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Re: “We’ve become a nation of Internet hypochondriacs,” Josh Freed, Opinion, Jan. 2. I take offence to Josh Freed’s sweeping comments about illnesses such as Lyme disease and the Internet creating a nation of hypochondriacs. My partner was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. He had classic MS symptoms, along with other symptoms I did…
Researchers from Mount Allison University and veterinarians from across New Brunswick are joining forces to determine how widespread Lyme disease is in the province. They will be collecting blood samples from dogs and testing for antibodies to Borrelia, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Borrelia is commonly transmitted to both dogs and humans through tick bites. About…
…”Much of the contention and controversy with regard to Lyme disease centres on the Infectious Disease of America clinical practice guidelines referenced in the OMR article. Clearly, these guidelines need to be updated and revised.” Read full text
Release date- 09012014 – Leverkusen, – Nearly half of the world’s population is infected with at least one type of vector-borne disease (1). These diseases are transmitted from parasites to animals and humans, and have a significant impact on public health and our global economy. The economic impact of Lyme disease alone is estimated to…
By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 22:44 GMT, 8 January 2014 …”The experimental technology has already been used to identify lung, skin, ovarian, and womb cancers as well as other diseases including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Lyme disease and motor neurone disease”. Heating a patient’s blood could provide a simple new test for cervical cancer, say researchers. The plasma thermogram…
By WILLIAM WEIR, bweir [at] courant [dot] com The Hartford Courant 10:06 p.m. EST, December 31, 2013 A series of fatal cases of Lyme disease in the Northeast, including one from Connecticut, have health officials on the lookout for a very rare complication of the tick-borne disease. The first fatality was in November 2012, when a Massachusetts resident…
By Daryl Vandenberg | September 12, 2013 | Smiling is something most of us take for granted, but for Shayna Jenny Van Dyke, the possibility of losing it is something she thinks of daily. She said when she’s having a relapse with her Lyme disease; numbness in her face is the first sign. In 2009 Lyme disease became a…
By Jennifer Frazer | December 28, 2013 The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through their environment in spite of the fact their tails are located inside their bodies. For bacteria, they’re also unusually shaped and active. In this movie, you can see the bacteria that cause Lyme Disease moving like living, squirming cavatappi….
December 20th, 2013 Public Library of Science Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, hitchhikes in ticks for dissemination to mammalian hosts–including humans. An article in the 19 December issue of PLOS Pathogens identifies HrpA, an RNA helicase, as a crucial player in the transmission from ticks to mammals. George Chaconas, from the University of Calgary, Canada, and…
~Governor McDonnell included this budget item based on Delegate Ramadan’s request ~ Dulles, VA | December 18, 2013 — Delegate David Ramadan (87th) announced today that funding he requested for a groundbreaking new Lyme disease test developed by George Mason University has been included in Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s proposed 2015-2016 budget. George Mason University’s Center…
By Amanda Persico Dec. 16th, 2013 While tick season is usually in spring and fall, when temperatures are above 4C and there is no snow, the warm spell we had at the beginning of the month could have spurred a tick storm, according to a Markham veterinarian. And blacklegged ticks can carry lyme disease. At the…
Sikutová S, Bunková L, Krejčí E, Halouzka J, Sanogo YO, Rudolf I. Source Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic. Abstract Growth temperature range, resistance to selective antibiotics, activities of 23 enzymes, protein fingerprints and fatty acids composition of the spirochaetal strain BR91, isolated from the Culex pipiens…
Like most Lyme disease patients in Canada, Dawn Lavarnway doesn’t remember when she was bitten by the tick that gave her the crippling illness – but she knows when she found out Canada’s health system wouldn’t treat her for it. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario nurse tried to book an appointment with an infectious…
FDA NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Wed. Dec. 11, 2013 Media Inquiries: Shelly Burgess, 301-796-4651, shelly [dot] burgess [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov or Juli Putnam, 240-402-0537,JuliAnn [dot] Putnam [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov Trade Press Inquiries: Siobhan DeLancey, 240-276-9356, siobhan [dot] delancey [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA From: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm378193.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery FDA takes significant steps…
December 13, 2013 / 62(49);993-996 Lyme disease* is a multisystem illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete transmitted by certain species of Ixodes ticks. Approximately 30,000 confirmed and probable cases of Lyme disease were reported in the United States in 2012, primarily from high-incidence states in the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,…
