Chronic Lyme Disease In The United States
January 22, 2024
Lyme disease has been a nationally notifiable condition in the United States since 1991. Reports of Lyme disease are collected and verified by state and local health departments in accordance with their legal mandate and surveillance practices. After removal of personal identifiers, selected informa[...]
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$6.5 Million Lyme Disease Medical Malpractice Verdict
November 17, 2023
Earlier this year, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a local hospital and in favor of a 25-year-old man whose Lyme disease was not timely diagnosed or treated, leading to Lyme carditis and to his death eight days after his Lyme disease was finally diagnosed. The man had g[...]
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New York Lyme Disease Lawsuit
June 21, 2023
A Verified Complaint filed on March 29, 2021 in the Superior Court of the State of New York County of Bronx alleged, in part: On or about May of 2013 infant plaintiff J.B. was under the medical care, diagnoses and treatment of defendants VERONICA SANTILLI, M.D., BELA REYNGOLD, M.D., and GALINA SLOOT[...]
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“Lyme Disease in 2018”
August 3, 2018
An article published on August 2, 2018 in JAMA entitled Lyme Disease in 2018 provides important information regarding Lyme disease in the United States, including: “There has been considerable publicity about substantial increases in the incidence of Lyme disease; however, even though the inci[...]
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CDC Warns About Rising Risk Of Vectorborne Diseases In U.S.
May 3, 2018
In its “Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United States and Territories, 2004–2016” published on May 1, 2018, the CDC reported that the data regarding the occurrence of nationally reportable vectorborne diseases during 2004–2016, which are most commonly tr[...]
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Facebook Post Helps To Torpedo Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Case
January 7, 2017
In its decision filed on December 22, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) held that reasonable minds could not differ in the conclusion that the medical malpractice plaintiff knew, or reasonably should have known, between July and September, 2009, that her long-s[...]
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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease
November 7, 2013
It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]
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New Lyme Disease Statistics (2013)
September 4, 2013
The CDC reported on August 19, 2013 that preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000, based on findings from three ongoing CDC studies that use different methods. The first study analyzes medical claims information for ap[...]
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A New Lyme Disease Vaccine?
July 27, 2013
Efforts are being made toward a new and effective Lyme disease vaccine. Baxter Healthcare Corporation has recently reported the results of its Phase 1/2 Lyme Vaccine Study that began on March 1, 2011 and ended on May 8, 2012. Study participants received three primary immunizations and one booster [...]
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Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict
July 6, 2013
On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]
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