Australian Senate to look into “Lyme-like” illness
From the Lyme Disease Association of Australia, November 12, 2015:
It’s official – a Senate inquiry into Lyme-like disease in Australia
The Senate has formally agreed to hold an inquiry into Lyme-like disease. Senator Madigan with the backing of the cross bench as co-sponsors – Senator Wang, Senator Leyonhjelm, Senator Day, Senator Lazarus, Senator Lambie, Senator Xenophon, Senator Muir and National Party Senator McKenzie, was supported unopposed by the government and the opposition.
The Community Affairs References Committee will report by 20 June 2016 with submissions due 30 March 2016. The inquiry will look at the growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a “Lyme-like” illness for many Australian patients.
The Lyme Disease Association of Australia (LDAA) has worked with the thousands who suffer from this disease to alert parliamentarians around Australia that people are very sick and action needs to be taken.
“We are very grateful that Senator Madigan acted upon the evidence he saw in the Lyme-like patients. This inquiry provides a priceless opportunity to shed light on this disease and provide support for patients, doctors, researchers and pathologists who for too long have been denied,” said President LDAA Sharon Whiteman.
I do hope something comes from this.
I am so thankful. The US should be ashamed that other countries are ahead of the ball on this one. Eventually they will have no choice but to follow suit.
It is ashame how much of ourselves and our lives we have lost and won’t get back.
Politics should never be involved in this anyways.
Doctors take oaths to treat us humanely and to the best of their ability to ensure our health & safety.
Because of politics, we are treated inhumanely & without compassion.
If I at least had compassion it would be a bit easier to get through all of this.
Instead we fight this illness, alone, without help, without understanding.
How can the people in our lives understand any of this hell when you have governments saying Chronic Lyme is not real & Morgellons patients are delusional?
I am hurt to my soul over the entire mess. Sad part is I know that I will never feel good again, feel healthy. I can tell. My body & mind has endured too much torment for too many years and I feel the impact in my every breath.
Congratulations Australia, you may just be who saves me too.
Well done LDAA for your continual work on getting this review by the Senate. Having been diagnosed with Borellia from a tick bite on the NSW mid-north coast, it is undeniably in Australia. Lyme-like is just a layman’s way of calling it what it really is; Borelliosis. To all the thousands of sufferers in Australia, hopefully the outcome will be final recognition of the disease in Australia, and recognition of a strain or strains of Borellia that do not need to be related to Lyme in Connecticut.