"As a Lyme patient, I have joined a club of people with a stigmatized disease that many doctors do not want to treat. While I have been lucky enough to find a doctor who is willing to provide open-ended treatment -and I have the means to pay for it- many of my fellow Lyme patients have gone without appropriate care. As a consequence, they have lost their health, their jobs, their homes, their marriages, and even their lives."-- author Amy Tan (you can read her Lyme story at http://AmyTan.net )
Lyme disease is prevalent all over North America and throughout the world. There are at least 220,000 new cases of Lyme every year in the U.S. - more than three times the number of new cases of HIV and West Nile Virus combined!
To learn about Lyme and how to prevent it, see my "Lyme disease" playlist, and go to http://LymePa.org, http://ILADS.org, http://TruthAboutLymeDisease.com,or http://LymeNet.com ... and be sure to watch the award-winning documentary "UNDER OUR SKIN," which is now in theaters and available on Netflix and DVD: http://UnderOurSkin.com
To learn more about the Lyme controversy in the U.S., see this article: http://myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8493