!['Country legend @[9117107123:274:Toby Keith] takes the #LymeDiseaseChallenge with the parents of @[100000976279887:2048:Erica Ondrey], a Lyme patient and advocate. Spreading awareness one bite at a time #WeMustFindACure'](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p118x118/13600309_890088457803441_2367165931824335049_n.jpg?oh=17e34c3389954c4c2092840f15a70b27&oe=58025A5A)
!['#LymeDiseaseChallenge: Hard hitting coverage on #LymeDisease airs this Thursday with segments over the weekend.
From @[39442131319:274:FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com]
“LYME AND REASON: THE CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE” AIRS THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 10:30 P.M.
FOX 5 presents an in-depth look at the cause and effect of Lyme disease, including the controversy over testing, the issues of misdiagnosis, and the personal struggles of medical professionals and patients contending with this life-changing illness.
· Renowned Oncologist @[1486377723:2048:Neil Spector], MD shares his personal story of how Lyme disease robbed him of his own heart
· Singer and songwriter @[671727282:2048:Dana Parish] describes how Lyme disease derailed her in the prime of her career and her life
· The touching story of 12 year old @[482871738549513:274:Julia Bruzzese, "believe in the Miracle"], how Lyme disease stole her ability to walk, and how a blessing by Pope Francis during his visit to NYC has provided hope for her and her family
· Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH - Director of the Center for Neuroinflammatory of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University talks about the cause of Lyme disease and what you should do if you’re bitten by a tick
· Yale-Trained Lyme Disease Expert Steven Phillips, MD addresses the controversy surrounding Lyme disease, while Paul Mead, MD - Chief of Epidemiology and Surveillance Activity of The Bacterial Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the perspective from the country's lead public health agency.
· Patricia De La Mora, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College talks about prevention and how to keep your children safe, while Lawrence Putter, MD - Medical Director Lenox Hill Veterinarians discuss pet safety when it comes to ticks
· We also cover the controversies of Lyme in terms of testing, treatment, and coverage by insurance companies
· Encore presentations of the special will air on the following days:
1. Saturday, July 2nd @ 6:30pm
2. Monday, July 4th @ 10:30pm
3. Sunday, July 17th @ 5:30pm
Excerpts from interviews with Ally Hilfiger and Marla Maples:
Marla Maples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOq8vr2E790&feature=youtu.be
Ally Hilfiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KNllZCsDo&feature=youtu.be'](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s200x200/13532917_888038978008389_6682107040775740701_n.jpg?oh=a3fd452b88b57cac5699b9f9d2eea049&oe=5836FE42)
Lyme Disease Challenge added an event.
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Collaboration. Hope. Change. Join our grassroots campaign, Take a Bite Out of Lyme Disease, to spread awareness & raise funds for ILADS 501c3 (ILADEF).
- Just sharing this as this is a song by my friend who suffered from L...yme, he recorded this song and donated 50% of proceeds to Cauldwell Lyme charity in the u.k https://www.facebook.com/ricofranchimusic/videos/1215252901842874/ See More
- Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine took the challenge and... raised awareness of other tick-borne illnesses affecting our pets and wildlife! See More
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Insurance companies may have to soon cover Lyme disease treatment #LymeDiseaseChallenge
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http://wwlp.com/…/insurance-companies-may-have-to-soon-cov…/
LDC Note: It is critical to note that there is NO minimum duration for tick attachment to transmit disease. Taking a watchful waiting approach to tick bites may lead to a disseminated infection that is much more difficult to treat.
Country legend Toby Keith takes the #LymeDiseaseChallenge with the parents of Erica Ondrey, a Lyme patient and advocate. Spreading awareness one bite at a time #WeMustFindACure
Lyme Disease Challenge shared Teresa Priolo's live video.
Teresa Priolo did a fantastic interview with Lyme Disease specialist and pioneer, Kenneth Liegner and FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com's Lew Leone.
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Lyme Disease Challenge shared a page.
NOW: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD - CHRONIC LYME DISEASE
Please join a LYME Facebook conversation Friday, July 1 at 11:30 am EST. ILADS representative, Kenneth Liegner, MD of Pawling, NY, will be joining IDSA and CDC representatives in a live question and answer session on Facebook. This event is sponsored by FOX 5 in NYC.
Click the following to participate in the conversation: Facebook.com/fox5ny
Don't miss FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com amazing segment LYME AND REASON: THE CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE” presents an in-depth look at the cause and effect of Lyme disease, including the controversy over testing, the issues of misdiagnosis, and the personal struggles of medical professionals and patients contending with this life-changing illness.
