Lyme Disease at 46.9 cases / 100,000 in New Hampshire

My name is Mimi Segal. I have been assigned by the NatCapLyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association to be the point person for your organization to help coordinate efforts to support the Congressional Briefing on Lyme Disease. I am reachable by email or phone at your convenience. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me.

We look forward to working together.

Mimi Segal
301-948-7272
301-980-6788 (cell)
MVosburgh1@aol.com

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Lyme Briefing for Congress on September 24
We Need Your Help!!
What we are doing

Our community has an historic opportunity to brief Congress on Lyme disease. With the help of Senators Dodd and Lieberman, the National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association has a luncheon briefing scheduled in the Senate Russell Office Building on September 24. All members of Congress are invited. Speakers will feature Andy Wilson, director of Under Our Skin, and Pamela Weintraub, author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic. Clips from Under Our Skin will be shown.
How you can help

¶¶INVITE your Senators and Congressmen:
· Find your members at http://www.congress.org by zip code.
· Telephone, email, write a letter, or best of all, schedule to meet with them in person in their home district office while they are home on recess in August.
· Ask them to attend the briefing. If they cannot attend, request they send their senior staff. Congressmen are the most responsive to requests from their own constituents.
Your voice is vital to success! Attached is a point paper to aid you in your discussion.
¶¶DONATE:
· Sponsors are needed to provide the book Cure Unknown and the full length DVD of Under Our Skin to all 535 members of Congress.
· You can even include a personal note to your own congressman! Make a tax-deductible donation and submit your personal message at http://www.NatCapLyme.org/congressbriefing Or, you can send your donation and note to NatCapLyme by mail to our PO Box.
· Within days you will be able to make your contribution and send your message on-line. We need donations by Aug. 30. It will cost $17,000 to provide copies to all members of Congress.
NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL!
Why it’s important
It has been over fifteen years since the US Congress has investigated Lyme disease, its diagnosis, treatment, and the issues surrounding its late-stage form. Every two years a new congress is form ed. Lyme disease bills have been introduced repeatedly, but none has resulted in action. We wish to raise awareness and request a new congressional hearing so that our legislators can facilitate unbiased research. To quote Pam Weintraub in Cure Unknown, “…if we are ever to unravel the mysteries of Lyme disease and find a cure, it is science—pure and unadulterated—that will lead us home.”
The release of the documentary film Under and Skin the book Cure Unknown present the Lyme community with an unprecedented opportunity to educate our federal elected officials about the disease and the incredible toll it takes in human suffering.
Let’s all work together toward this important goal that will benefit everyone affected by Lyme and Tick-Borne disease.
Here are links to the Film and the Book
http://www.underourskin.com/

Here’s the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWgS0XLVqw

Here’s a longer clip:
http://snagfilms.com/films/title/under_our_skin/

Cure Unknown: The Lyme Epidemic
http://www.cureunknown.com

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National Capital Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Association
natcaplyme@natcaplyme.org
http://www.natcaplyme.org
Phone & fax: 703-821-8833
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Any information provided is for the reader’s own evaluation and is not offered as and should not be considered medical advice. A licensed physician should always be consulted when considering medical decisions and nothing herein may be used in place of advice from your personal physician or other healthcare professional. Links to other sites are provided for ease of research only. Information on those sites is the product of the website author and represents the opinion of those who publish the sites and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or judgment of the National Capital Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Association

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There are some steps that you can take to help drive ticks and mice that carry them out of your yard, and now is the time to get busy.
Any of these steps in any combination will help the situation. I found step one to be the most immediately effective, though.
Step 1. Spray with garlic spray. Garlic spray is available on the web or you can make it yourself. It was very effective for me last summer after I got bit. I had been carrying 2-3 ticks/week into the house from my yard. After two sprayings 3 weeks apart I only saw two ticks the rest of the summer. Start at the periphery of your house and spray toward the outside of the yard, all bushes and the undersides of leaves overhead and your grass. It may cause spots on the petals of certain flowers. Then tell your neighbors, because you will probably be driving the ticks to their property. One bottle of Mosquito Barrier lasted me and my little quarter acre all summer. You can also use permethrin, but I think the garlic is safer. You can also plant garlic as an added protection. Continue spraying throuout the summer, on dry days about every 2-4 weeks.
Step 2. Use tick tubes. Damminix makes them. They contain cotton soaked with permethrin. The mice take the cotton for their nests and then the ticks don’t bite the mice, or die when they do. I hear that cotton soaked with peppermint oil works to drive the mice away entirely. The tick tubes I placed in my shed in June were completely empty in September and I found the nest that had been made with them.
Step 3. Treat the deer. The feeding stations with insecticide rollers for the deer antlers are very expensive but effective. I couldn’t afford a feeding station. What you can do is go to a feed store and buy some feed corn and a tube of ivermectin which is a horse wormer. I have about 3 deer in the back, maybe, I only see their tracks. so I mixed enough ivermectin for 250 lbs of deer with about 5 lbs of feed corn and set it out in a flower pot where I see tracks. I do this spring and fall. I’m kind of guessing but it’s better than nothing. The deer eat the corn (I hope) and ivermectin in their system will kill the ticks that bite, I hope.
All of this makes great gifts for your friends and family who live near deer.
It’s too bad the wildlife management people don’t do more for the deer.

The Harman Woods News is at http://therealharmanwoodsnews.blogspot.com.
LYME DISEASE IS PREVENTABLE!
Protect your yard. Spray with garlic. Use Tick tubes. Treat deer.
Elizabeth Rudd Greene
http://lymeaidfoundation.pledgepage.org/

JD, LCSW-C
Home and Hospital Teacher

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