After decades of being accused of being hypochondriacs, sufferers from chronic Lyme disease have been exonerated in an award-winning American documentary called “The Quiet Epidemic.” The 2022 film proves that Lyme spirochetes, in approximately 20 percent of those affected, remain active in the human body long after the customary three-week round of antibiotics.
Doctors and Insurance Companies Have Traditionally Questioned the Existence of Chronic Lyme
Although Lyme disease was first “discovered” in 1975, its chronic version is still often not accepted as a viable disease by many doctors and most insurance companies. “The Quiet Epidemic,” a documentary about chronic Lyme disease by filmmakers Lindsay Keys and Winslow Crane-Murdoch, may finally provide conclusive evidence that chronic Lyme does indeed exist.Journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer, from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., stated in the film that the battle over chronic Lyme is “one of the most controversial and vicious medical debates today … What we have here is a war—an insurgency against evidence-based medicine.”
