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L.E.A.P. Arizona
Lyme Education Awareness Program
P.O. Box 2654
Mesa, Arizona 85214-2654
480-219-6869 Phone 480-830-2788 Fax
www.leaparizona.com
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal continues with his Civil Investigative Demand of the 2006 updated Lyme disease treatment guidelines published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). It appears from comments made on blog sites and communications shared by Lyme leaders that the Attorney General has struck an unharmonious chord within the Infectious Diseases Society of America. It is apparent that the IDSA is angered at having their policies and methods questioned, and its anger is manifesting itself through comments made by some of their key players.
Also, visit this distressing blogsite run by a microbiologist who calls himself Hadlyme. No one on the site posts with their real name; they all use the name Hadlyme. Some have conjectured that it may be Edward McSweegan, but we don’t have verification of this. Edward McSweegan formerly ran the Lyme disease program for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Here is what McSweegan has said about Lyme disease.
“Lyme disease is non-communicable, readily treatable with common antibiotics and geographically localized in the United States.”
With regard to his promotion of holding vaccine clinical trials in Europe, he wrote: “Europe is a less litigious environment and is largely free of organized Lyme-patient advocacy groups. In the United States, activists have turned Lyme disease into everyone’s backyard bogeyman.”
The description on the LD50 blogsite says: “IN MICROBIOLOGY, THE LD50 (LETHAL DOSE 50) IS A MEASURE OF THE DOSE OF AN INFECTIOUS AGENT SUFFICIENT TO KILL ONE-HALF OF THE TEST POPULATION.”
LD50 is a common term in research, but when used on a blogsite that attacks Lyme patients, advocates, Lyme-treating physicians and the Connecticut Attorney General, one needs to question the motives of the blogsite owner.
BACKGROUND ON IDSA AND CDC ISSUES
Our President has been writing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for nearly two years. Although L.E.A.P. Arizona is not directly involved in this correspondence, L.E.A.P. is disappointed that the CDC has failed to respond in a positive manner and has failed to take any actions whatsoever in favor of better diagnosis and treatment for Lyme disease patients. The CDC’s response to her latest letter dated October 19, 2006 will be posted on L.E.A.P.’s website soon under the ADVOCACY section. More than 200 people signed on to that letter to the CDC. The sign-ons included people in Arizona, across the United States and in Europe, also, where cases of Lyme disease are growing rapidly. Each sign-on was individually printed onto a piece of lime green paper and included in a large package which was sent to the CDC and IDSA.
It is also regrettable that the CDC has posted on its Lyme disease website the IDSA Treatment Guidelines that are currently under investigation for possible antitrust violations by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. L.E.A.P. Arizona supports INFORMED CONSENT and this means that the CDC should post both the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Treatment Guidelines along with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Treatment Guidelines. By posting only the IDSA guidelines on its website, the CDC is failing to provide INFORMED CONSENT to physicians and patients worldwide. This is an issue that must continue to be addressed and our President, individually, will continue to work toward this goal.
In addition, should it be determined that the IDSA violated antitrust laws in developing their 2006 Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines, L.E.A.P. Arizona will conduct a public campaign to demand that those guidelines be removed from the CDC website and retracted from publication.
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L.E.A.P. Arizona is continuing to provide complimentary copies of the Public Health Alert newspaper dedicated to Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses published in Texas. We hope you have the chance to pick one up in your doctor’s office, but if not, you may access all issues on our website at www.leaparizona.com. We will be continuing our educational efforts by posting new information on our website this year. As soon as we have done this, we will be sure to let you know. If you haven’t already visited our website, we invite you to do so. There is a lot of information there already.
L.E.A.P. Arizona provides flyers of information relating to Lyme disease. If you would like to receive these flyers, please email your name and address to us at leaparizona@yahoo.com. We will mail the flyers to you.
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L.E.A.P. Arizona will be providing a lecture entitled
LYME DISEASE AND
BUILDING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
HEALTHY HABIT HEALTH FOODS
Saturday, March 31, 2007
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
6029 North 7th Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85014
602-252-6000
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L.E.A.P. Arizona will also be presenting educational information at
NEW FRONTIERS NATURAL MARKETPLACE
Saturday, May 26, 2007
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
1420 West Highway 89A
Sedona, Arizona 86336
928-282-6322
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Soon we will be releasing information on a new fundraising program that Lyme patients can participate in. We are really excited about this program and hope it will bear good fruit and provide an adequate fund for us to be able to assist patients. We know how difficult it is for Lyme patients to donate, so we have come up with an idea that enables Lyme patients to participate without having to part with funds that they need for their treatment, etc. We encourage Lyme disease patients to become involved in helping each other, and this new program will enable patients to do so without it being a financial hardship for them. We are nearly ready to unveil this program for you.
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A garden tended by loving hands reaps succulent fruits. Our attention to family and friends, when offered lovingly, likewise reaps rewards for all of us. Our efforts are not soon forgotten by us or our loved ones. Each loving act we express finds its home, in another’s heart as well as our own.
The decision to love someone unconditionally is simply made – and yet it takes daily persistent effort. How quickly we forget the promised benefits. Each day a gentle reminder is needed.
“I will love wholly and nurture the fuller development of someone special.” This one commitment, carried out, guarantees two vital, growing souls.
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Healthy Habit Health Foods
6029 North 7th Street Phoenix, Arizona 85014
602-252-6000
David C. Korn, D.O., D.D.S., M.D.(H)
6628 E. Baseline Road, Suite 101 Mesa, Arizona 85206
480-354-6700
Warren M. Levin, M.D.(H)
407 Church Street, Suite E Vienna, Virginia 22180
703-255-0313
Greg Muchnij, D.C.
350 East Bell Road, Suite 206 Phoenix, Arizona 85022
602-866-3505
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