The bacteria Legionella can survive in water systems for years and can cause acute and chronic illness: In 2014-15, it was blamed for at least 12 deaths in the Flint water crisis in Michigan, and as ...

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Scientists are developing the first-ever pill to prevent Lyme disease, potentially protecting millions from tick-borne ...

The Midland area Michigan Lyme Disease Association support group will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library.

Some types of meningitis are contagious. You can get it from respiratory droplets in close contact with someone. Learn about ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

Monica Embers is the co-founder of Aces Diagnostics, a Lyme disease testing company. which has developed a test that is over ...

The chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like ...

Deer ticks are the most common carriers of borrelia bacteria (which causes Lyme disease) in North America. Credit: KPixMining / Shutterstock. New analysis of real-world data from the largest US Lyme ...