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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Wed Jun 9 17:14:49 1993
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 10:25-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: Lyme Disease Awareness Week
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 5, 1993
LYME DISEASE AWARENESS WEEK, 1993 AND 1994
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Lyme disease has become the most common arthropod-borne
infection in the United States since it was first recognized
as a clinical entity in 1975. Although most prevalent in the
coastal northeastern and north central States, a significant
number of cases have been reported in the Pacific Coast States,
primarily northern California and Oregon.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium that is transmitted
from ticks to warm-blooded animals. The major reservoirs
of infection are deer and rodents, although the ticks can be
carried on dogs, cats, and occasionally birds. Persons who
live near or who work in wooded areas are at risk of contracting
Lyme disease. Lyme disease can develop into a chronic multi-
system disorder that can elicit a wide range of symptoms and
run an unpredictable course. Clinical manifestations include
arthritis, neurological symptoms, heart problems, and sometimes
eye inflammation, hepatitis, and severe fatigue.
Early symptoms may include one or more of the following:
a rash at the site of the tick bite, headache, fever, joint
pain, and fatigue. Though the disease usually responds to
antibiotic treatment at this stage, in later stages it may
develop into a persistent chronic infection that affects joints
or the nervous system. The bacteria also may be transmitted
from an infected pregnant woman to her fetus.
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, along with their colleagues at the National
Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases,
are supporting dozens of research projects on Lyme disease.
Along with several other components of the National Institutes
of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
they are devoting considerable effort to eradicate the disease.
Experts from a wide range of disciplines are focusing on
improving diagnostic techniques and therapeutic strategies and
on developing an effective human vaccine. Animal models of the
disease have been developed that promise to hasten progress in
all of these areas.
In support of these efforts, the Congress, by Senate Joint
Resolution 43, has designated the weeks beginning June 6, 1993,
and June 5, 1994, as "Lyme Disease Awareness Week" and has
requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance
of this week.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the weeks of
June 6, 1993, and June 5, 1994, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
I urge all government agencies, health organizations, communi-
cations media, and private citizens to observe this week with
appropriate programs and activities in order to ensure better
understanding of Lyme disease.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred
and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States
of America the two hundred and seventeenth.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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