The Lyme Disease Association, a group that supports Jemsek, says that 30 chronic Lyme doctors have been similarly targeted by medical boards.
However, he said the majority of cases of Lyme disease in the UK were not caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, but by a separate species Borrelia garinii.
But she says no two people react in the same way to Lyme disease.
While most doctors agree that treatment of this type of infection with oral antibiotics in its early stages is often successful, there is far less agreement regarding the treatment of chronic Lyme disease, which keeps recurring because of a delayed diagnosis.
Hindsight and improved medical science has shown that during my short stay in Kabul, I contracted Borrelia bacteria (strains of which in the US cause "Lyme Disease") from ticks, which fell off mice that scampered over my feet during sleep, attracted probably by the bits of sweets given to me lovingly by Madaar (Mother), which I kept in my suitcase under the bed.
There is no better example than the world of chronic Lyme, a disease that might not exist and one for which the most common treatment, months or years of antibiotic use, poses a threat to us all by sapping the power of those drugs to fight disease.
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Today the Chicago Tribune published a terrific story about the frustrating world of Chronic Lyme Disease.
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Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher Gregory Poland counts more than a dozen new diseases that have emerged in the last few decades: HIV, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, avian influenza.
But even less controversial topics must be adapted to local medical practice, according to Mikael Vissing, the firm's chief executive: lyme disease, for example, is treated with different drugs in Britain, Denmark and Germany.
Another study in the same journal found that 60% of Lyme disease patients lacked any evidence of previous or active Lyme infections.
Wendy Fox suffered swelling to the brain and spinal cord and was paralysed from the waist down for a time after contracting Lyme disease.
Researchers at academic medical centers who study the disease say that so-called chronic Lyme, or post-Lyme, is very rare, hard to detect and not treatable with any further doses of antibiotics.
It can carry Lyme disease, a bacterial infection which can attack the skin, heart and nervous system.
After contracting Lyme disease in 2010, Ms Drew was frequently out of the office for a critical period, when her unit was making riskier bets, and her absences allowed the clashing egos of her subordinates to come to the fore.
Lyme disease, with 20, 000 cases reported annually, ranks low on the list of the most prevalent infectious diseases.
Hospitals, labs and research facilities buy the kits to test for conditions including streptococcus bacterial infections, mononucleosis, parasitic diseases, lyme disease, herpes, chicken pox and shingles, as well as E. coli, transplant infections and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia.
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