As long as the medical community perceives chronic Lyme disease as an untreatable process that will somehow disappear with faith and prayer, patients with the debilitating symptoms of this disease will continue to suffer. Conversely, if the persistent symptoms described so elegantly by Cairns and Godwin are recognized as markers of chronic infection, then treatment of patients with chronic Lyme disease will become a logical approach, and the suffering of patients with chronic Lyme disease symptoms will be alleviated.

Publisher: International Journal of Epidemiology

DOI/PMC/PMID: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyi240