A new assay allows scientists to discover whether ticks are carrying disease-causing bacteria and which animals provided their last blood meal. Assay results suggest three emerging diseases in the St. Louis area are carried by lone star ticks feeding on record-high populations of white tailed deer.

Since 11 News anchor Donna Hamilton contracted Lyme disease last summer, the 11 News team has discovered there is a lot people don’t know about the disease, as well as plenty of controversy in the medical community.

The major reason for the limited market revenues is that there is no approved drug for Lyme disease treatment.

DANBURYConnecticut State Entomologist Dr. Kirby Stafford, an internationally recognized expert on Lyme disease and the ticks that carry it, will discuss the origins and nature of the disease and means to prevent its infectious spread to humans in a lecture on Thursday, March 18, at Western .