Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

Conclusions Our study using multiple detection methods confirms that MD is a true somatic illness associated with Borrelia spirochetes that cause Lyme disease. Further studies are needed to ...

To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can spread to humans if a tick carrying the bacteria bites a person. Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria are the main cause of Lyme disease. The most common ...

“I never could find proof that the Lyme disease bacterium… Borrelia burgdorferi, had been weaponized,” Newby said. “But what I did discover is that there were several tick-borne diseases ...

Brian Stevenson, a microbiology professor at the University of Kentucky, studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped ...

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

Dear EarthTalk: "Does the rise in diseases like Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever mean tick populations are on ...

The type of tick most commonly known to carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been identified in eastern Montana, according to new National Institutes of Health (NIH) research. […] ...

Brian Stevenson, a microbiology professor at the University of Kentucky, studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks. He had three ...