Released by: L.E.A.P. Arizona
Lyme Education Awareness Program
Contact: Tina J. Garcia, President 480-219-6869
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Governor Napolitano has proclaimed May as Lyme Disease Education Awareness Month in Arizona. Lyme disease is a debilitating bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites. Symptoms are crushing fatigue, excruciating neurological and musculoskeletal pain, debilitating cognitive dysfunction and sometimes cardiac abnormalities.
The Connecticut Attorney General is currently conducting a Civil Investigation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) for possible antitrust violations in the formulation of their Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines. These Guidelines contradict published research performed by some of the IDSA Guideline authors.
Insurance companies in Arizona and nationwide are using the IDSA Guidelines posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website to determine treatment benefits for patients. Many patients cannot get long-term antibiotic treatment for their infection due to the use of these guidelines by insurance companies and physicians. Patients are forced into paying for costly treatment themselves.
L.E.A.P. Arizona, Lyme Education Awareness Program, is a non-profit charity asking for your donations to help patients get treatment for this debilitating infection. To donate go to their website at www.leaparizona.com or call 480-219-6869.
Contact Information:
L.E.A.P. Arizona, Lyme Education Awareness Program
Tina J. Garcia, President
P.O. Box 2654
Mesa, Arizona 85214-2654
480-219-6869 Phone
480-830-2788 Fax
Email: leaparizona@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.leaparizona.com
Mr. Thomas Ryan
Assistant Attorney General, State of Connecticut
860-808-5355
* Please note that the
Connecticut Attorney General’s office
cannot discuss the details of the current IDSA investigation.
Pertinent references are
noted in the attached news article
entitled “State Official Subpoenas
Infectious Disease Group”
by Susan Warner, The Scientist