Month: February 2018

As spreads, Lyme disease Connecticut lab focuses on diagnostic tools
New Haven Register
They don’t stay in red or white blood cells, as some other tick-borne bacteria do. They move around, pushing through blood cells and into tissue, scientists explained. “The big debate is how long do they live?” Fiedler said. “And, why can’t they be …

Girl paralyzed after potentially deadly tick bite
WSPA.com
FILE – This March 2002 file photo shows a deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I. The University of Massachusetts Laboratory of Medical Zoology in Amherst is stepping up efforts in …

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Forum targets Lyme disease
Poughkeepsie Journal
Studies suggest that more than 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease annually in the U.S., according to the CDC. “Lyme disease is a critical issue for our country at this point in time,” said Dr. Richard Horowitz, a tick-borne disease …

DEAR LYME WARRIOR…HELP!
ProHealth
Once I was diagnosed with three separate tick-borne diseases, it became even more important to stick to the diet. Yeast and sugar can speed up the reproduction of the tick-borne bacteria and exacerbate inflammation in the body. Eliminating—or at least …

Spring emerges in Alabama bringing snakes, ticks, mosquitoes
AL.com
Mosquitoes, ticks, fire ants and other annoying crawlers survive winters in places much colder than Alabama, and research says it has to stay colder, longer to have a significant impact on their populations. Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses …

Controversies Surrounding the Causes and Management of Persistent Symptoms Related to Lyme Disease
Contagionlive.com
“I saw a gentleman15 years after an erythema migrans who came in with Lyme arthritis,” said Dr. Sigal. “He was very seropositive. If somebody comes in with something that is not clinically likely to be Lyme disease and you have the blood test that's …

Generating first-ever transgenic ticks to help fight tick-borne diseases
Nevada Today
For those who are active hikers, or find themselves outdoors often, the reality of a tick bite is not unusual, nor are its potential consequences. Ticks are known for transmitting many diseases in animals and humans, especially the deer tick, which is …

First Multiplex Test for Tick-Borne Diseases
Technology Networks
A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme …

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whas11.com | Shania Twain on the 'Discipline' of Maintaining Her …
WHAS 11.com
Almost 15 years after a tick bite threatened her career and health, Shania Twain is opening up about how she has revamped her lifestyle.The 52-year-old singer contracted Lyme disease, a debilitating tick-borne illness, while on tour in 2003. Author …
Shania Twain says Lyme disease diagnosis prompted lifestyle overhaulGreen Valley News

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Retired Cape doctor named to national panel on tick-borne illness
Cape Cod Times
Sam Donta treated thousands of patients for Lyme disease. FALMOUTH — An infectious-disease specialist from Falmouth with a long history of treating patients with Lyme disease has been appointed to a national subcommittee studying tick-borne illness …
New blood test shows promise to revolutionize diagnosis of tick-borne diseasesNews-Medical.net

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Open Season: Extended bowhunting season will help manage deer population, limit Lyme disease
SouthCoastToday.com
It makes perfect sense and it's very simple to understand. Deer are the main host of deer ticks carrying Lyme disease, babesiosis and anaplasmosis. Scientific research has shown that reducing the number of deer reduces the numbers of deer ticks which …

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Promising to revolutionize diagnosis, a single blood test can now accurately detect if someone is infected with Lyme …
Science Daily
A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme …

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First multiplex test for tick-borne diseases: Promising to revolutionize …
Science Daily
A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis of tick-borne disease by offering a single test to identify and distinguish between Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme …
First multiplex test for tick-borne diseasesEurekAlert (press release)

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PA Lyme Announces New Local Support Group in Berks County
bctv.org
About Lyme Disease in PA: Pennsylvania leads the nation in number of cases annually, representing nearly 40% of all cases. Last year, 120,000+ people in PA likely became infected with Lyme disease, based on the CDC statistic that cases are likely 10x …

Study Suggests Expanded Range for Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Yale News
Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were discovered in the eastern United States less than a decade ago. Now new research led by the Yale School of Public Health strongly suggests that the …

Couple's efforts lead to Lyme disease legislation
Martinsburg Journal
The Eastern Panhandle generates the highest number of tick bite reports in West Virginia. “Chronic Lyme disease produces patients who are the sickest of the sick,” he said. “They have the lowest quality of life of patients, even cancer patients …

Updates to Past Stories
Highlands Current
He said on Feb. 7 that scientists had found “a strong increase in some life stages of the blacklegged tick” in 2017 but that they have not yet analyzed the data, which is being collected as part of a long-term study. “For this coming spring and summer …

Wolf aims for bigger Lyme disease battle in proposed budget …
PennLive.com
A $2.5 million attack on Lyme disease in Pennsylvania, which leads the nation in cases of the tick-borne disease, is included in Gov. Tom's Wolf proposed budget for 2018-19. If approved by the state Legislature later this year, that money would "for …
$2.5 million proposed to help combat Lyme disease – WFMZWFMZ Allentown

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Sharp rise in Lyme disease spurs new action by Donovan | SILive.com
SILive.com
Rep. Dan Donovan joins Congressional Lyme disease Caucus as number of tick-borne diseases worsens across the region.
What Is Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome? The … – BustleBustle

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Lyme Time
The Lincoln County News
In the Lyme community, there is a lot of anger that at times overwhelms and overtakes the random acts of kindness that are occurring. The way people are treated by their medical provider(s) and others afflicted with tick-borne diseases can affect how …

Health Briefs
Hudson Valley 360
CLAVERACK — A public forum to kick-off of a new initiative to shine light on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and to push for action at state and federal levels will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 11 at the A.B. Shaw Firehouse, 67 Route 23, Claverack …

Letters to the editor, Feb. 5
The Kingston Whig-Standard
Alarmingly, we have 3,000 patients going to the United States for diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and associated tick-borne diseases. Any daily temperature increases are not putting any extinction stressors on the blacklegged female. She lays …

Lyme disease symptoms: Suffering with a stiff neck could be sign of …
Express.co.uk
LYME DISEASE warning: tick season starts in March although you can suffer from bites at any time in the year. One Lyme disease symptom many miss is suffering with a stiff neck. Other signs of the life-altering tick-borne condition revealed here.

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Two Frogs Healing Center to Share Five Must-Have Essential Oils …
Markets Insider
FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Two Frogs Healing Center, a natural treatment clinic for getting rid of persistent tick infections like Lyme disease, will be hosting the Essential Oils+ for Getting Rid of Lyme Disease Evening Lecture …

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Community forum: Ticks, turkeys and the food web
Mount Desert Islander
Wild turkeys, artificially introduced to southern Maine by 1980, and the disruption in the food web they have caused, are likely to blame for the state's extremely large and growing tick population and tick-borne diseases such as the Lyme epidemic …

Lone star tick found not to contain Lyme disease agent – Healio
Healio
Researchers have found that lone start ticks are not vectors of the Lyme disease agent, according to recently published study results.Ellen Stromdahl, BCE, an entomologist at the U.S. Army Public Health Center, and colleagues conducted a review of 54 …

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Lone star ticks not guilty in spread of Lyme disease
Science Daily
The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the most commonly reported vector-borne illness in the United States, are transmitted to humans primarily by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick), which is abundant in the eastern U …
Lone Star Ticks Won't Give You Lyme, But Can Still Make You SickU.S. News & World Report

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