“Keep a close eye on symptoms in the first few weeks after the tick bite.” Early symptoms of Lyme disease usually happen ...

Wearing protective clothing, using repellents, and doing thorough tick checks are key to preventing tick bites and Lyme disease. Early Lyme symptoms resemble the flu. To prevent complications, prompt ...

Lyme disease is the most common disease spread by blood-feeding insects, with about 30,000 cases reported to the CDC annually. Lyme disease spreads through a bite from an infected blacklegged tick ...

A total of 235 patients with symptoms greater than 12 weeks were seen for evaluation (Figure 1). Of these, 35 (15%) had alternative, non-Lyme diagnoses which explained their presenting signs and ...

The duration of antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease has been increasing in clinical practice. In this double-blind trial, researchers randomized 180 patients (minimum age, 16) with annular ...

The researchers first tested how their OspA mRNA vaccine affected cells ... vaccine and suggested that clinicians could develop an mRNA-based vaccine to prevent Lyme disease in humans.

Cases of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne ailment in the U.S., are on the rise, thanks in part to a rainy spring. Johns Hopkins University’s Dr. John Aucott explains efforts to identify the ...