Madison Area Lyme Support Group

SPRINGFIELD — A home test for Lyme disease from LetsGetChecked comes in a box with a message on the inside. “It’s good to know,” it reads.

A recently filed lawsuit has a different phrase for the test: “false advertising with tragic consequences.”

Filed in U.S. District court in Springfield, the class action lawsuit alleges that the LetsGetChecked test is not accurate, deceives customers and violates consumer protection law.

Moira Kerans, who lives in Dalton, and TruthCures, a Kansas-based nonprofit focused on Lyme disease, filed the suit in June against LetsGetChecked. It demands a jury trial and $5 million in damages.

The company ”strongly disputes” the lawsuit’s claims, LetsGetChecked spokesperson Emily Ryan said in an email. “As this matter is subject to legal proceedings, we shall be making no further comments,” Ryan said.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A few important points:

• The article makes sure to state that the FDA has NOT approved any home tests for Lyme disease.  What it fails to mention is that the current “cleared” 2-tiered testing is also abysmal, yet because it’s “cleared” by the FDA, it is the only accepted test which has kept patients from proper diagnosis for decades. This testing problem goes back to the Second National Conference on Lyme Disease Testing in Dearborn, Michigan in 1994 and will continue to be a problem because the CDC recommends tests with the FDA stamp on it.  They purposely took out the most specific band for Lyme due to their vested interest in a Lyme vaccine but continue to blather about “reliability” when it’s not reliable at all!   It’s a sad state of affairs.
• The FDA is guilty of stifling, banning, or censoring anything it considers a threat to its monopoly, including testing.  This out of control agency receives money from the very companies it regulates, and needs to be eliminated.
• While I agree that this home test should not be a substitute for a doctor’s visit, I would also emphasize that neither should the FDA approved test be a substitute for a doctor’s visit, but herein lies another problem: doctors are hopelessly lost on virtually everything Lyme/MSIDS related.  Medical schools only teach a CDC narrative based on 40 year old science done by a Cabal that has vested interests.
• LetsGetChecked must file a formal response to the complaint in court later this month, according to the online docket.  As far as I’m concerned the CDC and FDA have had a lot to answer for as well.