NEWS: "It's pretty clear we need more science," says chair of VA Lyme panel
The Roanoke Times reports on the second meeting of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's task force on Lyme disease.
From the Roanoke Times:
RICHMOND — After the first two meetings of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s task force on Lyme disease, the panel’s chairman is sure of one thing.
"I think it’s pretty clear we need more science," said Michael Farris, the longtime home-schooling advocate and former candidate for lieutenant governor, after presiding over a four-hour meeting Friday.
McDonnell last fall tapped Farris to lead a task force to explore prevention and treatment of a tick-borne disease that is on the rise in Virginia. Farris has a personal interest in the issue. His wife and seven of his 10 children have been diagnosed with Lyme.
"I believe that anybody who’s dogmatic about any side of the kind of controversies around Lyme is speaking prematurely," said Farris, the chancellor of Patrick Henry College in Loudoun County. "We’re in the early scientific stages of a very important disease that’s affected a lot of people, and I think we need more science."
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I would like to know why the testing is so inaccurate and the main stream doctors go off these inaccurate test for diagnous and not the patients symptoms? I am a responsible citizen that keeps health insurance and the center for disease control sets the criteria for lyme disease testing to high so patient are not being diagnosed. Early accurate treatment is essential. LLMD state on the internet that one positive band, MEANS LYME DISEASE.