David Cubberley, the B.C. Director of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation has posted a letter to the B.C, Minister of Health. In it he provides a good synopsis of the situation facing more and more patients, not just in British Columbia, but also across the rest of Canada. Accurate information is being withheld from Doctors and from the general public. Testing is woefully inadequate. And many are suffering. Come on Canada, let’s get our act together. Don’t run away from lyme disease!
British Columbians are being denied access to medically necessary care due to flawed tests and an induced skepticism about Lyme’s prevalence promoted by the CDC on the U.S. model. Actions are needed to provide doctors with appropriate diagnostic tools and to free them to recognize and treat Lyme effectively when it appears in their offices. This is not difficult to do, but it means getting out from under the inadequacies of the BC CDC’s suppressive approach to this disease. And this needs to be done before the disease becomes an epidemic.