The societal costs of Lyme disease have been determined for the Netherlands for the first time. The disease appears to cost nearly EUR 20 million each year.

COPD patients living near livestock farms suffer more complications.

Lyme disease can cause a variety of complaints in patients. Laboratory tests for the disease can support medical practitioners in making a diagnosis but are not necessarily conclusive.

In 2014, there were more patients in the Netherlands with diseases transmitted by wild rodents than in previous years.

The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first CAESAR annual report 2014.

The Netherlands is the first country where the burden of disease due to Lyme disease has been determined.

At the start of the “Tick Awareness Week”, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen UR are commencing a large-scale study on the long-term effects of

Last year, a man was treated at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre (AMC) after being bitten by a tick and becoming infected with a strain of the Borrelia bacterium not previously encountered in