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Syracuse.com, August 29, 2019 By Mary Beth Pfeiffer In one week recently, a Hudson Valley woman died from a paralyzing virus and an Ontario, Canada, boy suffered meningitis, both from the bite of a disease-toting tick. This year, in Central New York, conservatively hundreds will... Read More »

Lymevereniging, known in English as the Dutch Lyme Association, has endorsed the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition’s rebuttal to the IDSA’s Lyme treatment guidelines. There are now 67 organizations in the coalition, representing six countries: the US, Canada,... Read More »

When researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice high in the Tyrolean Alps some 5,300 years ago, they made a startling discovery. Secreted within the tangles of the ice man’s genetic code was evidence he’d been infected with a bacterial pathogen,... Read More »

The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition—formed to file a rebuttal to the new IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines—now has 58 member organizations from four nations. (Sept.6 update: 77 groups from eight countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and... Read More »

Entomology Today, August 22, 2019 By Melissa Mayer Scientists know a great deal about how blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) feed on hosts, such as whitefooted mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and woodland deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), but what happens after the ticks drink... Read More »

STAT News (Boston Globe Media), August 22, 2019 by Brittany Flaherty As the threat of Lyme disease grows and fears surrounding it spread faster than the ticks that carry the infection, researchers are developing two vaccine or vaccine-like approaches to prevent this increasingly... Read More »

The Lyme community has many objections to the latest Lyme treatment guidelines proposed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The following is an excerpt from a 58-page rebuttal filed by the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition. Spearheaded by LymeDisease.org... Read More »

The tenth meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held online Sept. 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time. According to the Health and Human Services website, at this meeting, the Working Group will receive reports from the eight subcommittees formed... Read More »

The Atlantic, September, 2019 By Meghan O’Rourke In the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called “electric shocks”—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms every morning. They were so extreme that as I walked to... Read More »