{"id":9631,"date":"2025-06-04T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:12:08","slug":"research-at-risk-better-testing-for-tick-borne-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/04\/research-at-risk-better-testing-for-tick-borne-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Research at risk: Better testing for tick-borne diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2025\/06\/research-risk-better-testing-tick-borne-diseases\">Cornell University<\/a> Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur \u2013 and even for unknown diseases. That\u2019s important, because ticks around the world can potentially transmit hundreds of disease agents, some of them not yet known, and they account for at least two-thirds of vector-borne disease in the U.S. When comparing confirmed diagnoses with insurance claims, it is estimated that there are 10 times more people infected than what available diagnostics show,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/tbdwg-2022-report-to-congress.pdf\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in April,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/research\/laura-goodman-phd\">Goodman<\/a>, Ph.D. \u201907, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and in the Baker Institute for Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), received a stop-work order. It brought to a halt the research the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had asked her to do, via a nearly $900,000 three-year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdmrp.health.mil\/tbdrp\/research_highlights\/23Goodman_Marcos_Lochhead_Woodbury_highlight\">IDEA grant<\/a>\u00a0it awarded her in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2025\/06\/research-risk-better-testing-tick-borne-diseases\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur \u2013 and even for unknown diseases. That\u2019s important, because ticks around the world can potentially transmit hundreds of disease agents, some of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}