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The Health and Human Services Department recently kicked off market research to inform an ambitious, multimillion-dollar effort to spur rapid breakthroughs against Lyme disease, a common tick-borne illness that can upend lives.
“With 30-plus years of the funding for Lyme and everything not going up much but the cases increasing a lot patients have looked at it as the government is ignoring them, and denying their suffering. And it s just been really antagonistic,” HHS Chief Data Scientist Kristen Honey told
Nextgov this week. “Usually when there s political or scientific controversy like that, it means we need more data. We need more information, more science and science will be our way out.”
Center for Lyme Action Honors Leaders at Annual Meeting
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Center for Lyme Action, the leading nonprofit dedicated to growing federal funding for Lyme disease, honored Members of Congress, current and former administration officials, and Lyme community leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary support in the push to cure Lyme Disease – the most prevalent vector-borne illness and the most prevalent tick-borne illness in the United States, with nearly a half million new cases estimated each year. Lyme is a frustrating and debilitating disease, but it s a problem we can solve, said Bonnie Crater, co-founder of the Center for Lyme Action. Our award recipients have demonstrated extraordinary leadership in finding a cure and we are honored to have them as long-term partners in this important fight.