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Well, welcome to Lyme. :) This can only be done if you look at all the epidemiological efforts, and do so chronologically. Context not only matters; it is essential to a thorough understanding of what has been/is going on with Lyme and Company. You appear to only have explored Steere and...

@Trish , yes, but not now. I'm going to sleep. Later. Willy = willy burgdorfer.

The History of Lyme disease spans scores of years, and hundreds of studies. This is a snapshot that even imo mischaracterizes the most recent Aucott studies - and I'm not an Aucott fan. This discussion is little more than a scratch of the surface. A tip of a toe in an endless ocean. There isn't...

RICO is an acronym that refers to a wide swath of law in the United States that prohibits certain activities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

Yet evidently it is most of the IDSA Lyme Guidelines' co-authors, along with several insurance companies, who are on trial for alleged RICO violations. https://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/5:2017cv00190/179306

Many consider this a political label. Case in point: The longest running study on chronic Lyme that I am aware of was started back in 1998 or 1999. For 15 or so years it was referred to as the Chronic Lyme study. Toady, I believe that study remains ongoing, but it appears to now be called a...

It is perhaps more accurate to have written, "It is undisputed that a portion of patients with lyme disease continue having symptoms after the infection has been treated with a conventional course of antibiotics." That "portion" is widely acknowledged to be 10-20%. Start googling around 1985...

You don't want to know what I thought, at first glance, mfrs was an abbreviation for. :rolleyes:

ECT = Primitive, inexcusable brutality.

You write "understanding" but for some reason I read "speculate with little to no objective support".

Possible subtitle: How not to find a tissue-tropic pathogen.

Of course, trial variables can be manipulated in such a fashion as to still enable biases to tip the scales. A general rule of thumb, but precisely the rub in some medical communities,i.e. clinicians with apparently good reason can, in some instances, doubt the voracity (integrity?) of the...

A sign of things to come? https://www.lymedisease.org/torrey-v-idsa-kaiser-settles/

Two banner decades for biowarfare. Wonder what "considered" constitutes.

Sickness behavior. :arghh:

Wow. Very cool! I should not have qualified early days. That was poorly worded. I should have said have there ever been indications of MS outbreaks, or the such. For those who think MS is an immune dysfunction of sorts, or auto-immune, how would they explain this, I wonder?

I don't think that's quite accurate. As you say, there may be many paths to ME; some of those paths may not have to lend themselves to outbreaks, e.g., be contageous, or have a shared trigger like mass trial vaccine. Some clearly would. I wonder if in the early days of reporting MS there were...

Some people get ME in outbreaks. Many with ME are not part of any known outbreak. The operative phase here is "we know about". We are learning more about channelopathies all the time. It could be that some are triggered by insults such as infections; maybe not. Ultimately, what is rare relative...

Why? I actually doubt it is genetic as well, but I am curious as to why you make this statement. It seems that almost once a month a new genetic marker is stumbled upon that suggests a form of channelopathy, so, I'm curious as to why you say this? Agreed, except I'm unclear how it works other...

Poor appetite? Neck pain? Who are these people?