Climate change is shifting the preference of ticks from dogs to humans, generating a spike in cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Continue reading Dog Ticks Change Their Appetite with Rising Global Temperatures
The already thorny process of diagnosing Lyme disease may have just gotten even hazier. Lyme is a tick-borne illness that afflicts hundreds of thousands of people every year with a rash of debilitating symptoms. Three species of bacteria are known to cause the disease in Europe, but only one (Borrelia burgdorferi) lives in North America. However, after studying over 100,000 samples from American patients … Continue reading Discovery of New Bacterium Further Muddles Lyme Disease Diagnosis