NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) has identified recent sustained increases in tick bite related emergency department visits in nearly all regions of the state. This trend...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in Sullivan County, in the southern part of New York State bordering Pennsylvania, are reporting an increase in the tick-borne disease, anaplasmosis. “While Lyme...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials with the Onondaga County Health Department in Central New York are reporting the emergence of the tick-borne disease, anaplasmosis. Onondaga County...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New York City health officials are advising healthcare providers to be alert tick-borne diseases (TBDs) as people may be spending more time outdoors than usual in...

For the first time, scientists have shown that the bacterium that causes the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis interferes with tick gene expression for its survival inside cells and to spread to a new vertebrate...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report significant increases in two tickborne diseases–anaplasmosis and babesiosis–so far in...

Global Lyme Diagnostics (GLD) launched it’s ground breaking Lyme diagnostic in 2017 and is now excited to announce the launch of their tick-borne coinfections diagnostic tests. This additional coinfection...

Officials with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a tickborne disease advisory last week for city clinicians to be on the alert for patients with tickborne diseases. Recent...

Anaplasmosis is a tickborne disease caused by bacteria called Anaplasma phagocytophilum. It is spread by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, the same tick that transmits Lyme disease, babesiosis, Borrelia...

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...