NEWS: New Yorker covers Lyme disease controversy
July 1 issue of the New Yorker magazine: “The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.”
Annals of Medicine
The Lyme Wars
by Michael Specter
Kaleigh Ahern was twelve years old when a tick bit her. She noticed it “perched” on her shoulder when she was taking a shower one morning. “I thought it was your average, everyday bug,” Ahern told me recently. But, when she tried to brush it off, the tick wouldn’t budge. “The legs wiggled but it was embedded in my skin. I freaked out and started screaming.” Kaleigh’s mother, Holly Ahern, came running and removed it. “I took the kid and the tick to the doctor,” she said. “I told him, Here is my kid, here is the tick, and there is the place where it was attached to her.” That was in 2002. The Aherns live near Saratoga Springs, New York, where Lyme disease has been endemic for years. The infection is transmitted by tick bites, so Ahern assumed that the doctor would prescribe a prophylactic dose of antibiotics. But he said that he wasn’t going to treat it.
Eight months ago the New Yorker slammed Mitt Romney about his stance on Lyme Disease just before the election. I think this is outrageous but not surprising for a liberal rag – http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/10/mitt-romney-versus-lyme-disease-and-science.html
I think applauding the New Yorker for this article is repulsive as they previously called it a “mystery disease” and lampooned John Lurie’s suffering of it in a scathing article by Tad Friend. The New Yorker should at least mention that prior to publishing this they were on Mitt Romney’s side. Maybe Romney based his stance on reading the New Yorker. . .
Wow, did that come out wrong at the end…
Ugh.
New Yorker: It’s a mystery disease. Doesn’t happen.
New Yorker: HA HA HA. Lyme Disease. Funny. Mitt Romney should be lampooned with his use of objective fact.
(New Yorker gets destroyed by EVERYONE for idiotic article)
New Yorker: Look at us as the premier news magazine and what new insights we are reporting on! We will not really apologize or mention previous B.S.
Untreated Lyme Disease Hurts Patients in many ways
1. unnecessary years of suffering
2. Spread of Disease or continued over activation of the immune system
3. Unnecessary Medical Expenses
4. Involves too many physicians, testing, trips to docs, unnecessary expenses all the way around
5. Longer Course of Treatment once Diagnosed
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