Lyme disease can appear in a variety of ways but a bullseye rash is a classic symptom. Some people may also describe the appearance of the rash as a target. The middle of the rash will be a ...

You cannot get Lyme disease if you come into contact with someone’s sneeze, cough, or blood. Learn when it is contagious and ...

“Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by ... can cause the skin around the area of the bump to look reddish in ...

Cases of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne ailment in the U.S., are on the rise, thanks in part to a rainy spring. Johns Hopkins University’s Dr. John Aucott explains efforts to identify the ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...

In some cases the rash was felt by the patient or physician to be atypical for Lyme disease because of the lack of the classic "bull's eye" appearance or because the rash did not meet the minimum ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators Thursday that he “never believed” that Lyme disease was created as a biological weapon.

A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ...