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By Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Bartonella bacteria are increasingly recognized as an emerging infectious disease threat. A new study by North Carolina State University researchers has found additional instances of Bartonella infection in humans who exhibited... Read More »

“The Monster Inside Me” is a documentary film seen through the point of view of a couple living and coping with Lyme disease. According to the film’s Facebook page, “We want to highlight the isolation, abandonment, anxiety, grief, rage, and depression... Read More »

The last meeting of the 2019-2020 Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was held online on Dec.2. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the proceedings. Scroll below to see how the meeting played out. Read More »

The following is a press release from the Infectious Disease Society of America. Analysis from LymeDisease.org will be forthcoming. New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease have been developed by a... Read More »

By Kate Arthur, Illinois State University Few researchers have studied how a tick’s brain works, but that’s what caught the attention of Dr. Carola Städele. As a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, she studies a tick’s every move by recording them as... Read More »

The Eighteenth Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will be held on December 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET. This is an online meeting and is open to the public. During this meeting, the TBDWG will finalize and vote on the 2020 report to the HHS Secretary... Read More »

All eight insurance companies named in Torrey v. Infectious Diseases Society of America have settled the case, according to journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer on Twitter. That’s the federal lawsuit filed by a group of Lyme patients against the IDSA, six authors of the IDSA Lyme... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the November 17 online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Click below to scroll through her summation of how the day played out. Read More »

By Monica White Citizen science! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to co-author a newly published article in the “Journal of Medical Entomology.” It’s called Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Record for Argus radiatus... Read More »