NIH/National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID) is part of the National Institute of Health, funded through theUSA Department of Health and Human Services, a cabinet level agency.

The NIH Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease currently funds 94 academic research projects on Lyme disease at colleges and universities in the U.S. totaling more than $77 million.

Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger is a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In March 1997, a team of pathologists led by Taubenberger published a report in the journal ...