NatCap- No need for Lyme legislation- Call it "Relapsing Fever" (No Klempner, No Guidelines)
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Subject: NatCap- No need for Lyme legislation- Call it "Relapsing
Fever"
Date: Jan 13, 2010 7:01 AM
IDSA don't have nothin on Relapsing
Fever but CDC officer Alan Barbour's
business partner, Sven Bergstrom, has
caved to the "Lyme Disease" strawman:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=19623064[uid]&cmd=DetailsSearch&log$=details
http://www.icd9data.com/2007/Volume1/001-139/080-088/087/087.1.htm
"Relapsing Fever or Borreliosis from
a tick," is what Sven Bergstrom says it
is:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=19623064[uid]&cmd=DetailsSearch&log$=details
I realize that the main problem is
that ILADS.org is brainless due to the
psychiatric component, but everyone can
divorce themselves from that nonsense.
YOU, the Lyme (RF) victims, can take over
informing the public and MDs about what
Relapsing Fever is, since ILADS.org
defaulted. Blumenthal sued em, not not
any of the wealthy "Lyme literate" MDs:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHAL_FORSCHNER.htm
who only served *RICH* Yuppie-AIDS victims:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYME_DISEASE.htm
No one needs to legislate 100 years of
scientific discovery:
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICO_CHRON.htm
We don't even have an admission of what
"Lyme Disease" is, except from Anthony
Fauci, who said "OspA-Lyme is something that
doesn't work as a vaccine because it doesn't
produce antibodies:"
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/359/9/888
He trashed Mark Klempner in the same
simple statement:
http://www.actionlyme.org/MKLEMPNER.htm
No Klempner, No Guidelines.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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Lyme Legislation Introduced in Virginia
WE NEED YOU AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO CONTACT THEIR VIRGINIA DELEGATES
TO SUPPORT H.B. 512
Dear Fellow Virginians:
Great news for us all! Delegate Tom Rust has introduced H.B. 512, a
bill in the Virginia House of Delegates relating to long-term
antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease. This bill allows a physician
to prescribe, administer or dispense long-term antibiotic therapy to a
patient diagnosed with Lyme or tick-borne disease. Also, it specifies
that the Board of Medicine shall not initiate a disciplinary action
against a licensed physician solely for prescribing, administering, or
dispensing long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient clinically
diagnosed with Lyme disease, provided such clinical diagnosis and
treatment has been documented in the patient’s medical record by such
licensed physician.
The single most important aspect of this legislation is that a
physician can treat with antibiotics for more than 4 weeks without the
fear of disciplinary action.
The National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association endorses
Delegate Rust’s bill. We have been working closely with Delegate Rust
and his staff. We are asking everyone to call and write your own
Virginia Delegate and Senator and ask them to sign-on to this bill.
The legislation must be read within 30 days or it will die! Passage
of the bill is only a 60-day process, which requires the following
steps:
1. DRAFTING & INTRODUCTION – When the General Assembly meets in
January, the delegates and senators introduce their bills in their
respective chambers.
2. COMMITTEE ACTION - The bill is referred to a committee. The
committee members consider the bill and decide what action to take.
This is when the public may speak. After listening to the testimony
the committee will decide whether to recommend the passage or defeat
of the bill. They may also amendments at this time. If the committee
recommends passage of the bill, it is returned to the chamber where it
was introduced.
3. FLOOR ACTION - The title of the bill must be read or printed in
the calendar three times. For the FIRST READING the bill is printed
in the calendar or is read by the clerk. In the SECOND READING the
bill may be amended after it has been read a second time. In the
House of Delegates the bill may be debated. For the THIRD READING in
the Senate, the bill may be debated. A final vote is taken during the
third reading.
4. VOTING - If the bill passes, it is sent to the other chamber
where it follows a similar process of committee action, floor debate,
amending, and voting. If the bill passes both houses in the same
form, it goes to the Governor. If the bill is amended by the other
house, it is then returned to the body from which it originated for
approval of the amendment.
5. GOVERNOR’S ACTION – Once passed in the same form, the bill is
sent to the Governor for his approval. The Governor may: 1) sign the
bill into law, 2) amend the bill and return it to the General Assembly
for their approval, 3) veto the bill and return it to the General
Assembly where the House of Delegates and Senate may override the
Governor’s veto by a two-thirds vote of both houses, 4) take no action
and the bill becomes a law without his signature.
6. LAW - Bills that become laws during a regular session (or the
reconvened session that follows) are effective on July 1, unless
specified otherwise.
This process presents a monumental task for such a short time frame,
but TOGETHER with Delegate Rust’s help we can make it happen.
We will be asking you to contribute and participate in a variety of
ways over the next 30 days.
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW !!
* Please READ the bill (posted at www.natcaplyme.org ).
* GO to www.natcaplyme.org and find your delegate from the
legislative links on our HOME PAGE. Uses the form letter supplied or
compose and send your own message. The most effective way to reach
your Virginia Delegate or Senator is by e-mail, fax and telephone.
Tell your Delegate that you strongly support the bill and you are
counting on their support. Ask him or her to sign-on to the bill as a
co-sponsor.
* CALL, e-mail or fax these instructions to your friends and
relatives in Virginia and ask them to send a message to their Delegate
in support of the bill.
* VISIT the NatCapLyme website for current updates.
As soon as the bill is referred to a specific committee we will let
you know the names of the committee members. Delegate Rust advises
that the committee members are the most important ones to contact.
Everyone, regardless of delegate district, should also contact them.
If the bill makes it through the process and to the committee, we need
to have everyone ready to attend to the hearing and show their
support. We’ll let you know the date and time as soon as we have it.
We would also like as many people as possible to submit written
testimony. Please prepare the story of your journey with Lyme disease
and its impact on your life with or without long-term care from a Lyme
literate doctor.
IF WE WORK TOGETHER,
WE CAN IMPROVE THE TREATMENT FOR LYME DISEASE IN VIRGINIA!
National Capital Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Association
natca...@natcaplyme.org
www.natcaplyme.org
Phone & fax: 703-821-8833
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci