Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat

Christian presented with me at the Belgian Senate last month to help educate politicians on the emerging threat of tick-borne disorders. We met again in Oslo this past week. He discussed the problems with testing for tick-borne disorders, and how organisms may evade the immune system. He is also aware of the politics surrounding Lyme disease worldwide. He quotes Virginia law which states that physicians must inform patients on the unreliability of the presenting testing for Lyme disease. His article is an excellent overview of the growing number of organisms now being found in ticks (including a brand new organism isolated in Switzerland, Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis) and he makes the case that a multi factorial model (such as the MSIDS model I discuss in my book) is needed, as there are now multiple overlapping infections ( bacteria, viruses and parasites) responsible for chronic persistent illness.

Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases: global challenges in the context of a public health threat, by Christian Perronne, frontiers