Shouldn’t everyone be entitled to medical care if they are ill? Lyme Disease patients in Australia are denied the treatment they deserve because the Australian Government refuses to believe that the disease exists in Australia. Lyme Disease is the fastest growing tick borne illness in the world and is transferred through a tick bite from a tick infected with the disease, creating a bullseye shaped rash but can also be transferred from mother to child in the womb. If left untreated, which is common in Australia as its victims are refused treatment, this disease becomes chronic and can cause symptoms such as memory loss, chronic fatigue, severe muscle aches and pains, seizures, migraines, facial paralysis, vision and hearing problems, digestive
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In 1980, a man was bitten by an unidentified insect in NSW, and his resulting symptoms were described as “classical features of Lyme arthritis”. There was also mention of 6 cases of bullseye rashes diagnosed by local dermatologists. 1986 In a letter to the Medical Journal of Australia, the cases of two people on the NSW South Coast were described. The patients experienced bullseye rashes – one of them also reported additional symptoms such as lethargy, a common Lyme symptom. Both were treated for Lyme disease and subsequently reported no further issues. 1991, another letter says that a study was done on ticks in Australia. 42% of the ticks and their animal hosts were tested positive for Lyme. The letter also assert more than a dozen Australians in Sydney and in the Hunter Valley have acquired Lyme disease. In addition, it found 70 of 167 of Australian ticks were positive for Lyme. In 2011, patients reporting symptoms of Lyme and co-infections were tested and 55% tested positive for Lyme, while the others tested positive for its co-infections, 32% for Babesia, 22% for Bartonella and 16% for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Patients included an individual who, despite testing positive for Lyme, had never left Queensland in their life. There are an abundance of cases where an Australian patient is told that they do not have Lyme disease but then send their blood to America where it is then
In 1980, a man was bitten by an unidentified insect in NSW, and his resulting symptoms were described as “classical features of Lyme arthritis”. There was also mention of 6 cases of bullseye rashes diagnosed by local dermatologists. 1986 In a letter to the Medical Journal of Australia, the cases of two people on the NSW South Coast were described. The patients experienced bullseye rashes – one of them also reported additional symptoms such as lethargy, a common Lyme symptom. Both were treated for Lyme disease and subsequently reported no further issues. 1991, another letter says that a study was done on ticks in Australia. 42% of the ticks and their animal hosts were tested positive for Lyme. The letter also assert more than a dozen Australians in Sydney and in the Hunter Valley have acquired Lyme disease. In addition, it found 70 of 167 of Australian ticks were positive for Lyme. In 2011, patients reporting symptoms of Lyme and co-infections were tested and 55% tested positive for Lyme, while the others tested positive for its co-infections, 32% for Babesia, 22% for Bartonella and 16% for Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Patients included an individual who, despite testing positive for Lyme, had never left Queensland in their life. There are an abundance of cases where an Australian patient is told that they do not have Lyme disease but then send their blood to America where it is then