Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic | 
 enlarge | Author: Pamela Weintraub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0312378122
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.92
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Publication Date: June 17, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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A groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today. She also reveals her personal odyssey through the land of Lyme after she, her husband and their two sons became seriously ill with the disease beginning in the 1990s. From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed, Lyme is a hotbed of contention. With a CDC-estimated 200,000-plus new cases of Lyme disease a year, it has surpassed both AIDS and TB as the fastest-spreading infectious disease in the U.S. Yet alarmingly, in many cases, because the disease often eludes blood tests and not all patients exhibit the classic "bulls-eye" rash and swollen joints, doctors are woefully unable or unwilling to diagnose Lyme. When that happens, once-treatable infections become chronic, inexorably disseminating to cause disabling conditions that may never be cured. Weintraub reveals why the Lyme epidemic has been allowed to explode, why patients are dismissed, and what can be done to raise awareness in the medical community and find a cure. The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, this exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic.
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Cure Unknown July 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read just about every book known on Lyme disease. This is by far the best researched, best written book on the subject. If you want to know about and understand the controversy of the two opposing camps on late stage Lyme (which I have) then this is the book for you.
Lyme disease was covered up by the powers that be July 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book.
Lyme is just another story of special interest groups in Washington paying off doctors to lie to the public and deny treatment or even diagnosis.
A must read.
If you already have lyme (many do and dont know it) beware lyme uses a "efflux pump" to resist all tetra and marcolide class abx. There are ways to plug this pump.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! July 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am so thankful to Pamela Weintraub for writing this book because it has helped me navigate the murky waters of lyme in the last two weeks as we seek treatment for our 11-year-old son who was just diagnosed. Even though we went directly to a lyme-literate doctor for help based on advice from our naturopathic doctor we got a real whiff of what Pamela Weintraub refers to as "the land of lyme" during the last week. I was much better prepared to help my son because of this book.
I am appalled that something this serious and this widespread is not being given more press and that children continue to go off to camps (where my son and another classmate picked up lyme disease) where camp staff, parents and teachers are blithely unaware of the very serious risks posed by ticks. I am simply in awe of Weintraub who was able to write such a riveting and scholarly book after all she and her family has been through. Great job! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Please give a copy of this book to your family doctor!!! June 21, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Three cheers for Pamela Weintraub's Cure Unknown, the first book that accurately presents an objective and in-depth look at the historic obstacles to progress in Lyme disease research and treatment. This book significantly investigates how the disease has been mischaracterized, mishandled, and poorly defined by many so-called "experts" for over three long decades.
In a rush to produce patents (and vaccines) before patient care, well-meant scientists have helped contribute to an epidemic of neglected, chronically disabled, and in some cases, cognitively impaired children and adults. What's more, after endless political infighting over practically all aspects of the disease, the bottomline remains: To date there is no 100% reliable diagnostic test; no 100% reliable treatment regimen; no 100% reliable cure or test for cure.
Please consider giving an extra copy of this book to your family doctor. It will go a long way towards providing much-needed information, and will hopefully reverse much of the stigma involved in clinically diagnosing and treating people with Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses.
A Must Read for All Parents June 18, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm not a doctor, nor a medical researcher. But I am a parent who's been fighting for the life of my teenage daughter who has now been diagnosed with Lyme Disease + 2 co-infections. I have a biology degree and have been through a lot of illnesses myself, but I've never seen anything like the story of Lyme. This book is a must-read for all parents. It is a fact-based narrative that tells it like it is, from the political in-fighting in the medical community to the important research that's not getting the attention it should. And the stories it tells about those infected with Lyme are mesmerizing. We fight for a diagnosis, then we fight for treatment. If my family wasn't living this story ourselves, I'd think this was a Stephen King novel.
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