I believe this test will have severe limitations. There will only be a small window of opportunity for the test to have any degree of sensitivity. This organism that causes Lyme disease is not one that prefers blood in which to thrive so although it uses blood as a transportation system, it vacates the blood at it's earliest and most opportune moment.
What we need is a test that will prevent the vast under-diagnosis of Lyme disease which is a far more serious problem than giving a few safe antibiotics (compared to the drugs used to treat the many undiagnosed symptoms of Lyme) to a few people, while we feed antibiotics by the ton in our food farm industry.
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I believe this test will have severe limitations. There will only be a small window of opportunity for the test to have any degree of sensitivity. This organism that causes Lyme disease is not one that prefers blood in which to thrive so although it uses blood as a transportation system, it vacates the blood at it's earliest and most opportune moment.
What we need is a test that will prevent the vast under-diagnosis of Lyme disease which is a far more serious problem than giving a few safe antibiotics (compared to the drugs used to treat the many undiagnosed symptoms of Lyme) to a few people, while we feed antibiotics by the ton in our food farm industry.
May 12, 2010 - 7:27amThis Comment
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