UGGGG! The Health Departments- they are gonna be the death of us if they don't get with the program! IDSA influence runs deep... but then so do cesspools.
It is so sad this is happening, it really shouldn't be. My sympathy to the family. Wish we could help, but it looks like the wife is going to go all the way on this. Gotta love her!
`````````````````````````````````````````````````` " A SYDNEY woman has been awarded a Supreme Court injunction to have her dead husband tested for a disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia."
Full article:- Be sure to see the bottom section. Click on "full article" to see it all.
[ 07-19-2010, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Tincup ]
Posted by John S (Member # 19756) on :
Yea for her! They should be doing that here too after every suspected Lyme death. As a matter of fact I think they should be taking biopsies from volunteers to clear up the mess we are in.
I hope we get some follow up on this article.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
Will they know what to look for in an autopsy, is my question?
And how could anyone with those symptoms be said to die of natural causes?
Why do governments uniformly try to deny disease?
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and the CYA rule.
Posted by nenet (Member # 13174) on :
Ugh is right. What a horrible situation for her, and for him, before he passed.
I too am worried whether they will be able to detect Lyme in the autopsy, or if they will even give it the old college try.
Seems to me you won't find what you aren't looking for with the wrong tools for the job.
I also think it is all about $$$$ and CYA. It's bureaucratic-human nature that they would want to deny the presence of a poorly-understood, extremely expensive, highly-controversial, politicized illness.
Avoiding public panic, added expense, and more responsibility, seem to be high on the list for any public management system.
There isn't a hare's breadth chance that any officials involved in making statements of denial would ever be taken to task for the denial, if its existence were ever admitted to later.
The buck stops nowhere, and everyone can then lean on plausible deniability; they didn't have proper testing or science, how could they have known, this agency was handling things, no that one, blah blah blah.
We sure haven't seen any crow-eating or repercussions here, and we've known it was in the US for decades now.
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Hey nenet...
You said... "We sure haven't seen any crow-eating or repercussions here.."
Like the Exxon Valdez! They paid more in attorneys fees fighting the clean-up than they would have paid just doing the clean-up.
The IDSA will probably be in the same boat by the time this is over.
You'd think they'd cut their losses and try to save their reputations. Oh, that's right... they don't have a reputation left to save.
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