Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of children misdiagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Their persistence brought Yale rheumatologist Allen Steere to investigate, who documented 51 cases across Lyme, Old Lyme, and East Haddam. The bacterium was identified by Willy Burgdorfer in 1981.
The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was…
Roughly 95 percent of confirmed Lyme disease cases in the United States are reported from 14 high-incidence states clustered in the…
CDC's mandatory case reporting registers roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Lyme disease cases per year. Analysis of commercial insurance claims by…
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
Southern tick-associated rash illness produces an expanding red rash that looks indistinguishable from early Lyme disease, but it follows…
Borrelia miyamotoi disease shares a vector with Lyme disease - the same Ixodes species - but presents differently: high fevers that recur…