The days of Lyme disease may be numbered. With ticks emerging earlier than usual this year, experts are warning of the risk of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection caused by a bite from an infected ...

Lyme disease sickens about 300,000 people per year, according to an August report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the fact that only 30,000 or so of those cases are ...

A black-legged tick, commonly called the deer tick, carries a slew of diseases including Lyme. But two vaccines — one given to mice — may provide a solution. MILLBROOK — Lyme disease has impacted the ...

An experimental vaccine to control Lyme disease by targeting the mice that spread it cut the number of infected ticks by more than 75 percent after a couple of years, researchers reported Wednesday.

The CumberlandCenter, which seeks to invest in businesses and social enterprises making a difference in food and health, began its first investment last year with US Biologic, a company fighting Lyme ...

Connecticut researchers are involved in a new and potentially important effort to break the cycle of infections among wild animals and ticks that leads to the transmission of Lyme disease to humans.

On one wall in the modest office of Maria Gomes-Solecki, DVM, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, hangs a ...

Our newest weapon against Lyme disease might be a vaccine – for mice. Every year in the US, 300,000 people are diagnosed with the tick-borne illness caused by Borrelia bacteria, which can trigger ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut researchers are involved in a new and potentially important effort to break the cycle of ...