Thank you for all the info.
From all we have read (and there is a lot of literature on Lyme on the internet), it seems that Lyme disease is also transmitted by the bite of other insects (mosquitoes).
However, despite all the studies available on the net, this pathology remains little known in France.
This morning we were in an infectious disease department of a hospital to start treatment following the positive Elisa test, but ... rebellious, the attending physician not having deemed it useful to have the serology confirmed by the Western Blot test, we have to wait for the results of this 2nd test.
It also turns out that the few French doctors who know and specialize in the treatment of this disease do not like being told what we have read on the net about Lyme and very controversial opinions!
According to the specialist met this morning, a lot of information on the internet is deliberately false, ambiguous and alarmist, and widely disseminated on the media by certain laboratories in order to encourage many tests which cost several hundred euros each. .. tests obviously sold by said laboratories!
However, the association France-Lyme offers to advise locally the people affected, and, effectively, after sending them an email requesting information, a person to call back within the hour to give advice to avoid getting embroiled in unnecessary, lengthy medical procedures and expensive prescribed by doctors who do not know the pathology!
In fact, this disease being difficult to diagnose, from the outset most of the incompetent doctors in the matter diagnose "psychosomatic" disorders,
like this testimony!
In short, between the complexity of the forms that Lyme disease can take and a medical profession that remains locked in its certainties, the bacteria
Bb still has a bright future ahead of it.
Since an Elisa test gave us a positive result 1 week ago, we have sought to find out more and have questioned those around us. Fact,
everyone we have talked to has a loved one who has been or is affected : this may not be a reliable statistic but it seems that this disease is therefore very widespread.
(Including among the forumTheir econologists, many of whom seem to have crossed paths with Borrelia ...)