A father’s plea about Lyme disease and climate change
From the Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon), April 18, 2017:
I would like to share my family’s story because it concerns all parents, hikers, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts in the region.
My daughter and I have spent countless days recreating in Oregon’s cherished public lands. In 2011, at the age of 5, she contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite. I didn’t know it at the time, but her health would be inextricably linked to that of the planet and our climate. As a scientist working to combat climate change, imagine the irony and horror that I felt as a tick carrying a disease rapidly spreading from global warming forever changed my daughter. READ MORE.
Lyme literate doctors seldom accept insurance. Out of pocket expenses are off the charts. I was first infected with Lyme in 2000 when they where begining to identify the illness by the
Antibodies in blood as a marker for the disease. 17 years later in spite of updated testing and high profile medical intervention the best I was given was 30 days of antibiotics every time I had a flare up or was reinfected. Doctors need step up
And educate themselves and go to battle with insurance for reimbursement.
Pennsylvania has the highest incident of Lyme victims and
States all over the country that would seem unlikely sources are reporting Lyme in their midst. If not now When?