Lyme Disease News

If you live near or often spend time in a wooded area, like we all pretty much do in the Rogue Valley, blood-sucking ticks are part of your world.

Six Loudoun County parks will be sprayed in upcoming weeks as part of the Board of Supervisors initiative to combat Lyme disease in Loudoun County.

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The number one antibiotic used to treat Lyme Disease is in short supply across the country, and now prices for Doxycycline used for people and animals have skyrocketed.

As the weather consistently stays warm, chances are you'll find yourself spending more time outdoors.

A group calling itself Worldwide Lyme Protest UK is claiming not enough GPs here fully understand the symptoms of Lyme disease, a serious illness caused by infected ticks.

Despite it being early in the season, local resident Betty Goodrich believes now is the time to begin talking about Lyme disease.

DryHome Roofing and Siding has planned the 3rd Annual Loudoun Lyme 5K/1M Sunday, May 19, at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville to raise awareness and money to help find a cure for Lyme disease.

Even in the suburbs, taking Fido for a walk can mean coming home with an unwanted stowaway-a tick.

Q. I am concerned about ticks getting on my children when they play outside. What should I know about them? - Shari, Fallsburg A. Ticks cannot jump or fly, but often climb grasses and shrubs in order to come into contact with people or animals walking by so they can attach themselves and feed on blood.

Hot or cold? Drought or floods? With the unpredictability of recent weather conditions across the country, it's hard to know what to expect from Mother Nature this summer.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley recently declared May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month, but a diagnosis can be hard to come by in the state.

Tick season never really ends, and it never really begins. Many of the large ticks from last year are still active and in a couple weeks the small nymphal stage deer ticks will hatch.

Getting out into the woods to hike in the spring can be great fun. Unfortunately, it only takes one wood tick to give you the heebie geebies and leave you feeling creepy crawly all over for the rest of the day.

A year ago, Lori Brownell was experiencing bizarre symptoms including seizures and fainting spells.

Lyme disease is the second most commonly reported infectious disease in Maine, with over 1,100 cases reported in 2012.

Record numbers of ticks are expected in Kent County this year, thanks to the steady downpours and record flooding this spring.

Foxes were originally very abundant in the eastern United States, where they feasted on small mammals like white-footed mice.

With the warmer weather, you`re probably spending more time outdoors. But, that means you`re at greater risk for diseases spread by ticks.

Lyme Disease is a major health concern as tick season approaches and a local veterinarian says he hears more and more treatments are not effective and that some ticks are becoming resistant.