti is believed to be the most common piroplasm infecting humans, but scientists have identified over twenty piroplasms carried by ticks. Read More »
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