Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
by Pamela Weintraub
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Book Reviews of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Book Review: 5-Star great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
It was a great book! It was both a good read (I read it out loud to my husband who has Chronic Lyme) and a great source of information. I enjoyed the case history approach to the book that created a poignant human aspect to offset the more scientific information. I also enjoyed the political aspect she presented that helps explain why so many physicians and the CDC have stubbornly ignored this terrible disease. I appreciated her sharing the frustration and confusion of those trying to navigate the Lyme dilemma. I could really identify with it as it has been a very rough journey for our family (we lived in Connecticut) and it really clarified for me the nature of the microbe we were dealing with and how best to go about beating it. I was both informed and encouraged and I am indebted to Pam for sharing her journey so we might all benefit from her experiences.Book Review: Best Book On Lyme and Controversy
Summary: 5 Stars
By far the best and most comprehensive book ever written on lyme disease and the intense controversy surrounding it. There are a lot of books being written about lyme disease and as a lyme patient going on 8 years, I must warn other lyme patients, especially new patients, to be careful what you read. I highly recommend CURE UNKNOWN. Its all you need to know written in a way that takes away the mass confusion one steps into when diagnosed with lyme. I have the highest respect for her courageous investigative journalism and for her tenacity to write this book while being treated for lyme and also dealing with her two sons lyme disease and her husbands lyme disease! Talk about a nightmare situation, but it is becoming more and more common for entire family's to have lyme disease! CURE UNKNOWN is the SOS I have been hoping for! PW and Cure Unknown is a GOD SEND!Book Review: The Lyme Disease Controversy
Summary: 5 Stars
This excellently written, highly readable account explains how the complex interplay of egos, politics, big money, intellectual bias, hubris, and selective rejection of pertinent evidence in the refereed medical literature have denied many Lyme disease patients timely and accurate diagnosis and prompt, appropriate treatment. The majority of the medical community appears to be appallingly misinformed about this complex spirochetal infection and their widespread collective ignorance has prolonged many patients' suffering and often, financial hardship. The net result is a major public health problem that threatens to become both larger and more widespread as our climate warms, deer and tick populations multiply, and state and federal agencies misunderstand and hence, underestimate the serious medical implications of misdiagnosed and untreated Lyme.Book Review: A must read
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read at least 5 other Lyme related books, while each of them has their merit, Cure Unknown Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic contains unbiased views of our current struggle with the CDC and finding a cure for this ravinging disease. For those of us affected by Lyme, it is insightful, caring, empathtic and powerful. I think every medical doctor should be required to read this. I think the CDC needs to read this. My hats off to the author, she could have lost her temper so many times throughout the writing of this book, but it never shows. I know I'm angry about this and how it has affected my life. Anyhow, I highly recommend this book for everyone, even those who have not been exposed to this disease - LymeBook Review: Buy this book for everyone you know!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Both my husband and very good friend have Lyme disease and a good friend of ours just bought us this book. I have not been able to put this book down!!!! We had two birthday parties to go to this weekend and we were reading it at the parties, we were reading it in bed before we went to sleep and before and during our morning coffee. I have heard bits and pieces of the information she has in this book, but she puts it together so amazingly well and it is so easy to read and understand. She is such an amazing writer. We are buying copies for every friend. In fact, we would really like to find it on CD so that our lazy family members will perhaps listen to it if they won't put the energy into reading it. (Hopefully they won't read this, if you do, well, we love you;-)
To summarize: BUY THIS BOOK