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poppy
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How could they know 100K people have already gotten this in NY? No test. This must be wrong. In fact, no one knows how many have this type of borrelia.
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Keebler
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- I think they are just guessing with the numbers according to how many ticks they've found with it, doing some kind of projection.
Errors are still just peppered into this article. That old, "24 hour attachment time" thing and just deer ticks.
Dr. F's quote "typcial rash" with lyme can be misleading, too, as some may think "typical" means usual, most of the time, or all the time, with every case.
Still, some important information here. I just wish every article that had anything important would not also contain ever more errors or misconceptions.
This was in the news, even 2 years ago. It's not really new, it's just that it slid back under the rug. -
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lpkayak
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what does dr H say about it?and dr L?
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TF
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In his talk at the Toronto Lyme Conference (Oct. 2011) Dr H. said "Borrelia miyamotoi is showing up in ticks in Hyde Park, NY. This strain is in Japan. We can�t test for it."
Obviously, researchers are able to test for it. But, the U.S. doctor's can't order a commercial test for it. I think that is the main point. If you have this strain, you WILL get a NEGATIVE lyme test.
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Razzle
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So is this strain actually a newly developed strain, or is it just newly discovered by researchers?
-------------------- -Razzle Lyme IgM IGeneX Pos. 18+++, 23-25+, 30++, 31+, 34++, 39 IND, 83-93 IND; IgG IGeneX Neg. 30+, 39 IND; Mayo/CDC Pos. IgM 23+, 39+; IgG Mayo/CDC Neg. band 41+; Bart. (clinical dx; Fry Labs neg. for all coinfections), sx >30 yrs. Posts: 4166 | From WA | Registered: Feb 2011
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Yes, I thought I had heard about this 2 yrs ago .. and then they said it had been around awhile before that!! But they didn't tell the public!!!
Razzle.. I bet it's just newly discovered by researchers.. Probably has been around undetected!
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