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10/17/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Misconception: The black-legged tick, not the lone star, carries the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, according to a review of evidence

One fact that people know about Lyme disease is that ticks cause it. As to which tick causes the condition – which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports as the most commonly reported vector-based illness in the U.S. – is where the confusion starts. Lyme disease, of which the causative agent is the spirochetal bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is known […]

03/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Revolutionary diagnosis: A single blood test can now detect Lyme and other tick-borne diseases

Testing methods for tick-borne diseases tend to be cumbersome, unreliable, specialized, or even nonexistent. That is, until a Science Daily article reported the recently-developed Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD-Serochip) can accurately diagnose eight different tick-borne pathogens, including the bacterium responsible for the widespread Lyme disease. The brainchild of a large team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control […]

02/17/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

More than half of Lyme disease survivors experience severe, persistent symptoms, even after being clinically cleared of infection

A study, published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, found that more than 50 percent of Lyme disease survivors still suffer from severe, persistent symptoms even after being clinically cleared of the infection. A team of researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine evaluated 61 individuals who were either self- or physician-referred to the […]

02/12/2018 / By David Williams

World’s next major health threat could be of the domestic variety: TICKS

When you hear the words major health threat, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? If you said Ebola, Zika, or some other foreign disease, you may want to think a little more close to home. According to a recent report on The Guardian, the next global health threat could be crawling right […]

09/08/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Aggressive fear push on Lyme disease by the media just part of the plan to roll out a new Lyme vaccine

Lyme disease cases are on the rise in the Western world, and pharmaceutical companies are hoping to cash in on the illness with the help of a new vaccine. In the U.S., the number of confirmed cases of the tick-borne illness in 2015 was nearly 29,000, compared to 23,000 ten years earlier. Lyme disease can […]

07/17/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

SHOCKING: Only three percent of general practitioners in the U.K. have had Lyme disease training

The vast majority of general practitioners in the United Kingdom are ill-equipped to handle Lyme disease. So much so that, according to Lyme Disease UK, a mere three percent of general practitioners have completed the free online course on Lyme disease being offered by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Taking into account the […]

06/04/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Warning sign: Daughter’s Lyme disease started with headaches

What seemed like a run-of-the-mill case of headaches and joint pain turned out to be chronic Lyme disease in an eight-year old girl, who now has to live with the effects of the debilitating disease for the rest of her life. The girl’s mother, Jamie Buss, shared in a story on KHou.com that her daughter Ella suffered […]

05/12/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Is 2017 the year of the Tick? Scientists predict a surge in Lyme disease cases

Scientists have urged those in the Northeastern United States to prepare for a rise in Lyme disease cases this year. The forecast comes at the heels of a population surge among white-footed mice which serve as hosts for Lyme-bearing ticks, USAToday.com reported. Scientists trace the upsurge in ticks to an acorn abundance in 2015, which caused the mice boom, […]

04/17/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Lyme disease is about to explode across North America….with no cures in sight

Biologists say that 2017 is going to be a big year for Lyme disease, and that the condition could ravage the United States and other parts of North America. The culprit? An explosion in mice populations across the country, but particularly in the Northeast. But what do mice have to do with Lyme disease? Ticks […]

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