Organizations To Avoid
Lucy Barnes
Organizations To AVOID
Below are so-called medical and science related organizations that are lame enough to support the IDSA/CDC's failed approach to diagnosing and treating Lyme disease.
Experts and Lyme patients typically avoid these places for fear of becoming worse by following their recommendations.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Infectious Diseases Society of America
American Academy of Family Physicians
American College of Rheumatology
American Academy of Pediatrics (2014 detailed guidelines)
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF)
Society for Science-based Medicine
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Statement of Australian Scientists
Australian Government Department of Health
Australasian College of Dermatologists
Royal College of Pathologists Australasia
Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
College of Family Physicians of Canada
National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (Canada)
The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (Ireland)
The Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland
The Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists
The Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience
The Irish College of General Practitioners
Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Belgian Antibiotic Policy Coordination Committee (BAPCOC)
Society for Infectious Diseases of the Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně
German Neurological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, 2012
German guidelines, additional warning to the public)
German Dermatology Society (Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft, guideline is the consensus of 22 German medical societies)
National Academy of Medicine France (Académie nationale de médecine, see also 2016-09-20 statement)
French High Council for Public Health (Le Haut Conseil de la santé publique)
Health France (Santé publique France)
The French Infectious Diseases Society (Société de Pathologie Infectieuse de Langue Française)
The French Association for Scientific Information (Association française pour l’information scientifique)
Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Tick-borne Diseases
Norwegian Directorate of Health
Polish Society of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases
Amsterdam Multidisciplinary Lyme Center (Amsterdam Multidisciplinair Lyme Centrum)
Health Council of the Netherlands
Danish Society of Infectious Diseases (Dansk Selskab for Infektionsmedicin)
Danish Neurological Society (Dansk Neurolisk Selskab)
Danish Dansk Selskab for Klinisk Mikrobiologi (Danish Society of Clinical Microbiology)
Swedish Medical Products Agency
Evidence review by scientists in Austria and Slovenia
CREDIT- This list is a product of the "mouth piece" of the IDSA, CDC and the ALDF- Edward McSweegan. These are organizations he recommends, so we want nothing to do with them!
Lucy Barnes