Lyme Action Network News & Blog
Taking Tick-Borne Diseases Seriously
Public Health officials issue a warning about a tick-borne disease. The more common Lyme disease is getting some long-overdue attention as well. By Anthony F. Hall, Lake George Mirror (Reproduced with permission.) Last week, Warren County’s public health officials...
Groundbreaking Research on Pregnancy and Lyme Disease Seeks Study Participants
Groundbreaking research being conducted at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, seeks to better understand fetal transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi during pregnancy. McMaster University explains: "We will be comparing the health of people who have been...
NEW: Lyme Action Network ZOOM Series
Global pandemics, it turns out, make the work of Lyme disease educators and advocates about 1000 times more challenging. This past spring, as ticks were biting their way throughout the country, those of us who customarily sound the alarms have been hobbled....
Bitten by a Tick?
If you are bitten by a tick (that means the tick attaches to your skin), there are a few tips that will make things easier for you as you learn about what you need to do next. Take a picture of the tick in your skin. Do not squeeze, burn, put alcohol on or otherwise...
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”
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...
