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Lyme Disease Threat in Surprising Places

Commentary: An article just appeared in the Huffington Post on the documented spread of Lyme disease across the US, Europe, ...
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Governor Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo to ticks: Drop dead

Commentary: Here on the New York state level, the politicians are on top of the ticks. Lee and I just ...
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Scientists discover unnamed disease carried by deer ticks

Commentary: Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, has been discovered in the spinal fluid of an 80 year old New ...
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New Lyme Test Gets Study

Commentary: A new Lyme test to detect early disease, called SpiroFind, is being evaluated by researchers at Columbia University. Present ...
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World Health Day 2014: Preventing vector-borne diseases

Commentary: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently had World Health Day, where they highlighted the serious and increasing threat of ...
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LDO Publishes Largest Study of Chronic Lyme Disease Ever Conducted; Patients Suffer Poor Quality of Life & High Rates of Disability and Unemployment

Commentary: A study of over 3,000 patients with chronic Lyme disease was just published in an open access medical journal ...
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The Prevalence of Zoonotic Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ixodes Scapularis Collected in the Hudson Valley, New York State

Commentary: This article was just released in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, describing the rates of infection for Lyme and associated ...
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Identification of Parasitic Communities within European Ticks Using Next-Generation Sequencing

Commentary: Babesia species are spreading worldwide and B. microti has now been discovered in France and in Australia. Babesia is ...
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CDC finds more cases of Heartland virus

Commentary: This article discuss new cases of the Heartland virus being found in different parts of the US. This is ...
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Antibiotics don’t always kill Lyme, studies say

Commentary: Dr Brian Fallon from Columbia University presented new research last night that shows that the Lyme spirochete can persist ...
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