Lyme Action Network News & Blog
Say Yes to the Test
Holly Ahern, MS, MT(ASCP), Vice President, Lyme Action Network; Scientific Advisor, Focus on Lyme Developing an accurate diagnostic test for Lyme disease remains a scientific challenge. Current serological tests show limited clinical accuracy, and the development of...
No Evidence That a Single Dose of Doxycycline Prevents Lyme Disease
The medical opinion that 2x100 mg doxycycline administered at the time of a tick bite prevents Lyme disease is based entirely upon a single study, never reproduced, published in 2001.1 This study is based upon the incorrect assumption that the absence of a bulls-eye...
Tick-Bite Victims Called Upon to Help Researchers (Spring – Summer 2019)
This year over 100,000 New Yorkers will be infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease as a result of a tick bite. While Lyme disease can cause a broad range of symptoms, the one indisputable indicator of early infection is a distinctive circular rash, called...
Holly Ahern: Testimony Submitted to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Tick-borne Diseases Working Group, Public Comment: Dec. 11-12, 2017 – Written Public Comment
(In August, 2017, Prof. Holly Ahern presented the following testimony to a joint public hearing of the New York State Senate Health Committee and the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases. Holly then submitted this testimony to the Federal Tick-borne...
Medical Stalemate
by Professor Holly Ahern Over the past few weeks, there has been discussion about an article that appeared in the Baltimore Sun, which reported on Lyme disease research. The study, one of several undertaken by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, focuses on...
Cornell Cooperative Extension presents Holly Ahern and Dan Durkee: “Don’t Get Ticked”
by Professor Holly Ahern Over the past few weeks, there has been discussion about an article that appeared in the Baltimore Sun, which reported on Lyme disease research. The study, one of several undertaken by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, focuses on...
Lyme Action Network Founders Honored
This is a message from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Warren County... Don’t Get Ticked! Are you concerned about the rise in tick borne diseases in the past few years? You should be. According to New York State Integrated Pest Management, “Ticks and tick-borne...
ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) Organization Tackles Chronic Diseases
A Note from Chris Fisk: Holly Ahern and I were surprised and honored to receive the 2018 Citizen of the Year Award from The Rotary Club of Glens Falls. Pursuing a universe of better circumstances for the victims of tick-borne diseases isn't an easy task, but we've...
Researchers Invite Patient Input
The Time for Unrest campaign is a movement deeply invested in drawing attention to ME/CFS as well as to other misunderstood and insufficiently researched diseases, like Lyme disease, that render victims chronically ill. We have a lot in common, and the Time for...
2nd Annual Lyme Away 5K is Now a USATF Sanctioned Event!
Citizen Science... Researchers want to hear from you! Researchers from the Climate Cost Project are studying the financial toll Lyme and other tick-borne diseases have taken on their victims. In the absence of adequate governmental inquiry and investment in...
