The LDA offers a wide variety of resources, many free. Download and print free brochures, pie graphs and maps, order free handouts or low cost books, view and/or purchase scientific conference videos, access information on Lyme and kids and schools, apply for LymeAid 4 Kids funds for children without insurance for Lyme disease, read articles on disability and medical insurance, and view tick-borne diseases rash photos. Access the LDA’s Conflicts of Interest in Lyme Disease: Laboratory Testing, Vaccination, and Treatment Guidelines, written by author Pamela Weintraub for the LDA in 2001, years before her book, Cure Unknown Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic, was published.
We are constantly trying to provide products and services to help raise awareness. Here are the top ten picks over time.
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TickLES (Kids’ 14 min prevention video) and Play Tick Tackler Video Game |
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Order Free Brochures (limited to 200) |
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Other Tick-Borne Diseases (co-infections) |  |
Dr. Referral (connect to Lyme-literate doctors nationally) |
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How A Tick Can Make You Sick (prevention PowerPoint geared to kids, schools & scouts) |  |
Lyme Disease Case Maps (where & how much US Lyme) |
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Medical Photos (ticks, rashes and microscropic images) |  |
How to Remove a Tick & Prevention |
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Public Service Announcements (free PSAs for your own use) |  |
LDA Printable Lyme Handouts |
Top Lyme disease researchers from across the United States have collaborated on a new publication, Recent Progress in Lyme Disease and Remaining Challenges. In this review article, researchers summarize the state of Lyme over the past 5 years, addressing major scientific advances as well as identifying remaining challenges and needs. Topics covered in the publication […]
In a recent article published in Translational Vision Science and Technology, researchers found that contrast sensitivity impairment was associated with patients suffering from chronic lyme. According to the Online Medical Dictionary, contrast sensitivity is defined as “The ability to detect sharp boundaries (stimuli) and to detect slight changes in luminance at regions without distinct contours.” Investigators […]
Deadline Aug. 1 The Lyme Disease Association Inc. is notifying researchers that the Clinical Trials Network established with a grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to Columbia University announces that the website is now accepting Pilot Study Concept submissions (July 1 to Aug 1). The Clinical Trials Network welcomes research clinicians and […]
Lyme Disease Association (LDA) Announces CDC’s 2019 Final Lyme Disease Reported Case Numbers: The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has just released the 2019 final Lyme disease reported U.S. case numbers–34,945. CDC reported that cases were ~4% more than in 2018, and the geographic distribution of areas with a high incidence of Lyme […]
From Columbia Clinical Trials Network: In recognition of a severe unmet need, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation’s grant to Columbia University has established the first national Columbia Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and other Tick-borne Diseases [www.lymectn.org]. The Research Network starts with a team of leading investigators, including Dr. Brian Fallon at Columbia University […]
Scott et al., reports the first detection of Babesia odocoilei in humans with Babesiois symptoms. This adds to the list of several Babesia species worldwide that are pathogenic to humans.
As a follow-up to its 2020 report from its 2020 citizen science project, the Maine Forest Tick Survey at the University of Maine is recruiting forest landowners in nine southern and coastal Maine counties to begin sampling for ticks in July 2021 when tick nymphs become active. The 2020 project collected 1643 ticks, and 445 […]
Findings from this sample of patients showed that this group of patients reported more severe symptoms than the general population as well as reporting higher than other clinical sample groups including cancer patients and chronic pain patients, and for symptoms of fatigue, women reported higher than men.
In this recent study by Burtis et al. published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers assessed susceptibility of Ixodes scapularis ticks to Permethrin treatment on Shelter Island, NY where 4-poster devices have been implemented for deer topical treatment from 2008 to 2019. The 4 -poster method has effectively reduced questing tick densities, but authors […]
Tick submissions needed! The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and A.T. Still University are partnering on a Missouri tick study. MDC and the University are asking for citizens of Missouri to collect, save, and mail ticks that they encounter to A.T. Still University to assist with this study.
