AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed April 20 a fatal case of Powassan virus infection in a Waldo County resident. The adult developed neurologic symptoms and died…
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Rare illness spread by bite of infected ticks
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has confirmed the state’s second case of Powassan virus infection in 2021. Laboratory tests confirmed the case in a Knox…
WORCESTER, Mass. — A vaccine with the potential to prevent Lyme disease has entered the clinical trial stage, and could be available to the public in the the spring of 2023, according to an…
Rare illness caused by tick bite is Maine's first case in 2021
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has confirmed the states first case of Powassan virus infection in 2021.
A Waldo County resident who likely became…
Lyme Disease Awareness Month: Stop. Check. Prevent
AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) urges the state’s residents and visitors to focus on tick prevention during May, …
nine Maine counties; additional citizen scientists sought
In 2020, the first year of Maine Forest Tick Survey at the University of Maine, 116 volunteer citizen scientists in nine southern and coastal Maine counties collected more than 2,000 specimens, 1,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching LymeX, a new $25 million effort to fight tick-borne diseases.
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Reports of tickborne illnesses are down in 2020, but risk remains
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) urges the public to take precautions against ticks in October and November, when the state typically experiences a second…
July 15 began as a difficult day for Andrew Hawke, a 23-year-old Boothbay Harbor lobsterman. He woke up around 6:30 a.m. and complained about being “extremely tired.” He sat beside his bed and…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received a record number of Lyme disease case reports from health providers in 2019 with 2,079 cases as of today, Jan. 16. …
Take precautions through November
Maine has seen significant increases in reported cases of the tickborne illnesses anaplasmosis and babesiosis in 2019, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As of…
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
Summertime is meant for fun, rest and relaxation and enjoying the company of friends and family with all that Maine has to offer. When you go to the beach, you bring sunscreen. You have a plan.…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced Paula Jackson Jones as one of 53 individuals who have been selected to serve on one of six subcommittees of the Tick-Borne Disease…
Lyme Time with Paula Jackson Jones
With an increase in Lyme and tick-borne cases, patients are reporting a variance in how they are or are not being treated. Why? The simple answer is that there are two standards of care, however,…
From Washington, D.C.
BAR HARBOR— U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) today joined researchers, scientists, health professionals, and Acadia National Park officials to discuss strategies to prevent vector-borne diseases…
Angelica Gaudreau’s grueling battle
ROCKLAND — Maine is experiencing an unprecedented surge in ticks this year. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 1,464 cases of Lyme cases in 2016 and recently confirmed…
AUGUSTA — Data released on the Maine Tracking Network by Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) reported that adults over the age of 65 years had the highest rates of Lyme…
Reports of multiple tick-borne diseases to Maine Center for Disease Control are indicating an increase in all tick-borne diseases, according…
KNOX COUNTY HAS HIGEST RATE OF LYME DISEASE
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library has partnered with Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for the Tick-Free ME Challenge. In…
In September of 2015, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. In the months prior, I hadn't known what was going wrong with me.
I was exhausted, sore and lacked focus or motivation for some…
If you've been keeping up with the news lately, you've probably heard a lot about ticks; maybe even more than usual. I know that this time of year everyone is talking about Lyme disease, but this…
You never know what pathogen they are carrying
ROCKPORT — Steve Hand is not a man who gets tired, but last month he was wiped out. He made a visit to the third floor of the Knox Mill in Camden in mid-May, and when it came time to leave, he…
Tick Talk, and we ain’t talking Hickory Dicory Doc
CAMDEN — Listen up, because there will be a test at the end of this article. And get a bag of Raisenettes to munch while you read. Lyme disease specialist Dr. Bea Szantyr presented Tick Talk, an…
