Harris County, TX Infected: Unknown, may have passed through the placenta at birth Diagnosed: August 2009 Current health: “One step forward, two steps back…” I just laughed off all my strange symptoms … It never occurred to me that something else could be going on. –Kayla D. Kayla is a young Texas woman who never suspected the…
Singer/Songwriter & Spokesperson for LymeLight Infected: 2007 Diagnosed: 2008 Current Health: Fighting strong. Pushing through, even on the bad days. Here I am, living my dream… But I continue to fight. And it’s a hard fight. I cry my eyes out sometimes. It can be hard to be happy at times. But this life is all I have…
Fine art photographer San Mateo County, CA Infected: early 2000s Diagnosed: 2007 Current health: Disabled after 8 years of frustrating battles with this disease I knew something was very wrong. I no longer knew what to say, nor could I understand what was happening to me. My once-stable relationship with the world, my family, my art ……
Among our many community events every year is a series of free speaker forums that focus on our research and science programs as well as Lyme disease prevention. These events provide new information on various Lyme topics in an open discussion format. Our vision is to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to…
Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Branda received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 2000. He completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), followed by a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology. He joined…
Dr. Branda received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 2000. He completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), followed by a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology. He joined the MGH Pathology faculty in 2004, and is currently Associate Director of the Microbiology Laboratories. He is director of…
“Lyme is a debilitating illness for which diagnosis is critical for cure.” –Dr. Jerome Bouquet Jerome Bouquet, PhD, was recognized in May 2014 as an Emerging Leader in the field of Lyme research. This award recognizes creative ingenuity and novel approaches for the development of better diagnostics and treatment for Lyme disease. The award also…
Lisa Blum is an enterprising young scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, working in the lab of Dr. Bill Robinson. Earlier this year she was recognized as a Bay Area Lyme Foundation Emerging Leader and received a $100,000 project grant. Here she talks about her research, life at Stanford, and the impact…
Board of Directors Laure L. Woods, Founder & Co-Chair of the Board of Directors “I continue to struggle with late-stage Lyme disease. If only I had gotten an accurate diagnosis and had been treated earlier, my life would be so much different. My goal as Co-Founder of Bay Area Lyme Foundation is to ensure…
Previous research investigated the tick-borne pathogens of nymph and adult blacklegged ticks in the Bay Area and confirmed that Lyme disease (as well as Borrelia miyamotoi) circulates among these tick populations. The big question with regards to Bay Area Borrelia ecology is now the determination of the primary Borrelia reservoir host(s). Reservoir hosts are animals…