What the Media Don’t Tell You about Lyme Disease (but Should) There’s more to Lyme disease than “check for ticks”

By David Michael Connor

I ’ve seen more Lyme disease headlines over the past couple of months than ever before. It’s a good thing and a terrible thing. It means that news organizations and magazines are finally paying attention to this often-devastating disease and making an effort to inform the public about it. It’s a bad thing because, as has been the lede of many of the stories, researchers have predicted that 2017 will be one of the worst on record for new Lyme infections because of a mild winter and a warming climate in general that is making more of the country a haven for ticks.

A Google search of news that mentioned Lyme disease over the past 30 days (March 26 – April 26, 2017) returns 43 pages of results. That’s a lot. By comparison, searches for other common and life-affecting infectious diseases HIV and Zika return 72 and 32, respectively.

Comparing these results to basic facts about the disease highlights some details that warrant discussion:

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1 Reader Comments

  1. NO one, but no one calls the epidemic what it is…everyone is terrified to tell the truth about this raging wildfire…If they do, they will be called fanatics, lyme hysterics, or a conspiracy theorist…
    LYME IS BEING ACTIVELY COVERED UP AND HAS BEEN FOR DECADES! THAT IS WHY YOUR DOCTORS DONT KNOW ABOUT DIAGNOSIS OR TESTING OR SYMPTOMS…THIS IS AN ACTIVE SUPPRESSION AND WILL REMAIN SO UNTIL PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DIG UP THE DIRT ON THOSE WHO ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THIS TITANIC COVERUP WHICH IS CAUSING IMMENSE SUFFERING FOR ALL!
    COWARDS EVERYWHERE…EVEN THE GOOD GUYS HAVE ALLOWED THIS CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE TO CONTINUE…TOO TIMID TO CHALLENGE THE CRIMINALS IN GOVERNMENT AND IN THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY.

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