On January 26 and 27, Lyme patients and patient advocates from around the United States will join together and call on Congress to take decisive action to address the out of control epidemic of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses. This campaign leverages three Change.org petitions, with more than 65,000 combined signatures. End Preferential Treatment of the IDSA Guidelines for Lyme Disease petition to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://tinyurl.com/CDCpetition Calling for Congressional Investigation of CDC, IDSA & ALDF petition to the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf Legalize Lyme Disease petition to President Barack Obama, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate https://www.change.org/p/president-obama-and-congress-a-call-to-legalize-lyme-disease The following Position Paper will be faxed to every member of the Senate on Jan 25th. http://www.lymepatientadvocacy.org/ REQUESTED ACTION Make three phone calls: one call to each of your U.S. Senators, and one call to your representative in the U.S. House. You can find the phone numbers for your representatives at this website: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/take-action/know-your-representative One minute script: My name is: _________ calling from: _________ I am calling Senator/Representative ___________ today respectfully requesting a congressional investigation of the CDC, IDSA and American Lyme Disease Foundation for the mishandling of Lyme disease. The vast majority of Lyme patients are being misdiagnosed due to faulty and misleading antibody tests while the CDC continues to overlook abundant scientific evidence of chronic infection. We have been dealing with an antibiotic resistant superbug responsible for life-altering consequences. Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome is simply a fabricated medical condition disguising treatment failure. It is time to expose the truth behind the deliberate mishandling of Lyme disease and focus on finding better treatment options for myself (or) my sick: (mother, father, daughter, son. relative, loved one, etc). Please support a congressional investigation into the CDC’s deliberate mismanagement of Lyme disease. Thank you! ___________________________________________ FACEBOOK PAGE FOR THE EVENT https://www.facebook.com/events/1739734586248693 The event has a pinned post with a photo of a phone. After you have made your phone calls, “like” the photo. The number of likes will provide a real time counter to monitor the response. Also, post the name of your state, so we can gauge the response in each state. “It defies belief that such overwhelming evidence for the persistence and destructiveness of Lyme can be covered up for such a long time.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IN RAISING AWARENESS TO THIS SILENT LIFE-ALTERING EPIDEMIC. -Carl Tuttle