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IDSA Lyme Review Panel Hearing 7/30/09
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 [...]
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
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 a vector, meaning it does not get Lyme Disease itself but is a carrier, transmitting it from one host to another. Common Lyme hosts [...]
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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