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Scientists may have developed a faster, better way to diagnose the infection, which was just as good as the current approach after comparative testing. The findings have been reported in Nat. Communications.

"A lot of folks find out they have Lyme disease well after the point at which they could have been treated very easily," noted UCLA Prof Dino Di Carlo.

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LabrootsA Faster, Better Way to Diagnose Lyme Disease | Clinical And Molecular DxAlthough spending time in nature can reduce stress and generally improve health and well-being, insects like mosquitoes and ticks also pose a risk. | Clinical And Molecular Dx

@scienceupdates @xris

Annual checkup time of year for Doggos in upper #manhattan #nyc

-> vet says they are seeing lots of Lyme disease in uptown dogs.

It’s here inside the urban center of New York .

@atthenius @scienceupdates
Except for deer-infested areas, we don't have the tick vectors in NYC.

I wonder how much of that arises from folks taking their pets with them on summer vacations out of the city, especially throughout New England, updates NY, etc.

@xris @scienceupdates

Um. I’m not sure that this nyc space is safe from tick vectors and thus lyme remains true. We have the little mice. Occasionally we’ve got the deer too.

People (!me!) and dogs in upper Manhattan got lyme. Not going to westchester. Here in nyc

And from a non anecdotal- Lyme has been found in outer borough parks in nyc — eeeb Columbia:
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/6

One of my colleagues got babesiosis from nyc suburban exposure (it presents like blood cancer-ugh)

Emerging Infectious Diseases journalEnhancement of Risk for Lyme Disease by Landscape Connectivity, New York, New York, USARisk for Lyme Disease, New York, New York, USA

@atthenius @scienceupdates @xris Apparently, goats (eg. used by various Friends of groups) can also carry ticks.