- "The autopsy of Mr. McManus indicated that he had
bacteria from Lyme disease in his liver, heart, kidney and lungs."
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- Hello Jeff - For the pathogen to have gone that far,
i.e. to riddle his liver, heart, kidney and lungs, this indicates to me
that Mr. McManus' doctors were not treating him for lyme with antibiotics.
How can NSW Health authorities claim that Lyme Disease does not exist
in Australia? These officials refuse to see the truth - Lyme Disease
has made its way to Australia.
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- Patty
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- Widow Of Lyme Victim To Sue NSW Hospital
- By Kate Benson
- HEALTH
- 9-3-10
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- A SYDNEY woman will launch a class action against NSW
Health after autopsy results showed her husband had been riddled with a
disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia.
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- Karl McManus, 44, died in July after being bitten by
a tick while filming the television show Home and Away in Sydney. The autopsy
indicated he had bacteria from Lyme disease in his liver, heart, kidney
and lungs.
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- Samples from his organs, which were tested at the Sydney
laboratory Australian Biologics, will be sent to the University of Sydney
and to laboratories in the United States for more testing. ''If there is
duplication of results, the government cannot dispute [that Lyme exists
in Australia],'' his wife, Mualla Akinci, said.
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- Mr McManus, from Turramurra, was diagnosed with multifocal
neuropathy after testing negative at an Australian laboratory for Lyme
disease, but tests carried out in the US and Germany returned positive
results. NSW Health maintains that the organisms which cause Lyme disease
- three species of the genus Borrelia - are not carried here by wildlife,
livestock or their parasites.
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- It says that anyone suffering from the illness must have
caught it overseas, but Ms Akinci is adamant Mr McManus was bitten by a
Lyme-infested tick in Waratah Park, home of the TV show Skippy, the Bush
Kangaroo.
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- Ms Akinci has the support of two sufferers, and hopes
more people will join the class action.
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- She also plans to sue Hornsby Hospital where her husband
was treated before his death, and will appeal a decision by the Health
Care Complaints Commission not to investigate his treatment while at the
hospital.
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- http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/widow-of-lyme-disease-victim-t
o-sue-nsw-health-20100902-14rpn.html
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also
my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai
sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
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