Infectious Diseases Special Edition: ISSUE: OCTOBER 2014 | VOLUME: 1 Lyme Disease Activists to Protest Outside IDWeek ★★★★ IMPORTANT READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!★★★★ Kenneth Liegner, MD, who speciallizes in internal medicine, critical care, Lyme disease and related illnesses, suggests that IDSA has neglected to consider a large amount of evidence that chronic Lyme exists and is common. Dr. Liegner practices in Pawling, NY near the epicenter of the Lyme epidemic. In a September 2010 letter to the Institute of Medicine, he wrote: Honest review of the worldwide peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals an abundance of evidence for the existence of chronic Lyme disease... The standard of care set by the IDSA 2006 Lyme disease guidelines is one of medical neglect of persons suffering from chronic Lyme disease. In making their charges, the Mayday Project cites a Lyme Disease Association entitled Conflicts of Interest in Lyme Disease: Laboratory Testing, Vaccination and Treatment Guidelines, which they say shows dozens of potentially serious conflicts of interests among the members of the CDC and FDA committees that set Federal policy on Lyme disease. The same report documents widespread conflicts of interests among members of the committee that produced IDSA’s guidelines for Lyme disease. they add. The activists also charge that federal funding for research, awareness and prevention for Lyme was $20 million in 2013, or barely 1% of the $1.8 billion of NIH funding for emerging infectious diseases (Lyme is included in this category). This is in spite of the fact that the number of new cases of Lyme annually is many times greater than those of any other disease in that category. Link Below in comment section:
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