Experts from the Infectious Diseases Society of America are debating whether to recognize chronic lyme disease as an official diagnosis.

Philadelphia - July 28, 2009 — Most mainstream doctors say Lyme Diease exists only as an acute or short-term illness and should be treated as such.

A presentation on Lyme disease, a bacterial infection commonly transmitted by deer ticks to humans and other mammals, is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, July 30, in Independence Hall in Woodside, at the corner of Woodside and Whiskey Hill roads.

Climate change might be what’s responsible for an increased risk of getting Lyme disease in New Brunswick — or at least that’s the instinct of the Public Health Agency of Canada.