A new study by Fikrig and other researchers, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, uses a powerful ...

The development of a vaccine for Lyme disease was intensely pursued in the 1990s. However, citing a lack of demand, the first human Lyme disease vaccine was withdrawn from the market less than 5 ...

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

Lyme disease, spread by infected ticks, starts with flu-like symptoms but can lead to serious neurological, heart, and joint ...

Pet owners are always very conscientious about any health problems their animals pick up in case it leads to something more ...

burgdorferi infection compared to 50 percent and 0 percent with the OspA protein and control mRNA, respectively. This indicated that their OspA mRNA vaccine also had greater efficacy than an OspA ...

The infection is almost exclusively passed to humans through the bite of a parasite, which is crucial to remove quickly ...