In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

Scientists have discovered that the enzyme BbLDH is crucial for the survival and infectivity of the Lyme disease bacterium ...

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

Lyme disease spreads through the bite of an infected ... Examine yourself, pets, and children for ticks — focusing on the ears, underarms, belly buttons, and any other place where a tick could ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, ...

The Lyme disease research group has identified an alarming increase ... to evaluate exposure of our children to tick borne diseases. We have collected ~2500 deer tick samples and tested ~1500 samples ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause ...

"I will walk to the end of the earth to find a cure so that you can live a healthy life that you deserve," Foster said, dedicating her Global Lyme Alliance award to her youngest children Yolanda ...

Lyme disease often causes a rash that can be distinctive and resemble a bull’s eye. The rash can also change over time as the bacteria spread. Lyme disease can result from the bite of a black ...