Collegedale Public Library will host Lyme disease documentary May 1st to kick off National Lyme Disease Awareness Month

[Emily]

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/4/22/224453/Showing-Of-Lyme-Disease-Documentary.aspx

Showing Of Lyme Disease Documentary Is May 1
Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Collegedale Public Library will host a community screening of the documentary film Under Our Skin to raise awareness about Lyme disease, a controversial and fast growing epidemic.

May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month. The Tuesday, May 1, event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Collegedale City Hall, West Room, 4910 Swinyar Dr., next door to the Library.

It is free and open to the public.

Interesting interview here

Lyme discoverer Willy Burgdorfer breaks silence on heated controversy

On February 28, 2007, the UNDER OUR SKIN film crew interviewed Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D., M.D., and Scientist Emeritus at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for three hours at his home in Hamilton, Montana. Dr. Burgdorfer is the discoverer and namesake of the spirochete (a type of bacterium) that causes Lyme disease, called Borrelia burgdorferi. He has received numerous awards, including the Robert Koch Gold Medal, the IDSA Bristol Award, the Schaudinn-Hoffman Plaque, and the Walter Reed Medal. He is a coeditor of the book, ?Aspects of Lyme Borreliosis,? and has published over 220 research papers. Just as we began filming, there was a pounding on the door, and we found ourselves facing someone who turned out to be a top researcher at the nearby Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a biolevel-4 NIH research facility. Standing on the porch, our uninvited guest said, ?I?ve been told that I need to supervise this interview. This comes from the highest levels. There are things that Willy can?t talk about.? We were stunned. After all, Dr. Burgdorfer had been retired from the lab since 1986. We were there to talk to a private citizen, about the history of a very public discovery that had put him on the short list for a Nobel Prize. Earlier that year, the NIH had refused our requests to interview any of their Lyme researchers. What was going on? Why would the NIH want to censor information about the fastest growing bug-borne disease in the United States? Fortunately, our iron-willed film director, Andy Abrahams Wilson, turned the NIH handler away, and what followed was an amazingly candid interview about Lyme disease?its dangers and its controversies. Here are highlights from this three-hour interview:
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Soon after we turned-off the camera and began packing up our gear, Dr. Burgdorfer told us with a wry smile, ?I didn?t tell you everything.?

Under Our Skin
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