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A mom can pass the pathogen to her fetus—but the World Health Organization has removed “congenital Lyme disease” from its definitive diagnostic reference By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Scientific American, January 25, 2019 Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you plummet from a ski... Read More »

Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of “Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change,” is the nation’s leading investigative reporter on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In her recent “TEDx Talk,” she discusses the expansion of ticks throughout the world,... Read More »

One woman’s story of getting and coping with late-stage Lyme disease—one of the fastest spreading, most debilitating, and least understood diseases in the nation. By Shona Curley, Oakland Magazine, January 21, 2019 In summer 2013, I got a tiny tick bite. The nymph (baby)... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group held a series of meetings in 2017 and 2018, culminating in a report to Congress last December. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will name new members to the working group by March 2019. The working group’s next... Read More »

LymeHope is pushing for the screening of Lyme disease in pregnant women, research into better testing, and for the use of preventative antibiotics.  CTVNews, Canada, January 20, 2019 These mothers and their kids struggled for years with severe dizziness, pain, digestive problems,... Read More »

The award-winning Lyme documentary Under Our Skin, and its sequel, Under Our Skin 2: Emergence are now both available for free viewing by members of Amazon Prime. Released in 2008, Under Our Skin remains one of the most effective ways of explaining the complexities of Lyme... Read More »

A new study from the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC), the leading source on parasitic diseases that threaten the health of pets and people, shows prevalence for Lyme disease in dogs increasing in endemic Northeast regions and moving into U.S. regions not historically... Read More »

On January 3, New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith reintroduced legislation to create a new national strategy on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and to strengthen efforts across the federal government to fight, treat and prevent tick-borne disease. “The 2018 report of... Read More »

In partnership with people like you, here’s some of what LymeDisease.org has accomplished: MyLymeData Our MyLymeData patient registry has more than 12,000 enrolled. It is the largest-ever study of chronic Lyme disease patients. MyLymeData transforms the traditional research... Read More »