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Lyme Disease News
July 27, 2023

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Bacterium Associated With Disease Found in NC Chiggers

A bacterium that causes a disease called scrub typhus -- a disease not previously reported in the United States -- has been detected in North Carolina, according to a new ...

Static Electricity Attracts Ticks to Hosts

Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate, researchers have ...

Study Shows Most Children Recover from Lyme Disease Within Six Months of Treatment

A majority of parents of children diagnosed with Lyme disease reported that their kids recovered within six months of completing antibiotic treatment, according to a new study. The findings, based on Lyme disease treatment outcome data from 102 ...

White-Tailed Deer Blood Kills Bacteria That Causes Lyme Disease

As tick season kicks in across the country, scientists have completed research that offers a promising lead in the fight against Lyme ...
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Tick-Borne Pathogens Increasingly Widespread in Central Canada

Tick-borne pathogens, known for causing illnesses such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in Central Canada -- presenting new risks in areas where they were never previously detected. The findings ...

Prescribed Fire Could Reduce Tick Populations and Pathogen Transmission

Prescribed fire -- a tool increasingly used by forest managers and landowners to combat invasive species, improve wildlife habitat and restore ecosystem health -- also could play a role in reducing ...

Landscape and Climate Factors Can Predict Prevalence of Lyme Disease Bacteria

By developing predictive models that incorporate climate and landscape variables, researchers have accurately forecasted the prevalence and distribution of Lyme disease bacteria. Such a tool could be ...

New CDC Study Details County-Level Distribution of Seven Diseases Spread by Blacklegged Ticks

As surveillance for ticks and the disease-causing germs they spread improves, so does Americans' access to knowledge about where the risk of tickborne disease is greatest. Experts have assembled ...

Heartland Virus Identified in Lone Star Ticks in Georgia

Heartland virus is circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia, scientists have found, confirming active transmission of the virus within the state. New research includes a genetic analysis of the ...

New Medicines for Treating Heart Patients

新的研究发现了一种独特的medicati类ons that act as blood thinners by inhibiting an enzyme in the genes of tick saliva. The research focused on novel direct thrombin inhibitors from ...

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Gene Editing Now Possible in Ticks

Researchers have successfully used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the genomes of the black-legged tick. To accomplish this feat, they developed an embryo injection protocol that overcame a major barrier in the ...

New Guidelines May Help Reduce Tick-Borne Illness

The number of cases of tick-borne illnesses (TBIs) reported annually to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has more than doubled over the past two decades in the United States. An ...

Scientists Identify Animal Model for Two Emerging Tick-Borne Hemorrhagic Viruses

Pigtailed macaques are a candidate model organism for two hemorrhagic diseases of public health concern: Kyasanur Forest disease and Alkhurma hemorrhagic disease, researchers ...

Researchers Discover a Unique Bacterial Property, Potential Target for Treating and Diagnosing Lyme Disease

Researchers have discovered that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has a highly unusual modification in its protective molecular bag -- its peptidoglycan, which is common to all ...

Novel Lyme Vaccine Shows Promise

Researchers have developed a novel vaccine that in guinea pigs offers protection against infection by the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and may also combat other tick-borne diseases, they ...

Breakthrough in Fight on Tick-Borne CCHF Virus Is Latest Use of New Strategy Against Diseases

Using the same approach they recently used to create effective vaccine candidates against COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), scientists are tackling another virus: the tick-borne ...

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Possible Alternative Treatment for Lyme Disease

Researchers have described a new antibiotic that appears to have the potential to cure Lyme ...

Emerging Infectious Disease Caused by a New Nairovirus Identified in Japan

A previously unknown virus that can infect humans and cause disease has been identified by scientists in Japan. The novel infectious virus, named Yezo virus and transmitted by tick bites, causes a ...

Human Lyme Borreliosis and Puumala Hantavirus Infection Incidence Follow Rodent Abundance Variations in Northern Europe

A recent study shows the association between bank vole abundance variations and the incidence of Lyme Borreliosis and Puumala hantavirus infections. The study showed that the abundance variations of ...

Lyme Disease Heightens Risk of Mental Disorders, Suicidality

A new study reports that patients hospitalized with Lyme disease had a 28 percent higher rate of mental disorders and were twice as likely to attempt suicide. Physicians and patients should be aware ...

Novel Therapy for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus

Scientists have developed and tested an antibody-based therapy to treat Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), which is carried by ticks and kills up to 60 percent of those ...

Chimeric Viruses Unearth Hidden Gems in Dengue Virus Structure

In a recent study, scientists used an original approach to resolve the 3D structure of flaviviruses with an unprecedented level of detail, identifying small molecules known as 'pocket ...

Researchers Identify a Missing Piece of the Lyme Disease Puzzle

Epidemic. Pandemic. These terms have become second nature to us, popping up in everyday conversation, and for good reason -- COVID-19 is the latest pandemic to pose a threat to humanity. But in ...

Ticking Upward: Researcher Studies Rise of Tick-Borne Diseases in Midwest

When a researcher heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a 7-year-old girl had died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever as the result of a tick bite, he ...

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