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I just read a chart from the CDC that said there were 55 confirmed cases of Lyme in Texas in 2010.
I live in Texas and in the last month, my son, myself and my niece have been tested by LabCorp and all three were stated to be positive per CDC criteria.
Are we confirmed? And if so, it kind of boggles the mind that we are all testing positive.
Obviously CDC is off/ Lyme reporting is off; Lyme testing is off.
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Obviously CDC is off/ Lyme reporting is off; Lyme testing is off.
- You got that right!! Maybe they "confirm" cases by calling the patients who have been reported as CDC positive. If the patient is being treated, then it's "confirmed?"
Not sure. I do know they call people.
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Regulations mandate that all cases of Lyme be reported to the CDC. First the information goes through the local and state health departments, then after they are "confirmed" by them, they are sent to the CDC so they can "confirm" them and report the numbers.
To see how bad the case numbers are and how the "officials" are NOT doing their jobs....
In 2009 the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene did not enter 5,722 Lyme cases that were reported to them into their data base. Only 1,400 (approx) were reported that year.
They said they didn't have enough people to do the work, and other excuses.
If you take the total they had, and multiply by 10-fold (CDC cases THEY admit to missing) like we do for all the stats on Lyme, Maryland might have been number one in the nation for total cases that year and each year since that they failed to do their job.
AND it indicates that over 200 people PER DAY are contracting Lyme disease in Maryland alone.
THEN, adding insult to injury, the CDC (Ben Beard) has used the reports to snoop into patients lives and report our doctors for treating Lyme outside the IDSA's tight little box. See letter at this link:
What a disgraceful thing to do, and a total misuse of the reporting forms that are suppose to be for surveillance purposes, and are NOT to be used for a personal vendetta or to turn our doctors over to the medical boards. At the time North Carolina didn't have a set "standard of care" for Lyme, so that should have never been done to try to destroy Dr. J in NC.
So the CDC numbers are a total joke and VERY inaccurate. Somehow, watching the CDC/IDSA work like this, or NOT work at all over the years.... that sloppy stuff, hateful stuff and disregard for our health doesn't even surprise me.
BTW- I heard in Texas, from an Infectious Disease doctor, that there is NO Lyme in Texas. And that duck was sharing that so-called "fact" with health care professionals.
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My llmd says of his few hundred patients that he reported with positive Igenex, they called about 10. I was one of the lucky ones. So where I live there's only 10 confirmed cases of a few hundred at least.
Convenient irresponsibility
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Well, they called my son. My niece and I have not been contacted yet. Maybe our doctor just figured we all have it and have probably had it for awhile, so why report it.
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Why are they calling patients? What is the point? If labs are required to report and doctors are required to report, and their strict surveillance criteria already rule out many cases for reporting, why call?
Unless it is to snoop and get information that could be used against the doctor. Which could be why more doctors don't report cases. So this system serves two purposes, discourage reporting so it doesn't look like as many people are getting sick, and use the information to punish doctors.
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Makes sense. My doctor probably doesn't want to report three cases in little over a month.
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Well, the CDC called me this afternoon. They said they didn't think I could pass it to my son through pregnancy. But they do think I have had it a long time. They think it must have been in Cape Cod when I went for my honeymoon, or when I was pregnant the following year.
I told them I had tick bites when I was young in Texas, but she said there is not much Lyme in Texas.
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Lymetoo - It actually makes no sense that it would not be passed on through the placenta. Not only viral, but bacterial infections can be passed through the placenta. Why would Lyme be different? If it is true that syphilis is in some ways similar to Lyme, then it seems a no brainer.
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