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Recent Lyme-Related Articles In The News
Below, you will find a collection of news articles that have recently been published locally and nationally, all pertaining to Lyme Disease, coinfections, and related stories. All headlines are links to the originating story. These links will remain active, to the best of our ability. We have also provided a PDF file of the website link, where possible.
HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:
- Connecticut Doctor Protection Bill For Lyme Signed By Governor Rell - May 4, 2009
Finally, as a result of the ridiculous standards of the IDSA, and the ensuing anti-trust lawsuit brought by CT Attorney General Blumenthal, the citizens and doctors of CT have received a wonderful gift. A new law, passed UNANIMOUSLY by the Connecticut House and Senate, and signed into law by Governor Jodi Rell, PROTECTS DOCTORS and, by extension, their LYME PATIENTS from ridiculous charges of over treatment for lyme disease. You may read the full wording of the bill at:
Website Link: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/FC/2009HB-06200-R000903-FC.htm
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America) sued by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal due to heavy conflicts of interest. The ISDA was forced to enter into a settlement agreement to CHANGE these ridiculous guidelines. This is EXTREMELY important because these guidelines are being used against Lyme victims by Health insurance companies and Medical personnel to deny us the appropriate diagnosis and treatment!
Melissa Chefec, Nicole Rogers - May 1, 2008
"Hartford, CT, May 1, 2008 - Patients' rights groups today hailed Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal's announcement of a settlement in a landmark antitrust investigation into the Lyme treatment guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)..."
Website Link: http://www.timeforlyme.org/PDF/TFLpressreleases/May08-Fenton-AG-settlement.pdf
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Congressman Frank R. Wolf, 10th District of Virginia - Newsletter Regarding ISDA Guidelines
Frank Wolf - October 29, 2008
"As you may recall, I recently shared with you my letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asking that the department review its continued link to Lyme treatment guidelines published by the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) in light of a finding by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that several IDSA panel members may hold conflicts of interest..."
PDF File: Newsletter - In PDF Format (this was an e-mail message)
OTHER ARTICLES:
- Ability of Two Natural Products, Nootkatone and Carvacrol, to Suppress Ixodes Scapularis and Amblyomma Americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) in a Lyme Disease Endemic Area of New Jersey
Journal of Economic Entomology - Volume 102, Issue 6, pp. 2316-2324 - December 2009
"We evaluated the ability of the natural, plant-derived acaricides nootkatone and carvacrol to suppress Ixodes scapularis Say and Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae)..."
Website Link: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1603/029.102.0638
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Under the Eight Ball: A New Film by Timothy Grey Hall
Public Health Alert - Investigating Lyme Disease and Chronic Illnesses in the U.S.A. - by PJ Langhoff - December 2009
"My father was a professional mechanical engineer, and one of his earlier jobs when he was alive was at the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1960s. When we were young I remember my family driving to visit his mother (my grandmother) who lived on the south side of Chicago..."
Website Link: http://publichealthalert.org/Articles/pjlanghoff/8%20Ball.htm
- Scientists Say Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Yahoo News - October 28, 2009
"A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday..."
Website Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/sc_nm/us_cancer_curry
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Was it a Sudden Seafood Allergy? No.
Washington Post - October 20, 2009
"This cannot be happening again, Hayden Newell thought as the angry, red, ferociously itchy welts encircled his waist and spread up his arms. The 57-year-old metallurgist from tiny Boones Mill, Va., who was attending a business lunch in Florida, knew what would probably happen next: His lips would grow numb, making it hard to speak, he would become short of breath and his blood pressure would plummet: all unmistakable signs of anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction..."
Website Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902874.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Lyme Disease Lepers
Global News Online (Canada) - October 13, 2009
"It’s the bug bite that can change your life forever. They call themselves lepers—“Lyme Disease lepers”. It started like the flu, and escalated in to pain and mental confusion..."
Website Link: http://www.globalnational.com/programs/16x9/Lyme%20Disease%20Lepers/2082439/story.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Drug Eliminates Parasite that Causes Babesiosis in Horses
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Agricultural Research Department - September 28, 2009
"A drug commonly used to treat cattle and sometimes dogs for a blood parasite can, at a relatively high dose, completely eliminate the parasite Babesia caballi from horses, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have discovered..."
Website Link: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2009/090928.htm
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Understanding L-Form Bacteria
Bacteriality — Exploring Chronic Disease - August 15, 2007
"In a 2006 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a paper stating, “Infectious agents have emerged as notable determinants, not just complications, of chronic diseases. To capitalize on these opportunities, clinicians, public health practitioners, and policymakers must recognize that many chronic diseases may indeed have infectious origins..."
Website Link: http://bacteriality.com/2007/08/15/l-forms/
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Geographic Distribution of Lyme in Eastern US, as Done by US Government
Phylogeography of Borrelia Burgdorferi in the Eastern
United States Reflects Multiple Independent Lyme Disease Emergence Events - August 14, 2009
"Since its first description in coastal Connecticut in 1976, both the incidence of Lyme disease and the geographic extent of endemic areas in the US have increased dramatically. The rapid expansion of Lyme disease into its current distribution in the eastern half of the US has been due to the range expansion of the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis, upon which the causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi is dependent for transmission to humans..."
