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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 »

The Washington State Department of Health has reported the first locally acquired human case of the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis in a Washington resident. A Whatcom County man in his 80s was hospitalized with severe disease and is now in recovery. He was likely bitten by an... Read More »

Can you get Lyme disease in Colorado? Health officials typically say “no.” Patients say “yes.” Reporter Alexis Kikoen, of Rocky Mountain PBS, explores this contentious issue in the following report. She starts by featuring a woman who lost her 36-year-old... Read More »

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease. As described in a study published in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation,  Steven... Read More »