#LymeDiseaseChallenge in the animal world, courtesy of Cassidy McCarthy, B.S., DVM Candidate #Lyme #GlobalHealthCrisis #NotJustHumans #Veterinary
Check out the video; they challenge all the Small Ruminant Clubs in Vet Schools Worldwide!
Lyme Disease isn't just a human problem, it is troublesome in our pets and livestock as well. To truly understand how Lyme Disease and other tick-borne diseases affect us, it is important to be aware of how they affect our four ...
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FOX5 NY to air Lyme disease Special tonight June 30th
https://www.lymedisease.org/fox5-ny-air-lyme-disease-speci…/
Lyme and Reason: Unedited FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com interview with renowned Oncologist Neil Spector, MD who shares his own personal story of his transition from doctor to patient, and how Lyme disease led to an emergency heart transplant. #LymeDiseaseChallenge
Renowned Oncologist Neil Spector, MD shares his own personal story of his transition from doctor to patient, and how Lyme disease led to an emergency heart t...
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Must Watch: Unedited FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com Lyme and Reason interview with former ILADS Lyme Society president and Lyme specialist Dr. Steven Phillips along with our friend, advocate and singer/songwriter Dana Parish. #LymeDiseaseChallenge
Lyme & Reason: Phillips Parish interviewNews Video
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New York FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com Presents Groundbreaking Health Event #LymeDiseaseChallenge
David Michael Conner: While Zika has affected 820 Americans ever, zero of whom contracted the disease within the United States, over 300,000 Americans contract Lyme disease each year.
Most news segments that do address Lyme disease focus almost exclusively on how to identify the telltale bullseye rash (which only approximately 40 percent of Lyme patients ever see) and how to avoid and ...remove ticks. FOX NY 5 takes the public health threat seriously and is finally telling New York area viewers what they need to know about Lyme—the real story about how to identify it and what the consequences of untreated or undertreated Lyme can be. Other local news productions—as well as national organizations—should take a cue from this precedent-setting approach and give this epidemic the attention it deserves.
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#LymeDiseaseChallenge: Hard hitting coverage on #LymeDisease airs this Thursday with segments over the weekend.
From FOX 5 / Fox5NY.com
“LYME AND REASON: THE CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE” AIRS THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 10:30 P.M....
FOX 5 presents an in-depth look at the cause and effect of Lyme disease, including the controversy over testing, the issues of misdiagnosis, and the personal struggles of medical professionals and patients contending with this life-changing illness.
· Renowned Oncologist Neil Spector, MD shares his personal story of how Lyme disease robbed him of his own heart
· Singer and songwriter Dana Parish describes how Lyme disease derailed her in the prime of her career and her life
· The touching story of 12 year old Julia Bruzzese, "believe in the Miracle", how Lyme disease stole her ability to walk, and how a blessing by Pope Francis during his visit to NYC has provided hope for her and her family
· Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH - Director of the Center for Neuroinflammatory of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University talks about the cause of Lyme disease and what you should do if you’re bitten by a tick
· Yale-Trained Lyme Disease Expert Steven Phillips, MD addresses the controversy surrounding Lyme disease, while Paul Mead, MD - Chief of Epidemiology and Surveillance Activity of The Bacterial Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the perspective from the country's lead public health agency.
· Patricia De La Mora, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College talks about prevention and how to keep your children safe, while Lawrence Putter, MD - Medical Director Lenox Hill Veterinarians discuss pet safety when it comes to ticks
· We also cover the controversies of Lyme in terms of testing, treatment, and coverage by insurance companies
· Encore presentations of the special will air on the following days:
1. Saturday, July 2nd @ 6:30pm
2. Monday, July 4th @ 10:30pm
3. Sunday, July 17th @ 5:30pm
Excerpts from interviews with Ally Hilfiger and Marla Maples:
Marla Maples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOq8vr2E790&feature=youtu.be
Ally Hilfiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KNllZCsDo&feature=youtu.be
Minnesota health officials warn of fatal tick bites #LymeDiseaseChallenge #LymeKills #LymeCarditis #FundLyme
From Fox News:
Health officials in Minnesota are warning about Lyme-infected tick bites that attack the heart and cause sudden cardiac death.
...LDC Note: Thank you to Fox News for helping to spread awareness about the potentially deadly consequences of tick bites. We respectfully disagree that Lyme carditis is rare. According to this study linked on the CDC website, it is estimated that between 4% and 10% of patients in the United States who have untreated Lyme disease develop carditis but some have estimated the prevalence of asymptomatic carditis to be as high as 30%. http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources/fish2008-508.pdf
Astonishingly, a 2015 study found Lyme in TWENTY percent of patients in heart failure - none of whom had the characteristic bullseye rash for Lyme Disease and sixty-four percent had a negative blood test. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25939436
If cardiologists are not looking for Lyme Disease they will not find it.
