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August 07, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Lyme ImmunoBlots (IgM and IgG) represents quantum leap in test performance over the traditional B. burgdorferi Western blots. PALO ALTO, Calif.—The Division of Laboratories of the Department of Health of the State of New York... Read More »

The New York Times, August 6, 2018 by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. For the first time in 50 years, a new tick species has arrived in the United States — one that in its Asian home range carries fearsome diseases. The Asian long-horned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, is spreading... Read More »

Mother Jones, August 6, 2018: by Kristen Lombardi and Fatima Bhojani Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before spring. They noticed the ticks—which look... Read More »

By Elizabeth Maloney, MD A recent article in the Minnesota Star-Tribune discussed one legislator’s struggle with Lyme disease (“Retiring legislator continues to serve by telling his story.” And while coverage of tick-borne diseases is welcome, it is discouraging to know that this... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will present its first report to Congress in December 2018. The federal panel has completed its draft report, which now goes to various government agencies for review. Anything more than copy edits will come back to the Working Group and... Read More »

Newsweek, July 26, 2018 By Abbey Interrante Tick-borne diseases may continue to get worse in the United States, public health officials say. A new paper from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reveals that diseases from ticks could become more... Read More »

The following is a press release from the National Institutes of Health, July 25, 2018. LymeDisease.org does not necessarily agree with all the points mentioned here. The incidence of tick-borne infections in the United States has risen significantly within the past decade. It is... Read More »

Here’s what we live-tweeted during the July 24 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Read More »

A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest... Read More »