Cure Unknown

Weintraub, Pamela. a former staff writer at Discovery, writes the most articulate first hand experience of the Lyme epidemic to date in Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic.


Further validating what top researchers (unbiased by the mob intimidation tactics of Insurance companies who do not want to foot the bill for the multiple symptoms nor the necessary IV treatment of Lyme) at NYC have established regarding chronic Lyme, this book is academically presented and well researched. It belongs in all public libraries. Weintraub, began researching Lyme disease after her family became seriously ill after moving to the New York countryside where they were inflicted with chronic Lyme from dear tick bites. Her suspicions were affirmed once she met (often via the internet but in physical encounters as well) people who were also suffering from nervous system failure, persistent fatigue, pain, and cognitive problems including various levels of dementia. Weintraub cites the fact that long-term doses of antibiotics helped the majority of these patients, but most doctors were noticeably hesitant to prescribe them due to the fear of legal accusations (financed by major Insurance firms) of mistreatment. The author brings to life the frustrations of Lyme sufferers as well as the trials of maverick doctors who are attempting to treat patients the best way they can.