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United Animal Nations invites you to join an exciting new community-based literacy program: the Humane Education Ambassador Readers (HEAR). The HEAR program helps children explore the human-animal bond through stories and discussion. HEAR volunteers read to children in schools, bookstores, camps, libraries, after-school programs and other settings, then lead discussions using professionally developed Discussion and Activity Guides that comport with curriculum standards. If you like reading to children and care about animals and want to promote compassion and kindness, consider joining our HEAR volunteer corps!
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We, the undersigned, would like to make a call to the Health Protection Agency to make Lyme Disease a notifiable illness. Our reason for this recommendation is that there is little support and knowledge available to Lyme disease patients. Some people have been infected overseas and some have been infected here in Ireland and the overwhelming response from talking to these patients is that there is little recognition among the medical community on the best way to diagnose and treat the disease. This leaves many patients having to seek advice by private means, often abroad which places an added burden on people who already ill.
Due to the large farming community found in Ireland and also the attraction of Ireland's beautiful land and seascapes to overseas visitors, we need to do more to raise awareness and protection. By making Lyme disease notifiable we could be placing greater importance on quicker and more reliable diagnosis amongst the medical population and help prevent any ever deepening health and financial (due to ill health) crisis.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
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What is Lyme Disease? Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness transmitted through the bite of a tick. Symptoms in the early stages of the disease can include a bulls eye rash, flu-symptoms and a fever. If you notice these symptoms go to your GP without delay and explain that you were bitten by a tick. Some patients may remain asymptomatic and carry the disease for a number of years symptom free. However late stage Lyme disease can crop up years later with debilitating symptoms, including profound fatigue, tremours, weakness, dizziness, nausea, joint & muscle pain, sore throats, tingling, brain fog and headaches. The symptoms greatly mimic those of ME, MS & Parkinson's Disease.
The best form of treatment is through antibiotics. The longer you have been infected the harder it is to eradicate. This is why we are call for quicker recognition and treatment of the disease.
Please sign the petition below to help us make Lyme Disease notifiable in Ireland - thank you!
For more information check out our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44960753282
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Due to the large farming community found in Ireland and also the attraction of Ireland's beautiful land and seascapes to overseas visitors, we need to do more to raise awareness and protection. By making Lyme disease notifiable we could be placing greater importance on quicker and more reliable diagnosis amongst the medical population and help prevent any ever deepening health and financial (due to ill health) crisis.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
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What is Lyme Disease? Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness transmitted through the bite of a tick. Symptoms in the early stages of the disease can include a bulls eye rash, flu-symptoms and a fever. If you notice these symptoms go to your GP without delay and explain that you were bitten by a tick. Some patients may remain asymptomatic and carry the disease for a number of years symptom free. However late stage Lyme disease can crop up years later with debilitating symptoms, including profound fatigue, tremours, weakness, dizziness, nausea, joint & muscle pain, sore throats, tingling, brain fog and headaches. The symptoms greatly mimic those of ME, MS & Parkinson's Disease.
The best form of treatment is through antibiotics. The longer you have been infected the harder it is to eradicate. This is why we are call for quicker recognition and treatment of the disease.
Please sign the petition below to help us make Lyme Disease notifiable in Ireland - thank you!
For more information check out our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44960753282
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under the last term and a half we have watched the governors office become more corrupt and irresponsible. from too many raises, too abuse of privilege. She has only taken care of her own special interests. we are loosing business' and the youth that is our future in ct. the greatest observance of this is when she is raising the budget of the governors mansion, for remodeling when the state of CT's budget is in the Red and when she wants to cut important services such as Lifestar emergency helicoptor service. We need change to bring us into the future not greed and irresponsibility that is destroying this beautiful state
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