Lyme Disease-New England

As tick season worsens each year in the Northeast and cases of Lyme disease trend upward, researchers at the UMass Chan Medical School say they've reached a new milestone in developing a potential solution.It's a seasonal treatment that could prevent the tick-based bacterial infection happening in humans altogether, for practically a year at a time. The Massachusetts research school has now partnered with a pharmaceutical company to advance its development and with further testing and approvals, it could soon be a regular shot that takes some of the bite out of tick bites.To learn more, WAMC spoke with both UMass Chan’s Dr. Mark Klempner and Dr. Seth Lederman, CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals.

New England's hot summer might be helping keep the ticks that carry Lyme disease at bay.New England states are still totaling the number of Lyme cases…