News

When researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice high in the Tyrolean Alps some 5,300 years ago, they made a startling discovery. Secreted within the tangles of the ice man’s genetic code was evidence he’d been infected with a bacterial pathogen,... Read More »

The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition—formed to file a rebuttal to the new IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines—now has 58 member organizations from four nations. (Sept.6 update: 77 groups from eight countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and... Read More »

Entomology Today, August 22, 2019 By Melissa Mayer Scientists know a great deal about how blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) feed on hosts, such as whitefooted mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and woodland deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), but what happens after the ticks drink... Read More »

STAT News (Boston Globe Media), August 22, 2019 by Brittany Flaherty As the threat of Lyme disease grows and fears surrounding it spread faster than the ticks that carry the infection, researchers are developing two vaccine or vaccine-like approaches to prevent this increasingly... Read More »

The Lyme community has many objections to the latest Lyme treatment guidelines proposed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The following is an excerpt from a 58-page rebuttal filed by the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition. Spearheaded by LymeDisease.org... Read More »

The tenth meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held online Sept. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time. According to the Health and Human Services website, at this meeting, the Working Group will receive reports from the eight subcommittees formed... Read More »

The Atlantic, September, 2019 By Meghan O’Rourke In the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called “electric shocks”—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms every morning. They were so extreme that as I walked to... Read More »

Governor JB Pritzker has signed two new laws expanding insurance coverage in Illinois. One is for people suffering from Lyme disease, and the other is for children whose allergies require life-saving EpiPens. “This legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our... Read More »

Military.com, August 2, 2019 By Patricia Kime The Defense Department is exploring a replacement for permethrin, the bug repellent and insecticide that is soaked into most military combat uniforms. Officials declined to provide details on the new product, which is still being... Read More »