Researchers uncover why the body may keep reacting to a hidden threat even long after the bacteria are gone. As many as 20 ...

Detecting Lyme Disease can be difficult to identify in the early stages as the early symptoms—fever, headache, stiffness, lethargy, and a myriad of other mild complaints, are often dismissed as the ...

On darker skin, the appearance can be different — check for a raised ring around the bite. The lyme disease rash usually expands over time. It can cause pain, burning, or itching, and it may be ...

“The quicker you can get the ticks off you, the better off you are,” Garcia said. Garcia added that an early sign of Lyme disease is a rash that forms a “ring around where the tick would be.” Students ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold ...

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.

But the longer a tick stays attached to you, the more likely it is to transmit Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme disease), if the tick is a carrier. If not found and treated ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. It starts with the ticks. These bugs infect people with the bacteria that cause ...