Lyme Disease, a Silent Epidemic
Catalogue Number: A173-022
Producer: Productions Grand Angle
Producers: Productions Grand Angle
Producing Agencies: Productions Grand Angle
Subject: Documentary, Health and Medicine, Science, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: France
Copyright Year: 2014
Running Time: 52:52
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks and it is spreading throughout the world at an alarming rate. Facial paralysis, painful joints, meningitis. For sufferers it's a living hell. Faced with this disease the medical profession is at a loss: unreliable testing, uncertain therapeutic protocols, a scientific community that is divided. Taking no sides, this documentary explores the hidden side of this affair.
Also available in French: La face cachée du médicament pour enfants
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