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By Mark Hilliard, The Irish Times Sometime after Dr. Manus Biggs contracted Lyme disease, he began noticing just how many ticks, the tiny creatures that carry the crippling pathogen, were nesting in the grass surrounding his Galway home. In 2018, a small bite from one of these... Read More »

Health officials in Ireland claim there were only four cases of Lyme disease in their country last year. Dr. Jack Lambert, a professor of infectious diseases at University College Dublin’s School of Medicine, vehemently disagrees. In a recent segment on The Pat Kenny Show,... Read More »

An older person who resides in a rural area of Jackson County, Illinois, recently tested positive for the Heartland virus. According to state health officials, this is the third reported case of the tick-borne infection in Illinois since 2018. The state’s first two... Read More »

According to CDC statistics, there is little or no Lyme disease in the southern United States. Is that an accurate picture? Or is the illness vastly under-reported? Two experts in the field discuss these questions and more in a webinar called “Lyme in the South.”... Read More »

The Washington State Department of Health has reported the first locally acquired human case of the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis in a Washington resident. A Whatcom County man in his 80s was hospitalized with severe disease and is now in recovery. He was likely bitten by an... Read More »

Can you get Lyme disease in Colorado? Health officials typically say “no.” Patients say “yes.” Reporter Alexis Kikoen, of Rocky Mountain PBS, explores this contentious issue in the following report. She starts by featuring a woman who lost her 36-year-old... Read More »

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease. As described in a study published in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation,  Steven... Read More »

Leslie Griffith, who anchored the news for San Francisco-area TV station KTVU for over 20 years, has died, reportedly after a years-long battle with Lyme disease. She was 66. Griffith died Wednesday in Lake Chapala, Mexico, where she lived since 2016. After leaving KTVU in 2006,... Read More »

Pfizer and French pharmaceutical company Valneva are launching a late-stage clinical trial for a new Lyme disease vaccine. They aim to enlist some 6,000 people in the United States and Europe. Participants will include adults and children over the age of 5. “With increasing... Read More »