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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease....

Move over, Lyme disease: Another tick-borne illness is on the rise in various parts of the country, and this one can kill.

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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new study offers a detailed look at the status of Lyme disease in Central Illinois and suggests that deer ticks and the Lyme disease bacteria they host are more adaptable to new habitats than previously appreciated.

(University of California - Davis) The bacteria that cause Lyme disease appear to hide out in the lymph nodes, triggering a significant immune response, but one that is not strong enough to rout the infection, report researchers at UC Davis.

(MedPage Today) -- Physicians who offer controversial therapies for Lyme disease, autism, and incurable degenerative diseases are no longer hiding in the shadows, but have begun to organize to gain respect among their peers or at least win backing from state governing bodies.

(Stanford University) By integrating remote satellite imagery with revelations from door-to-door interviews, Stanford University geographer Eric Lambin and his colleagues are exploring the complex conditions that give rise to a broad range of land-use challenges -- from the reforestation of Vietnam to the spread of Lyme disease in Belgium.

(MedPage Today) -- Only a very small number of physicians in Connecticut -- the epicenter of Lyme disease -- diagnose and treat patients with the controversial chronic form of this tickborne infection, a survey found.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community.

Many doctors are concerned with the potential dangers associated with the prolonged and intensive use of oral and intravenous antibiotics (the recommended treatment for chronic Lyme disease), such as blood clots and life threatening infections.

A study soon to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics attempts to determine how often chronic Lyme disease is actually being diagnosed and treated.

There was a nearly 20% increase in the number of New Yorkers who developed Lyme disease last year, the city Health Department reported Thursday.

(American Society for Microbiology) The following are tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology: "Prior Exposure to Seasonal Influenza May Explain the Mildness of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic"; "New Test May Simply and Rapidly Detect Lyme Disease"; and "Oral Bacteria May Offer Probiotic Potential Against Upper Respiratory Infections."