WHAT IS LYME DISEASE?
TICK BITE PREVENTION
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme like illness for many Australian patients
On 12 November 2015, the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report:
The growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme‑like illness for many Australian patients.
Health Department Chronic Disease Enquiry
Karl McManus Foundation participated in the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health roundtable on Lyme Disease. Listen to the Lyme Disease roundtable held in Sydney as part of the enquiry into Chronic disease prevention and management in primary health care.
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
on Lyme Disease in Australia
Professor Chris Baggoley, AO has advised that:
The department remains concerned about many Australians suffering a chronic debilitating illness which they associate with a tick bite. "My colleagues and I have closely followed the research being undertaken in Australia, in particular keeping a watchful eye on that being undertaken at Murdoch University and Sydney University."
Read the full text: Chief Medical Officer Progress Report on Lyme disease - August 2015
That report provides the following guideline: Australian guideline on the diagnosis of overseas acquired Lyme disease borreliosis
AAA Lyme Disease Research
Accurate, Authoritative and Authentic Australian Lyme Disease Research is needed to identify the causative agents and present undisputable facts to the myriad of interested parties.
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Research is needed to identify the causative agents and present undisputable facts to the myriad of interested parties. As public awareness grows the various levels of Government and members of the medical profession are slow to respond to the possibility of Lyme Disease in Australia. While the research will show Borrelia Burgdorferi to be the culprit that is no reason to let the semantics of "Lyme Disease" delay the inevitable. The Medical Association of Australia recognised experts have failed to resolve the suggestion of endemic Lyme Disease in Australia waiting for the Research Proves what species Australia really challenges Australia.
There remaing the question about diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease acquired overseas. those suffers still find it difficult, if not impossible to get adequate diagnosis or treatment.
None the less the few Doctors that can and do recognise and treat Lyme Like Illness are grossly under resourced and in heavy demand.
In Australia A Lyme Disease suffer could be diagnosed with Attention deficit disorder (ADD), Bell's palsy, Bipolar, Brain tumour, Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Chronic pain disorder, Colitis, Crohn’s disease, Depression, Diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Eczema, Encephalitis, Fatigue, Fever, Fibromyalgia, Fifth’s disease, Flea bite, Flu-like symptoms, Gastroesophageal Reflux disease, Headache, Hives, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Infectious arthritis, Insect bite, Interstitial cysts, Irritable bowel syndrome, Juvenile arthritis, Lupus, Ménière's syndrome, Meningitis, Migraine headache, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease, Peripheral neuropathy, Poison ivy, Prostatitis, Psoriatic arthritis, Psychiatric disorders, Raynaud’s syndrome, Reactive arthritis, Relapsing fever, Rheumatoid arthritis, Scleroderma, Sjögren's syndrome, Sleep disorders, Sunburn, Stiff neck, Thyroid disease, Thyroid disorders, Vitamin B12 deficiency. These are just a few of the diagnosis that Borreliosis or The Australian Lyme Like Illness can present as.
This is why Australian research into Lyme Disease and Lyme Like Illness needs funds to determine the causative agents and promulgate proper diagnosis.
The research must identify the causative agents of Lyme Disease in Australia. Lyme Disease Association with Ticks and other vectors must be resolved.