VIDEO: Proper Lyme Disease Testing Matters

As you probably know, Lyme disease is epidemic now worldwide.

How did it start?

Well, a bioweapons laboratory on Plum island, right opposite Lyme, Connecticut. They were experimenting with the Lyme organism and ticks, and somehow they got released and started an epidemic of people getting arthritis and fevers and rashes, which turned out, which is now modern day, called Lyme disease.

If you get Lyme disease, how do you get it?

Well, you get a tick bite. That organism, that tick, or sometimes even mosquito bit an animal, maybe even a person that had Lyme disease contacted it in their mouth, and then when they bite you, they give it to you.

Now, there’s a whole bunch of different organisms that go together. So Lyme disease isn’t just the original one. It’s called Borrelia burgdorferi. Many patients with Lyme disease have Rocky Mountain spotted fever virus.

And as part of the profile, they also have Bartonella, which is the cat scratch bug. This is a bacteria that cats can carry. They bite you and you get an infection. But many of these ticks carry this as well. Babesia is actually a single cell parasite, and many of these ticks carry Babesia. There’s another three or four that they go with.

Now, if your doctor is treating you for Lyme disease with some antibiotic, it’s not going to cover all these things.

So when we’re doing the diagnostics, we want to know which organisms does your body have so that we can do the appropriate treatment that includes all the organisms and not just Lyme disease itself, because it’s not one thing.

So good diagnostics lead to good treatments, lead to good results.