Congress tasked a government watchdog with researching whether the Defense Department weaponized ticks with Lyme disease as part of a Cold War-era bioweapons program, in hopes that finding an origin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A bite from the lone star tick produces a “bull’s-eye rash” indistinguishable from Lyme disease. The tick is ...

Maryland has one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the nation. However, federal funding lapses, cancellations and delays have left research at local institutions in limbo, including Johns Hopkins ...

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., ...

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 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. 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 ...

Heath Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a renewed focus on the “diagnostic efforts” for tick-borne Lyme disease, describing it on Dec. 15 as an “invisible” illness that he claims has been ...

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 ...