Lyme disease's spread calls for government action

Lyme disease's spread calls for government action

"Catherine Avalone/The Middletown Press Higganum resident Frank C. Demarest addresses the General Assembly about his son who was too sick to attend school in October 1992. Demarest said, "We were fortunate that we had no insurance problems, although costs exceeded $100,000. There have been great advances in medicine. But Lyme disease has the same problems it had twenty years ago. The lab tests are not a reliable means of excluding a Lyme diagnosis and antibiotics do not easily cure late stage Lyme disease. "

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