Unfortunately, IgM/IgG-based ‘rapid tests’ have become increasingly widespread in the field of Lyme disease. ‘Here’s a lame duck, here’s a bump,’ is what the manufacturers seem to be saying about the diagnosis of Lyme disease. They are only making the problem worse. The whole thing reminds me of a one-off building contractor who tells the [...]

I was talking to a very honest, retired GP, a relative of mine, who is getting his affairs in order as she nears the end of her life. This question always comes to mind for her: was she perhaps too biased, did she diagnose Lyme disease too often? Over the course of her decades-long career, [...]

The week was full of stories. This time, about how Lyme disease itself affects our lives, and how difficult it is to cope with our new lives after recovery. You could say this is the lesser of two evils. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s marriage was, on the one hand, affected by the fact that [...]

I’m fed up with the term ‘idiopathic’. It may seem like a fine technical term, but one cannot help but notice its similarity to another word. In Greek, ‘idiot’ originally meant a private individual, but in Latin it came to mean ‘bungler’. Yet those who write ‘idiopathic’ are perhaps the most honest of all. They [...]

The fact that a patient suffering from the chronic symptoms of Lyme disease tests positive for IgM in a serological test is explained as a cross-reaction. No, in fact, modern tests are based on recombinant antigens and a ‘false positive’ result is virtually impossible. As they call it. In fact A false positive is a [...]

Notes by András Pál Bózsik, Lyme disease laboratory specialist Bella Hadid is regularly treated for Lyme disease. What do I think about this? In my opinion, she may be the victim of a professional error. I would not dare to say that this is a deliberate hoax, as most doctors act in good faith. But [...]

Those who have been dealing with Lyme borreliosis for a long time know that denial of Lyme disease always exceeds reasonable limits. It began with the fact that, despite obvious symptoms, this millennia-old disease was only thoroughly investigated in the 1970s, and a description of the disease was published in 1982. (Its medical name is [...]

Notes by András Pál Bózsik, Lyme disease laboratory specialist I recently heard some information from an old teacher and friend of mine. He said that more than 70 per cent of publications in medical literature are based on unrepeatable or false data. One of the most famous cases of this was when it was discovered [...]