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United States to limit antibiotic use in food farm industry, thought to be 8 times that of human use

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FDA NEWS RELEASE   For Immediate Release: Wed. Dec. 11, 2013 Media Inquiries: Shelly Burgess, 301-796-4651, shelly [dot] burgess [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov or Juli Putnam, 240-402-0537,JuliAnn [dot] Putnam [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov Trade Press Inquiries: Siobhan DeLancey, 240-276-9356, siobhan [dot] delancey [at] fda [dot] hhs [dot] gov Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA From: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm378193.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery   FDA takes significant steps…

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Why we need a national Lyme disease strategy

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by Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada   I know a health policy briefing should touch on all areas of health policy. We have critical issues ahead as we work to protect universal access to top-notch health care, reduce wait-times and drug costs, and meet the growing challenges of an aging population. The deficits in our…

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TICKED OFF: THE MYSTERY OF LYME DISEASE

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On Thursday, October 10th, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki aired their episode on Lyme disease. https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/ticked-off-the-mystery-of-lyme-disease (only available for viewing inside Canada) We have had many comments while others have offered comments at the above link. The general consensus is that if any rational person watched Dr. Gary Wormser from the Infectious Disease…

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Listen to Dr. Bonnie Henry, regarding the BC Clinic, completely ignore the vast patient group who do respond to longer term antibiotics

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Listen to the many wobble words and phrases used by Dr. Bonnie Henry to discount the dramatic benefit to thousands of people with Lyme Disease who finally receive longer term (not lifetime) antibiotics. Keep’em sick she says… give those unfortunate castaways pain killers and nice talk. What tests have the BC CDC developed and where…

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Australia: Federal Government sets up Committee to Investigate Lyme disease

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[CanLyme note: the oldest tactic used in Lyme disease misinformation proliferation is; from country to country each of the country’s medical “leadership” state that all cases have occurred elsewhere, never in their country. That is nonsense, and they will go to great lengths to make these unfounded, unproven statements because they ‘can and will’ only positively confirm those cases that have…

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Lyme Disease in deployed military personnel [Canadian]: a ‘tick-ing’ time bomb

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Ottawa: The Hill Times CanLyme: This is a very important article. You can sign up for a one day free trial to read the full text, it is worth the small amount of effort and is an astonishing read.  Read full article here. Cut and paste the text and send it far and wide to…

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US group calling for congressional investigation of the US Center for Disease Control, IDSA, and NIH.

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This is a much needed investigation and is gaining rapid support throughout the USA…    Canada SHOULD WE BE NEXT? ….  ie; investigating our quasi-governmental policy setters; PCPHN (Pan-Canadian Public Health Network), CPHLN (Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network – who report to the PCPHN – who report to the Conference of federal/provincial/territorial Deputy Ministers of Health), and investigate the AMMI (Association of Medical Microbiologists…

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Delays, Deceit, and Nonsense – US CDC took 5 years to act on Freedom of Information request re: Lyme disease gov’t emails

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… “Newby believes the delays were related to the documents’ content, which, she said, “reveal a disturbing picture of a quasi-governmental group … setting Lyme disease policy and a national research agenda without public oversight or transparency.” Read full article

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Lawyer warns Ontario, Canada government that they may be grossly neligent opening doors for lawsuits

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CanLyme has received a copy of a letter, linked at the bottom of this, that was just sent March 11th, 2013 to the Minister of Health, Premier, and Attorney General of Ontario and others Minister of Health office is ignoring Health Canada’s warning last fall that testing is poor, in that their dept has published guidelines that entrench the…

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Lyme disease test kits and limitations

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Health Canada : “Lyme disease test kits are class II (IV being the highest risk class) in vitro diagnostic devices. The devices are intended for the detection of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in human serum, plasma or cerebrospinal fluid.1 They are used to provide serologic evidence of B. Burgdorferi  exposure.1 Infection can result in dermatologic,…

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PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

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Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament, has started a petition and is asking that everyone participate in getting as many signatures as possible…. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, Whereas Lyme disease is an illness caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi that is spread to humans…

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Lyme disease fears prompt BC government to fund clinic

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lyme disease fears prompt BC government to fund clinic Vancouver, BC, March 31, 2011 – In response to the release of a confidential government report calling for better treatment and management of Lyme disease in BC the provincial government announced $2 million in funding for a provincial clinical and research study to…