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Most CDC / IDSA folks will tell you that a course of antibiotics will rid the body of Lyme in all cases. The presence of spirochetes here should be enough for t
by darkerside 5y ago
Most CDC / IDSA folks will tell you that a course of antibiotics will rid the body of Lyme in all cases. The presence of spirochetes here should be enough for them to stop using that language. But it likely won't because there appears to be a systemic organizational bias against Lyme as a chronic condition, and I'm not sure why.
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- megous 5y agoPresence 4 years or so later. So, maybe the patient was infected again some time after initial treatment?
- darkerside 5y agoOccam's Razor applies. You're not wrong, but they continue to lean on the "evidence doesn't support" angle. At some point that looks like bias.
- inter_netuser 5y agoThe study is a follow-up study on primates that confirmed the exact same thing, only to be dismissed "because not in humans duuuuh" Now we have human brain autopsies. Plenty of denial right in this thread. And then people wonder why people don't trust physicians and do not vaccinate.
- rdedev 5y agoKind of reminds me of Alzheimer's disease and the pervasive insistence that it's cause by misfokded protiens even though so many treatments following that assumption failed to cure it. Sometimes an idea is just hard to introduce or root out in academia