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On February 13, LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson will give a speech at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in Washington DC. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the prestigious... Read More »

  Press release from the Mayo Clinic February 5, 2016: by April Josselyn Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health officials from Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, have discovered a new bacterial... Read More »

From Wisconsin Public Radio, Feb. 3, 2016 by Shamane Mills Lawmakers heard emotional stories of how people’s lives have been affected by Lyme disease at a hearing Wednesday for a bill supporters say would improve diagnosis and treatment of the tick-borne illness. Susan... Read More »

On February 1, 2016, Lorraine Johnson, CEO of LymeDisease.org, explained details of the MyLymeData project on radio station KZYX. Listen to the interview here. [disk_player id=”18956″] Read More »

From HamletHub.com, February 2, 2016: Governor Malloy’s budget cuts are already being felt at the Ridgefield Health Department, where funds allocated to sustain and expand the town’s BLAST Lyme Disease Prevention program were recently rescinded. “This comes as a... Read More »

From Oregon State University, Jan. 28, 2016: CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University announced today that they have essentially stopped the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, for nearly two years in one type of mouse... Read More »

The Vineyard Gazette, Jan. 21, 2016 by Alex Elvin With tick-borne illness on the rise, federal and state health agencies are turning their attention to babesiosis, a lesser known but potentially life-threatening disease carried by deer ticks that is transmissible through blood... Read More »

Science, Jan. 18, 2016 By Claire Asher The ticks that transmit Lyme disease, a debilitating flulike illness caused by Borrelia bacteria, are spreading rapidly across the United States. A new study shows just how rapidly. Over the past 20 years, the two species known to spread the... Read More »

The News-Gazette, Champaign, Illinois, January 17, 2016: By Noelle McGee In the summer of 2001, Chris Corrie took his oldest son on a week-long fishing trip to central Canada. Each day, they hopped into their rental boat, followed some friends who had gone up with them to a new... Read More »