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By Katherine Unger Baillie University of Pennsylvania Predicting Lyme disease hotspots can help public health officials guide resources and proactive messaging to the public. But the ecology of the disease is complex, involving various host animals, blacklegged ticks that serve... Read More »

Triggered by a bite from the lone star tick, alpha-gal syndrome can cause allergies to meat, including beef, pork, and lamb. Reporter Vivian Leigh, of News Center Maine TV, profiles Beth Carrison. A resident of Maine, she works to raise awareness of how some of the symptoms can... Read More »

By Tom Hinds, UC Davis Mosquito and tick-borne diseases are increasing in the Pacific Southwest and remain a serious public health threat. For the last five years, the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, or PacVec, led by the University of California,... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will come to a close this December, after submitting its 2022 Report to Congress. If YOU want to give your opinion about how the federal government should address Lyme disease and other tick-related conditions, the time is now. The... Read More »

by Jennifer Hoffmann, Generation Lyme board member There was no holiday to celebrate the people of the Lyme community. So we created one. On Saturday, September 24th, Generation Lyme will host the second annual Generation Lyme Day. It’s an all-day virtual event honoring... Read More »

By Mark Hilliard, The Irish Times Sometime after Dr. Manus Biggs contracted Lyme disease, he began noticing just how many ticks, the tiny creatures that carry the crippling pathogen, were nesting in the grass surrounding his Galway home. In 2018, a small bite from one of these... Read More »

Health officials in Ireland claim there were only four cases of Lyme disease in their country last year. Dr. Jack Lambert, a professor of infectious diseases at University College Dublin’s School of Medicine, vehemently disagrees. In a recent segment on The Pat Kenny Show,... Read More »

An older person who resides in a rural area of Jackson County, Illinois, recently tested positive for the Heartland virus. According to state health officials, this is the third reported case of the tick-borne infection in Illinois since 2018. The state’s first two... Read More »

According to CDC statistics, there is little or no Lyme disease in the southern United States. Is that an accurate picture? Or is the illness vastly under-reported? Two experts in the field discuss these questions and more in a webinar called “Lyme in the South.”... Read More »