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By City University of New York A team led by CUNY Graduate Center biologists has produced a genetic analysis of Lyme disease bacteria that may pave the way for improved diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the tick-borne ailment. Weigang Qiu, a professor of biology at the CUNY... Read More »

An Allegheny County child is Pennsylvania’s first reported case of Powassan virus this year. Powassan virus disease is spread to people via a bite from an infected blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis). That’s the same tick that can transmit Lyme disease. The child... Read More »

On July 11, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop examining the question of what they called “Lyme infection-associated chronic illness”—or “Lyme IACI.” It was significant on several fronts. The committee itself is a panel of... Read More »

By Bonnie Crater, Center for Lyme Action We’re now deep into late summer, we wanted to reach out again to thank all of you for your continued support of the important work to increase federal funding for Lyme and tick-borne conditions. Each of you is important and we thank you... Read More »

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), has introduced legislation to address the long COVID crisis that is affecting more than 22 million adults and 1 million children across the United States – and millions more... Read More »

By Joyce Cohen, the New York Post Kelly Kreth was living the Manhattan dream. Ten years ago, she lucked into a rent-stabilized apartment in a doorman elevator building in Yorkville. Her current rent is just $2,105.42 a month. In her 1964 white-brick building, comparable... Read More »

Beth O’Hara, founder and owner of Mast Cell 360, has died. She was a functional naturopath specializing in mast cell activation syndrome and histamine intolerance, and many members of the Lyme community followed her work. A message posted on Mast Cell 360’s Facebook page... Read More »

By CanLyme Canadian researchers compared the prevalence and infection rate of ticks in residential, woodland and residential/woodland border zones in Ottawa.1 They found that there were 15 times as many nymphal ticks in the woodland zones and 4 times as many in the border zones... Read More »

By Christine Kilgore, Medscape Advancing treatment for what has been variably called chronic Lyme and posttreatment Lyme disease (PTLD) is under the eyes of a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee of experts for the first time — a year after... Read More »