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As a long time Star Trek fan I was recently inspired to come up with a new name for the Lyme Disease we are all suffering from. How does this name sound?
The Borrelian Plague !!!!
This sounds like some sort of gnarly and scary disease found on some unfortunate planet, about to be saved by a visit from the Enterprise, just in time before the last commercial.
I am semi-serious about this and this isn't an attempt to trivialize Lyme disease. Trivializing Lyme apparently has been done already by the standard medical community that refuses to become fully aware about Lyme, and continues to not even consider it.
Think about names. SARS and Bird Flu already scare the wits out of us by their names and these relatively rare diseases get way more attention and media traction. But Lyme Disease? Lame Disease? We are frequently told it is all in our heads. Lyme is just a New England problem to most (just like AIDS was a "Gay problem" to Ronald Reagan). Everyone is surprised that I caught this here near Seattle.
Perhaps by renaming this disease to something really scary sounding, it could finally get the media and medical attention it deserves, instead of being brushed under the rug or treated like it doesn't exit.
Its all in the Marketing.
Lets scare everyone out of their wits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only the Enterprise would visit soon and Drs. McCoy, Crusher or Bashear could come up with a simple cure, delivered by Hypospray.
"This won't hurt a bit, Jim."
Time for me to go get high on Tetracycline and (Lipoic) Acid.....
Casey Burns - Borrelian Plague Sufferer
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I think this is brilliant! And not just because I'm a Trekkie too.
I do think of and refer to Lyme as The Plague... but that could imply its the same as those early plagues (Black, Bubonic, whatever) that had their own specific bacterial origins.
I totally agree, its all in the marketing. Branding! Many people (like me before I was finally diagnosed) have got Lyme Disease mentally slotted as some unremarkable illness other people get in the woods.
Hmmm maybe Borrelial Plague? Borrelian sounds like its named after a location.
Good one. Maybe we'll be able to filter it out in the transporter one day.
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