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Melody P. Sutherland, Deacon www.christchurchkentisland.org Lee E. Murray QUEEN ANNE Lee E. Murray of Queen Anne died on at Genesis Health Care-The Pines.She was 67. Born in New York on June was the daughter of the late Joseph E.and Louise Kidwell Johnston.

Her career was that of dog grooming and breeding and tropical pets.She was the original owner and operator of the Grooming and Fish Place in Stevensville. She was a member of the Talbot County Kennel Club. Mrs.Murray is survived by a Johnston of Queen Anne and her cousins, step-daughters-in-law, brother, and many close family and friends. A Celebration of Life calling hour will be held from 5 to 6 p.m.Wednesday at and Newnam Funeral Home in Easton. In lieu of donations may be made to the Talbot County Humane the Talbot County Kennel 257, your favorite charity.

obituary By STEVE NERY Staff Writer Nearly 400 more than 40 from a bus that departed from Easton, protested the Infectious Disease Society of new Lyme disease diagnostic and treatment guidelines outside of a New York hospital on Nov. 30. The IDSA released its new guidelines in October and has since come under fire from patient-advocate groups such as the Lyme Disease Association (LDA)and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS). Unless a IDSA still recommends blood testing, which has been proven ineffective in various studies. Long-suffering Lyme disease patients also charge the new guidelines essentially deny that Lyme exists, and prevents them from being treated.

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria mitted through tick bites. Three of the guideline authors lead author Gary Dattwyler and Robert Nadelman all work at the Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical the protesters picketed outside for three hours. The crowd included people from and Lucy of the Lyme Disease Education and Support Groups of Maryland. More than 40 of the of them with Lyme disease-related on a bus originating in Easton and stopping in Centreville, by the New Jersey Turnpike. The trip from Easton and back took 12 said.

The group included Maryland Douglas W. author of Disease and Associated Disease said. A Talbot County patient also called her at the last minute to get a just come from a appointment and denied treatment because of the new IDSA noted. LDA President Pat Smith and ILADS guidelines author Dr.Joseph Burrascano spoke at the protest. The protesters created a 14-foot-long memorial with hundreds of names of people who died from Lyme said.

Patients who could not come called the hospital from across the country all day long and told their Lyme stories and their dissatisfaction with the three said. Lyme disease patients also received the support from a group of congressmen, including Rep.Wayne T. last week sent a letter to the Centers of Disease Control questioning their implicit support of the IDSA guidelines.The CDC posted a link to the IDSA guidelines on its Web site, but did not include information about the ILADS address chronic Lyme disease. In the to CDC Director Dr.Julie Louise congressmen are concerned that these guidelines have the potential to effectively shut down all treatment for chronic Lyme The authors critiqued the IDSA position that only the bullseye rash is enough for a clinical diagnosis. seems a remarkably broad restriction since there is currently no commercially viable or available gold standard for the diagnosis of Lyme the letter reads.

Less than half of all infected people recall the tick to ILADS, and more than half never develop the bullseye rash. The new congressmen to ensure that no physicians treat chronic Lyme disease and that many patients are denied access to The IDSA guidelines state that a few weeks of antibiotics produces a highly favorable outcome and urge doctors not to administer alternative treatments. Lyme support groups favor treatment taken on a case- by-case basis. Photo courtesy of LUCY BARNES Lyme disease patients protest the new IDSA guidelines outside of Westchester General Hospital. Debate concerning Lyme disease goes on.