Re: NEWS: Mark Klempner and The Science.

the 3rd Man wrote:
Depends on what you mean by "cured"...how you define it.

If you are, I would think, relieved of symptoms...I would guess most
people would believe themselves "cured"...even if a few leftover
spiros remain.

Unless the body's immune response is now totally and completely
ineffective...wouldn't one expect that the immune system could handle
the mop-up of remaining spirochetes?

Perhaps one would expect, but how many spirochetes are entering the body in case of a bite from an infected tick? Can't be that many either, but still the immune system can't always handle them. So, I don't know, perhaps in some, but not all, cases the immune system can handle the remaining spirochetes.

"CONCLUSION: Ceftriaxone fails to cure Lyme Disease due to the
intracellularity
of the spirochetes."

NO.

Indeed, correct would be to conclude that ceftriaxone fails to eradicate all spirochetes; which does not necessarily imply that it fails to cure Lyme Disease.
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