The Department of Homeland Security said the facility "does not and has not performed research on Lyme disease." ...

Your mood plummets as you remember ticks spread Lyme disease. Lyme disease gained notoriety when cases spiked in 2022 and 2023, over doubling between 2017 and 2023, according to the CDC.

The number of ticks that carry Lyme disease has climbed in recent years. A recent study by Dartmouth researchers and several other universities found that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks in ...