Tick-borne diseases continue to climb in Maine, particularly anaplasmosis, which as of Sept. 30, the state has seen 39 more cases than all of 2013, according to the Maine CDC. Health officials say there...

Good news for Lyme disease sufferers…the House passed H.R. 4701, the Tick-borne Disease Research Transparency and Accountability Act of 2014 two weeks ago, a bill authored by New York Congressman Chris...

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has issued the 2013 Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases Report. According to health officials, the annual report provides a yearly snapshot of...

PRESS RELEASE Today, at the Wurtsboro Open Ridge Space in Bloomingburg, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate and proactively address a potential...

While the number of the Lyme disease cases are down significantly in Maine so far this year, more than 1,375 cases in 2013 compared to 246 cases reported to date in 2014, another tick borne disease is...

August 31, 2013: River blindness, Lyme disease LISTEN to the podcasts HERE and HERE Today’s Guests: Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., Vice-President of Health Programs at the Carter Center Katrina Starzhynskaya,...

July 13, 2013: Maine Lyme disease law LISTEN to the podcast HERE  Today’s Guest: Constance “Happy” Dickey, RN, President of MaineLyme.org. The Outbreak News This Week Radio Show aired from...

A New York disease ecologist is sounding the alarm bells for the Northeastern United States as he is warning of a swell of Lyme disease cases this spring according to a Friday news release. Dr. Richard...

Many in the Lyme disease community and so-called “conspiracy theorists” have been making this claim for a long time. While no surprise, the Department of Homeland Security has unequivocally denied...