"So is there Lyme disease or something closely related in the South? There are certainly different Borrelia strains circulating in nature in the Southern U.S., and Clark's work suggests that some of those strains are making people sick."
"But the problem won't be fully resolved until the two sides can stop talking past each other. Each feels the other is simply refusing to hear what it says, and that its biases inform its conclusions. Clark, and a few other scientists, including James H. Oliver of Georgia Southern University, are trying to move past that stalemate, keeping focused on their research and not on the whirling poles spinning about them. In the end, that kind of approach is the only way we'll ever learn the truth of Lyme--in the South and everywhere else."
