Findings from a 30-plus-year study challenge long-held assumptions about the factors that drive this tickborne disease.
A town near Asheville, North Carolina, appears to be the edge of this expanding territory.
Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it.
The plan includes funding for a pilot program aimed at controlling tick populations and finding better Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome treatments.
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will decide tomorrow on the composition of next fall’s COVID vaccine.
Although the new vaccine fell short of its primary goal, it showed ‘clinically meaningful’ results in a secondary analysis.
Patients with Lyme disease incurred nearly $4,100 more in health care costs over 6 months.
The test had 91% sensitivity in detecting Borrelia burgdorferi.
Nineteen-month antibody geometric mean titers were higher among children than in adults, similar to after the primary series.
A high percentage of respondents said they were aware of the tick-borne disease and spent time outdoors, but less than half said they took measures to prevent infection.
