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You can have hundreds of cancerous tumors in your body, each of which is far too small to biopsy. The same is roughly true for borreliosis. You are not making a
by eigenloss 7y ago
You can have hundreds of cancerous tumors in your body, each of which is far too small to biopsy. The same is roughly true for borreliosis. You are not making a cogent point here.
- sooheon 7y agoPeople have cancerous mutations all the time, yet those aren't the cancers that kill us. Cancers people die from tend to have grown, to a size you can detect. When someone suffers from life threatening cancer-like symptoms, it's not literally impossible to find whether they actually have it. This seems to be the case for chronic lyme, where the medical consensus is that there is "no reproducible or convincing scientific evidence of any relationship to Borrelia burgdorferi".
- eigenloss 7y agoThe article is talking about the problem of Lyme being widespread and poorly understood in general -- chronic Lyme is not a focal point.