US Senate Briefing on Lyme Disease and Tick-borne Illness Reviewed
Please read this guest blog by Nancy Dougherty of Lyme Disease Research Foundation, who attended the US Senate briefing on December 4 regarding the USA’s fastest spreading infectious illness- Lyme Disease. Thank you Nancy Dougherty for such thorough reporting.
I attended a Senate briefing in Washington DC last week sponsored by the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (TBDA) to address the national health crisis of Lyme and tick-borne diseases. The briefing was aimed at advancing Senate Bill S.719, the Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act. Lyme disease is a major public health problem and testimonies from prominent physicians, advocates and chronic sufferers were compelling. Senate staffers heard loud and clear that current diagnostics are unreliable, hundreds of thousands of patients are suffering, global warming is accelerating the worldwide epidemic, and more research funding is vitally needed. . .
Let me guess, IDSA and CDC were invited again before Congress and failed to appear?
Posted by grandmother (Member # 19908) on :
Just a few years ago, I was going to New York protests on a semi regular basis and that's not the case anymore.
Are we not having protests, judicial meetings etc or am I just not hearing about them? What did we do to advance Senate Bill S719? Or are we all too sick to do anything?