Lyme Science Blog

(Updated: 6/24/19) In the Prevention article, doctors describe how Lyme disease can impact a person’s vocal cords. “Lyme can affect the nerves that are responsible for controlling the muscles in the vocal cords,” says Amesh A. Adalja, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “As a result, someone could technically lose their […]

Fatal Lyme Carditis in a Teen: When Lyme Tests Are Negative In the summer of 2013, a young man from Poughkeepsie, NY, died suddenly from what was later confirmed to be fatal Lyme carditis, after suffering flu-like symptoms for nearly three weeks. Initial reports suggested he had died from complications due to the Powassan virus,

To explore the possible association, Žákovská and colleagues from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic conducted a pilot study using an in vitro method. Blood from volunteers was placed on the perimeter of filter paper placed on a Petri dish. Researchers collected 100 nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks in Ruda, near the Brno Reservoir. These are

The working group, led by Dr. John Aucott of Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, released its first report in 2018. The report included multiple suggestions to address the “serious and growing threat of tick-borne diseases.” Authors of the report called on the government to invest more funds in research, prevention and treatment of

From the Archives (2019) This article reflects clinical observations from a period when families of children with persistent symptoms were frequently told no underlying illness could be identified. At the time, Lyme disease was often excluded early in the diagnostic process, leaving many pediatric cases labeled as medically unexplained.   In a 2014 interview, Dr.

According to Haddad, more than 1,000 individuals consulted 1 of 3 centers in France about presumed Lyme borreliosis. However, the majority (90%) were not diagnosed with Lyme disease. “The most striking result is that approximately 10% of such patients have a final diagnosis of LB [Lyme borreliosis],” writes Haddad. Yet, in one of the studies