A new toolkit can help physicians navigate the management of patients with prolonged symptoms after antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease, discussants said during a CDC webinar for clinicians last ...

You've heard of Lyme disease, but there's a relatively new tick-borne illness in town, and its symptoms have been leaving ...

Lyme disease is not contagious. To become infected with the bacteria, a person must have been bitten by a tick that is infected with the bacteria.

Past infection does not make you immune. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 30,000 cases of Lyme disease occur yearly, with most infections occurring from April ...

Bites from blacklegged ticks are the main cause of Lyme disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2022, 62,551 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the CDC.

Lyme disease is the most common disease spread by blood-feeding insects, with about 30,000 cases reported to the CDC annually. Lyme disease spreads through a bite from an infected blacklegged tick ...

An additional 128 (54%) could not be assigned a specific diagnosis or category using the current CDC surveillance criteria for Lyme disease and had medically unexplained symptoms. Among the ...

An adult or child with a documented episode of early or late Lyme disease fulfilling the case definition of the CDC. If based on erythema migrans, the diagnosis must be made and documented by an ...

As of Dec. 3, the number of Lyme infections stood at 3,035, exceeding the number of cases in 2023. Also read: Tick-borne disease rates are soaring in older Mainers Last year, the Maine CDC ...