Ginger Savely, DNP

Ross Douthat’s wrenching Lyme disease battle Author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat ’02 talks about his new book, “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.”

I will be speaking at this free online conference!

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Antibiotic Treatment Response in Chronic Lyme Disease: Why Do Some Patients Improve While Others Do Not? There is considerable uncertainty regarding treatment of Lyme disease patients who do not respond fully to initial short-term antibiotic therapy. Choosing the best treatment approach and duration remains challenging because treatment response among these patients varies: some patients improve with t...

What Do Coronavirus And Lyme Disease Have In Common? More Than You Might Think Lyme and Covid-19 are replacing syphilis as the great masquerader. They share many puzzling symptoms and are all easily missed.

A grapefruit-scented perfume ingredient that's toxic to ticks and mosquitoes is the first new insect repellent to be approved in a decade Nootkatone is naturally found in grapefruit rinds and certain cedar trees. The chemical shows promise as a defense against ticks and mosquitoes.

Why tick season could be worse in the summer of Covid-19 After more than three months of shutdowns, mandatory quarantines, self-imposed exile from society and working from home, nature-lovers looking for a well-earned breath of fresh air could face a possible collision course between coronavirus and tick-borne illnesses this summer.

Thanks to Dr. Bob Bransfield for this important work.

A Clinical Diagnostic System for Late-Stage Neuropsychiatric Lyme Borreliosis Based upon an Analysis of 100 Patients Many late-stage chronic Lyme disease clinical findings are neuropsychiatric. A total clinical assessment is critical in diagnosis, especially since controversy surrounds the reliability of laboratory testing. The clinical findings of one hundred Lyme disease patients with chronic neuropsychiatric sy...

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Wall Street Takes a Break From Coronavirus to Fight Lyme The honoree on stage at the Ziegfeld Ballroom Thursday night acknowledged the delicate timing of the gala.

Opinion | Lyme disease patients are fighting for their lives while researchers squabble The number of people who get Lyme disease compared to how little research on it is ever funded is staggering. Scientific bias is hurting people.

Why patients are caught in the battle over treating chronic Lyme disease | CBC Radio Lyme disease is on the rise. Despite this, it's not well-understood and the chronic version of the tick-borne disease remains a controversial diagnosis, making it difficult for patients to get treatment. Dr. Brian Goldman examines how the so-called "Lyme Wars" developed and how patients have been ca...

Chilling. More patients whose lives were ruined by an incorrect diagnosis need to come forward. Maybe this will get the attention of health care providers. Often, threat of a medical malpractice lawsuit is what ends up directing standard of care.

Wrongful death suit shows pitfalls of IDSA Lyme guidelines In 2013, Joseph Elone died suddenly when Lyme disease infected his heart. Doctors had previously ruled out Lyme, based on results from flawed testing.

It’s Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases The U.S. vanquished malaria and beat back AIDS, but Lyme and other illnesses are raging unchecked

Ticks spread in the Adirondacks as funding to study them shrinks - Adirondack Explorer For the past five years, Sporn, along with teams of students from Paul Smith’s College and stewards from the Adirondack Watershed Institute, has gathered ticks from the field and tested them for infections including Lyme and other human pathogens.

Important info for those in the military. New tick-borne disease ratings for military men and women.

Military- Lyme & TBD Info - Disability Ratings For Lyme & TBD Probative Value: If two exams record the condition differently, the exam with the most thorough data and performed by the most qualified person in that specialty will be the exam the rating is based on.

Lyme Disease and Biowarfare

Excellent article in the September 2019 "The Atlantic"

Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts But new insights are at last accumulating.

From Canada:

Lyme disease: What it is and why some are calling it the next pandemic Lyme, once considered an isolated disease found in North America and parts of Europe, is now found in 80 countries worldwide.

Should Community Pharmacies Have Prescribing Power for the Treatment of Lyme Disease? - Infectious Disease Advisor As a result of the time-sensitive nature of Lyme prophylaxis, exposed individuals need convenient treatment with low barriers to access, such as may be possible through pharmacists.

From the state of Virginia.....

State health officials search for evidence of rare tick-borne disease On the same day that state health officials canvassed his Spotsylvania County yard for ticks, Quintin Beltran had all the toes on his left foot removed as a result of

From Forbes....

The Lyme Wars: Major Organizations Aren't Playing Nicely Together Several groups have differing guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme. Too much is in dispute, since our knowledge is so limited.

What Tick Saliva Does to the Human Body Ticks use their saliva to create a “lake of blood” inside their hosts.

Good to know that even Johns Hopkins admits that Babesiosis can be persistent. They are not known for upholding the same view of Lyme disease.

Persistence of Babesia microti Infection in Humans Persistent infection is a characteristic feature of babesiosis, a worldwide, emerging tick-borne disease caused by members of the genus Babesia. Persistence of Babesia infection in reservoir hosts increases the probability of survival and transmission of these pathogens. Laboratory tools to detect B...

Interesting approach to Lyme research: http://ending-lyme.com/

Ending Lyme – How Revolutionary Biomolecular Research Is the Key to Unraveling Lyme Disease

House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them The order requires the agency to say if it experimented with ticks and other insects for use as a biological weapon between 1950 and 1975.

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Lyme disease a bioweapon gone awry? Rep. Chris Smith pushes Trump to investigate Smith addressed Lyme patients' concerns at a town meeting in Wall. Behind the scenes, he's hoping a new book will help get chronic Lyme recognized.

Not so rare as many people think!

Cat scratch disease: Vet suffers extreme fatigue for a decade after catching rare, severe case of bartonella infection It took a year for Victoria Altoft's eye-sight to return to normal.

I see Sjögren's fairly often in my Lyme patients.

Sjögren’s syndrome and lymphadenopathy unraveling the diagnosis of Lyme disease

Rep. Smith: Federal funding for tick-borne diseases is a 'joke' Rep. Smith has introduced legislation every year since 1992 on the need to strengthen efforts to fight, treat and prevent tick-borne disease.

Please sign! We do not want this doctor on the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group!

Sign the Petition Remove Eugene Shapiro from federal TBD Working Group