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In today’s episode of #LookingAtLymePodcast we speak with Infectious Disease Physician Dr. Sam Donta.
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Dr. Sam Donta has gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise treating patients for almost 40 years, emphasizing the importance of early treatment for Lyme disease.
Abstract The spirochetes Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii, the etiologic agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever, respectively, cycle in nature between an arthropod vector and a vertebrate host. They have extraordinarily unusual genomes that are highly segmented and predominantly linear. The genetic analyses of Lyme disease spirochetes have become increasingly more sophisticated, while the age of genetic investigation…
Nov, 2015 By Lisa Schick When it comes to Lyme disease in Saskatchewan, those who suffer from it appear to be invisible when it comes to cases reported to the public. Those who do have it live in anguish, like one man who was in so much pain he couldn’t get out of bed, or…
May 23, 2016, Outbreak News Today [More government arrogance using their tax payer funded salaries to ignore tax payers.] … This drew the ire of Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group President, Bruce Fries: This is completely unacceptable from an agency responsible for protecting the public health, especially during Lyme disease awareness month, when CDC should be publicizing…
[CanLyme Note: We have been approached by various pharma industry to work with them but we have steadfastly refused in order to maintain our independence, so as to not be beholding to the for-profit industry. Now if government and the Canadian medical associations and societies could shake their relationship with big-pharma then perhaps better health care…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The examination of autopsied brain tissues from patients who died of serious neurological conditions has revealed that many tick-borne infections, such as Lyme disease, go undiagnosed and untreated. Board-certified pathologist, Alan B. MacDonald, MD, says his research shows “tick infections are not easily detected with routine tests, nor are they…
OTTAWA – Bill C-442, the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act, passed second reading in the House of Commons yesterday evening and has now been sent to the House Standing Committee on Health for further study. Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich–Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada first introduced this bill…
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Dr. Sam Donta is one of the true heroes in the Lyme story. I believe he was a part of the original core group dealing with Lyme and left them in protest after he saw what they were up to. The insurance industry realized it could control medical guidelines it could control medicine and we are left dealing with the deeply anti-science , anti ethics IDSA guidelines and the complicit doctors. Thank goodness Dr. Donta has stuck with patients and their interests and not with the profit motifs of the insurance industry.