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Delgado Co-Sponsors Bill To Create Office To Fight Spread Of Lyme Disease

Delgado Co-Sponsors Bill To Create Office To Fight Spread Of Lyme Disease WASHINGTON – With Lyme disease cases rising 78 percent from 2007 to 2017 in the 19th District he represents, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado has signed on as a cosponsor to the National Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Control & Accountability Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation creates a new Office of Oversight & Coordination for Tick-Borne Disease and would create a national plan to address Lyme disease. “Lyme disease…