savebabe
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Yup, I have heard this around town, but now I have found blogs on the internet that suggest Christy Brinkley has lyme disease.
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savebabe
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By ROBERT E. TOMASSON Published: September 5, 1990 LEAD: CHRISTIE BRINKLEY and a Congressman have joined forces to stamp out the dreaded deer tick, carrier of the debilitating Lyme Disease. Ms. Brinkley says that a solution to the tick problem is her guinea hens, and scientists are giving her theory some serious consideration.
''There's a lot in the literature about guinea hens controlling ticks in the South,'' Mr. Hochbrueckner said yesterday after he went tick-hunting with Dr. DAVID C. DUFFY, executive director of the Seatuck Foundation, an ecological research foundation in Islip. They found none. ''Their busy season comes in about three weeks,'' Mr. Hochbrueckner said. ''We'll be back.''
Mr. Duffy did take three guinea hens back to his laboratory to determine whether they could differentiate between deer ticks and dog ticks, their favorites
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kelmo
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I remember when she got it, but there was never anything more said about it. They just said she was sick and treated. That was the first and last mention I ever heard about Lyme disease.
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hopefully, she'll speak out now for her own lyme disease; we can only hope, right!?
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That article is 17 years old though. Do we know whether it was early Lyme and treated right away or is there any suggestion she's chronically ill?
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That article is 17 years old though. Do we know whether it was early Lyme and treated right away or is there any suggestion she's chronically ill?
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Vermont_Lymie
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I wonder if she was treated by Dr. B. I hope so!
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savebabe
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I heard she had IV treatment, so she was probably very sick.
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Foggy
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Maybe she'll consider hosting a Columbia Lyme ctr fundraiser in the hoity toity Hamptons with some of her fancy friends... Posts: 2451 | From Lyme Central | Registered: Aug 2001
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bettyg
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i'd rather see a fundraiser for conn. dr. j and the many other llmds who have charges from their state's health dept.s against them!!!
that's where i'd like to see the $$$$ go!
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It's not going to work - I got my bugs from fleas and mosquitos.
If we are ever going to stomp out Lyme Disease, we need to first stop calling it a tickborne disease, and I don't understand why this isn't being done yet - at least by Lyme researchers and sufferers.
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Controlling tick vectors are great, but the problem is with something that small and that numerous, its impossible.
I'd much rather see more dollars being forced into proper research, getting ILADS and IDSA to work together, and better, faster more targeted cures. Anything focused elsewhere is a waste of time and money.
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