http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Under the microscope, Sam Telford surveyed the tiny, spiral bacteria floating in spinal fluid taken from an 80-year-old woman. They looked very similar to the spirochete bacteria that can cause Lyme disease. But in fact, he had discovered yet another public health threat—a brand new disease that people can get from the same ticks that transmit the Lyme bacteria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cases-lyme-illness-transmitted-bug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:24:37 EST news281604258 (HealthDay)—People who go outdoors in several regions of the United States may have something else to worry about. Scientists report that there's another troublesome germ hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disease bacterium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-deer-bacterial-threat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:53:04 EST news277581173 (Medical Xpress) -- Yale School of Public Health researchers in collaboration with Russian scientists have discovered a new tick-borne bacterium that might be causing disease in the United States and elsewhere. Their findings appear in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-tick-borne-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:22:01 EST news235749919