Ending Denial
Edited by Helke Ferrie
KOS Publishing, 2010
448 pages
ISBN 978-0-9811337-1-3
Why are Canadian citizens being denied internationally accepted testing and treatment protocols for Lyme disease by Health Canada?
In Ending Denial, Canadian medical science writer Helke Ferrie reveals the utter breakdown of the Canadian health care system's approach to the existence and treatment of chronic Lyme disease. She shares a groundbreaking compilation of evidence: compelling medical journal reports and verifiable scientific research by top Lyme-literate physicians, organizations and research groups along with heartbreaking personal accounts from chronic Lyme disease patients and their families in Canada and the United States.
Lyme disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and misunderstood infectious diseases plaguing North America today. According to the World Health Organization, Lyme disease is the world's fastest-spreading infectious disease. Since 1992, incidences of Lyme disease have increased a hundred-fold in the United States and Europe.
As Ferrie reports, "This illness is caused by the bacterium known as Borrelia burgdoferi...these bacteria, and their related co-infections that invariably travel with them, are transmitted by the bite of an infected tick the size of a pinhead...in humans these bacteria can cause an acute inflammatory disease that can become chronic."
Canada does not recognize or accept the internationally recognized scientific data that states that, each year, the number of new Lyme disease cases outnumber cancer and AIDS diagnoses combined. The disease can be transmitted through blood transfusions yet it is not currently being screened by the Canada Blood Service, which only considers it to be a "theoretical risk" to the blood supply.
Because of this refusal by the Canadian government to recognize the existence of a Lyme disease epidemic in Canada―and the fact that, like syphilis, chronic Lyme is known as "The Great Imitator"―thousands of citizens are being blindly misdiagnosed with a myriad of other debilitating, often incurable diseases.
Physicians who are accepting of and willing to diagnose and/or treat Lyme and its co-infections often find themselves under attack by their peers and face investigation and punishment by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Those few doctors who genuinely understand the plight of their patients risk losing their licences to practice and are shunned by the majority in the medical community.
While Health Canada believes it provides the best testing protocol possible, to the contrary, it does not supply the most effective internationally recognized tests used for diagnosing Lyme disease. As a result, patients are forced to seek testing in the United States and Europe at great financial expense. Many of these men, women and children will begin a long yet often successful road to recovery. Ending Denial includes helpful monographs, that list current tests, treatments and alternative treatments for Lyme disease (not to be used for self-diagnosis).
This invaluable tome should provide hope for anyone who has been previously diagnosed with an incurable disease such as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, autism, Parkinson's, arthritis or any number of other conditions that Lyme imitates.
Ending Denial is a vital and serious call to action for all Canadians to demand the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Canadian Blood Service Agency and Health Canada to lift the shroud of ignorance surrounding the Lyme disease epidemic and its treatments. Our health and human right to access modern, internationally accepted diagnostic and treatment protocols relies on it.
Ending Denial is for sale for $30 at the HANS office (604) 435-0512 or at www.hans.org
****Important Tick Removal Method****
Ticks can cause Lyme disease, an infectious disease on the rise, and no one knows it better than Dr. Ernie Murakami, founder of Dr. E. Murakami Centre for Lyme.
According to Dr. Murakami, who spoke at a HANS event last June, there's a right way, and a wrong way, of doing it. Most people are taught to remove ticks incorrectly, which leaves the tick's head still buried in the skin and capable of causing disease.
This short Youtube video shows how to remove a tick using the doctor's preferred method involving a straw and thread or dental floss:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthAction?feature=mhe...
Christine Barham took the time to thoroughly check herself for ticks after camping this summer.