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Lyme is a real pandemic and perhaps the first Gain of Function bio-weapon. Globally 20% of adults are infected and that holds for the USA although there are areas where it is very high.. north of the Golden Gate Bridge, for example, ~40% of adults are infected. Most will never know they were infected, will never know what brought them down, took them out while making their life miserable.

After decades of treating Lyme patients with Alinia and Ivermectin, etc I will only use iGenex labs for diagnosis. Infecto labs looks at cytokines and is useful to document an inactivated infection but not for diagnosis.

But what is truly under appreciated in the Lyme world is that it leaves persister cells, which we neither have tests for nor a way to eradicate because they are metabolically inert (until the reactivate). It is imperative to continue a maintenance protocol to keep them inert. They are almost like spores.

It isn't clear what reactivates them, but when the LymeRx vaccine came out over two decades ago, it was a vaccine that contain Surface antigen A (Band 31).... getting that vaccine reactivated the persister cells. The vaccine had to be pulled, bu the true reason for why it was pulled was not told to the public. Lyme does not lend itself to a vaccine model, but that never stops Pharma from trying to create one.

THen there is the issue of co-infections (Bartonella can leave persister cells as well). But that is for another post.

To learn more, my book Incurable Us (Skyhorse) comes out in two weeks.

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Katherine's avatar

THANK YOU.

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