I am SICK of this obsession with HIV(most of which is self inflicted) when they get billions in research when LYME disease is being diagnosed in numbers far outstripping AIDS and through no fault of the victims while the CDC and ISDC sits on their thumbs and refuses to acknowledge the problem or even give a nod to the fact that a couple weeks of antibiotics is not sufficient to fix a chronic problem—thus insurance companies decline to cover it as a long term problem in many cases.
Lyme disease is growing? I don’t like the sound of that. Although Lyne disease can be taken care of if you figure out the person has it in the early stages, issues such as brain damage and paralysis can be avoided or reversed. HIV on the other hand, you have that in you permanently, and the best you can do is suppress it hard, and hope it isn’t a strain that has developed immunity to the antiviral medication. But I agree that Lyme disease isn’t entirely possible to avoid.