It is spread through the bite of an infected tick. A Lyme disease rash generally occurs within a week of the infection. Blood tests are used to confirm Lyme disease, which can be treated with ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

A new study finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of the younger ticks in the Northeast US carry the bacteria ...

It is also possible that the tick was not carrying the disease. Detecting Lyme Disease can be difficult to identify in the early stages as the early symptoms—fever, headache, stiffness, lethargy, and ...

That red area won’t get any bigger, unless it’s really a rash, which may be a sign of Lyme disease or another tick-borne illness. Ticks bite once and use that site to feed on your blood until ...

Ticks are small arachnids that feed on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. While they may ...

( BDN) -- Maine saw a record-breaking number of tick-borne disease cases in 2024 for a second year in a row. Between January ...

An uptick in reported cases of Lyme disease since 2022 may have many factors, but one contributing factor may be the lengthening of tick season due to warmer temperatures appearing earlier in the ...

Monica Embers is the co-founder of Aces Diagnostics, a Lyme disease testing company. which has developed a test that is over ...

By definition, patients with probable late Lyme disease had no history of physician documented or treated EM rash and no objective clinical signs associated with late Lyme disease. However ...

and has set up 15 sites across Maine to measure tick density, soil temperature, soil moisture, air humidity, wildlife presence and other factors. Symptoms of Lyme disease include a rash ...

Lyme disease vaccine appears to be the most effective management option for the prevention of Lyme disease. Although administration of the adjuvanted formulation of Lyme disease vaccine (LYMErix ...