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The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will hold two days of online meetings on February 28 and March 1. Subject matter subcommittees will present their findings to the whole panel. These subcommittee reports will form the basis for what the full working group decides to... Read More »

Kelley Flanagan rose to national fame in 2020, as a cast member on season 24 of the TV show “The Bachelor.” In September 2021, the celebrity revealed she was undergoing “intense” treatment for Lyme disease. Now, Flanagan has teamed up with IGeneX, Inc., a... Read More »

By Kris Newby Invisible International has released a new course on neurological and neuropsychiatric manifestations of Bartonella, a family of stealth bacteria best known for causing cat scratch disease and trench fever. This course discusses neurological presentations,... Read More »

Dr. Richard Horowitz, an internationally recognized Lyme and tick-borne illness expert, will present a free livestream event called The Future of Lyme and TBD’s: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment Options on February 13. It will take place at 8:15 p.m.. EST. In this... Read More »

News Center Maine, Feb. 3, 2022: Winter is a time when the risk of getting Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections is at its lowest. However, despite a drop in activity, deer ticks rarely die off even in harsh conditions because they can survive under snow cover. But if... Read More »

By Leslie Tate, Tulane University Even after antibiotic treatment, some Lyme disease patients suffer from an array of symptoms including neurological issues that greatly diminish their quality of life. Brain scans of these patients show persistent neuroinflammation, but the cause... Read More »

From “Frontiers in Public Health,” January 21, 2022 By Dr. Sam T. Donta We know the cause of Lyme disease. We know that the bacteria can be found in the initial rash, and occasionally in the blood in the subsequent 2–3 months, but after then, its subsequent location... Read More »

Officials report an “unusually high” infection rate of deer tick virus (DTV) detected in a Pennsylvania park. Out of 25 ticks recently collected from Lawrence Township Recreational Park in Clearfield County, 23 carried the dangerous virus. That’s a 92% infection rate. The... Read More »

By Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) One of VCU’s most successful and revenue-generating inventors is on track to develop a vaccine against Lyme disease in humans as well as a new diagnostic test. The human vaccine work builds on a USDA-approved Lyme disease vaccine... Read More »