May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Support a Lymie, wear a lime-green ribbon.

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Hello everyone,

It is time another one of my " oh my God " the sky is falling " informative "

emails.

Please bear with me, the information here could literally save your life.

There are THREE topics for major concern;

You may not be aware that Lyme and it's co-infections are affecting your

life yet, but I believe everyone is being or will be affected by these

infectious diseases sooner or later. Maybe yourself, a loved one, a

neighbor...

MS, lupus, Epstein Barr, child onset leukemia, ulcers, fibromyalgia,

rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome have been recognized as

infectious diseases and are being treated with antibiotics. ( the list

grows..)

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May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

Support a Lymie, wear a lime-green ribbon.

1.

This note is from members of a lyme activists group I participate in.

I send this your way only as information. The struggle for our doctors is no

where near over.

Anyway, if you have a buck to send to this doc, (who I have met and seen

lecture, he is really a special man) please do. If you don't, do not get the

guilts.

Dr. Horowitz Legal Defense Fund

As many of you who have been involved in our recent letter writing

campaign to the NYS legislature are aware, DR. Horowitz is one

of the doctors who has been and is still being harassed by the New York

State OPMC. He has spent two years being investigated by the OPMC and

has recently been charged and is awaiting a hearing.

During this period he has required the services of an attorney for which

he has had to pay for from his own resources since his insurance does

not cover this situation. As a result, Dr. Horowitz is in need of a

Legal Defense Fund. It is essential that we help him win his case. He is

an excellent LLMD and we cannot afford to lose him.

Dr. Horowitz is our own LLMD and we have enormous

respect for and gratitude toward him. Many of you who have not been

treated by him may have benefited from his commitment to helping Lyme

patients. He was one of the first to look into the potential impact of

coinfections on the treatment of Lyme patients. He has the commitment,

caring and intelligence that we should expect from physicians but rarely

see. It is precisely this commitment to treat patients rather than

salute an archaic treatment protocol that has brought him to this

predicament.

In addition, it is essential that we support those LLMD's that have been

willing to stick with us. If Dr. Horowitz goes down, then the door is

open for all the others to be harassed out of practice. We will have no

one to treat us.

Please send a contribution to: Dr. Horowitz

Hudson Valley Healing Arts

Center

4232 Albany Post Road

Hyde Park, NY 12538

Make checks payable to Horowitz, MD, with a notation on

the check 'Legal Defense Fund'

Ellen and Jill <<<

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

Support a Lymie, wear a lime-green ribbon.

Join FAIM, they are fighting for our doctors rights.

http://www.faim.org/edmission.htm

2.

You will be inundated with messages from Kline Beecham and the ALDF to

take the Lymrix vaccine. 30% of the initial trial participants have a class

action suit against SKB for auto-immune disease cause from the vaccine.

DO NOT HAVE THIS VACCINE!

This link takes you to an audio that was on WBUR our local NPR station in

which the lawyer and a very famous researcher/ clinician/ teacher who

specializes in lyme disease speak out about the vaccine.

>>>FridayMay 5th, 2000

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/archive/2000/05/hn_archive_0505.shtml

Lyme Disease

It's tick season in New England and health officials predict the parasites

will be out in abundance this year. Most ticks are fairly harmless, but deer

ticks, smaller and harder to detect then other tick species, can spread Lyme

Disease which causes fever, aches, joint pain and other more serious

symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the incidence

of Lyme Disease climbed by 70% between 1992 and 1998 mostly in

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and other Northeastern states.

Last year a new vaccine for Lyme Disease, " Limerix, " was made available to

the public. But questions about its safety and effectiveness continue to

surface. Recently, two lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against

Klein Beecham, the maker of the vaccine, claiming that it can cause symptoms

worse than the disease itself.

We speak to one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, Sheller of

Sheller, Ludwig and Badey in Philadelphia. We also speak to Dr. Sam Donta,

Director of the Lyme Disease Unit with the Boston University School of

Medicine. Mr. Scheller raises some serious concerns about the Lyme vaccine.

Listen to the complete show<<<

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May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

Support a Lymie, wear a lime-green ribbon.

3.

There is again a push in the political arena to stop overuse of antibiotics

in patients. This is a great idea, however, I think it is MUCH more

important to stop the abuses of antibiotics in our food chain. Our

watersheds are polluted with antibiotics that have run off from animal waste

on farms feeding animals large doses of the medications as a preventative,

as a way to keep the animals from getting infection, rather than as a remedy

for acquired infection. These antibiotics are also consumed when we eat

these animal products (meat, milk, eggs, cheese, etc.) allowing terrific

opportunity for the bacterium to mutate from species to species and to build

resistance to antibiotics.

Mad cow disease is caused from feeding cows sheep remains, (don't ask me why

this was considered, cows like grass... I have never seen a cow hunting a

sheep, or any other mobile food source...) allowing scrapie (a bacteria

found on the skin and in sheep) to enter the intestines of cows (allowing

cross species mutation) where it meets with antibiotics which may or may not

be effective in killing it (allowing it to become antibiotic resistant) and

then fed to people who may or may not be able to be treated effectively

because they have consumed a now mutated, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and

can die or be permanently mentally disabled.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madcow/resources.html

http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/%7Ejbrown/madcow.html

http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/ansci/g02075.htm

http://www.madcowboy.com/excerpt.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/germs.htm

Please spend some time with this info.

Pass it on.

Love and freedom to all,

Kay

AMAZING P.S.!! Meredith is experiencing a MIRACULOUS recovery!