Thanksgiving in the Lyme World, 2013
Along with new and continuing challenges for the Lyme community, there is also much to be grateful for. Here’s our Thanksgiving gratitude list.
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Lyme media coverage reaches all-time high
 2013 saw major articles about Lyme disease in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Poughkeepsie Journal, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post and more. Additional coverage resulted when CDC boosted its estimate of annual Lyme cases from 30,000 to 300,000. This helped elevate the national conversation about Lyme disease to a new level. |
Spring and autumn saw big Lyme demonstrations
More than 30 countries and 37 states participated in May’s Worldwide Lyme Disease Protest. Photo at left is from New York City rally, which featured Dr. Kenneth Liegner and other prominent speakers. The events were strongly highlighted on Facebook and Twitter, helping to energize Lyme activism globally.  In October, activists gathered outside the IDSA’s annual conference in San Francisco, protesting that groups highly restrictive Lyme guidelines. Two weeks later, a Lymewalk and rally were held in San Diego, in conjunction with the annual ILADS conference. . . . |
Lyme community supports researcher Dr. Eva Sapi
 Donations big and small added up to $150,000 to purchase an atomic force microscope specially designed to study Lyme spirochetes, and give other support to groundbreaking Lyme research of Dr. Eva Sapi. . . . . . Yolanda Foster emerges as Lyme spokesperson
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We are very grateful to Lymedisease.org for all it does for Lyme education, and to everyone out there that is fighting this horrible nightmare. keep on your treatment plan, it works! Just give it time! Thanks to all LLMD’s!