Lyme Disease

Spring and summer hikes through the woods can be lovely – as long as you don’t get ticked! Tiny ticks, about the size of a poppy seed, can cause Lyme disease, an increasingly common infection.

Ten Facts You Should Know About Lyme Disease

Patients

• Message Regarding Lyme Guideline Update and Public Comment Period
• IDSA/AAN/ACR Draft Lyme Disease Guidelines
• Chronic Lyme Disease Video
  
  

Professionals 

• CDC - Two-tiered Testing Decision Tree
• Final Report of the Lyme Disease Review Panel

Public Policy 

• The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis
• IDSA's Lyme Disease Advocacy Efforts
• IDSA Statement on Lyme Disease 
• Lyme Disease and State Policy Primer

Press

• Mayo Researchers Identify New Borrelia Species that Causes Lyme Disease
• Everything you want to know about Lyme disease
• Chronic Lyme disease: A Dubious Diagnosis
• Special Review Panel Unanimously Upholds Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines