{"id":554592,"date":"2026-03-21T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:50:09","slug":"the-well-known-disease-australia-refuses-to-acknowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554592\/","title":{"rendered":"The well-known disease Australia refuses to acknowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyme disease is recognised as a serious illness around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But on home soil, it&#8217;s one of the most contested and controversial medical issues in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Spread through a tick bite, the disease quickly affects the joints, heart, and nervous system.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/queen-of-con-private-school-mums-fake-security-company-dupes-hundreds\/093cda29-1d6d-4b71-b82c-b1792faf264e\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"&#039;Queen of Con&#039;: Private school mum&#039;s &#039;fake&#039; security company dupes hundreds\ufeff\">&#8216;Queen of Con&#8217;: Private school mum&#8217;s &#8216;fake&#8217; security company dupes hundreds\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c4d436bf-8361-4a45-82f5-9e257ec784e7.jpeg\"   alt=\"Lyme Disease ACA story\"\/>Patients say they&#8217;re living in a never-ending nightmare, suffering from a very real and debilitating disease. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>A-listers like Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, and Bella Hadid have brought international recognition to the brutal reality of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>But Australia remains locked in a medical stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Despite two Senate inquiries, the government still maintains the illness doesn&#8217;t exist here, claiming there&#8217;s no scientific evidence that proves local animals or ticks carry it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet patients say they&#8217;re living in a never-ending nightmare, suffering from a very real and debilitating disease.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video in the player above.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lyme disease is recognised as a serious illness around the world. But on home soil, it&#8217;s one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-554592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}