FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tara DiMilia, 908-947-0500, tara.dimilia@TMstrat.com Bay Area Lyme Foundation Tick Testing Program Adds Bartonella Pathogen Assay Nationwide Free Tick Testing Initiative Will Inform Citizen-Science Studies to Better Understand the Spread of Ticks Carrying Diseases Throughout U.S. Silicon Valley, CA, July 11, 2019 — Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme…
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Bay Area Lyme Foundation Offers Free Tick Testing Nationwide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tara DiMilia, 908-947-0500, tara.dimilia@TMstrat.com Bay Area Lyme Foundation Offers Free Tick Testing Nationwide Free Tick Testing Initiative Is First In The Nation and Aims to Map Tick-borne Diseases Across the U.S. Through Crowd-sourcing Silicon Valley, CA, February 16, 2016 — Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative Lyme…
Tick Testing
When to Get a Tick Tested You should strongly consider having your tick tested if: The tick was attached to your body, not simply crawling around You live in or have visited a place where there are infected ticks Lyme disease has been reported in 49 US states and 65 countries around the world. Infected…
Top Lifestyle Interventions to Aid Recovery in Tick-borne Illness: An Interactive Discussion with Concrete Takeaways
BAL Spotlights Series In this article transcribed from our Distinguished Speaker Series webinar, Sunjya Schweig, MD, founder and CEO of the California Center for Functional Medicine and member of Bay Area Lyme’s Scientific Advisory Board, discusses how recovering from tick-borne illnesses can be aided through carefully devised combinations of conventional and functional medicine, tailored…
Bay Area Lyme Foundation Celebrates Department of Defense CDMRP Tick-borne Disease Awardees
Bay Area Lyme Foundation Celebrates Department of Defense CDMRP Tick-borne Disease Awardees Projects of three awardees to be enabled by Lyme Disease Biobank samples PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif., March 23, 2023—Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, announces that two projects it has previously funded have now received Department…
New Study Finds American Dog Tick Populations Expanding into Colorado, and Identifies Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks in 5 More Counties Than Documented by CDC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Study Finds American Dog Tick Populations Expanding into Colorado, and Identifies Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks in 5 More Counties Than Documented by CDC Citizen scientists contributing to Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s Free Tick Testing program assist in identifying ticks capable of carrying disease in Colorado Portola Valley, CA, October 25, 2022—Bay…
Bay Area Lyme Partners with Junior Golf Associations to Educate Thousands of Young Golfers about Tick Bite Prevention
BAL Happenings Series Promoting tick bite prevention and educating everyone about the serious health impacts of tick-borne diseases has been a consistent objective for Bay Area Lyme Foundation. After all, although the foundation’s mission is to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simply to cure, it would be so much better if nobody…
Citizen Scientist Study Fuels Launch of First Series of Interactive U.S. County Maps of Ticks Carrying Diseases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Citizen Scientist Study Fuels Launch of First Series of Interactive U.S. County Maps of Ticks Carrying Diseases – Study finds ticks carrying disease-causing bacteria in 116 counties where they have not been previously documented by CDC – PORTOLA VALLEY, CA, October 20, 2021—Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative…
How Do You Build a Biobank to Solve the Problem of Lyme Disease? Literally – One Tick Bite at a Time
Science is all about asking questions and finding answers. It attracts the curious, the driven, the questioners and fact seekers—the people who won’t accept the status quo and who are always pushing to learn more. If we keep asking science the right questions, we’re bound to get to the right answers eventually. It’s simple, right?…
Ticks Carrying Disease Found to Be Abundant in Beach Areas, Similar to Woodlands, According to New Study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tara DiMilia, 908-947-0500, tara.dimilia@TMstrat.com Ticks Carrying Disease Found to Be Abundant in Beach Areas, Similar to Woodlands, According to New Study Study Funded by Bay Area Lyme Foundation Also Shows Ticks in Northern California Carry a Diversity of Disease-causing Bacteria at Higher Rates Than Previously Reported Portola Valley, CA, April…