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Commentary: I had recently posted on the spread of Borrelia miyamotoi, the relapsing fever spirochete, across the US. It is now being found in Canada. In this study,B. miyamotoi was detected in blacklegged ticks from ...

Commentary: The Poughkeepsie Journal, our local NY newspaper, just won the most awards in the NY News Publishers Association history..16! This was in part due to Mary Beth Pfeiffer, an investigative news reporter, and her ...

Commentary: An article just appeared in the Huffington Post on the documented spread of Lyme disease across the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. Paul Mead, M.D, M.P.H., chief of epidemiology and surveillance for CDC's Lyme ...

Commentary: Here on the New York state level, the politicians are on top of the ticks. Lee and I just met with Senator Terry Gipson and discussed with him the dangers of tick-borne diseases. He ...

Commentary: Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, has been discovered in the spinal fluid of an 80 year old New Jersey woman who was ill. This is the third "official" case of B. miyamotoi reported ...

Commentary: A new Lyme test to detect early disease, called SpiroFind, is being evaluated by researchers at Columbia University. Present antibody testing misses approximately half of the patients with an early infection, when the disease ...

Commentary: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently had World Health Day, where they highlighted the serious and increasing threat of vector-borne diseases, with the slogan “Small bite, big threat”. "More than half the world’s population ...

Commentary: A study of over 3,000 patients with chronic Lyme disease was just published in an open access medical journal on March 27th. It was a joint effort of LymeDisease.org and Prof. Jennifer Mankoff at ...

Commentary: This article was just released in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, describing the rates of infection for Lyme and associated co-infections in Dutchess and Putnam Counties, N.Y. The rates of infection for Lyme disease in ...

Commentary: Babesia species are spreading worldwide and B. microti has now been discovered in France and in Australia. Babesia is responsible for increased severity of illness in many of the Lyme patients who come to ...