Rallies To Raise Awareness Of Lyme Disease, Challenge CDC Treatment Guidelines

Rallies To Raise Awareness Of Lyme Disease, Challenge CDC Treatment Guidelines

Dr. Kenneth Liegner believes that Vicki Logan didn’t have to die in 2003 after suffering for 16 years with Lyme disease. That is why the Pawling internist will be rallying with other area residents in Union Square Park in Manhattan on Friday as part of the first annual Worldwide Lyme Disease Awareness Day. A second rally will take place in Albany’s West Capitol Park, among events in 28 countries and 29 states, organizers say. Billed also as a protest, the event hopes to draw attention to several issues, including under-reporting of Lyme disease; treatment guidelines that — wrongly, organizers believe — limit antibiotic doses to 28 days; and the existence of so-called chronic Lyme disease, a diagnosis that health authorities largely reject. Read more.