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Lyme is one thing everyone needs to be worried or cautious about. I dont know why but the media is trying to keep it under wraps. Its a hidden pandemic waiting

Lyme is one thing everyone needs to be worried or cautious about. I dont know why but the media is trying to keep it under wraps. Its a hidden pandemic waiting to happen.

acdha 8y ago
> I dont know why but the media is trying to keep it under wraps Major citation needed: I’ve read tons of coverage over at least three decades. What makes you think it’s being covered up?
- jaequery 8y ago
  there isnt a specific one but here is an example: https://www.holtorfmed.com/cdc-doesnt-want-know-lyme/ https://www.holtorfmed.com/cdc-doesnt-want-know-lyme/
  - rainbowmverse 8y ago
    This whole site screams "obnoxious quack." I'm surprised I don't see an eBook pitch. I don't know who this doctor is or why he's somehow more credible than the CDC.
  - acdha 8y ago
    That’s a pretty weak argument and it’s on a site devoted to getting you to sign up with a “Lyme Literate MD”, which by strange coincidence includes the guy writing the page. I’m more convinced that there’s a conflict of interest there than anything else. AFAICT, the CDC position is the usual conservative scientific process: “chronic Lyme” isn’t a recognized diagnosis, the proposed treatments aren’t clinically proven, and there are significant risks: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6623a3.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6623a3.htm
saryant 8y ago
Growing up in the western half of the US, I virtually never heard about Lyme growing up. (To be clear, I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's just not nearly as common in the west) Then some of my family moved east and it seemed like everyone there has dealt with Lyme. Kinda makes me just want to stay in Colorado, which has never originated a case of human Lyme disease: http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/colorado-ticks-and-tick-borne-diseases-5-593/ http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/colorado-...

Lyme is one thing everyone needs to be worried or cautious about. I dont know why but the media is trying to keep it under wraps. Its a hidden pandemic waiting to happen.

acdha 8y ago

> I dont know why but the media is trying to keep it under wraps Major citation needed: I’ve read tons of coverage over at least three decades. What makes you think it’s being covered up?

jaequery 8y ago
there isnt a specific one but here is an example: https://www.holtorfmed.com/cdc-doesnt-want-know-lyme/ https://www.holtorfmed.com/cdc-doesnt-want-know-lyme/
- rainbowmverse 8y ago
  This whole site screams "obnoxious quack." I'm surprised I don't see an eBook pitch. I don't know who this doctor is or why he's somehow more credible than the CDC.
- acdha 8y ago
  That’s a pretty weak argument and it’s on a site devoted to getting you to sign up with a “Lyme Literate MD”, which by strange coincidence includes the guy writing the page. I’m more convinced that there’s a conflict of interest there than anything else. AFAICT, the CDC position is the usual conservative scientific process: “chronic Lyme” isn’t a recognized diagnosis, the proposed treatments aren’t clinically proven, and there are significant risks: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6623a3.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6623a3.htm

saryant 8y ago

Growing up in the western half of the US, I virtually never heard about Lyme growing up. (To be clear, I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's just not nearly as common in the west) Then some of my family moved east and it seemed like everyone there has dealt with Lyme. Kinda makes me just want to stay in Colorado, which has never originated a case of human Lyme disease: http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/colorado-ticks-and-tick-borne-diseases-5-593/ http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/colorado-...