Moonlight Pizza & Brewpub generously donates 10% of all sales every Monday to a different local organization. For the past three years, Moonlight has supported COTBDAA with generous donations that support the organization’s mission...

  Connecting~Learning~Healing Virtual Event! COTBDAA and Colorado Lyme & TBD Support Group are partnering for this patient -focused VIRTUAL event taking place Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, 2020, 1:30-3:30 each...

COTBDAA is participating in the March Madness Factotum Brewery Non-Profit Competition Join us! March 14th, 2:30 to 4:30 COTBDAA v Colorado Open Lands!  3845 Lipan Street Denver, Colorado 16 Local Non-Profits, with...

News release from NIH on October 10, 2019 announces new NIH Strategic Plan for Tickborne Disease Research. This announcement is good news for patients with the plan focusing on five scientific priorities...

Colorado Ticks PSA #2. Thank you to 90.5 KCSU student radio in Ft. Collins for educating students and your community!

The first meeting of the new Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) convened on June 4, 2019.  New members of the panel were introduced and sworn in, subcommittee topics were decided, co-chairs were...

Colorado Governor, Jared Polis, has signed a proclamation for Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Month in May! As the distribution and prevalence of ticks and tick-borne diseases continues to increase at...

Dr. Sharon Austin has just written an article for United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. Dr. Austin is a Clinical Psychologist in Fort Collins, CO specializing in Somatic psychotherapy for couples, trauma...

Tickborne Diseases: A CDC Update Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00:00 PM MDT – 1:15:00 PM MDT Up-to-date information on tick-borne diseases will be presented by Dr. Grace Marx, medical epidemiologist at the...

Your voice matters! National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) is developing a strategic framework to advance tick-borne diseases (TBD) research and development for the next five years and beyond. They...

Spring is fast approaching!  May is nationally recognized as Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Month! COTBDAA is dedicated to elevating awareness by putting the spotlight on real faces of Lyme and other...

Announcement of the issuance of the first Tick-Borne Disease Working Group Report to Congress. Published on November 14, 2018. Read the 2018 report here. For full subcommittee reports and other information and ongoing...

Colorado is also home to Ixodes species that are competent vectors of several human pathogens. Conventionally known as nonhuman biters, this latest article by Xu et al. (2018) demonstrates that some of...

Colorado Ticks PSA. Thank you to 90.5 KCSU student radio in Ft. Collins.

Governor John Hickenlooper proclaims May 2018 as Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Month in Colorado! Read the full proclamation here.

May 21, 2018 – Congressman Smith Introduces: National Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Control &Accountability Act of 2018

May 10, 2018-US Rep. Faso Introduces House Resolution: May “National Lyme Disease Awareness Month”

CDC releases results of study Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United States and Territories, 2004–2016. -Disease cases from mosquito, tick, and flea bites tripled in the US from...

CDC-New Release-May 1, 2018 CDC announces that vector-borne disease cases have tripled since 2004.

March 31, 2018 Hour 2– President of COTBDAA, Monica White, “Talks Ticks” with Terry Wickstrom Outdoors on 104.3 The Fan.  https://tunein.com/radio/Terry-Wickstrom-Outdoors-p380794/?topicId=120651897

April  20, 2018-ArkValley Voice reports on President of COTBDAA, Monica White’s appointment to the Federal HHS-TTBDWG Subcommittee for Disease Vectors, Surveillance and Prevention.  Read at ArkValley Voice https://arkvalleyvoice.com/white-selected-for-tick-borne-disease-working-group/

June 2, 2017-Nancy Melear of Fox 31 News Denver Daybreak/Good Morning Colorado interviews Lyme disease expert, Dr. David Martz on Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases and his presentation at the the Lyme...

Governor John Hickenlooper grants COTBDAA’s request for proclamation… May 2017: Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Awareness month! Governor Hickenlooper has brought Lyme and Tick-borne disease awareness to a new level for Coloradans. COTBDAA...

May 2017-Christmas Mountain, USA in the “Heart of the Rockies” Salida, Colorado lights up above town in support of Governor Hickenlooper’s Proclamation for Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Month! COTBDAA thanks the...

May 2017:  Contagion®, the nation’s leading digital and print publication that provides practitioners and specialists working in the infectious disease field with disease-specific information.  In recognition of Lyme disease awareness month, they interviewed Pat...

Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases on the Rise in the US NPR-March 11, 2017

News post from LDA on December 7, 2016. The US Senate passed the 21st Century Cures bill which included Lyme language. Patients will have a seat at the Tick Borne Diseases Working...

Lyme and Reason 2.0:The Voices of Change November 2016

July 2016: Libby Smith from Denver’s CBS 4 news station produced a two part mini-series on Lyme in Colorado, elevating the awareness of Lyme and other TBD’s in our state. Our previous...

May 2016: Libby Smith from Denver’s CBS 4 news station highlighted the Lyme & Other Tick-borne Diseases: First Rocky Mountain Forum, held in Golden, Colorado on May 7th.  This Forum was sponsored...

May 2016: Kathy Walsh from Denver’s CBS news station reported on fellow Lyme patient and advocate, Olivia Goodreau. They presented this young girl’s fight with Lyme disease and her determination to help...

Lyme and Reason: The Cause and Consequence of Lyme Disease May 2016

November 2015: Deborah Takahara, reporter from Denver’s Fox 31 news station, reported on fellow Lyme patient and Biting Back advocate Nancy Wrigley. A letter written by Nancy’s daughter to the Denver Broncos...

May 2015:  Arlene Shovald of The Mountain Mail reported on the risks of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and promoted The Lyme Disease Challenge. https://www.themountainmail.com/free_content/article_f43c7cf4-d7c2-11e4-b925-4ba5d7a7e2f4.html