Keeping communities safe as tick populations rise
As any hiker or dog walker can attest, checking for ticks is routine practice after being outdoors at this time of year.
Jun 4, 2025
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Bacteria: News and Research on Borrelia burgdorferi
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Study reveals emerging cases of babesiosis in Mid-Atlantic region
A newly published study in the Journal of Medical Entomology provides critical insights into the emergence of babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic region, documenting human cases and the presence of Babesia microti in local tick ...
Apr 29, 2025
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Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome may be driven by remnants of infection
Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon—a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop Post Treatment Lyme Disease ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Half of adult ticks in the Northeast carry Lyme disease bacteria, study reveals
Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Discovery illuminates how sleeping sickness parasite outsmarts immune response
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals ...
Oct 31, 2024
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Lyme disease early detection could get boost from simpler, faster testing technology
For some unlucky people, time in the great outdoors leads to Lyme disease, an illness causing head, joint and muscle pain, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, and sometimes a rash. Left untreated, those effects can turn debilitating ...
Aug 27, 2024
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Findings suggest few people get sick after bite from ticks infected with Powassan virus
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC) have published new findings on Powassan virus, an emerging tick-borne illness that can cause life-threatening ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Q&A with physician-scientist on decoding early Lyme disease
Every year in the United States, an estimated 476,000 people are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease. The estimate comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Jul 23, 2024
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Optimized diagnosis of neuroborreliosis using signaling protein as a biomarker
A newly defined threshold for the concentration of the cytokine CXCL13 may improve the diagnosis of neuroborreliosis. The clinical diagnosis of this disease, which is caused by infections from tick bites, is still difficult ...
Jul 10, 2024
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Elucidating host-microbe interactions to address vector-borne diseases
In a new study, Yale researchers identify the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the rising threat of vector-borne ...
Jul 9, 2024
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