Lyme disease breakthrough?

Scientists are now closer than ever before to creating a diagnostic test for Lyme disease. This is so important because a misdiagnosis can leave an infection to grow for years.

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[johndeerfield]

First of all I want to say thank you for all the researchers and this doctors that give away time from their self and money and everything second we need more research and more treatments for Lyme disease as soon as possible

[benjaminbritt]

Because Lyme and its associated co-infections cause so many widespread symptoms, often misinterpreted as other chronic health conditions, the companies that manufacture drugs to treat these conditions are able to capitalize by marketing to people suffering based on their symptoms.

[Cali-mamstroke]

How come my dog goes to vet and it gets tested for Lyme in under 30 minutes but humans can’t?

[JP-xslo]

What about the test drs are currently using and say is 100% accurate and nobody with full blown infection can get diagnosed and treated this has to be some nightmare the disinformation in this medical system is a human rights violation.

[brightstar]

How sad is it that I have a "Lyme folder" to save this in?! This video brings HOPE...

[Stephen-kwlx]

someone already tried Hygromycin A originally from one company FANDACHEM located in China. feedbacks are very positive.

[walkerboys]

Can someone help us I’ve been sick for 5 years and dying, only 20 years old

[hanneke]

We need cures, not more diagnosis tools... there are enough and not being taken seriously.

[leannshort]

Sounds interesting!
Uhm, 🤔 are insurance companies going to cover these tests or are you going to have to pay out of pocket, which is usually quite expensive if you want to get any REAL answers and REAL help?!?

[RS-lfdkb]

The US gov should just give all their data to the world so they can start healing people.

[tomahawkmissile]

to bad the news had to ask the researchers offering a test

[JP-xslo]

Physicians who have cared for persons with chronic Lyme disease have faced harassment at a minimum and for some, their careers have been ruined. Researchers who have seriously dedicated themselves to the scientific study of chronic Lyme disease in humans and/or animals have often found themselves attacked or marginalized. To persist in their researches would have resulted in virtual career suicide and some have been forced, by exigencies of survival, to leave the field. Laboratories that test extensively for Lyme disease, including use of direct detection methods such as PCR, have found themselves subjected to concerted smear campaigns and harassed. Whereas PCR is a well-accepted method in virtually all other infectious diseases, its clinical use for Lyme disease has also been marginalized. Direct detection methods developed more than a decade ago by some of this country’s finest physician-researchers and biomedical research scientists (Dorward DW, Schwan TG, Garon CF. Immmune Capture and Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi Antigens in Urine, Blood, or Tissues from Infected Ticks, Mice, Dogs, and Humans. J Clin Microbiol 1991;29:1162-1170 & Coyle PK, Deng Z, Schutzer SE, Belman AL, Benach J, Krupp L, Luft B. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi antigens in cerebrospinal fluid. Neurology 1993;43:1093-1097 & Coyle PK, Schutzer SE, Deng Z, Krupp LB, Belman AL, Benach JL, Luft BJ. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi-specific antigen in antibody-negative cerebrospinal fluid in neurologic Lyme disease. Neurology 1995;45:2010-5) have been moth-balled, I believe, for political and medical socioeconomic reasons.

Seronegativity, a well-recognized feature of spirochetal disease (e.g. in syphilis) is held to not need consideration despite early recognition of this phenomenon in Lyme disease, ironically, by a signer of the 2000 and 2006 IDSA Lyme disease guidelines (Dattwyler RJ, Volkman DJ, Luft BJ, Halperin JJ, Thomas J, Golightly MG. Seronegative Lyme Disease. Dissociation of T- and B-Lymphocyte Responses to Borrelia burgdorferi. N Engl. J Med 1988;319:1441-6).


That there is no active support by the Federal government for training programs for pathologists or support for pathologic laboratories for in-depth pathologic study of tissues from humans with chronic Lyme disease using all available methods (and which, hopefully, might develop new and superior methods) indicates a choice to remain in ignorance. There could and there should be one or more such laboratories of highest scientific calibre where such methods could be made available to clinicians and researchers and their patients, comparable to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which has been known for excellence in the study of syphilis.

A key formative influence in the creation of the National Institutes of Health was Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Harden VA. Inventing the NIH. Federal Biomedical Research Policy 1887-1937.Johns Hopkins University Press. 1986. pp.57-59, 114 & 122). It would be naïve not to consider the possibility of ongoing behind the scenes influence of the insurance industry on N.I.H. policy.

Honest review of the worldwide peer-reviewed scientific literature reveals an abundance of evidence for the existence of chronic Lyme disease in humans and animals. Much of this evidence was presented to the Lyme Disease Review Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America on July 30, 2009. Regrettably, the panel chose to sustain the 2006 IDSA Lyme Disease Guidelines. IDSA leaders were defiant from the outset asserting the Connecticut Attorney General could make them review the guidelines but that he couldn’t make them change them. In retrospect it was a serious strategic error to leave the review process within the hands and ultimately under the control of the IDSA itself.

The standard of care set by the IDSA 2006 Lyme disease guidelines is one of medical neglect of persons suffering from chronic Lyme disease. However, such guidelines are indeed useful. They serve to shield from liability physicians who neglect persons with chronic Lyme disease. By misusing CDC case surveillance criteria as the sole basis for a clinical diagnosis of Lyme disease, these guidelines serve the insurance industry very well indeed because such cases represent but the tip of the iceberg of actual cases of Lyme disease, whether acute or chronic. Denial of the possibility of seronegative Lyme disease, likewise serves the insurance industry well and also such simplistic constructs for Lyme disease also serve those physicians who cannot wrap their minds around the true complexity of this illness.T

The medical profession and the United States Public Health Service, predecessor to the CDC, have a long history of medical neglect of persons suffering from spirochetal infection. The profession and the USPHS were completely unable to reform themselves from within in this regard. It required moral and political intervention from without to bring the Tuskegee Experiment to an end with Senator Edward Kennedy’s hearings in February and March, 1973 before Committee of Labor and Public Welfare’s Sub-Committee on Health (Jones JH. Bad Blood: the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment – a tragedy of race and medicine. The Free Press. New York. 1981 pp. 213).

The Tuskegee Experiment involved about 400 subjects. Lacking the taint of racism, nonetheless the “mainstream” handling of chronic Lyme disease affects far more people; it would be a fair estimate to say, Tuskegee X 10, 000 in the United States alone. Furthermore, the standards held out by the CDC and the IDSA have worldwide influence. Canadians are unable to get care for chronic Lyme disease. We are seeing significant numbers of persons with chronic Lyme disease forced to leave Canada for care.

State legislators have begun taking matters into their own hands and the states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, California, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota have passed laws or promulgated policies protecting physicians who treat persons with chronic Lyme disease. Are these legislators stupid? Are they dupes of Lyme activists? Or can they see what is so obvious to the patients and to any good clinician, that Lyme disease can be a chronic infection that often requires a long-term treatment approach? Furthermore, as the disease spreads and more and more individuals are affected, legislator’s staffers, their wives, their children and they themselves are experiencing the effects of chronic Lyme disease.

In the fullness of time, the mainstream handling of chronic Lyme disease will be viewed as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of medicine because elements of academic medicine, elements of government and virtually the entire insurance industry have colluded to deny a disease.

This has resulted in needless suffering of many individuals who deteriorate and sometimes die for lack of timely application of treatment or denial of treatment beyond some arbitrary duration.

[daevid]

Work on Multiple Sclerosis, not ignorance from bug bites.

[tvviewer]

Amazing how everything causes the same symptoms... Aren't people getting it by now??