Mayday advocates for more accurate tests, better guidelines and true science. The Mayday Project was formed by a group of five women volunteers who have been touched by Lyme disease and who come from different professions (including the scientific field). Mayday advocates for accurate tests, better guidelines, improved access to treatment, more education for physicians, and increased funding for r
esearch. Donations are tax deductable to the extent allowed by the IRS. Rates of Lyme disease in the U.S. have skyrocketed in recent years, with the CDC announcing in 2013 that rather than 30,000 new cases annually there are likely over 300,000. Treatment regimens specified by CDC and IDSA leave up to 36 percent with persistent symptoms. The CDC endorsed two-tier test misses more than half the cases. Because of restrictions imposed by the critically flawed IDSA guidelines for Lyme disease, thousands of chronically ill patients are misdiagnosed and unable to obtain medically necessary treatment. The Mayday Project's current campaign is focused on leveraging a window of opportunity, prior to the update of the IDSA guidelines, to persuade CDC to end its preferential treatment of IDSA, and acknowledge the ILADS guidelines as a valid standard of care. We also will continue to publicize the true state of the science of chronic Lyme to counteract misinformation coming from many of the current panelists. This campaign will increase awareness among the public, the media, the medical establishment, and most importantly, the policy makers who have the power to reform the system that shapes federal policy on Lyme disease and associated tick-borne illnesses. Mayday’s publicity campaigns have generated favorable coverage from a wide range of media outlets, including Fox News, Medscape Medical News, Poughkeepsie Journal, and Truth-Out. Mayday’s own material has been published in medical industry publications that reach hundreds of thousands of physicians, including Outbreak News Today, Pain Medicine News, and Infectious Disease: Special Edition, which reaches more than 6,000 infectious disease specialists in the U.S. Website: http://www.themaydayproject.org
