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Richard Blumenthal: “I think you have really summarized the urgency that so many of us feel about developing diagnostic and treatment tools…”

On the recordAugust 29, 2012
I think you have really summarized the urgency that so many of us feel about developing diagnostic and treatment tools and the pernicious and insidious effects of this disease, the suffering it causes, the destruction of lives.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal acknowledges the urgency of improving diagnostic and treatment tools for tick-borne diseases.

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