Ontkenning van het bestaan van de ziekte van Lyme in Australië

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Lyme disease: Australians 'being treated worse than a dog riddled with mange', Senator John Madigan says

Door: Andy Park en Amy Sherden
Uit: ABC News

11 Jan 2016

Independent senator John Madigan has come out firing over the treatment of Australians suffering with Lyme disease.

The existence of Lyme disease or diseases caused by the borreliosis bacteria in Australia has long been debated.

As it stands, health authorities deny the existence of the tick-borne disease on Australia's shores and doctors have faced disciplinary action for treating it.

"We've got doctors in this country that genuinely believe that these people are suffering from Lyme disease or Lyme-like symptoms," Senator Madigan told.

"And you can't get any help, you can't get any respite, you can't get cured with the efforts [doctors] are using.

"These are genuine Australians who are being treated worse than a dog riddled with mange."

A Senate inquiry will investigate the existence of the controversial disease as well as the treatment of patients at the hands of medical professionals.

Marie Huttley-Jackson said she was dismissed by multiple GPs before her eight-year-old daughter, Genevieve, was diagnosed with Lyme-like symptoms.

"We had 23 different doctors and 20 months of searching before we found out what was wrong," Ms Huttley-Jackson said.

"We were pretty devastated by that but we're pretty tough and we were not going to roll over and take that because we knew that wasn't right."

'Not enough evidence to conclude Lyme disease in Australia'

Genevieve's treating doctor Peter Dobie said that he now feels more confident in discussing his treatment of patients with Lyme disease since the announcement of the Senate inquiry.

"Currently I'm treating approximately 150 patients with borreliosis," he said.

"I'm certainly concerned, I think all doctors treating this illness are concerned about possible disciplinary action but I feel a moral obligation to treat these patients and I will continue to treat them to the best of my ability."

Despite growing public awareness of the debate, infectious disease expert Dr Peter Collignon said there was not enough good evidence to conclude that Lyme disease was in Australia.

"All the evidence at the moment is that, despite people looking, we don't have the classical form of Lyme disease in Australia, as is the one in Europe and the US," he said.

Het is in Nederland al slecht gesteld met de diagnose lyme, maar ik geloof dat het in Australië nog erger is.

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Lijkt wel op Nederland.

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Lijkt wel op Nederland.

Ik geloof dat Australië de ixodes ricinus teek mist en daardoor dat men oppert dat de ziekte van lyme niet zou kunnen bestaan, maar:

http://www.lymeaustralia.com/rhipicepha ... ticks.html

The presence of Lyme disease continues to be denied in Australia due to one study conducted in 1994 and the fact that we don't have any of the first four ticks that were initially identified as vectors of Lyme disease in the Northern hemisphere. As has been outlined in the Transmission and Maintenance section / Tick Vector Table , we do have a number of ticks present in Australia that have since been identified as tick vectors, as well as those involved in maintaining the borrelia cycle. These include ticks from the Rhipicephalus genera, such as the R. sanguineus (Brown Dog Tick) and R. microplus (Cattle Tick; previously Boophilus microplus).
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Rhipicephalus Sanguineus:

Vector competence has not been established with regards to borrelia, although it has been found to harbour borrelia in both America (7) and Europe (8). It is also the suspected vector in Mexico, where a 2008 study in Mexicali, Baja California (a Mexico-US Border City) reported “the existence of B. burgdorferi past/present infection in dogs in an area where the only identified tick is R. sanguineus” (9). This species should be examined both for borrelia species they may carry and vector capabilities.