Panamanian health officials confirmed last week that the deaths of two children was due to tickborne rickettsiosis, Panama media reports (computer translated). Rickettsiosis is a very rare disease in Panama. “At...

Before infecting humans, tick-borne bacteria or viruses first have to get past a tick’s defenses to colonize it. How this occurs is not well understood. To investigate, Yale researchers studied a...

Vermont is on pace for its highest number of reported cases of anaplasmosis – a tickborne disease that is becoming more common in the state. Anaplasmosis is transmitted by the black-legged tick, which...

The number of cases of the tickborne bacterial infection, anaplasmosis, are up significantly in the state of Maine, according to data from the state’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Through Aug....

I have been reading a lot of Lyme community web traffic regarding the Federal bill S. 1503. This bill provides for enhanced Federal efforts concerning prevention, education, treatment and research activities...

Ticks are arachnids, like spiders, scorpions and mites, from the Class Arachnida. While most tick bites do not transmit infectious disease, some very serious infections can be contracted from the bite...