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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
Read more »
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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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I recently saw a video of a fur farm. I wasn't quite sure what it was but when i saw the video it made me absolutely devastated. It was then when I knew that I wanted to make a difference by helping innocent animals from the prevention of skinning an animal alive for their skin. Many of these animals suffer the excruciating pain by being beat and kicked simply for their fur. Animals are a huge passion of mine and i can only hope that i can make a difference to regress the suffering of animals.
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Please stop the destruction of Indonesia's beautiful forests.....the plants and animals and people/cultures that are being destroyed through deforestation and palm oil plantations took millions of years to evolve into their present beautiful and diverse forms.....many of the trees being felled took hundreds of years to grow.....please stop this madness.
Surely the world will pass laws and ban palm oil and Indonesian forest products if Indonesia does not reduce and/or stop this destruction on their own..... sacred life is being destroyed and surely we in the world who consume palm oil are partially responsible for this horrific destruction.
Southeast Asia's/Indonesia's rainforest are unique in the world and one of the gems of creation. Unfortunately they are quickly being destroyed with short term profit in mind.....surely these profits are soaked in blood.
We the undersigned in this petition hope the governments/people of the world become more aware of what products contain palm oil and stops and/or reduces their consumption of products/foods containing palm oil to stem this destruction not only in Indonesia but in other areas of the world which recklessly destroy large tracts of tropical forest to grow palm oil.
We also call for governments and food retailers of the world to clearly label food products which contain palm oil to show consumers that the products that they are buying were produced by destroying tropical rainforest on a massive scale and to state that the tropical forest destroyed may not ever be restored to it's original diversity and beauty.....or restored at all.....so that we, the concerned citizens of the world can stop consuming palm oil and being party to this orgy of environmental destuction.
We would rather have these beautiful rainforest stay intact on planet earth.....or what's left of these forests.....so that our daughters and sons might possibly be able to visit Indonesia some day and witness the incredible beauty and ancientness of these ecosystems.....but to destroy these forests so that our daughters or sons can eat candy bars made with palm oil truly seems like madness to us.
There are many other foods and fruits which come from tropical forest which grow and can be harvested naturally without destroying the forest.....surely I would buy those products.....even from Indonesia, if they were readily available and packaged as friendly to the rainforests and wildlife and forest people of Indonesia.
We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author and wish for the governments of the world to debate and legislate for better food labelling concerning palm oil content and tropical forest destruction. Read more »
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Surely the world will pass laws and ban palm oil and Indonesian forest products if Indonesia does not reduce and/or stop this destruction on their own..... sacred life is being destroyed and surely we in the world who consume palm oil are partially responsible for this horrific destruction.
Southeast Asia's/Indonesia's rainforest are unique in the world and one of the gems of creation. Unfortunately they are quickly being destroyed with short term profit in mind.....surely these profits are soaked in blood.
We the undersigned in this petition hope the governments/people of the world become more aware of what products contain palm oil and stops and/or reduces their consumption of products/foods containing palm oil to stem this destruction not only in Indonesia but in other areas of the world which recklessly destroy large tracts of tropical forest to grow palm oil.
We also call for governments and food retailers of the world to clearly label food products which contain palm oil to show consumers that the products that they are buying were produced by destroying tropical rainforest on a massive scale and to state that the tropical forest destroyed may not ever be restored to it's original diversity and beauty.....or restored at all.....so that we, the concerned citizens of the world can stop consuming palm oil and being party to this orgy of environmental destuction.
We would rather have these beautiful rainforest stay intact on planet earth.....or what's left of these forests.....so that our daughters and sons might possibly be able to visit Indonesia some day and witness the incredible beauty and ancientness of these ecosystems.....but to destroy these forests so that our daughters or sons can eat candy bars made with palm oil truly seems like madness to us.
There are many other foods and fruits which come from tropical forest which grow and can be harvested naturally without destroying the forest.....surely I would buy those products.....even from Indonesia, if they were readily available and packaged as friendly to the rainforests and wildlife and forest people of Indonesia.
We the undersigned agree with the sentiments of this author and wish for the governments of the world to debate and legislate for better food labelling concerning palm oil content and tropical forest destruction. Read more »
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