Website Link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/08/13/0903810106.full.pdf+html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here and Supporting Document Click Here
- UAB Media Relations
UAB Students Using Satellites to Study Lyme Disease in State - July 27, 2009
"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Six University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) students and two students from other universities are using satellite imagery to identify possible habitats in Alabama for the black-legged tick that carries and transmits Lyme disease..."
Website Link: http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/66245/
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- The New Times
Rell Signs Lyme Disease Bill in Brookfield, CT - July 16, 2009
"Dr. Monica Bolesta contracted
Lyme disease in 2006, leaving her in so much
pain she could hardly move..."
Website Link: http://www.newstimes.com/ci_12852975
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Interesting Study by Kerry Mott on the Effect of Diet on Brain Plaques
Effects on Alzheimer's Disease - Spring 2009
"The present study investigated the role and interaction of DHA and curcumin as amyloid plaque reducing
agents in mouse models of AD, and examined each of their effects on spatial memory using a maze. Mice
were assigned to one of five conditions..."
PDF File: Click Here
- Seton Family of Hospitals
Man Dies of Brain Inflammation Caused by Deer Tick Virus - May 13, 2009
"In what scientists say might be the first case of its kind, a new report details the story of a 62-year-old man in New York state who died last year of meningoencephalitis, apparently after being bitten by a deer tick infected with deer tick virus..."
Website Link: http://www.seton.net/health_a_to_z/health_news/health_news/2009/05/15/man_dies_of_brain_inflammation_caused_by_deer_tick_virus
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Ticks and Animal Diseases - February 2009
"Why do veterinarians need to know anything about ticks?
Ticks are the vectors for a number of disease agents in domesticated animals, and possess the ability to harbor and transmit certain viruses, bacteria, and protozoa..."
Article Website Link: http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/ivm/eng/ticks/index.htm
Website Link: http://www.vet.uga.edu/
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Detailed Analysis of Sequence Changes Occurring During vlsE Antigenic Variation in the Mouse Model of Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection
PLOS Pathogens - February 13, 2009
"Lyme disease Borrelia can infect humans and animals for months to years, despite the presence of an active host immune response. The vls antigenic variation system, which expresses the surface-exposed lipoprotein VlsE, plays a major role in B. burgdorferi immune evasion..."
Website Link: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000293
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Swim Instructor Kurt Billing Dies at 47
The South Hampton Press - February 10, 2009
"Kurt Hilding Billing, a mainstay in Southampton known for teaching hundreds—perhaps thousands—of local children over the years how to swim at Big Fresh Pond, local beaches and in backyard pools, took his own life on February 3 at his home in North Sea. He was 47..."
Website Link: http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=194368
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Drugmakers' Push Boosts 'Murky' Ailment
Washington Associate Press - February 9, 2009
"Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions - including whether it's a real disease at all..."
PDF File: Click Here
- In Vitro Activity of Tigecycline Against Multiple Strains of Borrelia Burgdorferi
Oxford Journals - The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy - January 31, 2009
"Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted to mammalian hosts through an arthropod
(tick) vector. To establish infection, Bb must acquire essential nutrients, including transition metals, from its mammalian and
tick hosts..."
Website Link: http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dkn551v1
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Comparative Cryo-electron Tomography of Pathogenic Lyme Disease Spirochetes
Wiley InterScience - Molecular Biology - January 14, 2009
"Spirochetes of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato group, the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis, exhibit a complex biology evolved in
its zoonotic cycle. Cryo-electron tomography was used to investigate structural features of three species, B. burgdorferi, B. garinii and
B. afzelii, known to cause different clinical manifestations in humans..."
Website Link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121680637/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- A Manganese Transporter, BB0219 (BmtA), is
Required for Virulence by the Lyme Disease Spirochete,
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States of America - December 19, 2008
"Objectives: To compare the antimicrobial activity of tigecycline and doxycycline against multiple isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi.Methods: In vitro antimicrobial assays were carried out using a microdilution assay. The time needed to inhibit, immobilize and kill the B31 strain of B. burgdorferi was determined. The MIC, MBC and concentration needed to immobilize the organism were determined for each antimicrobial for various strains of B. burgdorferi..."
Website Link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/02/12/0812999106
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Percent Positive Rate of Lyme Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction in Blood, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Synovial Fluid, and Tissue
Elsevier Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease - December 2008
"We performed a retrospective review of 23,777 specimens tested by our Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to determine the percent positive rates by specimen source. The percent positive rates were highest in synovial fluid (6.4%) and tissue (6.5%), and lowest in blood (0.1%) and cerebrospinal fluid (0.09%).4)..."
Website Link: http://www.dmidjournal.com/article/S0732-8893(08)00377-5/abstract
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Babesia Infection through Blood Transfusions: Reports Received by the US Food and Drug Administration, 1997–2007
Chicago Journals - November 26, 2008
"Human babesiosis is an illness with clinical manifestations that range from asymptomatic to fatal. Although babesiosis is not nationally notifiable, the US incidence appears to be increasing. Babesia infection is a transfusion‐transmissable disease. An estimated 70 cases were reported during 1979–2007; most of these cases were reported during the past decade..."
