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A bill calling for tick warning signs in New York state parks has been signed into law. The measure, sponsored by State Senator Sue Serino and Assemblymember Didi Barrett, requires installing such signage at state-managed parks. It also allows the state department of Parks,... Read More »

U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the Chairman of the Aging Committee, convened an official Senate field hearing on September 5, at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory Tick Lab. Immediately prior to the hearing, Senator Collins... Read More »

The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition to protest the IDSA Lyme guidelines continues to grow–both in the United States and abroad. At this writing, 77 organizations in eight countries have endorsed the coalition’s rebuttal to the guidelines. (Update: 87 groups in... Read More »

The Pennsylvania State House Of Representatives passed HB 629 last April. This bill would provide access to care for Lyme disease and co-infections by requiring insurance coverage for clinical treatment including antibiotics and anti-microbials. The bill is now on the Senate... Read More »

Several ticks recently collected along the Lopez Canyon Trail in San Diego County’s Sorrento Valley have tested positive for tularemia. Tularemia, also known as “rabbit fever,” is often found in wild hares, rabbits and rodents. This is the sixth time this year that... Read More »

Syracuse.com, August 29, 2019 By Mary Beth Pfeiffer In one week recently, a Hudson Valley woman died from a paralyzing virus and an Ontario, Canada, boy suffered meningitis, both from the bite of a disease-toting tick. This year, in Central New York, conservatively hundreds will... Read More »

Lymevereniging, known in English as the Dutch Lyme Association, has endorsed the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition’s rebuttal to the IDSA’s Lyme treatment guidelines. There are now 67 organizations in the coalition, representing six countries: the US, Canada,... Read More »

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 »