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Governor JB Pritzker has signed two new laws expanding insurance coverage in Illinois. One is for people suffering from Lyme disease, and the other is for children whose allergies require life-saving EpiPens. “This legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our... Read More »

Military.com, August 2, 2019 By Patricia Kime The Defense Department is exploring a replacement for permethrin, the bug repellent and insecticide that is soaked into most military combat uniforms. Officials declined to provide details on the new product, which is still being... Read More »

The Frederick News Post (Virginia newspaper), August 3, 2019: by Heather Mongilio All research at a Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing material, such as Ebola, is on hold indefinitely after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the... Read More »

Metro (UK newspaper), July 31, 2019: by Zoe Drewett Andrew McGuinness, 52, was wrongly told he had multiple sclerosis, a brain tumour and even that he had suffered two strokes. In reality, he had been bitten by a tick and become infected with Lyme disease. It would be two painful... Read More »

A resident of New York State has died from Powassan virus, a disease spread by infected ticks. It is the first known Powassan-related fatality in the state this year. Health officials did not identify the person. However, a family friend told the Daily Freeman newspaper that it... Read More »

By Barbara Keber, MD, and Holly Ahern We need a national public-private strategy that abandons our current low-impact approach to diseases brought by ticks. If you have not yet suffered with Lyme disease or one of the illnesses associated with the bite of a tick, you probably... Read More »

For less than $1.00 a week, your membership helps us provide the following FREE resources to the Lyme patient community: 1.) Access to our Symptom Checklist Over 250,000 patients have completed the form and downloaded it. 2) Access to our Physician Directory Over 13,000 people... Read More »

Dr. Sam Telford is an infectious diseases researcher at Tufts University. He recently published an article dismissing concerns about possible connections between Lyme disease and the US government’s past biowarfare research. Author Kris Newby responds.  Open letter to Dr.... Read More »

Written public comments to the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group’s June 4, 2019, meeting are finally available to the public. Comments to the TBDWG were due a week before the group met. Click here to read the comments on the Health and Human Services website.... Read More »