As the years pass by and nothing gets done to help us - (how many of us have been offered a re-test by Porton Down by their new improved method? How many of the 12,000 suspected patients a year who have been tested at the Southampton Lyme Reference Lab have been recalled for these better tests?) - then we must make sure that journalists and MPs are aware of these facts and the evil situation.
"It is only the undeserved clout of the CDC and IDSA and the gullibility of the media that give this incredible information any credibility. The market for symptomatic treatment of Lyme disease through pharmaceuticals is undoubtedly immense. The pharmaceutical market for arthritis alone generated $15.9 billion in revenues in 2008. Worldwide sales of Parkinson's disease therapies will increase modestly from $2.5 billion in 2008 to $2.8 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. According to PharmaLive, pharmaceutical industry experts expect the fibromyalgia drug market to quadruple to $2 billion by 2016. Leonard Sigal, a rheumatologist and contributor to the IDSA Lyme guidelines, is heavily involved with promoting fibromyalgia as an alternative diagnosis. Sigal, a former academician, now works for a pharmaceutical company. He has also testified in legal cases, on behalf of insurers, against Lyme disease doctors and victims."
--Miguel Perez-Lizano, Pharmaceutical Windfalls, June 2010."
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