Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
by Pamela Weintraub

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
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Author: Pamela Weintraub
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0312378122
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Book Review: Essential and Powerful!
Summary: 5 Stars

Pam Weintraub tells a tale almost too scary to believe. And I might not if I didn't have ME (CFIDS), another common and extremely disabling infectious disease also ignored and denied by the CDC, NIH and other medical powers that be for decades. This is an extremely important story that everyone needs to read. The book is well written and chock full of useful info on diagnosis and treatment. Highly Recommended.
If you enjoy this book (and you will), check out Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic for the spellbinding medical-thriller story of ME (CFIDS).

Summary of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic

A?groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease.
Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today.? She also reveals her personal odyssey through the land of Lyme after she, her husband and their two sons became seriously ill with the disease beginning in the 1990s.?
From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment and the?kind of practitioner needed, Lyme is a hotbed of contention. With a CDC-estimated 200,000-plus new cases of Lyme disease a year, it has surpassed both AIDS and TB as the fastest-spreading infectious disease in the U.S. Yet alarmingly, in?many cases, because the disease often eludes blood tests and not all patients exhibit the classic "bulls-eye" rash and swollen joints, doctors are woefully?unable or unwilling to diagnose Lyme. When that happens,?once-treatable infections become chronic, inexorably disseminating to cause disabling conditions that may never be cured.?
Weintraub?reveals why the Lyme epidemic has been allowed to explode, why patients are dismissed, and what can be done to raise awareness in the medical community and find a cure.?The?most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, this exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic.
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