Putting disease in the Lyme light

The Intelligencer - Doylestown, PA
A local state senator hopes new attention to Lyme disease might help get one of his bills passed.

Sen. Stewart Greenleaf has introduced the Lyme Disease Education Prevention and Treatment Act each legislative session for more than 10 years, he said this week. Committee leadership has never called it up for a vote.

“I don’t know why they haven’t moved it. It’s not like it’s a big ticket item,” said the senator, who represents eastern Montgomery County and part of Bucks. “I think we just have to educate them to the importance of this.”

This session, which starts in September, might be the time to do it. (more…)