Private clinicians are frequently and intentionally misdiagnosing Lyme disease in an effort to prescribe long courses of expensive treatment and drugs to patients, a retired British doctor has warned.
Dr. Matthew Dryden, a prominent consultant microbiologist, argues a financially lucrative industry has grown around patients with “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” (ME) being told they are suffering from Lyme, the symptoms of which include headaches, joint and muscle pain, tiredness, and a high temperature.
He also explained that a number of U.S. medical insurers refused to cover the costs of treating ME but do cover the costs of chronic Lyme disease.
“The phenomenon of pseudo-Lyme and its treatments have spread across the Atlantic to mainly Anglo-Saxon countries and even to Australia, where Lyme disease has never been found,” Dryden states before adding: “These clinics and laboratories are taking advantage of vulnerable and desperate people with chronic symptoms.”
Dryden’s claims have been vindicated by a recent study from Johns Hopkins University that found over a 13-year period ending in 2013, a staggering 72 percent of all diagnosed Lyme cases were inaccurate.
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