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by Bill Hathaway, Yale University Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, they report Nov. 11 in the journal PLOS... Read More »

by Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that may cause significant disease in dogs and humans. This new yet unnamed species, initially identified in three dogs, is part of... Read More »

Press release from Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc. Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc., has announced the launch of the Nanotrap® Urine Test for Lyme Borreliosis. This urine-based Lyme antigen test provides the most sensitive direct detection of Borrelia burgdorferi infection at all stages of the... Read More »

By Carolyn Degnan Giving Tuesday, started nine years ago as a national day of charitable giving, falls on December 1 this year. If you are a Giving Tuesday participant, we hope you’ll include LymeDisease.org in your donations. Support from individuals like you helps us continue... Read More »

People, November 4, 2020 by Joelle Goldstein Allyshia Gupta is embracing the truth about her health and revealing she has Lyme disease, more than 20 years after being diagnosed. Gupta, who was crowned Miss California USA in January, tells PEOPLE that she first learned she had... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group  (TBDWG) meets next on November 17,  from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET. This online meeting is open to the public. Meeting Registration Register for the meeting here. Once registered, you will receive an email confirmation with a personalized... Read More »

A groundbreaking in vivo clinical study conducted by Dr. Richard Horowitz has found that an eight-week course of the leprosy drug dapsone combined with doxycycline and rifampin is effective in improving symptoms in 98% of patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease/Post... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the October 27 online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Click below to scroll through the day’s collection of her play-by-play commentary. Read More »

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory (APL) researchers have shown that cell phone images of rashes taken by patients can be  evaluated using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) technologies to more accurately detect and identify the... Read More »