Joseph Elone, 17, died in 2015 after a negative Lyme disease test. Each year, the ranks grow of people whose Lyme disease was diagnosed late simply because their test result was wrong. Perhaps a million Americans suffer from lingering Lyme symptoms, many because their test said “negative,” while their symptoms said otherwise. As the nation’s chief policy-maker on Lyme disease, CDC has let its scientists publish with key physician-researchers who have built careers on a view of Lyme disease as easy to diagnose and treat. Michael Cook is a British researcher who found that the Lyme disease test produces 500 times more false negatives than the HIV test.

Source: Forbes March 13, 2020 13:18 UTC