The purpose of this update is to share with you our most recent letter to Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) executives and Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Our December 3, 2018 ‘open letter’ outlines our requests for PHAC and Ministry of Health to take urgent action regarding in-utero transmission of Lyme disease. The letter is in pdf on our website: https://www.lymehope.ca/news-and-updates/beyond-the-bite-mother-to-baby-lyme-disease
We are also sharing this link and letter to every single MP and Senator we have met in the last 18 months (from all parties) - all 63 of them as this issue is of great concern.
Please consider sending this link and letter to your federal MP with a short personalized cover note indicating you are concerned and ask him / her to raise this in Parliament.
You may look up your federal MP here (plug in your postal code in the search bar on right): http://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/constituencies/FindMP
As always, thank you for your continued engagement and support. Should you feel our work is valuable, we would gratefully accept donations of any size to assist us in continuing to raise the voices and concerns of Canadians and to effect change in Canada and around the world. You may donate online here via our website: https://www.lymehope.ca/contact-page.html
With Thankfulness and Hope,
Sue Faber RN BSc(N), Jennifer Kravis BA, LL.B, Tamara House
*If you haven't already, please sign, comment and share this ticking Lyme Petition: http://bit.ly/2lfBuNL