Lyme Love

Lyme is under-reported in most countries, Canada being no exception.

The following is taken is an excerpt from The New Tanner newspaper in Acton Ontario:

Testing for Lyme disease is poor at best here in Canada, says Poullos. The two-tier method adopted by Canadian laboratories for diagnosis was not designed for diagnosis. It was designed in 1994 for surveillance.

It is adequate for that purpose, but in no way is it accurate enough to be involved in the medical diagnostic equation when lives are at stake.  

False negative results lead physicians too often away from the diagnosis. Universities on all continents have published research showing just how poor these tests are yet Canadian health authorities
continue to imply is accurate and will often refuse to recognize other more reliable testing, Poullos says.
Most patients who suspected
they may have Lyme disease have been told by their doctor they don’t have it based upon information the doctors have learned through some form of medical community
grapevine.

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