Lyme Disease: Why It’s Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What to Do about It (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) Paperback – April 15, 2015

Lyme disease is one of the most controversial and misunderstood areas of infectious disease, yet Barbour presents the facts in a dispassionate and factual way in spite of the hostility it seems to generate from those who prefer their "facts" from the internet instead of the researchers including Dr. Barbour who has spent most of his illustrious career sleuthing the facts and details of this disease. This book is a testament to that effort, and has unfairly and irrationally been attacked by the advocates of alternative theories.

I found this to be a well written, balanced book on Lyme disease. The author presents nuanced and state of the art evaluations of what is known and not known about Lyme disease. As opposed to the often highly partisan screeds that come from both sides of the Lyme disease debate, I found this to be well reasoned and fair. A very interesting read.

Excellent resource for all. Barbour explains in an easily understandable manner. I wish I would have read this book first. He helps discern truth and studied/tested ideas about lymes from hypothetical/guessing.

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I just head the author on NPR. I cannot believe how much he has gotten scientifically wrong!He says that 70% of people bit have the rash. It's 70% don't.He says only the places with deer will have Lyme. Wrong! There have been many studies that show that the biggest vector for Lyme is the white-footed deer mouse. And places that got rid of all the deer still had ticks and Lyme. But then contradicted himself by saying that birds carry Lyme.He says only deer ticks carry Lyme. Wrong! Lone star ticks carry it.He says that tetracycline is the usual antibiotic to fight Lyme. NO ONE prescribes that. It's DOXYcycline.He says the old Lyme vaccine was not properly marketed and failed. Not because of horrible side effects. Yet it was the horrible side effects that actually stopped the vaccine AND it didn't work!This author is so uninformed and wrong about almost everything. Where is he qualified to publish a book on Lyme????Read Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic by Pam Weintraub to get well researched and helpful information.

The title should be "Spreading the IDSA Lies about Lyme disease". This man is one of the doctors who has caused so much suffering of so many Lyme patients worldwide for decades. Buy Dr. R. Horowitz's book, "Why Can't I Get Better?" instead of this one if you need information Lyme disease.

I obtained this info from Health Lyme is a Biowarfare Issuelyme-rage.info/bwsept06.html by Elena CookIn 2005 Barbour, who spent much of his career studying the "hard-to-catch, easy-to-cure" Lyme disease, was placed in charge of the multi-million new biowarfare mega-complex based at University of California at Irvine (UCI). [xxiv] Barbour is joined there by his close colleague and fellow Steerite Jonas Bunikis, author of recent papers calling for a restrictive approach to Lyme diagnosis. . .Barbour researched anthrax for the Army in the 1970's . . .The number of Steere camp Lyme researchers with a background in theEpidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and/or biowarfare research is toonumerous to be pure co-incidence. Two scientists who have played acentral role in the Lyme story, Barbour and Klempner, have been placedin charge of new biowar super-labs set up in the aftermath of 9-11. . .Barbour was working for the EIS. The EIS is an elite, quasi-military unit of Infectious Disease experts set up in the 1950's to develop an offensive biowarfare capability. Despite the banning of offensive biowar in the 1970's, the crack troops of the EIS continue to exist, ostensibly for non-offensiveresearch into "emerging disease" threats, a blanket phrase covering both bioweapon attacks and natural epidemics at the same time. Graduates of the EIS training program are sent in to occupy strategic positions in the US health infrastructure, taking leadership at federal and state health agencies, in academia, industry and the media. The organisation also extends its influence abroad, training officers for public health agencies in Britain, France, the Netherlands etc.