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Songbirds Disperse Lyme Ticks Across North America

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Canadian Lyme researcher John D. Scott’s studies of songbirds in Ontario, Canada have found that ground-foraging birds such as sparrows, warblers, wrens, juncos, and thrushes (including the American Robin) are often infested with Lyme disease ticks. In a study between 2007 and 2009, Scott reported that 481 ticks were collected from 211 songbirds in Canada. [...]

IDSA Lyme Review Panel Hearing 7/30/09

Monday, July 20, 2009

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On July 30, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) will hold a day-long hearing in Washington DC to review its controversial 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines. This hearing is part of an antitrust settlement Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal negotiated to address “serious flaws” in the IDSA guidelines. Read the Attorney General’s press release [...]

Getting Lyme

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Don’t let the name fool you. Whether it’s Lyme, Lime Disease, or Lymes Disease, this infectious disease is nothing to sneeze (or scratch) at. Several Ixodes species of ticks are known to carry the Lyme bacteria in the U.S., mostly in the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest, and all over Canada. An infected tick is called [...]