Why are 250 people a month being tested for Lyme disease?
31st October 2016
By Rada Rouse
THOUSANDS of Australians are being tested for Lyme disease every year despite no convincing evidence that it occurs or even that there is a competent vector, specialists say.
In a review published by the MJA, infectious diseases physician Professor Peter Collignon, from ACT Pathology at Canberra Hospital, and pathologists, report that over a 23-month period ending July 2016 more than 5600 Lyme antibody tests were requested for 5395 patients from one private laboratory.
The lab, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane, conducts