- the development of sensitive and more accurate diagnostic tools and tests, including a direct detection test for Lyme disease capable of distinguishing active infection from past infection
If you care about:
-increased public education related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases
If you care about:
-SURVEILLANCE AND REPORTING of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and physician diagnosed cases that do not meet the surveillance criteria of the CDC
If you care about:
-the creation of a physician education program that includes the full spectrum of scientific research related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases
If you care about:
-the sponsoring of scientific conferences on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases
If you care about:
- the establish of a federal Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee
If you care about:
- Clinical Outcomes Research for epidemiological research objectives to determine the long term course of illness for Lyme disease; and determination of the effectiveness of different treatment modalities by establishing treatment outcome objectives
*** Then we need to advocate for Lyme legislation!
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