Not to get into last week's discussion, but there are obviously differing views in the medical community regarding Lyme disease. In terms of acute Lyme disease and what the treatment is—antibiotics and so on—that's pretty well established. However, for these individuals—some of whom have chronic symptoms that could be consistent with Lyme disease but there's not an actual laboratory confirmation—it is, to be quite honest, a controversy. Many physicians will say that there really is nothing to treat, and that inappropriately giving antibiotics when there isn't an established infection that you can actually diagnose would do more harm in the long term, both for the patient and also for the community at large. That is the ongoing issue. That's how Lyme disease, in terms of some physicians giving long-term antibiotics, affects this issue we're discussing today, AMR.
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