Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are skyrocketing across the country and here in Maine, and they are spreading farther north in our state. On Sept. 5, I convened an official Senate hearing at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory Tick Lab in Orono to spotlight both the devastating consequences of […]
Lyme can get complicated, so to keep your life simple, we searched the internet to bring you the best of Lyme Twitter. This is Lyme in 280 characters AKA the top 10 Tweets about Lyme disease: 1. I’m never looking at poppyseed muffins the same. 2. “Houston, we’ve had a problem!” 3. […]
PUTNAM VALLEY – The incidence of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses is frightening since more than 400,000 new cases of Lyme have been reported across the United States with 98,000 cases confirmed in New York State. State Senator Susan Serino (R, Hyde Park) and Putnam Valley Supervisor Sam Oliverio recently hosted a forum […]
Everyone hates getting sick. Unless you consider the “perks” of a raspy voice, sleeping in all day, and flavored medicine worth all the pain, exhaustion, and inconvenience that come with illness. Regardless of where you stand, imagine being sick everyday with no end in sight. Going to work doesn’t sound too bad now? When […]
The sooner experts admit that, the sooner we’ll figure out what’s happening and perhaps prevent a lot of suffering. Lyme disease exposes how overrated medicine is. People have come to expect modern science to be able to detect and cure bacterial infections, at the very least – and yet for Lyme, a bacterial disease transmitted […]
Amy’s husband, Ryan, is one of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from chronic Lyme disease, a debilitating chronic illness. The road has been difficult, to say the least. Even though Amy is not the one in chronic pain, the pain she feels as she watches her husband lose his will to live […]
The first step to winning a fight is understanding your opponent. Chronic Lymies are surrounded on all sides and need as much help as they can get in the fight to stay alive. September is Suicide Prevention Month, and as such is the perfect time to talk plainly about this “touchy” subject. Nothing is solved […]
As Lyme disease increases, researchers have taken a significant step toward finding new ways to prevent its transmission. The experts, who include a pioneer in Lyme disease discovery, have sequenced the genome of the animal carrying the bacteria that causes the illness. The advance by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and colleagues provides […]
Lyme disease affects an estimated hundreds of thousands of people each year, and you might be nervous about how Lyme is actually spread. It seems like everyone is getting Lyme and while that isn’t true…everyone is susceptible. Keep reading to learn how Lyme spreads (and how it doesn’t.) How is Lyme disease transmitted? Borrelia […]
Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an article, “My Son Got Lyme Disease. He’s Totally Fine.” In an attempt to comfort other parents and those concerned about Lyme disease, Apoorva Mandavilli tells the story of her 9-year-old son’s experience with Lyme disease. Mandavilli’s son, Akash, was lucky enough to receive his round […]
