The peak public health body in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has issued a warning about treatments offered for a disease that doesn’t exist.
Chronic Lyme disease – not to be confused with standard Lyme disease, which does exist – is claimed by a minority of doctors and many self-proclaimed healers to be a long-term health condition marked by fatigue, lethargy and generalized pain.
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The CDC’s warning comes after the organisation identified a range of serious, and sometimes fatal, outcomes arising from chronic Lyme disease treatments…The CDC goes on to cite five case studies, detailing people who either became seriously ill or died following chronic Lyme disease treatments.
In one case, a young woman died of septic shock. In another, an older woman died because a bogus chronic Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment delayed proper discovery of the real cause of her illness — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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[Epidemiologist and pediatrician Eugene Shapiro of Yale University] and colleagues slammed medical professionals and others profiting from ostensible treatments for chronic Lyme disease.
They had especially harsh words for elected representatives that successfully lobbied to have the condition recognized by insurance providers despite the lack of credible evidence it exists….
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