A SYDNEY woman will launch a class action against New South Wales health authorities after autopsy results showed her husband was riddled with a disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia.

The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Many doctors are concerned with the potential dangers associated with the prolonged and intensive use of oral and intravenous antibiotics (the recommended treatment for chronic Lyme disease), such as blood clots and life threatening infections. A new study attempts to determine how often chronic Lyme disease is actually being diagnosed and treated.

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in North America, and the number of reported cases has been steadily climbing over the last decade.

I’m not going to cry a tear for suburban homeowners who pay through the nose every year for new landscape plantings that are destined to become salad bars for white-tail deer.