Re: Coconut oil/Now lyme

[Guest guest]

From www.lymepa.org

" The LDASEPA ran a post card mail survey of Pocopson Township,

Chester County, PA to estimate the current and past presence of Lyme

disease in the general population.

" The purposes are to use this pilot program to set approximate

limits on the prevalence of Lyme disease and support a future effort

to run a wide area scientific survey that would determine for our

region the full impact that tick-borne diseases have had on the

population as a whole.

" We believe the CDC surveillance system vastly underestimates the

true incidence of Lyme disease, beyond even the ten-fold under

reporting the CDC says is likely. Our survey supported this notion.

" Summary: 40% of all 848 residential households responded to the

survey, representing 978 individuals who constitute ~30% of the

entire township population. 47% of households had one or more

individuals who currently have Lyme disease or had it in the past.

Of the 948 individuals responding, 21% currently have Lyme disease

or had it in the past. These returns surely indicate an epidemic of

Lyme disease. There is good reason to think that these results do

represent the entire Southeastern Pennsylvania region. "

(Even if none of the people who did not have lyme responded, that's

still a huge part of the population, and that's just the ones who

have been diagnosed! According to the Canadian Lyme Foundation it

takes an average of 6 doctors to get a correct diagnosis for lyme)

[Guest guest]

Emma:

In your opinion...what is a genuine scientific diagnosis?

vsp

On 9/3/06, Emma Davies <emma@...> wrote:

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> > " The LDASEPA ran a post card mail survey of Pocopson Township,

> > Chester County, PA to estimate the current and past presence of Lyme

> > disease in the general population.

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> A more scientific way to get figures on lyme disease would be to

> survey diagnoses performed by hospitals. A post card mail survey just

> proves that a lot of people believe they have lyme disease. Belief is

> a long way from a genuine scientific diagnosis. A lot of people in the

> US - including a number on this board - don't believe in evolution.

> That doesn't mean they're right either.

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