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USA Today, June 22, 2020 by Isabel Rose and Dana Parish With overlapping symptoms and a ferocious tick season already upon us, we’re in for a confusing — and dangerous — summer. In mid-March, shortly after coronavirus quarantine rules went into effect in New York, sportscaster... Read More »

June 17, 2020 by Carrie Arnold As a Lyme patient, Jennifer Crystal has a lifetime of experience dealing with severe illness. So when the 42-year-old writer and patient advocate came down with what appeared to be a mild case of food poisoning in early March, she cancelled her... Read More »

We have just heard the heartbreaking news that Dr. Neil Spector has died. Many in the Lyme community know him as the author of “Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician’s Search for True Healing.” In it, he tells the story of how undiagnosed Lyme disease caused so much... Read More »

By Dr. Richard Horowitz I gave a talk to the Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) in London on COVID-19 two days ago. This is an up-to-date review of the literature on COVID-19, focusing on prevention, diagnosis and treatment. I discuss during this talk details of the two... Read More »

The next online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will be July 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The following information is from the Department of Health and Human Services website: For this meeting, the TBDWG will review the draft 2020 report... Read More »

by Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields and woods in search of ticks to study the patterns and processes that allow disease-causing microbes – primarily bacteria and... Read More »

The May 25, 2020 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ, has three articles related to Lyme disease that are well worth your time. The publication is open access, available for anybody to read. Fatal Lyme carditis presenting as fluctuating high-grade... Read More »

CNN, May 26, 2020 by Maggie Fox Antibody tests used to determine if people have been infected in the past with Covid-19 might be wrong up to half the time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new guidance posted on its website. Antibody tests, often called... Read More »

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians published the following article in the Spring 2020 issue of its magazine. The quarterly publication is sent to the state’s 3200+ family practice physicians, typically the first practitioners newly infected Lyme patients will... Read More »