Lyme Blog Posts
I’ve got Lyme disease and you may have it, too
By Richard Wilson This is a good time to be a tick with Lyme disease to share. You and I may bemoan the weirdness of…
How to get the treatments we need for long COVID, long Lyme, and others
By Ryan Prior The National Institutes of Health should create an Office of Infection-Associated Chronic Illness Research. Reporting directly to the NIH Director, the Office…
A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year….
PODCAST: 5 things this “Tick Chick” did to recover from Lyme
By Fred Diamond When I was researching my book “Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need…
Patients question CDC about Pfizer Lyme vaccine
On March 6-7, I was one of seven Lyme disease advocates selected to attend the “Lyme Disease Vaccine—Technical Consultation” at the CDC in Atlanta. The…
What’s ahead as UCSF joins Lyme clinical trials network
By the Bay Area Lyme Foundation There’s been much excitement in the Lyme community regarding the founding and development of the Lyme Clinical Trials Network…
Frequently asked questions about mold-related illness
By ISEAI.org When one person in a household is diagnosed with mold illness, it can affect the whole family. There are often many changes needed…
COVID virus can stay in the body more than a year after infection
The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has…
“Long covid looks exactly, and I mean exactly, like chronic Lyme.”
MIT Technology Review is a bimonthly magazine owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It focuses on science and technology. Its latest issue features the work of…
Virginia passes bill to make alpha-gal reportable to CDC
Virginia’s General Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to make alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) reportable to the CDC. It now goes to the governor to be…
PODCAST: Neurological and cognitive issues from Lyme
By Fred Diamond On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme podcast, biologist and Lyme survivor Dr. Shelley Ball and I discussed neurological and cognitive issues that…
True number of Lyme disease cases? We may never know.
The CDC released a surveillance report in February 2024, showing reported cases of Lyme disease rose from an average of about 37,000 from 2017–2019 to…