Also interviewed was the
CDC’s Paul Mead, MD, Chief of Epidemiology and Surveillance Activity of the Bacterial Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You can watch that
here.
Many patients and clinicians
expressed outrage on social media regarding what they considered to be dangerous, misleading information offered by Mead, and pointed out the CDC’s pattern of giving
preferential treatment to outdated IDSALyme guidelines instead of the more
scientifically-supported, patient-centered
ILADS guidelines.
Interestingly,
The National Guidelines Clearinghouse, a federal database that provides treatment information to health care professionals and insurance companies, has
removed the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines from its website and only lists the ILADS guidelines.
To help chronic Lyme patients who feel that the CDC has once again turned its back on them, Phillips wrote a formal rebuttal to some of Mead’s statements and Fox 5 posted it on
their Facebook page. Fox invited Mead to comment further but that request remains “under review.”
Read the entire article on
HuffingtonPost.