Weight support for Lyme patients. Professor Luc Montagnier, French virologist biologist, Nobel Prize in medicine who participated in the discovery of the AIDS virus, joins the fight of people suffering from Lyme disease. “It is unfortunate that governments and health authorities do not have a coherent policy on Lyme disease” he told AFP. “There is currently a total ignorance on the subject, of a large part of the medical and scientific community” he added.
Lyme disease screening is not reliable enough
Last May, 70 patients with Lyme disease sued the Bio Mérieu laboratory, manufacturer of the disease screening test. The lack of reliability of this test has not allowed or delayed the management of poorly diagnosed patients. As a result, complications and severe disabilities set in for many patients. Professor Montagnier would have set up a new, more reliable test to detect the presence of the bacteria responsible for the disease in the blood of patients. But this new technique has not yet been validated by the scientific community.
Lyme disease (or borreliosis) can be transmitted through the saliva of ticks of the genus Ixodes when it contains the Borrelia bacterium. In France, more than 27,000 new cases are recorded each year but, according to the France Lyme association, the number of real cases is twice as high, due to the difficulty of diagnosis.
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