[IllinoisLyme] Action Alert!

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IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

During an antitrust investigation of the IDSA guidelines development process for

the 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines, AG Blumenthal's office uncovered

significant procedural deficiencies, including conflicts of interests of the

panel members. A settlement was reached and the IDSA is breaching it.

The IDSA is manipulating the voting process to favor NO change in the

guidelines. The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that they redo the

vote in compliance with the agreement.

Action Needed - If You Live in CT

If you live in CT, please email and thank Blumenthal for investigating

the IDSA and for enforcing the settlement agreement. Our health is at risk and

we thank him for trying to protect it. Your letter might read: " I want to thank

you for investigating the IDSA and for enforcing the settlement agreement.

Patients with Lyme rely on your broad-shoulders! " Your subject line should

read: " IDSA Lyme Disease Guidelines. "

Contact CT Attorney General Blumenthal.

attorney.general@...

Action Needed - If You Live Outside CT

If you live outside of CT, call your own state Attorney General (AG). Let your

state AG's office know that the IDSA is trying to go around the rules set in AG

Blumenthal's settlement agreement.

For contact information on your Attorney General, click on your state on the

left hand menu in the link below.

http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php

Ask your AG's office to show public support for AG Blumenthal's enforcement of

the Settlement Agreement. The IDSA is a powerful group that mainstream medicine

looks to for recommendations. Let your AG know that this agreement developed by

the CT AG is important to your health.

Sample Phone Blurb

I am calling today because an injustice is being done to Lyme patients

throughout the country, and you are in a position to rectify this wrong. The

IDSA was found to have conflicts of interest with its 2006 Lyme disease

guidelines. Now we find that the IDSA is manipulating the voting process to

favor no change in the guidelines in violation of the antitrust Settlement

Agreement.

The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that IDSA redo the vote in

compliance with the agreement. Please show your public support for enforcement

of the antitrust settlement agreement and contact CT AG Blumenthal to

help keep the IDSA honest and non-biased in their pursuit of Lyme disease

guidelines.

For more information and to download a pdf to send to your Attorney General's

office, please visit www.lymepolicywonk.org.

Our health is at risk and the IDSA is playing games with it!

Phyllis Mervine

CALDA

www.lymedisease.org

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