Hannah McElhinney的表妹Lauren因患慢性疲劳综合征、纤维肌痛症，后来相信自己患有莱姆病1。Lauren在马来西亚接受替代医学治疗后患败血症，最终因脑部缺氧受损、心脏衰竭和中风迹象去世1。尸检结果显示Lauren的脑部实际上并无莱姆病细菌，她的死亡由不必要的替代医学治疗引起1。
McElhinney在表妹去世后展开调查，撰写了回忆录《Wormhole》来揭示这一悲剧1。这部作品揭露了在线健康社区如何传播危险的替代治疗建议，以及这些治疗如何导致患者死亡1。在线Chronic Lyme Disease小组向患者推广可疑的排毒产品，价格高达数百美元，并通过复杂的科学语言将这些治疗伪装得更具说服力1。当治疗失败时，责任往往被转嫁到患者身上，声称他们"不够努力"1。McElhinney表示："我想阻止别人遭遇这样的经历"1。
Hannah McElhinney's cousin Lauren died from sepsis and hypoxic brain damage after receiving alternative medical treatment in Malaysia, despite believing she had Lyme disease.1 Lauren had initially been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, but eventually became convinced she was suffering from Lyme disease, leading her to seek unconventional therapy abroad.1 An autopsy revealed that Lauren's brain contained no Lyme disease bacteria, indicating that unnecessary alternative treatments had directly caused her death.1 The alternative medicine she received resulted in brain damage from oxygen deprivation, heart failure, sepsis, and signs of stroke.1
Following her cousin's death, McElhinney conducted an investigation into how online health communities promote dangerous treatments. She documented her findings in a memoir titled "Wormhole," which exposes how these networks spread risky medical advice and dubious detoxification products priced at hundreds of dollars to vulnerable patients.1 McElhinney stated: "I want to prevent others from experiencing what happened to Lauren."1 The memoir reveals a troubling pattern in which alternative practitioners use complex scientific language to mask their treatments, and when such treatments fail, patients are blamed for not trying hard enough.1
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