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by keithyjohnson 3396 days ago
These kinds of articles are dangerous. It doesn't help that the author's livelihood comes from treating people who believe they have this illness.

Good link: "... which noted the diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is used by a few physicians despite a lack of "reproducible or convincing scientific evidence", leading the authors to describe this diagnosis as "the latest in a series of syndromes that have been postulated in an attempt to attribute medically unexplained symptoms to particular infections."