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Posted 5/22/2016 2:22 PM (GMT 0)
For those of you that follow the Lyme testing and CDC issues and public awareness challenges associated with Lyme, please check out and share this fantastic reporting by Emily Lampa in the Delmarva region covering Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. It is a four part series of 8-9 minute videos available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5Vqwe0tOM

We need better awareness to not only prevent the spread but also to fix the horrible CDC policies on testing, treatment, and insurance coverage.

If you are on Twitter, thank Emily and ABC47 at these handles and hashtags: @EmilyLampa #47TTBC @47abc

They need our clicks and to hear our appreciation! Thanks! smilewinkgrin
Posted 5/22/2016 3:46 PM (GMT 0)
Landslide I really enjoyed this video. I love to see all the legislation that is trying so hard to make it through and those that have made it through.

But after this video there was another.

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQPjjipD3GY

I have a heart for children in a huge way and this video is where we need to be now. I live in an area where on the weekends deer roam the school playground. But so do birds, mice, squirrels, fox and coyotes. (It is not unusual for a rattlesnake alert to sound on the school ground as a child gets bitten) This is the remoteness that I live in and I am going to try and get this electronic version of this book for my local school.

Thank you again for posting this.
Posted 5/22/2016 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
WOW!!!!

Totally agree with you both - what a HUGE step forward!
What better way to put pressure on the government to get their collective you-know-whats in gear and make some progress on lyme education.

And NO BETTER way than to get kids interested, they learn and talk to parents... and then parents likely start asking their own questions and in short time will hit the same wall we all have. And parents WON'T LIE DOWN---not when their kid is involved. If some pediatrician tries to toe the IDSA party line, they will fight back and that is a force I want on my team!

I am absolutely thrilled by this program.

-p

Post Edited (Pirouette) : 5/22/2016 3:16:32 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/22/2016 8:04 PM (GMT 0)
What a coincidence, I watched part 1 last night (randomly, not knowing a "part 2" would be made later).

Going to watch this part 2 now.
Posted 5/22/2016 8:12 PM (GMT 0)
ahh I see they are still using the bogus CDC stat of 70% get a bullseye rash, when the more accurate number is <50%.

Post Edited (dacarte3) : 5/22/2016 2:34:08 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/22/2016 8:22 PM (GMT 0)
dacarte - did you mean <50% (I think you did)
Posted 5/22/2016 8:33 PM (GMT 0)
haha i did mean less than.

The FDA, the actual United States government, approves a long list of different lyme testing and interpretation of results but the CDC doesn't.

Why does the CDC act like some evil shadow government agency? They are like the CIA of the medical world.
Posted 5/22/2016 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
<50% is still old data the latest research from several sources puts the number close to 25-30%. clearly the bugs are evolving to avoid detection and increase their odds of gaining a foothold in the new host.
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