"However, such steps don’t change the situation people who are sickened by Lyme disease can face even if they promptly seek medical care. Tests to determine if someone has Lyme are notoriously unreliable. That is why statisticians need to count not only the 3,342 cases of Lyme that state physicians confirmed last year (a 19 percent increase over 2011), but the 1,708 probable cases."
"In its study, the CDC gathered insurance-claim data for 22 million people, along with positive Lyme tests and conducted a survey that asked people whether they’d received a Lyme diagnosis in the previous 12 months."
"The CDC report won’t come as a surprise to Lyme victims and their allies, who have struggled to convince the medical establishment that the disease is more insidious — and requires more vigorous treatment — than some practitioners think."
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