It is almost invariably missed because doctors are not familiar with its multitude of symptoms, most of which are non-specific, occurring in many other conditions. The blood tests offered at the HPA lab in Southampton have been proven to be unreliable by peer-reviewed data, yet are still used to rule out Lyme.
Why are our Department of Health and our government epidemiologists ignoring the evidence?
The answer lies in an unholy pact they seem to have struck with the US government, an agreement to downplay and deny this epidemic, because of its relation to secret biowarfare research.
Very many of the scientists and doctors on the "hard-to-catch, easy-to-cure" side of the fence just "happen" to have a background in biowarfare, and/or are members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a small elite squad of Infectious Disease experts founded by the American military for purposes of offensive biowar during the Cold War. (2)
In Britain, Porton Down has studied Lyme, though the government tried to conceal this when questioned about recent Lyme research in Parliament.
Perhaps the recent patent (3) published by the "biodefense" firm Biopeptides Inc, run by Raymond Dattwyler, says it all. Dattwyler, incidentally, is notorious among American Lyme patients for the damage he has done with his involvement in the drawing up of the fraudulent "IDSA guidelines", which have resulted in the denial of treatment and even diagnosis to countless sufferers, not just in USA, but in Britain and other countries as well. Dattwyler's patent is for a "live bacterial vaccine" incorporating a genetically modified piece of Osp A, (an outer surface protein of the Lyme bacteria), spliced together with a portion of Plague bacteria involved in virulence, into a Lactobacillus, a common harmless germ.
For more information on the connections between Lyme disease and biological weapons research, please see www.lyme-rage.info
Elena Cook
(1) www.ilads.org
(2) www.lyme-rage.info/bwsept06.html
(3) http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008063240