Connecticut high court hears $41.7 million school tick-bite case
From the Hartford Courant, March 27, 2017:
By Edmund H. Mahony
The state Supreme Court has joined an unusual — and unusually costly — $41.7 million negligence case that is likely to determine how, or even if, schools and other organizations operate youth programs.
The case turns on a lawsuit involving a young woman who, at the conclusion of her freshman year at the private Hotchkiss School in Salisbury, was bitten by a tick and developed encephalitis during a school study program in China. As a result, she became seriously disabled and can no longer speak. READ MORE.
I do not blame the school. She had the same risk in the USA. I blame IDSA, insurance companies, and doctors who refuse to educate themselves on the CORRECT protocol for treatment.
It is crazy to blame the school. We need a grass roots movement in this country to force accurate diagnosis and treatment of acute lyme and chronic lyme!!!!!!!!
State medical boards need cease their witch hunts of lyme literat doctors. Insurance companies need to be forced to cover chronic lyme treatment and the doctors who provide care.