LymeScience @lymescience.org · Jun 18

A preventable death. For decades, people convinced that they have "chronic Lyme disease" have tried to heat their bodies in desperate and dangerous attempts to kill fictional micro-invaders. In a new book Wormhole, Hannah McElhinney writes about her cousin Lauren, a #Lyme quackery victim.

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LizW · Jun 18

Total body hyperthermia? Are you fucking kidding me? I mean can they get with modern quackery, like deliberate infection with malaria or intracellular hypothermia therapy (dinitrophenol). TBH was killing patients in the 1970s, half a century ago.