In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

New research suggests that lingering cell wall fragments from the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, may be responsible for persistent symptoms long after antibiotic treatment.

Our changing climate is creating new health risks for children — longer allergy seasons, extreme heat affecting young ...

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tick surveillance website that maps county-level ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

A great resource to help residents learn about tick species and diseases they can pass on is the Nebraska Tick Surveillance ...

Have you been recreating in the outdoors recently? I don’t mean in the backyard or on the patio, but out in the fields, ...

Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing seasonal allergies this week. They’re also seeing rashes from outdoor ...

The April 16 informational session addressed tick-borne illnesses and paralytic shellfish poisoning.

A Northwestern University study reveals that piperacillin, a common antibiotic, effectively treats Lyme disease in mice at a ...

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...