Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the fifth in-person meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (Working Group) on May 15-16, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time on May 15 and from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time on May 16. For this fifth meeting, the Working Group will provide an overview of the report to the HHS Secretary and Congress and discuss what should be included in the report from the work of the six Subcommittee Working Groups that were established on December 12, 2017. These subcommittees were established to assist the Working Group with the development of the report to Congress and the HHS Secretary as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. The subcommittees are: 1. Disease Vectors, Surveillance and Prevention (includes epidemiology of tick-borne diseases); 2. Pathogenesis, Transmission, and Treatment; 3. Testing and Diagnostics (including laboratory-based diagnoses and clinical-diagnoses); 4. Access to Care Services and Support to Patients; 5. Vaccine and Therapeutics; and 6. Other Tick-Borne Diseases and Co-infections.