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Australia: Hope for Lyme sufferers with ‘groundbreaking’ pilot study

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Once again, it is the patients, true ethical scientists, and clinicians doing what the governments have refused to do for decades… appropriate research as opposed to the anti-science, anti-patient work of government and medical societies, such as the Infectious Disease Society of America who yield so much control over governments and medical societies…

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Australia: A Senate inquiry has recommended urgent government funding for research into tick-borne disease in Australia.

ByTeam

Nov. 30th, 2016 Inquiry calls for Lyme funding, research   A Senate committee has recommended the federal government urgently increase funding for research into tick-borne disease in Australia and get to work on finding a treatment. Thousands of Australians claim to be suffering from tick-borne Lyme disease, but medical authorities insist it’s not possible to…

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Australia: Murdoch University researchers found new bacteria in Australian ticks removed from echidnas

ByTeam

June 15, 2016 MURDOCH University researchers have detected a new species of bacteria in echidna-biting Australian ticks. The recent discovery was published by Dr Charlotte Oskam, from Murdoch University’s Vector and Water-borne Pathogen Research Group (VWBPRG), in the parasitology journalParasites and Vectors. To date, little has been documented about microorganisms harboured within Australian native ticks…

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Australia ticked off by Lyme disease

ByTeam

May 23, 2015 Sufferers are still fighting to have Lyme disease, contracted from ticks, recognised in Australia.   In 2013, Linda Blatt took time out from her psychology placement to visit a spiritual retreat in central California. For an ebullient week she swam in hot springs, lay down in the grass, marvelled at the Big…

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Australia: Researcher calls for action after those suffering Lyme Disease head abroad…

ByTeam

A TURRAMURRA researcher is calling on the medical fraternity to advocate for recognition of Lyme disease in Australia, both for treatment and insurance purposes. Mualla McManus’s call follows an appeal from tick bite victim and East Lindfield teen Francesca Wallis who is trying to raise $30,000 for Lyme disease treatment at a German clinic, as the…

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Australia: Pittwater Council asks residents to pull out your bag of ticks

ByTeam

CAYLA DENGATE, MANLY DAILY, NOVEMBER 01, 2014 12:01AM While ticks are usually best avoided, Pittwater Council is extending a request from Sydney University to ask residents to keep and freeze the little crawlers. The university is currently three years into a national study into pathogens in ticks, and research fellow Ann Mitrovic said the northern beaches was…

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Austrtalia – Lyme tests fail patients, says expert

ByTeam

May 28th, 2014 The Echo Retired vet Dr John Curnow BVSc is calling on Australia’s health authorities to support the Karl Mcmanus Foundation’s research into tick-borne diseases in Australia, saying Lyme disease has been in Australia for decades. The retired serologist, John Curnow, worked in conjunction with the CSIRO on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases…

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NSW Health moves in the right direction on Lyme disease [Australia]

ByTeam

IN a huge win for Lyme disease sufferers, NSW Health has agreed to encourage doctors to keep an “open mind” about the possibility of locally-acquired Lyme disease. The department will also request a review of Lyme disease testing and seek advice on improved surveillance of the disease. The move comes after 150 Lyme disease sufferers…