Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States and Europe. Its causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, has evolved unique metabolic pathways to cope with its ...

Olivia Abrams is currently a board member with Project Lyme. It's a non-profit providing resources and research for Lyme ...

Washington, D.C.—Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, and most likely other tick-borne diseases as well.

Existing projects are also on hold because research institutions cannot be certain they will be continued, or if they absorb ...

St. Joseph County in Indiana has documented more cases of Lyme disease in humans than any other county in the state. It takes 48 hours for a tick to transmit Lyme disease to a human. Ticks can be ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have targeted white-footed mice as the prime hosts for the immature ticks ...

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

With the arrival of spring and summer, the Midwest is bracing for an increase in tick activity – particularly deer ticks, ...

BILLINGS – A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease – the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, and most likely other tick-borne diseases as well. The finding was ...