Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
In virus outbreak, fretting over a name that might go viral
West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola virus.
Feb 4, 2020
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Lyme Disease
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria
Lyme disease is caused by four main species of bacteria. Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia mayonii cause Lyme disease in the United States, while Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii are the leading causes in Europe and ...
Jan 16, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Climate change driving expansion of Lyme disease in the US
Warmer winter temperatures are leading to an increase in cases of Lyme disease in the United States, according to new research.
Dec 19, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Tick-borne encephalitis virus detected in ticks in the UK for the first time
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has been detected for the first time in ticks in the UK. The findings are part of ongoing research by Public Health England (PHE) and the Emerging and Zoonotic Infections National Institute ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New effective vaccines for Lyme disease are coming
There is no effective vaccine currently available to prevent Lyme disease in humans.
Oct 17, 2019
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Medical research
New test diagnoses Lyme disease within 15 minutes
Some 300,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year. Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks, the disease if left untreated can cause serious neurologic, ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More than Lyme: Tick study finds multiple agents of tick-borne diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia University, reported on the prevalence of multiple ...
Sep 16, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Data shows Lyme threat in West largely due to Eastern ticks
According to figures compiled by the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (LMZ), a national tick-testing service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tick submissions from California increased by just under 250 percent from ...
Aug 28, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
An innovative new diagnostic for Lyme disease
When researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice high in the Tyrolean Alps some 5,300 years ago, they made a startling discovery. Secreted within the tangles of the ice man's genetic code was ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
UK tick-borne Lyme disease cases may be three times higher than previous estimates
New cases of tick-borne Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates suggest, and might top 8000 in 2019, based on these figures, concludes research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Jul 30, 2019
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