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PA Lyme Resource Network reports there has been progress on Senate Bill 1188. The legislation requires insurance coverage for long-term treatment of Lyme disease, along with other measures intended to combat tick-borne disease through education and research. SB 1188 unanimously... Read More »

Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action, has sent out the following alert to Lyme advocates: Hello Lyme advocates: Thank you for your continued support for federal funding for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Here’s an oldie but goodie request for you. It’s easy. Just... Read More »

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information By: Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive... Read More »

Adaptive Biotechnologies has unveiled a new type of Lyme disease test aimed at detecting the illness during the early stages of infection. Conventional tests for the disease look for antibodies to the Lyme bacteria. Because antibodies can take weeks to develop, early testing is... Read More »

The CDC has recently published new county-level mapping of where blacklegged ticks are most prevalent and where they have been found infected with any of seven disease-causing pathogens. “The more we look for ticks and tick-borne pathogens, the more we find—and the more... Read More »

Lyme disease has likely infected more than 14% of the global population, about 1 in 7 people. That’s according to a new study in BMJ Global Health. Researchers in China pooled data from 89 studies carried out between January 1984 and December 2021. They looked at the... Read More »

A Connecticut woman in her 90s has died of Powassan virus, a month after being bitten by an infected tick. She is the second person in Connecticut to test positive for the virus this year and the first to die. A resident of Maine also died of Powassan in April. Officials say she... Read More »

Today.com by Nicole Bell, as told to Genevieve Brown It was 2016 when I got a call at work. It was the house alarm company. My husband, Russ, who picked up the kids from school each day, had arrived home and wasn’t able to turn the blaring alarm off. I got home later that... Read More »

From NewsCenterMaine.com: Pfizer has partnered with a Maine health care system to conduct the third phase of a Lyme disease clinical trial to test the efficacy of the company’s vaccine. The trial, held at Northern Light Health system in Brewer, will span over 13 months and... Read More »