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New Tool Provides Major Advance For Understanding Chronic Lyme Disease And Other Illnesses
November 30, 1999 — One of the most frustrating puzzles of Lyme disease is why some people develop debilitating chronic complications despite receiving recommended treatment. Now scientists have developed a new method ... > full story -
Yale And State Researchers Develop Improved Test For New Tick Disease
October 26, 1999 — Yale and state scientists have developed a new, simpler and more reliable blood test to detect a recently discovered disease called ehrlichiosis, which is carried by deer ticks. The test will make it ... > full story -
Researchers Identify New Type Of Potentially Fatal Tick-Borne Disease
July 19, 1999 — Researchers have discovered a new form of a tick-borne disease that can be fatal in humans. This finding provides more insight into ehrlichiosis, first identified in humans in the United States in ... > full story -
Vaccines For Tick-Borne Diseases Are On The Way As Researchers Study Ehrlichiosis
September 15, 1998 — As two drug companies are racing for approval of a new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease, a similarly dangerous tick-borne illness, ehrlichiosis, is quickly spreading in the southeastern, mid-Atlantic ... > full story -
Study Shows Tick-Borne Disease Creates Telling Pattern On X-Rays
August 19, 1998 — Many Americans know ticks can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease, but relatively few realize that the blood-sucking pests can trigger other dangerous illnesses such as tick ... > full story -
Relapsing Fever Spirochete Switches Surface Proteins When It Changes Hosts
June 19, 1998 — Scientists at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories report that the corkscrew-shaped bacterium that causes tick-borne relapsing fever switches surface proteins when it moves from a tick into a ... > full story -
Unexpected Links Found Among Acorns, Gypsy Moths And Lyme Disease
February 25, 1998 — If an acorn falls in the forest, will you contract Lyme disease? Perhaps so, according to some surprising research funded by NSF's division of environmental biology, and performed by scientists ... > full story -
Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
January 23, 1998 — Kathryn Kirkland spent two years in the woods of North Carolina on the trail of an elusive, blood-sucking pest, dubbed Lone Star, that left rashes on the skin of its victims and anxiety in their ... > full story -
State Officials Fear Imported Animals Might Introduce Deadly Tick-Borne Livestock Disease
October 21, 1997 — A University of Florida professor and the state veterinarian say large African tortoise ticks found on imported reptiles in Florida could carry and spread heartwater, an exotic disease that kills ... > full story -
Lyme Disease Still A Concern In Texas
July 4, 1997 — As summer heats up and more people head outdoors, precautions need to be taken to avoid two tick-borne illnesses -- Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Both diseases are still carried by ... > full story
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