The controversy comes as the number of Lyme disease cases is on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 16,800 reported cases of Lyme disease around the country in 1998, the latest year for which there is complete data. That was up from 12,800 cases a year earlier. And the CDC says the actual number could be 10 times that. Here we are in the middle of an epidemic where patients are desperate.
Results are years away.
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