A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

Lyme disease, a bacterial infection which is spread to humans through bites from infected ticks, is ‘increasing rapidly’, with the number of people who’ve been diagnosed with the disease, including ...

Lyme disease, named after the Connecticut town where clusters of children developed a then-mysterious disease in the 1970s, has quietly become one of the Northern Hemisphere’s most stubborn ...

A close-up of a lone star tick, which has eight hairy brown legs, a bulbous brown body, a tiny white splotch on its back, and a small elongated head. Bites from the lone star tick can cause allergies ...