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08/29/2026

By Terri McCormick Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses can affect multiple systems in the body, making diagnosis and treatment complicated. It

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

This article is from 1992. Karen Gold Gray was a Special Education teacher and a Lyme & TBD advocate. Sadly, we are still fighting the same fight. Karen passed in 9/93 from complications of Lyme disease. May Karen be remembered. If you would like to help support a child in need, please donate in honor of advocates like Karen. Thank you. coloradoticks.org/donate

08/28/2026

By Terri McCormick There have been a lot of changes at the National Institutes of Health lately. One recent update may be especially pertinent to families

08/28/2026

Beth Scoville was training for a half marathon when a tick bite suddenly changed her life.

After hiking in Pennsylvania and traveling to Florida, the Endicott, New York, runner discovered a tick—but she still doesn’t know where she was bitten. Months later, she was dealing with heart palpitations, sweating, brain fog, and nausea.

As her symptoms worsened, Beth says she began having neurological problems, including moments when she couldn’t remember where she was going while driving. Walking and running became out of the question, and she was taken out of work and off driving.

Today, Beth is back to doing what she loves. She also turned her experience into the Finish Lyme 5K, which raises money for medical scholarships for local families beginning Lyme care.

Read more via WBNG 12 News: https://www.wbng.com/2026/08/21/endicott-woman-turns-lyme-disease-battle-into-5k-fundraiser/

08/28/2026

It's National Pet Week and we love pets! 💚Learn more about pet care for Lyme & other tick-borne illnesses. Pets and Livestock Pets encounter many more ticks than people do. Please share this important information. https://coloradoticks.org/resources-for-pets/
Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association

08/23/2026

By Dr. Bill Rawls, MD I spent my thirties and forties doing what I was trained to do: delivering babies, managing complex pregnancies, and showing up for

08/20/2026

Tick borne Illness are found in all 50 states and over 80 countries world-wide. From Rutgers Center for Vector Biology, "This soft tick species, a parasite of bats, is known to be in 29 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states, and was confirmed in New Jersey as larvae collected from big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in Mercer and Sussex counties. This is a new addition to the list of New Jersey ticks."

Bat Tick Found for the First Time in New Jersey

A tick species associated with bats has been reported for the first time in New Jersey and could pose health risks to people, pets and livestock, according to a Rutgers-led study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. This species (Carios kelleyi) is a “soft” tick. Deer ticks, which carry Lyme d...

08/20/2026

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HHS launches new Lyme Clinician Locator
Smith, author of TICK Act, thanks Sec. Kennedy, Pres. Trump for spearheading new Lyme disease initiatives at HHS

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                Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Caucus, applauded Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a variety of new initiatives t...