Re: CDC funds Lyme disease research
From: Tbdbullseye (tbdbullseye_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: 29 Jun 2004 14:28:01 GMT
Here is some Fish info which was cited\ by A_Weisman, and which I find
offensive and dangerous:
<<Nadelman, R.B., Nowakowski, J., Fish, D., Falco, R., Freeman, K.,
McKenna, D., et. al. Single dose doxycycline prophylaxis after Ixodes
scapularis tick bites: a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled
study. New England Journal of Medicine 345:79-84, 2001.>>
How many people had the single dose of doxycycline "discovered" and advocated
by Fish and his cohorts when they presented with tick-bite and/or erethema
migrans rash, and today are suffering severely and are convinced that it can't
be Lyme disease because this wonderful Fish discovery allowed them to cure Lyme
disease immediately?
How many of them will never be properly diagnosed and treated for Lyme? How
many will live painful lives and die painful deaths? Do you know?
How many doctors and researchers, Public health officials, county and state
health departments will pooh-pooh any further need to think about educating
doctors, treating patients, once Fish has used our money to create a map
which may be only CDC results, based on extremely inaccurate and strict
epidemiologic info
and based on under-diagnosis and under-reporting by physicians who don't give a
flying fig, don't want to waste the time doing the paper work, and are never
encouraged to report,
let alone are ever under any enforcement by anyone state or national to report
cases of any infections,
or will be based on info supplied by States who have no money and no interest
to do the field work required to find out the real picture of Lyme disease in
their area
and finally that said map has to be the final word since the CDC funded it?
The CDC map given on their site as to risk of Lyme disease shows Ohio almost
bare of risk and Indiana with lots of risk, even though there have been over 80
cases reported in Ohio in each of the last 5 years and only about 20 - 21 cases
reported from Indiana over each of the last 5 years.
AND, the CDC allows the press to report their surveillance numbers as gospel
and final figures, while hiding in fine print on their material that the
disease is under-diagnosed and under-reported and that the actual numbers could
be 6 to 10 times the reported numbers.
They even have this disclaimer:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5231a7.htm
"Lyme disease surveillance case definition: State and local public health
officials rely on health-care providers, laboratories, and other public health
personnel to report the occurrence of notifiable diseases to state and local
health departments. Without such data, trends cannot be accurately monitored,
unusual occurrences of diseases might not be detected, and the effectiveness of
intervention activities cannot be easily evaluated. In the United States,
requirements for reporting diseases are mandated by state laws or regulations,
and the list of reportable diseases in each state differs."
Sorry, I am not convinced Fish or the CDC are good investments for our
hard-earned taxes.
Ann - OH
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