This article was in the main Norwegian newspapers: The most experienced Lyme doctor in the US has been to Norway, as well as France, to talk to health officials about the Lyme pandemic
One of America's foremost ticks doctors urge Norwegian health authorities to familiarize themselves with new statistics and new international research, before they throw seriously ill patients in suspense.
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10151294
"I have one prayer to the Norwegian Board of Health and the health authorities. Wait to make decisions before you have set you thoroughly enough into research and heard the other side of the issue," said Dr. Richard Horowitz, who is director of the Hudson Valley Healing Art Center in New York, USA. American doctor representing the same side in Lyme disease debate, which Luneng do. He believes the disease is underdiagnosed and that chronic Lyme disease should be treated with prolonged antibiotics. - Of course we are following the latest in Lyme disease research. We have considered international guidelines. At the same time the Swedish authorities began work on reviewing the recommendations and knowledge about the use of antibiotics and lab tests, says Jon-Torgeir Lunke, head of the department of public health in the Health Directorate. complex disease - Lyme disease is not one bacterium, it has 300 different variations. A tick bite can carry both bacteria, parasites and viruses. It can provide numerous additional infections and inflammation. It hides in the body and can survive for long.
It is important that the Norwegian health authorities put into it, the doctor says to VG. , he stressed that very few suffer from severe, chronic Lyme disease, and that he would like to come to Norway and meet the Minister of Health to share their expertise. Epidemic Horowitz is the founder of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society , and has treated 11,000 patients with Lyme disease symptoms throughout his 26 years long career. Now he throws himself into ticks debate in Norway. - Norway, in line with the United States, have an epidemic of Lyme disease. In the U.S. authorities revealed that ten times more than expected affected by the disease annually, he said. During the international borreliosis conference at Harvard Medical School 18 August let the American Institute of Public Health (CDC)presented analysis estimates that 300,000 Americans will be diagnosed with Lyme disease annually. - This gives us a clearer picture and it is not a pleasant one, says Dr. Paul Mead, the scientist who heads the CDC's Lyme disease surveillance. -
One of America's foremost ticks doctors urge Norwegian health authorities to familiarize themselves with new statistics and new international research, before they throw seriously ill patients in suspense.
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10151294
"I have one prayer to the Norwegian Board of Health and the health authorities. Wait to make decisions before you have set you thoroughly enough into research and heard the other side of the issue," said Dr. Richard Horowitz, who is director of the Hudson Valley Healing Art Center in New York, USA. American doctor representing the same side in Lyme disease debate, which Luneng do. He believes the disease is underdiagnosed and that chronic Lyme disease should be treated with prolonged antibiotics. - Of course we are following the latest in Lyme disease research. We have considered international guidelines. At the same time the Swedish authorities began work on reviewing the recommendations and knowledge about the use of antibiotics and lab tests, says Jon-Torgeir Lunke, head of the department of public health in the Health Directorate. complex disease - Lyme disease is not one bacterium, it has 300 different variations. A tick bite can carry both bacteria, parasites and viruses. It can provide numerous additional infections and inflammation. It hides in the body and can survive for long.
It is important that the Norwegian health authorities put into it, the doctor says to VG. , he stressed that very few suffer from severe, chronic Lyme disease, and that he would like to come to Norway and meet the Minister of Health to share their expertise. Epidemic Horowitz is the founder of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society , and has treated 11,000 patients with Lyme disease symptoms throughout his 26 years long career. Now he throws himself into ticks debate in Norway. - Norway, in line with the United States, have an epidemic of Lyme disease. In the U.S. authorities revealed that ten times more than expected affected by the disease annually, he said. During the international borreliosis conference at Harvard Medical School 18 August let the American Institute of Public Health (CDC)presented analysis estimates that 300,000 Americans will be diagnosed with Lyme disease annually. - This gives us a clearer picture and it is not a pleasant one, says Dr. Paul Mead, the scientist who heads the CDC's Lyme disease surveillance. -
