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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 »

The US House of Representatives last week passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey questioning a possible link between Lyme disease and biowarfare. It directs the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to investigate the “possible involvement of DOD... Read More »

Roll Call, July 15, 2019 By John M. Donnelly The House quietly voted last week to require the Pentagon inspector general to tell Congress whether the department experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects and whether they were released into the public realm — either... Read More »

Nearly 36 percent of patients with a tick-borne disease spent more than $10,000 on tests, treatments, appointments, and other costs associated with their disease, a new IGeneX survey found. The survey analyzed the cases of 198 patients from 2018 and 2019 who were teste... Read More »

More than 25,000 people have signed our petition to remove Eugene Shapiro from the federal tick-borne disease Working Group. Our thanks to everyone who has signed it and helped share our message. The petition is still open. It’s still an important way to register your... Read More »

New York State Senator Pam Helming has announced that legislation she co-sponsored to review insurance coverage for the treatment of Lyme and tick-borne diseases has passed both the Senate and the Assembly unanimously. As a member of the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne... Read More »

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the largest private donor of Lyme and tick-borne disease research in the United States, is deeply dismayed by a recent New York Times opinion piece that denies the existence of chronic Lyme disease. In “My Son Got Lyme Disease.... Read More »

Forbes.com, July 2, 2019 by Dr. Judy Stone An article appeared in this week’s New York Times, “My Son Got Lyme Disease. He’s Totally Fine. Horror stories about lingering Lyme disease proliferate, but the illness is easily treated.” While I am delighted that author Apoorva... Read More »