Lyme doesn't have outward symptoms like the flu: https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/do-i-have-lyme-disease https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/do-i-have-lyme-disease

Lyme doesn't have outward symptoms like the flu: https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/do-i-have-lyme-disease https://www.webmd.com/arthritis/do-i-have-lyme-disease Lyme borreliosis is persistent and hard to kill once it establishes itself in the form of biofilms/plaques: https://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/1886.2015.00049 https://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/1886.2015.00049 Lyme is a common term for a bunch of different infections (borreliosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis), while AIDS is just a single virus. AIDS has been known to the medical community decades longer than Lyme has: https://www.bayarealyme.org/about-lyme/history-lyme-disease/ https://www.bayarealyme.org/about-lyme/history-lyme-disease/ Lyme is known as "the great imitator" as it is so often misdiagnosed: https://drjaydavidson.com/lyme-the-great-imitator/ https://drjaydavidson.com/lyme-the-great-imitator/ Lyme borreliosis may be transferred in utero, so a child could be born with latent infection: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1586/14787210.2015.1081056 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1586/14787210.2015.1... There is a huge controversy raging between ILADS & ISDA over the characteristics of Lyme in general: https://www.lymedisease.org/idsa-guidelines-removed-ngc/ https://www.lymedisease.org/idsa-guidelines-removed-ngc/