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The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has issued its first report to Congress. The document calls on the federal government to focus more resources on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. The panel was first convened in December 2017, in accordance with the... Read More »

The CDC’s 2017 Lyme disease statistics are in: 42,743 “reported” cases. Using the CDC’s own estimate that Lyme is under-reported by a factor of 10, that’s puts the yearly number at closer to 427, 430 cases, the highest it’s ever been. “Reported” means only those cases that meet... Read More »

Researchers shine light on the link between Borrelia spirochetes and a mysterious skin condition. Morgellons disease is frequently associated with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the agent of Lyme disease, as well as tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia (RFB), according to a study... Read More »

A recent study in “Scientific Reports” (an online, open access journal from the publishers of Nature) showed that 65% of Lyme disease patients—at all stages of the illness—were infected with more than one microbe. Furthermore, the researchers from University of Jyväskylä in... Read More »

Legislation co-sponsored by Senator Tom O’Mara, a member of the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases (TBDs), to strengthen New York State’s response to the rise of these diseases has been signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The new laws were enacted earlier... Read More »

Here’s the final wrap-up of our tweets from ILADS’ recent annual conference in Chicago. This is compiled by LymeDisease.org blogger Lonnie Marcum. Click here for Friday tweets. Click here for Saturday tweets. See below for Sunday’s tweets. Read More »

The eighth meeting of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held on December 3, 2018, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern). The public can participate via live webcast. The following information is taken from the TBDWG portion of the Health and Human Services website: During this... Read More »

Donating Lyme-infected tissue to new Lyme BioBank, possible connection between Gulf War Syndrome and Bartonella, and a deep dive into mast cell activation syndrome were discussed on the second day of the 2018 conference of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.... Read More »

Bartonella, parasites and mast cell activation were among the many topics addressed at this year’s conference of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society in Chicago. Scroll down to see how LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the first... Read More »