According the the authorities Lyme disease does not even exist in Australia.
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Dr Hugh Derham has seen it all before. The Perth practitioner is one of only a handful of so-called “Lyme-literate” GPs risking their professional reputation by diagnosing patients with the disease. He says he has more than 400 people on his books who have tested positive for Lyme, ranging from three years old to 82. About 10 per cent of them have never left Australia.
With an interest in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and fibromyalgia, over the past three years, he has tested 300 of his most chronic cases in accredited labs both here and overseas.
Some 95 per cent of them have shown positive for varying types of Borrelia — proof, he says, that the illness lives up to its name, “The Great Imitator”, mimicking and manifesting diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis (MS) that have no known cure.
“The first test most doctors do is just for the antibodies against Lyme disease and they are usually negative. But when you go looking further with superior PCR (polymerase chain reaction) or lymphocyte transformation testing or an immunoblot, usually you turn up a positive,” Derham says.
“Thousands of Australians have Lyme disease and don’t know it.”
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