The mission of the Karl McManus Foundation is to contribute to world knowledge and to improve understanding of Australia’s tick borne diseases.

This includes borreliosis (Lyme disease, Lyme Borreliosis, relapsing fever or Reptilian Borrelia), Babesia, Bartonella, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and other tickborne diseases.

We aim to achieve this by:
- Raising awareness.
- Facilitating research – a primary focus is to fund research to identify the causative agent(s) of Australian tick borne diseases and detection and treatment.
- Advocating for better testing and treatment.
- Ensuring translation of Australian and international evidence-based medical research into Australian policy and practice.
- Educating doctors and other health professionals.
- Alerting and educating the public especially on the prevention of tick bites.
- Encouraging differential diagnosis of chronic diseases that borreliosis (Lyme disease, Lyme Borreliosis or relapsing fever) and co-infections can imitate, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease (MND) (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Charcot Disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease), multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer’s disease, fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

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