Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deer ticks can carry bacteria that cause Lyme disease. (Santiago Urquijo / Getty Images file) There's a new type of Lyme disease ...

A new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology finds that LymeSeek™, a single-tier Lyme disease diagnostic test developed by ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest cause, outside of losing fights to snakes, is centered around Lyme disease and ticks. In late May, RFK Jr. and HHS announced a ...

Lyme disease can be easiest to treat in its earliest stages, but current tests often miss infections during that critical window and cannot tell whether bacteria are still present or were cleared ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new efforts on Friday to combat Lyme disease, as he travels around the country for what he’s been calling a “Take ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Until last year, a rare species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease had been found only in the Upper Midwest. But last June, a resident of Herkimer County was diagnosed with Lyme ...

So far in 2026, Ohio has reported 253 cases of Lyme disease, with the highest counts in eastern counties. An estimated 50% of ticks in Ohio tested positive for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, ...

Emergency room visits for tick bites are increasing nationwide, with a massive percentage of those cases recorded in Pennsylvania, a state that already ranks as one of the worst for the country's most ...

There’s a new type of Lyme disease in New York state. Almost all cases of the tick-borne illness in the United States are caused by corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. But B.