Lone star ticks, which originated in the southern United States, are on the move, potentially complicating the diagnosis of tickborne diseases in areas where they now overlap with ticks that cause ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy. Lyme disease is the most common and fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the United ...

A federal investigation will examine if the U.S. military weaponized ticks with Lyme disease during the Cold War. The investigation was prompted by an amendment from U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., ...

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Amid amid growing concern about Lyme disease in New England and beyond, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week the Trump administration plans to launch an aggressive ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a ...

Health Secretary RFK Jr. wants to put more effort into researching Lyme Disease. RFK Jr. said previous administrations have ignored Lyme Disease. "Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, ...

Claims that Lyme disease was developed as a military bioweapon and escaped from a government lab are flatly contradicted by decades of scientific evidence -- despite what federal regulators have ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that he’s taking on Lyme disease—and boy, did his woo-tinged tendencies emerge fast. On Monday afternoon, RFK Jr. and HHS hosted a roundtable ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday pledged more federal attention and resources aimed at fighting Lyme disease, with a focus on the views of patients and ...

U.S. president Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders a government watchdog to probe a conspiracy theory—promoted by the country’s secretary of health and human services ...

Although instances of Lyme disease remain low in Nevada, the number of reported cases of the tick-borne illness has been growing in recent years in Northern Nevada, echoing a sharp nationwide increase ...