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A resident of New York State has died from Powassan virus, a disease spread by infected ticks. It is the first known Powassan-related fatality in the state this year. Health officials did not identify the person. However, a family friend told the Daily Freeman newspaper that it... Read More »

By Barbara Keber, MD, and Holly Ahern We need a national public-private strategy that abandons our current low-impact approach to diseases brought by ticks. If you have not yet suffered with Lyme disease or one of the illnesses associated with the bite of a tick, you probably... Read More »

For less than $1.00 a week, your membership helps us provide the following FREE resources to the Lyme patient community: 1.) Access to our Symptom Checklist Over 250,000 patients have completed the form and downloaded it. 2) Access to our Physician Directory Over 13,000 people... Read More »

Dr. Sam Telford is an infectious diseases researcher at Tufts University. He recently published an article dismissing concerns about possible connections between Lyme disease and the US government’s past biowarfare research. Author Kris Newby responds.  Open letter to Dr.... Read More »

Written public comments to the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group’s June 4, 2019, meeting are finally available to the public. Comments to the TBDWG were due a week before the group met. Click here to read the comments on the Health and Human Services website.... Read More »

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has confirmed a case of Powassan virus infection in a Maine resident. This is the first case of the tick-borne illness in the state since 2017. Maine CDC received notification of the case this week from the New... Read More »

In 1975, Polly Murray of Lyme, Connecticut, called the State Department of Health to report an unusual pattern of symptoms affecting her family and her community, and listed over 40 cases of what would come to be known as Lyme disease. For the next 20 years, she worked hard to... Read More »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has agreed to add a disclaimer to the surveillance case definition for Lyme disease. The disclaimer says that the definition is “not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how... Read More »

On July 17, the Washington Post reported on the House of Representatives’ recent request for an investigation into allegations that Lyme disease may have been weaponized. New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith cited the recent book, BITTEN, when he proposed the amendment to... Read More »