Medical Breakthrough: VA Tech Dr has found answers about Lyme disease that can confirm post lyme infections and lead to better testing and treatment. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/06/FLSI-CALS-Lyme-arthritis.html?utm_source=cmpgn_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vtUnirelNewsDailyCMP_061819-f%2Fs This is big!  First it means the hope of vindication for the millions of sufferers who have been ridiculed by their doctors when they reported still feeling sick after short term antibiotic use.  It may be hard to believe that happens but every Lyme sufferer has AT LEAST one story of being told they are stupid, crazy or some other horrible word by their own personal physicians.  More importantly, if tests are allowed to be developed and administered insurance companies will no longer be able to deny claims for coverage of treatment past the first 90 days.  If those tests were widely available Millions (I am not exaggerating) of new diagnosis will be made, since even the CDC admits that those 300,000 diagnosed each year is a small percentage of those actually infected due to poor testing reliability and wide variety of symptoms.  Each Lyme case is unique from every other case due to the tick that infected them having a unique mix of the 50 some common animal illnesses that they have in them from every host they have fed off of.  That means that almost any symptoms can be caused by a tick bite.  If physicians would test every patient who has unremitted symptoms of any kind at all millions more would discover that their arthritis, MS, Dementia, Mental illness and Parkinson's disease and other illnesses are actually Lyme disease. What percentage of those illnesses are incorrectly diagnosed is unknown at present and this find could be the answer to differentiating them.