CDC's mandatory case reporting registers roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Lyme disease cases per year. Analysis of commercial insurance claims by Kugeler and colleagues estimated 476,000 patients diagnosed and treated for Lyme each year between 2010 and 2018 - about an order of magnitude higher. Most diagnoses never reach the surveillance system.
Roughly 95 percent of confirmed Lyme disease cases in the United States are reported from 14 high-incidence states clustered in the…
Reported United States Powassan virus cases rose from a handful per year through the 1990s to roughly 30 to 50 per year by the early…
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of…
A 2001 NEJM trial by Robert Nadelman and colleagues showed that a single 200 mg oral dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of removing an…
Borrelia miyamotoi disease shares a vector with Lyme disease - the same Ixodes species - but presents differently: high fevers that recur…
An FDA-approved Lyme vaccine for humans (LYMErix) was on the United States market from 1998 to 2002 before being withdrawn over weak…