International Day Against Lyme Disease goes through Lyon

This Saturday, many gatherings are scheduled all over France, as part of an international movement that denounces the denial of the Lyme patients. This will be the case in Lyon, where the badociations have chosen to call for a human chain with a green ribbon, their symbol.

Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, affects 27,000 people every year in France. It is an infection caused by a bacterium transmitted during a tick bite. The infection is often without symptoms. However, it can cause a sometimes disabling disease (lasting joint pain, partial paralysis of the limbs …).

Raise awareness and protest

Raising awareness and protesting are the two goals of the International Day Against Lyme Disease. Raising awareness about prevention: ticks in forests, gardens and fields can contaminate walkers and anyone in contact with nature.

France Lyme, the badociation against vector-borne tick diseases, also wishes to express a strong protest by denouncing the inadequacy of diagnostic tests for tick-borne diseases, as well as serious research on these pathologies. The following report illustrates this delay taken by scientific research for lack of funding.