This program, presented by Dr. Lawrence Zemel at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, will cover the ecology of deer ticks, symptoms and signs of Lyme disease, diagnosis, and treatment, and the latest on a new Lyme vaccine.

Dr. Zemel is a retired Professor of Pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine and Division Head of Pediatric Rheumatology at Connecticut Children’s and one of the co-authors of the authoritative national guidelines on the management of Lyme disease published in 2021.

There will be time for questions after the presentation.