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From: Mary Mills [marymills617@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November Og, 2011 g:0g pM
To: Mary Miils
Subject: Fw: Request to the Board (UNCLASSIFIED)
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From: "Kreitinger, Josiph p ERDC-EL-MS" <Joseph.p.Kreitinger@usace.army.mir>
To: Beatrice Szekely <beatrice@twcny.rr,com>
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Sent: Friday, November 4,2011 4.:03 pM
Subject: RE: Request to the Board (UNCLASSIFIED)
Classifi cation : TINCLA S SIFIEID
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Bea.
Thank you for the emain. Unfortunately, I will be in Bosto n at aprofessional meeting for workon the 141h and will not be able to attend the Board *."iing.
Please note that I was also treatod prophylactically with doxycycline after being bitten, however,it wasn't effective. Be certain that your friend keeps u toot ori ro, signs of dis"ur. ou", the nexttwo weeks' I now have a full bl<lwn case of lyme - rashes at other locla.tions from the bite,swollen Jvmph glan-dt on my face, and myal[ia in my legs. I am now taking a three week courseof amoxicilian that I started yesterday. Lyme disease wiil have a rcalcostJto our community.
I have some training in opidemiology and risk assessment also. I wouldn,t expect to develop ascientifically valid data set from a voluntary survey. The ability to collect ,,r"t, outu is riddledwith medioal confidentiality issrtes. The voiunt ary" data,however, would be informative to othersin the cornmunity that need to br: aware of the poientiai for getting Lyme.
Please let the board know that I am concerned about the impact this disease will have on youngchildren and older residents in our communitv
Joe
Joseph P. Kreitinger, ph.D.
Toxicologist
Risk Assessment Branch
CEERD-EP-R
9!_aony lSngineer Research & Development Center
30 Brown )Road, Suite 3
Ithaca, NY 14850
T eI: 607 -2(i6-0217 x3 0Tzl
Mobile: 607-229-9615
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From : B eatrice S zefely tpar]t^o : ge,atrlce @tw"ny. u. com
S ent-Friday, Novembe r- O q, Z0 tTT.5FpWt
To: Kreitinger, Joseph p ERDC_EL_MS
yc: Lrz Karns; Kate Sulrron; Mary Mills
Subject: Fw: Request to the Board IIXCLaSSIFIED)
Dear Mr. Kreitinger,
Your email has been forwarded by clerk Mary Mills to members of the villageboard. By coincidence, I've.been updating .vr.ri ", ;fi. disease after afriend was treated prophylaticallty lasi week.
First of all: here's !o,pin15 you have been treated early on and are notsuffering effects ofthe dijease.
c.onversation yesterday with Jeff Moss, a county public health nurse,discussed information ort.the Tompkins county Department of public Health website confirmlng the large increur,= ir numbers .ir."J* ,.p"rted in the lastdecade, to 70 in 20r0 and the 200g study that found zoii or a""r ticks in thecounty infected with the B. bergdorferi 6acteri a -- arateit u, you may knowcompares with the highest rate o:f tick infection i, th. il;; (and thus inthe whole IJS). opponents of oul deer maragement program for the village denythe correlarion of Lyme clisease rvith numbr; "i;;;. i-h;;" to summarizenotes I've been taking at the next Board meeting __ M";;;, November 14 at7:00 in Marcham Hall.
Please feel strongly encouraged to come to the Board meeting on the l4th andspeak during privilege of the floor if you would rike to share yourthoughts. You would co'tribure
'u grlutdeal to ";g"id;;;versations wereyou to do sr:. privilege of the floc,ri-s held near thei;;;;g of eachmeeting, and each speaker has up to two minutes.
As for village data collection, I talked with Mary Mills about needing twosets of numbers -- confimred case:s, and persons reporting prophylactictreatment with antibiotics. The problem^is data coiiec;i;;;";. might beable to plug into county data coil,:ction and-extrapolate CayugaHeightsfigures. Under reporting would v,ery likely U. u p.oUi.*. irustee LizKams, who teaches statistics at c.rneil, suggests a need to compare our
lgyt": with other populations. I wonder.ryhat you may be thinking as atoxicologist and how the two of you would take the iaea rurttrer.
Again, my wishes for good health,,
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Beatrice (Bea) Szekely
From: Mary Mills
lentl Thursday, November 03, 20Il 3:25 pM
To: VCH-Trustees
Subject: FW: Request ro the Board (TINCLASSIFIED)
Good afternoon all,
I have just received this email..,thank you _ Mary-----Original Message-_-__
From: Kreitinger, Joseph p ERDC_EL_MS
lmailto:&seph.p.Kreitirrg@;ace. army.mil]
Sent: Thursday, Nove-b.,03JU01l 2 :49 pM
To: Mary Mills
Subject: Request to the .Board (IJNCLASSIFIED)
Classifi cation: IINCLAS SIFIEI)
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Joe Kreitinger
211 Hanshaw Road
Ithaca,NY 14850
Dear Board Members,
After living in cayuga
'reights
for nearly 20 years,I have just beendiagnosed with Lyme dirieaie after being bitten uy'rti.t .-'
I believe it would be us.efu.l, from a public health perspective, to have avoluntary database on the incidence of Lyme oir.ir" in ir* village. Myphysician has indicated trrat his practice has seen a dramaticincrease inthe number of Lyme disease case,s this year.
Has the board received.such a request in the past? would it be possibre tohave a link to gather rhis informaiion placed;;;;. nil6" web site?
Thank you.
Joe
Joseph P. Kreitinger, ph.D.
Toxicologist
Risk Assessment Branch
CEERD-EP-R
Vf3*rV Engineer Research & Development Center30 Brown Road, Suite 3
Ithaca,NY 14850
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T el: 607 -266-0217 x3024
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