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By Kate Arthur, Illinois State University Few researchers have studied how a tick’s brain works, but that’s what caught the attention of Dr. Carola Städele. As a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, she studies a tick’s every move by recording them as... Read More »

The Eighteenth Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will be held on December 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET. This is an online meeting and is open to the public. During this meeting, the TBDWG will finalize and vote on the 2020 report to the HHS Secretary... Read More »

All eight insurance companies named in Torrey v. Infectious Diseases Society of America have settled the case, according to journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer on Twitter. That’s the federal lawsuit filed by a group of Lyme patients against the IDSA, six authors of the IDSA Lyme... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the November 17 online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Click below to scroll through her summation of how the day played out. Read More »

By Monica White Citizen science! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to co-author a newly published article in the “Journal of Medical Entomology.” It’s called Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Record for Argus radiatus... Read More »

by Bill Hathaway, Yale University Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, they report Nov. 11 in the journal PLOS... Read More »

by Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that may cause significant disease in dogs and humans. This new yet unnamed species, initially identified in three dogs, is part of... Read More »

Press release from Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc. Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc., has announced the launch of the Nanotrap® Urine Test for Lyme Borreliosis. This urine-based Lyme antigen test provides the most sensitive direct detection of Borrelia burgdorferi infection at all stages of the... Read More »

By Carolyn Degnan Giving Tuesday, started nine years ago as a national day of charitable giving, falls on December 1 this year. If you are a Giving Tuesday participant, we hope you’ll include LymeDisease.org in your donations. Support from individuals like you helps us continue... Read More »