This article covers the main areas of contention surrounding Lyme disease. Whilst the medical profession has traditionally regarded Lyme disease as fairly mild and easily treated, there are now many patients and doctors who are claiming that the current treatment guidelines simply don't work and leave many patients with life long symptoms, and they are being systematically dismissed and ignored. What is the controversy? Many thousands of patients with generic symptoms of illness, pain, mental problems and fatigue claim to have Lyme disease. Some claim that scientists, insurers and government institutions are colluding to deny research, testing and treatment to them. Some claim that Lyme disease came from a government research lab located close to the original outbreak. Some claim that the attempts to develop a vaccine lead to many patients becoming seriously ill, and that testing methods were deliberately changed to not detect this condition, which as a result caused the