Lyme Disease patients report significant challenges in finding cardiologists who are knowledgeable about the complex manifestations of Lyme Disease.
http://www.foxnews.com/…/minnesota-health-officials-warn-fa…
Learn this Lyme disease lesson #LymeDiseaseChallenge #TreatTheBite
http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/…/14583152.Learn_this_L…/
Game-changing test for Lyme disease under development #LymeDiseaseChallenge
“We need an accurate test, desperately need an accurate test that can determine who has current, active disease,” said Auerbach. “The test that we have right now only tests for your body’s reaction; in other words, building antibodies against the pathogen, and not everybody builds antibodies well: our immune systems are all different. So, the test is not really all that reliable and certainly, earl...y on, it’s totally unreliable. Even the CDC says it’s unreliable.”
Holly Ahern, associate professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack, said a new test, being developed by the Trans genomics department of the University of Northern Arizona, will finally be able to test for quantities of all Lyme causing pathogens in the patient, not only replacing an ineffective test with an effective one but, also making it less expensive for insurance companies, finally providing them with the incentive to pay.
“They are using next-gen sequencing, so they’re going to go looking for the DNA of the bacteria, and when they find the DNA they’re going to sequence it” said Ahern.
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/…/28/Lyme_prevention-28Jun16.h…
#LymeDiseaseChallenge: Children who overcome huge obstacles #Inspired #Hope #CongratsSavannahMarcum
When young people are struck by Lyme, it can take a huge toll on their education. Sometimes schooling must take a back seat to medical treatment–and just getting through the day. Completing high school can be a monumental task.
That’s why I’m so tickled to learn about the valedictorian speech given by Savannah Marcum of Paso Robles, CA. She discusses her Lyme exper...iences–and other aspects of her life.
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How Curcumin Has Helped Me Control My Pain #LymeDiseaseChallenge
Another informative article by Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio:
I stumbled upon the benefits of curcumin in 2010, as facial muscle spasms, neck, and low back pain kept me in constant agony. At that time, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and I wouldn’t learn that I had Lyme disease for another three years. To find some abatement of my pain, I tried medications for nerve pain, muscle relaxants, tricyclic antidepressa...nts, and low dose narcotics. These drugs left me feeling hungover and with zero reduction in the discomfort.
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Look who's taking the Lyme Disease Challenge now! A big thank you goes out to Amber N. Marchese, a former real housewife of New Jersey who recently announced that she has Lyme disease.
#LymeDiseaseChallenge #WeMustFindACure #LymeIsEverywhere #Lyme #RHONJ #Bravo
https://twitter.com/ambernmarchese/status/747435497144844292
Tick bite proves fatal for Minnesota man #LymeDiseaseChallenge #LymeKills #LymeCarditis #PublicHealthCrisis #FundLyme
"Your body creates an inflammatory reaction against these to fight them off and the heart muscle or the conduction system gets caught in the cross fire," added Campbell.
As a result, the electrical signals which keep your heart beating short circuit. In extremely rare cases, a person's heart can slow to a stop or develop a dangerously fast rhyth...m that can also be fatal.
"The heart will stop pumping blood and you pass out and that's a sudden death," said Campbell.
http://www.fox9.com/health/166180771-story
LDC #FactCheck: We disagree that Lyme carditis is "rare". It is estimated that between 4% and 10% of patients in the United States who have untreated Lyme disease develop carditis but some have estimated the prevalence of asymptomatic carditis to be as high as 30%. http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources/fish2008-508.pdf
Astonishingly, a 2015 study found Lyme in TWENTY percent of patients in heart failure - none of whom had the characteristic bullseye rash for Lyme Disease and sixty-four percent had a negative blood test. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25939436
If cardiologists are not looking for Lyme Disease they will not find it.
Lyme Disease patients report significant challenges in finding cardiologists who are knowledgeable about the complex manifestations of Lyme Disease.
New doubts on Zika as cause of microcephaly #FundLyme #LymeDiseaseChallenge #Zika
Brazil's microcephaly epidemic continues to pose a mystery -- if Zika is the culprit, why are there no similar epidemics in other countries also hit hard by the virus? In Brazil, the microcephaly rate soared with more than 1,500 confirmed cases. But in Colombia, a recent study of nearly 12,000 pregnant women infected with Zika found zero microcephaly cases. If Zika is to blame for microcephaly, where are the missing cases?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160624150813.htm
Brazil's microcephaly epidemic continues to pose a mystery -- if Zika is the culprit, why are there no similar epidemics in other countries also hit hard by the virus? In Brazil, the microcephaly rate soared with more than 1,500 confirmed cases. But in Colombia, a recent study of nearly 12,000 pregn...
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