The message below was sent to the Centers for Disease Control as a follow-up to the previous petition update from May 31, 2017 Petition update (May 31, 2017) CDC Webinar on Tickborne Disease Diagnostics https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/20413161 ________________ To the CDC: Like untreated strep throat, Lyme has the ability to ruin lives with irreversible damage all of which has been hidden from the public for the past forty years as Lyme has been portrayed as hard to catch and easily treated with a one-size-fits-all IDSA treatment guideline. The one-size-fits-all IDSA treatment guideline does not scratch the surface for a Borrelia infection misdiagnosed and untreated for years or decades. This growing class of Lyme patient has been ignored by the CDC, IDSA and American Lyme Disease Foundation as the focus has been to discredit the sick and disabled along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients: Antiscience and ethical concerns associated with advocacy of Lyme disease http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70034-2/abstract Dr Paul G Auwaerter, Johan S Bakken, MD, PhD, Prof Raymond J Dattwyler, MD, Prof J Stephen Dumler, MD, Prof John J Halperin, MD, Edward McSweegan, PhD, Prof Robert B Nadelman, MD, Susan O'Connell, MD, Prof Eugene D Shapiro, MD, Prof Sunil K Sood, MD, Prof Allen C Steere, MD, Prof Arthur Weinstein, MD, Prof Gary P Wormser, MD Published: September 2011 A global number of disabled patients are catching onto the lies, collusion, deception and outright criminal mishandling of a disease destroying lives around the world: CANADA: Ticking Lyme Bomb in Canada. YOU are at RISK. Sign now! (39,000 signatures) https://www.change.org/p/minister-philpott-ticking-lyme-bomb-in-canada-fix-canada-s-lyme-action-plan-now Re: Lyme Disease in Canada: A Draft Federal Framework https://www.facebook.com/notes/canadian-lyme-science-alliance/clsa-responds-to-the-federal-framework/1496049700425944 AUSTRALIA: Patients First. Take urgent action for current and future Australian Lyme patients (44,000 signatures) https://www.change.org/p/patients-first-take-urgent-action-for-current-and-future-australian-lyme-patients-and-their-doctors-in-australia?tk=6tNYAFhQgQHmYtMX_ayS4kY-6tDAaxf9kKLykrrfNjY&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email Lyme disease: Australians 'being treated worse than a dog riddled with mange', Senator John Madigan says http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-11/lyme-disease-treatment-in-australia-criticised-by-john-madigan/7080708 FRANCE: Lyme: 130 patients demanding 500,000 euros in compensation October 19, 2016 http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/societe/20161018.OBS9961/maladie-de-lyme-nous-demandons-500-000-euros-pour-chacun-de-nos-clients.html UNITED STATES: Calling for a Congressional investigation of the CDC, IDSA and ALDF (37,000 signatures) https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf UNITED KINGDOM: UK Lyme Petition (13,000 signatures) https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/uklymepetition/ Develop accurate NHS tests and effective treatment protocols for Lyme disease. (11,000 signatures) https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/113475 IRELAND: Help Us To Make Lyme Disease Notifiable in Ireland http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Lyme-Disease-Ireland/ There's little help or understanding about Lyme disease in Ireland Tuesday, March 28, 2017 http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/theres-little-help-or-understanding-about-lyme-disease-in-ireland-446286.html -Four mothers tell Louise McCarthy about the impact of Lyme disease, on the rise in Ireland, has had on their lives. ____________________ - NEWS: Recent study suggests that Lyme disease can be sexually transmitted https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-sexual-transmission-2/ - Mass. Lawmakers Override Veto On Long-Term Antibiotics For Lyme http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2016/08/01/mass-long-term-lyme-disease-antibiotics Here is a quote from U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal: "Today for me culminates more than a decade of work and probably a decade more, because I've seen firsthand the devastating, absolutely unacceptable damage done by Lyme disease to individual human beings, Connecticut children and residents whose lives have been changed forever as a result of Lyme disease” Source: http://ctmirror.org/2011/07/18/blumenthal-takes-lyme-disease-fight-senate/ -Lyme disease: the promise of Big Data, companion diagnostics and precision medicine https://www.dovepress.com/lyme-disease-the-promise-of-big-data-companion-diagnostics-and-precisi-peer-reviewed-article-IDR -Up to two-thirds of individuals infected with B. burgdorferi will fail conventional 30-year-old antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease -Animal and human evidence suggests that sexual transmission of the Lyme spirochete may occur. -Improved companion diagnostic tests for Lyme disease need to be implemented, and novel treatment approaches are urgently needed to combat the epidemic. PREDICTION: The Centers for Disease Control and those who have colluded to deny Lyme as a life-altering/life-threatening infection in the same health threat class as AIDS and Zika will be prosecuted for crimes against humanity as this 21st Century plague rages out of control. Carl Tuttle Hudson, NH Lyme Disease: Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic Raphael B. Stricker, Lorraine Johnson Published: January 02, 2014DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.100379 http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003796