Lyme Disease News

Posted November 3, 2005:

• Study Shows Escalating Climate Change Impacts On Human Health, The Environment, And The Economy

Posted October 10, 2005:

• Scientists Show That Tick-Borne Flaviviruses Use A Novel Mechanism To Evade Host Defenses

Posted May 17, 2005:

• Bee Mites Suppress Bee Immunity, Open Door For Viruses And Bacteria

Posted May 6, 2005:

• Scientists Reveal How Disease Bacterium Survives Inside Immune System Cell

Posted April 25, 2005:

• Researchers Identify Protein Crucial For Survival Of Lyme-Disease Bacterium

Posted March 28, 2005:

• Lice Join Ticks As Possible Disease Carriers

Posted December 20, 2004:

• In Wake Of Lyme Disease Vaccine For People, Mice May Be Next In Line For Shots

Posted December 19, 2004:

• Vaccinating Wildlife Can Reduce Human Risk For Lyme Disease

Posted December 14, 2004:

• Broad-Based Vaccination Of Wild Mice Could Help Reduce Lyme Disease Risk In Humans

Posted November 15, 2004:

• Lyme Disease Receptor Identified In Tick Guts

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Identifying Tick Genes Could Halt Disease, Bioterrorism Threat

Posted June 18, 2004:

• Researcher Issues Caution On Live Virus Vaccines

Posted June 7, 2004:

• A Quantum Mechanical 'Tune Up' For Better Measurement

Posted April 9, 2004:

• Researchers Find No Safe Place To Sit In California Tick-Infested Forest

Posted April 6, 2004:

• Female Gluttony Blamed On Male Tick

Posted March 5, 2004:

• Global Warming Could Be Affecting Wolf-Moose Balance

Posted February 24, 2004:

• Researchers Uncover Key To Survival Of Bacterium That Causes Lyme Disease

Posted February 20, 2004:

• System Can Predict Disease Spread

Posted March 28, 2003:

• Forest Fragmentation May Increase Lyme Disease Risk

Posted January 30, 2003:

• Forest Fragmentation May Increase Lyme Disease Risk

Posted April 9, 2002:

• Tick Saliva Genes Key To Lyme Disease Vaccine

Posted November 20, 2001:

• Lyme Disease Ticks Follow Rivers In Midwest

Posted August 7, 2001:

• Component Of Fly Saliva Makes Promising Leishmaniasis Vaccine

Posted July 11, 2001:

• Global Warming Linked To Increase Of Tick-Borne Encephalitis In Sweden

Posted June 19, 2001:

• NIAID Collaboration Yields New Test For Lyme Disease

Posted June 13, 2001:

• Chronic Lyme Disease Symptoms Not Helped By Intensive Antibiotic Treatment

Posted May 9, 2001:

• Golfers Beware! Deer Ticks Lurking In The Rough

Posted April 13, 2001:

• Ticks Have Potential To Transmit Cat Scratch Disease

Posted April 6, 2001:

• Virus Studies Reunite Two Families Of Major Insect-Borne Viruses

Posted March 28, 2001:

• Ancient Tick Found In New Jersey Leaves Experts Guessing

Posted March 5, 2001:

• More Accurate Test For Lyme Disease Announced By Researcher At The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia

Posted March 1, 2001:

• Brookhaven Scientists Determine Key Lyme Disease Protein Structure

Posted January 16, 2001:

• Study Sheds New Light On Lyme Disease Transmission

Posted June 8, 2000:

• Biodiversity May Reduce Lyme Disease

Posted June 2, 2000:

• Research Shows For The First Time That Lyme Disease Bacterium Does Not Require Iron To Infect Host

Posted January 13, 2000:

• Unexplained, Progressive Paralysis May Result From Tick Bite

Posted November 30, 1999:

• New Tool Provides Major Advance For Understanding Chronic Lyme Disease And Other Illnesses

Posted October 26, 1999:

• Yale And State Researchers Develop Improved Test For New Tick Disease

Posted July 19, 1999:

• Researchers Identify New Type Of Potentially Fatal Tick-Borne Disease

Posted September 15, 1998:

• Vaccines For Tick-Borne Diseases Are On The Way As Researchers Study Ehrlichiosis

Posted August 19, 1998:

• Study Shows Tick-Borne Disease Creates Telling Pattern On X-Rays

Posted June 19, 1998:

• Relapsing Fever Spirochete Switches Surface Proteins When It Changes Hosts

Posted February 25, 1998:

• Unexpected Links Found Among Acorns, Gypsy Moths And Lyme Disease

Posted January 23, 1998:

• Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast

Posted October 21, 1997:

• State Officials Fear Imported Animals Might Introduce Deadly Tick-Borne Livestock Disease

Posted July 4, 1997:

• Lyme Disease Still A Concern In Texas

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