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How Does a Tick Do Its Dirty Work? Research Video Offers a Clue
Scientists studying ticks that carry Lyme bacteria wanted to know how these arachnids are able to stick so well to skin. The answer is a...

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Apr 14, 20191 min read
The CDC Will Start Tracking Ticks This Year
http://fortune.com/2019/03/27/the-cdc-will-start-tracking-ticks-this-year/

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Apr 14, 20191 min read
How My Chronic Illness Showed Me Who My Real Friends Are
Up until Lyme struck me down a couple of years ago, I was a healthy, thriving 30-something with energy to spare....

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Apr 7, 20191 min read
Alpha-gal Allergy
Alpha-gal Syndrome has officially been given its own page within the "TICK" pages on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website! This...

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Apr 7, 20191 min read
Precision medicine: retrospective chart review and data analysis of 200 patients on dapsone combo.
Combination therapy for chronic Lyme disease/post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: part 1 https://www.dovepress.com/precision-medicine-re...

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Apr 6, 20191 min read
Lyme disease study raises possibility of mother-to-baby transmission
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/lyme-disease-can-cause-pregnancy-complications-study-292577/?fbclid=IwAR0oAQzKAxu992jYaTbDtg...

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Apr 6, 20191 min read
When Lyme Disease Strikes an Unborn Child
A mom can pass the pathogen to her fetus–but the World Health Organization has removed "congenital Lyme disease" from its definitive...

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Apr 5, 20191 min read
New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick
Researchers warn that NYC's Asian tick population is larger than previously known. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/19032816...

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Apr 4, 20191 min read
German study finds Lyme in mosquitoes
http://ukhealthworld.com/2019/02/13/german-study-finds-lyme-in-mosquitoes/

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Apr 3, 20191 min read
Bartonella, also called “cat scratch disease,” is often a co-infection of Lyme disease.
The following podcast is from North Carolina State University. In it, Tracy Peake interviews Ed Breitschwerdt, infectious disease...

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Apr 3, 20191 min read
Stationary Phase Persister/Biofilm Microcolony of Borrelia Burgdorfei Causes more severe disease ...
http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Jie-Feng/2019/03/persister-biofilm-microcolony-borrelia-burgdorferi-causes-severe-lyme-arthritis-in-mous...

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Apr 2, 20191 min read
Lyme is ‘All in Your Head’ – A Wake-up Call to Mental Health Professionals
http://ukhealthworld.com/2019/03/16/lyme-is-all-in-your-head-a-wake-up-call-to-mental-health-professionals/

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Mar 25, 20191 min read
Increasing Babesiosis in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2008-2017
https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz066

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Mar 25, 20191 min read
Lyme: The Infectious Disease Equivalent of Cancer, Says Top Duke Oncologist
http://ukhealthworld.com/2019/02/13/lyme-the-infectious-disease-equivalent-of-cancer-says-top-duke-oncologist/?fbclid=IwAR1PX886ajKQNTsGF...

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Mar 19, 20191 min read
Human Biting Ticks, proven to transmit more diseases in Australia
http://ukhealthworld.com/2019/02/18/human-biting-ticks-proven-to-transmit-more-diseases-in-australia/?fbclid=IwAR0LCzKnlbX0PMHWmPxuZDEuXU...

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Mar 18, 20191 min read
Happy 90th birthday to Dr. Charles Ray Jones! (video)
March 14, 2019 In his 50+ years as a pediatrician, Dr. Charles Ray Jones has treated over 30,000 children for Lyme disease from virtually...

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Mar 14, 20191 min read
New scan technique reveals brain inflammation associated with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-scan-technique-reveals-brain-inflammation.html

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Mar 13, 20191 min read
CDC Endorsement of Single Dose Antibiotic for Lyme Disease Prevention Challenged
https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=235946

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Mar 10, 20191 min read
NYT *Tom Seaver, Star of the Mets' Championship Team, Has Dementia*
Seaver's family said he recently learned he has dementia. But for many years, Seaver, 74, has suffered from the effects of Lyme disease,...

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Mar 10, 20191 min read
The growing importance of lone star ticks in a Lyme disease endemic county in New Jersey
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211778 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211778

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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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