Website Link: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/595010
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Scientists Discover 21st Century Black Plague That Spreads From Rats to Humans
Daily Mail in the UK - November 24, 2008
"A new plague which jumps from rats to humans has been discovered by scientists. Fears are growing that increasing numbers of brown rats, the most common kind in Europe, are carrying a strain of bacteria that can cause serious illness in humans from heart disease to infection of the spleen and nervous system. The new strain of bacteria called Bartonella rochalimae is spread between rats by fleas..."
Website Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1088887/Scientists-discover-21st-century-black-plague-spreads-rats-humans.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Ticked - A Discussion of Chronic Lyme Disease
Channel 5, Boston Massachusetts, ABC-TV WCVB - November 14, 2008
"Four doctors told Susan Mercurio she had MS. Kay Lyon's daughter was prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs and sent to a
locked ward. Both had been misdiagnosed; they really suffered from Lyme disease, the tick borne disease that's spreading throughout New England. Tonight, Peter Mehegan wades into the controversy that surrounds this fast growing illness. And he discovers why one Lyme disease researcher sees very bad news ahead for residents in the 128-495 corridor..."
Video Downloaded from the Website: Click Here
Website Link: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/chronicle/17899134/detail.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Science Lab Studies The Deadliest Diseases
The Milford Daily News - September 27, 2008
"These are the words that come the most often from officials at the Cummings School for Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University when they talk about the Level 3 Regional Biosafety Laboratory now under construction on their Grafton University campus..."
Website Link: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x1923543182/Science-lab-studies-the-deadliest-diseases
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- KIRO News Station Reports on New Documentary Film Showing the Horrors of Lyme Disease (Under Your Skin)
KIRO News Station - September 26, 2008
"John Fowler, KIRO News Station Reports on New Documentary Film Showing the Horrors of Lyme Disease..."
Website Link: http://www.kirotv.com/video/17543354/index.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Congress Asked to Take a Closer Look at Lyme Disease
ABC News - WJLA News Station - September 24, 2008
"They say the disease with high numbers in Maryland and northern Virginia is being misdiagnosed and mistreated, and they want Congress to step in..."
Website Link: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0908/556184.html
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- Bedford Teen in Fight for Lyme Disease Funds
Boston Herald - September 24, 2008
"After losing a third of her life to Lyme disease, Marlena Connors is eager to catch up with her peers..."
Website Link: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1121108
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Lyme Briefing for Congress on September 24, 2008
The National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association - September 24, 2008
"Lyme Briefing for Congress on September 24, 2008. We need your help!!..."
Website Link: http://www.natcaplyme.org/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=8&pid=1
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- In Short Order with Sue Vogan
Contact Talk Radio - September 24, 2008
"Join Sue Vogan as she discusses the latest news and developments concerning Lyme disease..."
Website Link: http://www.contacttalkradio.com/hosts/suevogan.htm
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
Listen to Sue Vogan Radio shows about the Capital Hill Lyme Briefings. Click to listen to Recent Shows on the National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association's website:
Website Link: http://www.natcaplyme.org/index.php
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- Research Foundation for Tick-Borne Diseases to Fund Studies of Neurological and Immunological Mechanisms in Lyme Disease
Globe Newswire - February 22, 2008
"Wilton, Connecticut, February 22, 2008 (Prime Newswire) - The National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases, Inc. (NRFTD), the nation's only non-profit organization dedicated primarily to funding research in the rapidly expanding field of tick-borne infections, has announced the award of four grants totaling $344,000 for basic and translational research in Lyme disease..."
Website Link: http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=136913
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Bush Apparently Has Lyme - President Was Treated for Rash in 2006
Washington Post - August 9, 2007
"President Bush was treated a year ago for what appears to have been Lyme disease, the White House said yesterday in disclosing the results of his annual physical exam..."
Website Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802268.html
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- Chapter 4 - Prevention of Specific Infectious Diseases
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - June 18, 2007
"Rickettsial Infections - Many species of Rickettsia can cause illnesses in humans (Table 4-18)..."
Website Link: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-Rickettsial.aspx
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- CDC Reports High Lyme Disease Rates in 10 States
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - June 14, 2007
"Number of the most common vector-borne disease doubles in 15 years - Reported cases of Lyme disease have been more than doubled since 1991, when Lyme became a nationally notifiable disease, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)..."
Website Link: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2007/r070614.htm
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
ILADS - 2007
"Chronic Lyme - An Evidence-Based Review by Steven Phillips, MD..."
Website Link: http://www.ilads.org/Presentation_ChronicLyme.html
PDF File of the Web Page: Click Here
- Borrelia Burgdorferi and Lyme Disease
Kenneth Todar University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology - 2007
"Lyme disease was first recognized in the United States in 1975 by Dr. Allen Steere, following a mysterious outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis near the community of Lyme, Connecticut..."
Website Link: http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/Lyme.html
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