Public health officials say the number of areas where ticks are found is expanding, raising the risk of lyme disease.
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Its the bug bite that can change your life forever. They call themselves lepers—Lyme Disease lepers. It started like the flu, and escalated in to pain and mental confusion. 16:9 investigates if the Canadian medical system is spotting the signs, and why one man claims doctors are AFRAID to treat the disease.
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Roaming Ticks Can Carry Disease Linked to Physical Problems, Mental Madness
What is Lyme Rage? Can tick bites change your personality
As aired on ABC’s Good Morning America on July 30, 2009. The day of the IDSA Lyme guideline review panel hearings
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For more info about Lyme, go to http://LymePa.org or http://ILADS.org, and be sure to watch the award-winning documentary “UNDER OUR SKIN,” which is in theaters now and available on DVD: http://underourskin.com
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Mary McDonnell is the spokesperson for the Lyme Disease Association (www.lymediseaseassociation.org). Here is her keynote address for the opening of the new Columbia University Chronic Lyme Disease Center. Also be sure to check out: www.lymediseasefilm.com “Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease”
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She’s paralyzed from the waist down and her hands have grown limp. Howell didn’t know she had the illness until blood tests came back positive. This, she says, was after several doctors accused her of faking her symptoms.
Howell’s is but one case of many that has medical professionals in this country at odds over diagnosing and treating the tick-borne disease.
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Lyme disease — it has become epidemic on Long Island and much of the New
York Metropolitan Area, indeed across the United States. But as bad as the
illness has become, so has treatment for it — health insurers have
discouraged long-term treatment for what is often a long-term illness.
Suffolk County Long Island Legislator Edward Romaine recently held a
public meeting on Lyme disease.
Eva Haughie, President, Empire State Lyme Disease Association. She has
had Lyme disease for nearly 20 years. Her association is based in Manorville.
Dr. Joseph Burrascano, East Hampton, New York He is a pioneer in the
treatment of Lyme disease. And because of the push by medical insurers to
only cover short-term treatment — two, three or four weeks of antibiotics
– and Dr. Burrascano having developed a protocol for treating the many
people who are not cured in the short-term but have chronic Lyme disease,
he ended up being attacked. But he came through it and is regarded as a
major leader in the field.
Staci Grodin, Co-Founder and President, Turn the Corner Foundation. A
Lyme Diseases victim, her Turn the Corner Foundation has raised over $2
million and funded important Lyme disease research.
Sandy Berenbaum, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brewster, New York. She
has specialized with working with those with chronic Lyme disease. Her
accounts were most poignant, and her explanation of why health
insurers balk at providing compensation for long-term treatment most illuminating.
Diane Blanchard, President, Time for Lyme. A former resident of Westhampton, where she and members of her family contracted Lyme disease, she presently lives in Greenwich, Connectcut. Her organization, Time for Lyme, focuses on education and research.
Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. Humayan Chaudhry. confirms how Lyme disease has become “endemic”.
Suffolk County Legislator Edward Romaine
New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr., Sag Harbor, New York who
talks about the bill he has before the New York State Assembly requiring
health insurers to provide compensation for long-term treatment of Lyme
diseases — a measure that has been bottled up in Albany.
Shelter Island Town Supervisor Alfred Kilb, Jr. Shelter Island has long
been a particular hotspot for Lyme disease and Kilb describes Shelter
Islanders he knows with chronic cases of the disease.
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