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26. The point was the medical community didn't know the difference at the time

Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:32 AM

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It wasn't endemic to the NE US in 1980, and I don't see articles about it locally now. The illness was far along and didn't have the characteristics of the disease but they still thought that's what it was. Tests, 10 days later, proved negative, but they had no other tick-borne category to put it in.

There were no tests for lyme back then, and weren't in the late 1990s. Sometimes they would extract fluid to culture it.

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