Future research into Lyme disease and associated tick-borne diseases is needed

Lyme Disease Action advocates that a programme of urgent research be commenced into:

Reliable diagnosis.
Better treatment leading to cure.
Better prevention based both on greater knowledge and greater awareness.

For those patients for whom alleviation of their intense day-to-day suffering is the most immediate concern:

Urgent research is also needed into novel clinical methods to provide better palliative treatments.

Chronic and severe cases especially need help in bringing about real improvement in their quality of life. It is a matter of shame that there is often little real help for victims of active, chronic Lyme disease and associated tick-borne co-infections if also present.

Research is also needed into a fuller understanding of the complex biology of these diseases.

Lyme Disease Action advocates that steps be taken to foster both much needed research and an open, wide-ranging scientific debate in the UK about all the issues surrounding Lyme disease. In addition, Lyme Disease Action holds that taking a view that Lyme disease is rare and easily treatable is unacceptable; ignoring as it does a body of peer-reviewed evidence that indicates the contrary.

Lyme Disease Action is calling upon the Government to urgently bring about a programme of research into all aspects of Lyme disease and associated tick-borne diseases.

(See Requires Government Action)

Related information can be found at the following Links:
Two Standards of care
http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/articles/persistence.htm

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