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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
  
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  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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