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Fox News, Melissa Rudy, 12.10.2023, reports on “Deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever outbreak in California likely came from Mexico, CDC says.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory on 12.08.2023 advising of an outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) southern California which has hospitalized five people and resulted in three deaths between late July and December 2023.
JAMA Network, 12.08.2023, published, “State-Regulated Psychedelics on a Collision Course With FDA.” In this online viewpoint article, Mason Marks, MD, JD, discusses that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon approve psychedelics for treating conditions of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other indications, but that psychedelics are currently considered Schedule I controlled substances with high potential for abuse; and are currently not accepted for medical use.
MassLive (Jochem, G.) 10.06.2023, published “Western Massachusetts woman files lawsuit over home test for Lyme disease.” A lawsuit has been filed in Springfield’s U.S. District Court against LetsGetChecked, a company providing a home test for Lyme disease. Moira Kerans from Dalton and TruthCures, a nonprofit focused on Lyme disease, are the plaintiffs seeking $5 million in damages. They allege that the test is inaccurate, deceives customers, and violates consumer protection laws.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Hayes, J.) 12.03.2023, published “Reproductive anomaly enables a tick species to race into Pennsylvania.” The Asian longhorned tick, a parasite from Southeast Asia, is posing a significant threat to livestock, wildlife, and pets across 19 states, including Pennsylvania. This invasive species, known for reproducing asexually, has rapidly spread since its arrival in the United States in 2017 and has been confirmed in numerous Pennsylvania counties and city parks.
5 On Your Side (Bassler, H.) 11.22.2023, published “A sesame seed-sized tick is spreading across Missouri. Here’s what to know.” The article discusses the spread of various tick-borne diseases in Missouri, particularly due to the invasive Asian longhorned tick. This tick was first reported in the U.S. in 2017, but potentially present since before 2010. It has been detected across multiple states and is known for transmitting diseases like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, […]
The Oxford University Press (McGowan, M. S., et al.) 10.24.2023, published “Acute Lyme Disease With Atypical Features due to Borrelia mayonii.” This article discusses the emergence of a new strain of Lyme disease called Borrelia mayonii and its limited impact since its identification in the US in 2016. Only a few cases have been reported, emphasizing the need for increased awareness.
The Tribune Democrat, Russ O’Reilly, reported on 10.13.2023, “UPJ scientists win grants to develop new tick repellent.” As reported, researchers will be using $100,000 won through the “Pitt Innovation Challenge” to make a novel and commercially available tick repellant (B.I.T.E.) that works by masking carbon dioxide emitted through human skin so that ticks can not detect these emissions.
Journal of Medical Entomology (Eleftheriou, A., et al.) 08.2023, published “An established population of Asian longhorned ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Ohio, USA.” The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, continues […]
Microorganisms (Siegel, E.L., et al.) 5.27.23, published “Human-Biting Ixodes scapularis Submissions to a Crowd-Funded Tick Testing Program Correlate with the Incidence of Rare Tick-Borne Disease: A Seven-Year Retrospective Study of Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis in Massachusetts.” The study sought to expand upon prior passive Ixodes scapularis tick testing surveillance measures by including two rare tick-borne diseases, babesiosis and anaplasmosis.
The Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal (Locke, S, et al.) 06.2023, published “Neurologic Complications of Babesiosis, United States, 2011–2021.” This study aims to describe the “neurological complications of babesiosis in a group of hospitalized patients” from Connecticut. Babesiosis is a parasitic infection that is primarily transmitted through the bite of an infected ixodid tick.
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About LDA DOCTOR REFERRAL SYSTEM ©
Welcome to the Lyme Disease Association’s LDA Doctor Referral System ©. LDA made updates and enhancements to its prior system and has launched a new site to provide patients with information about doctors, other practitioners, testing labs, and pharmacies that are knowledgeable about chronic Lyme disease and often about many other tick-borne diseases (TBD). Many of the doctors listed are often referred to as Lyme Literate Physicians/Doctors (LLMD). Tens of thousands of patients have successfully used the prior LDA system to locate Lyme and TBD resources.
Terms & Conditions and Guidelines
Because there is a negative political climate surrounding Lyme disease, many LLMDs do not want their names posted outright on the internet. LDA has tried to balance the doctors’ wishes with patients’ need to find a doctor. This new system is a result of that compromise and therefore:
Because of the limited number of physicians treating chronic Lyme disease nationwide, some states, and in some instances, entire regions, may not have any treating physicians who follow flexible treating approaches such as those in the International Lyme & Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Guidelines, Evidence Assessments and Guideline Recommendations in Lyme Disease: The Clinical Management of Known Tick Bites, Erythema Migrans Rashes and Persistent Disease. In the event that the LDA Doctor Referral System © contains no Lyme or TBD resource listings in a given area, the closest possible option(s) will populate based on the location entered and specaialty/ies selected. The LDA appreciates any changes in provider information that you may find and make us aware of so we can investigate.