Other early symptoms of Lyme disease mimic what you might experience with the flu: a fever, chills, muscle aches, and swollen ...

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

Ticks can carry Lyme disease. You may become infected with the disease if you are bitten by black-legged ticks. Hallmark symptoms of Lyme disease in the acute stage include a “bullseye” rash ...

What kind of ticks carry Lyme disease? Infected backlegged ticks (also called deer ticks) can transmit the bacteria when they bite. The bacteria then travel through your bloodstream. When not ...

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.

A Lyme disease vaccine could be available soon, Axios reports. Earlier this month, Moderna announced two new development candidates for mRNA vaccines against Lyme disease. Pfizer and Valneva also ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a bite from an infected black-legged tick. Heiko Barth - stock.adobe.com Alexis Ohanian, Serena Williams’ husband and a Reddit co-founder ...

Ticks are tiny but carry mighty illnesses, including Lyme disease. They thrive in heavily wooded areas across the U.S. and although there's greater risk in the northeast, the Midwest and the Mid ...

“Lyme disease is an epidemic that is well recognized on the East Coast and less recognized across the rest of the country,” says Sunjya Schweig, MD, a Lyme expert in California and an advisory ...

With treatment and time, the symptoms of Lyme disease, which is caused by a tick bite, usually get better. If you are diagnosed with Lyme disease, you’re usually given antibiotics for 2-4 weeks.

Tick-borne illnesses have nearly doubled in the United States since 2004, with Lyme Disease accounting for most of the increase. Early diagnosis of Lyme disease and treatment with antibiotics ...

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. Each year, approximately 35,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported in the U.S. However, owing to the difficulty of diagnosing Lyme ...