The model can help identify which counties are at high-risk for invasion. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tick-spread-lyme-disease.html
Tag: Lyme disease
Your skin should be toxic to ticks. Here’s why it’s not.
A toxin from an ancient bacteria helps ticks survive and transmit Lyme disease to the humans they feed on, a new study finds. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-bacteria-ticks-lyme-disease.html
A New Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Showing Promise
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IFLScience: Promising results have come out of the only active clinical trial for a vaccine against Lyme disease. Valneva, a French biotech company, recently announced its first Phase 2 clinical trial has shown that its vaccine against Lyme disease is both safe and effective. The vaccine works by triggering the body’s immune system to…
Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial
A vaccine against Lyme disease that is safe and stimulated immune protection in 82 to 96 per cent of clinical trial participants could be available by 2025 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250045-lyme-disease-vaccine-found-to-be-safe-and-effective-in-clinical-trial/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health for ever
For some people, the symptoms of Lyme disease never go away after treatment. Now we have clues about why this happens, supporting the idea that “chronic Lyme” really does exist Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632851-600-chronic-lyme-disease-how-one-tick-bite-can-ruin-your-health-for-ever/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
What are zoonotic diseases and what can we do about them?
Infectious diseases that leap from animals to humans are called zoonotic diseases. Covid-19 is an example of a zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/what-are-zoonotic-diseases-coronavirus-covid19…
What Happens After 550 Times the Usual Dose of LSD?
“From the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs comes three case studies on people who benefited from LSD overdoses including one woman who took a dose of 55 milligrams of pure powdered LSD,” writes clovis (Slashdot reader #4,684). CNN reports:
The 49-year-old woman, known as CB, had contracted Lyme disease in her early 20s, which damaged her feet and ankles and…
Lyme disease cases may rise 92 per cent in US due to climate change
Climate change could nearly double new cases of Lyme disease by the end of the century in the US, even if the world manages to limit warming to levels agreed under the Paris climate deal Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232705-lyme-disease-cases-may-rise-92-per-cent-in-us-due-to-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Chronic Lyme disease may be a misdiagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome
People who think they have a long-lasting form of Lyme disease are taking antibiotics for many months and may be treating the wrong disease Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219479-chronic-lyme-disease-may-be-a-misdiagnosis-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Lyme disease in England and Wales is most common in older, white women
An analysis of hospital records has found that people with Lyme disease in hospitals in England and Wales tend to be white, female and relatively affluent Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213426-lyme-disease-in-england-and-wales-is-most-common-in-older-white-women/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…