Linda’s comments: Amazing how animals get better research and treatments than humans!!??  God Bless Dr Breitschwerft for his research …… He found “first time documented evidence that the pathogen may have been passed between family members.”  What Lida Mattman said all alone.  Then they say ,”At least 26 strains of Bartonella have been named worldwide, and the list is growing.”…..  AGAIN, a VET finds out with his continued research how deadly Bartonella can be.  This statement/quote ” Dr. Michael Kosoy, who heads the Bartonella laboratory for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, Colo., said scientists are only beginning to build evidence that Bartonella infections may be more common than previously thought.” WHAT, NOW the CDC is admitting that Bartonella exists??  WOW….unbelievable….Perhaps all the pressure the Lymies are putting on research, IDSA and doctors is working….

BY SARAH AVERY – Staff Writer

A bacterial infection typically spread by fleas, lice and biting flies could be more prevalent than many think, and may have been transmitted from a mother to her children at birth, scientists from N.C. State University say.

Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt, an infectious disease veterinarian and one of the world’s leading researchers of bacteria called Bartonella, has for the first time documented evidence that the pathogen may have been passed between family members.

Although more studies are needed to back up his findings, Breitschwerdt and colleagues describe the case of a mother and father who began battling chronic aches, fatigues and other symptoms soon after they were married. When their twins were born in 1998, the daughter died after nine days from a heart defect, and the son developed chronic health problems.

Using tissue from the daughter’s autopsy and blood from the surviving family members, Breitschwerdt’s team discovered that the entire family was infected with the same species of Bartonella bacteria, despite having no shared exposures to flea or lice infestations. Bartonella is known to causes such illnesses as trench fever and cat scratch disease, and it is increasingly suspected of triggering a variety of aches and inflammations that doctors have been unable to diagnose.

“I think we have stumbled across something that is of monumental medical importance,” said Breitschwerdt, whose findings were published recently in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Proving the mother-child transmission could be difficult, however. Little funding is available for such research because the bacteria are still not considered a major source of human disease.

Dr. Michael Kosoy, who heads the Bartonella laboratory for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, Colo., said scientists are only beginning to build evidence that Bartonella infections may be more common than previously thought.

At any rate, THANK GOD this is coming to the public….there is hope folks…..we just can’t give up the FIGHT….which brings me to the Dr Garry Gordon FIGHT protocol…..I have been on it for 1 1/2 years and IT WORKS….Lyme and the co-infections do NOT have a chance if you are on the FIGHT protocol….getting control and cleaning out the total body burden of pathogens and toxins in our bodies only helps to speed along our wellness journeys….. 

BY SARAH AVERY – Staff Writer

A bacterial infection typically spread by fleas, lice and biting flies could be more prevalent than many think, and may have been transmitted from a mother to her children at birth, scientists from N.C. State University say.

Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt, an infectious disease veterinarian and one of the world’s leading researchers of bacteria called Bartonella, has for the first time documented evidence that the pathogen may have been passed between family members.

Although more studies are needed to back up his findings, Breitschwerdt and colleagues describe the case of a mother and father who began battling chronic aches, fatigues and other symptoms soon after they were married. When their twins were born in 1998, the daughter died after nine days from a heart defect, and the son developed chronic health problems.

Using tissue from the daughter’s autopsy and blood from the surviving family members, Breitschwerdt’s team discovered that the entire family was infected with the same species of Bartonella bacteria, despite having no shared exposures to flea or lice infestations. Bartonella is known to causes such illnesses as trench fever and cat scratch disease, and it is increasingly suspected of triggering a variety of aches and inflammations that doctors have been unable to diagnose.

“I think we have stumbled across something that is of monumental medical importance,” said Breitschwerdt, whose findings were published recently in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Proving the mother-child transmission could be difficult, however. Little funding is available for such research because the bacteria are still not considered a major source of human disease.

Dr. Michael Kosoy, who heads the Bartonella laboratory for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, Colo., said scientists are only beginning to build evidence that Bartonella infections may be more common than previously thought.

“Bartonella are circulated around the world in many animals, but there are different Bartonella species, and the question is how can they be transmitted to humans?” Kosoy said, noting that most known cases have been transmitted from biting insects. He said the NCSU findings about the potential family transmission are compelling but inconclusive.

Dozens of strains

At least 26 strains of Bartonella have been named worldwide, and the list is growing. The most notorious Bartonella infection is cat scratch disease, a fever illness passed to humans from flea-infected cats. Fleas are the primary hosts, and they spread the bacteria in their feces.

Full article:
Bacteria Found In Nearly Half Of Fast-Food Soda Fountains

Excerpt:

A group of microbiologists at Virginia’s Hollins University found alarming levels of bacteria, possibly from feces, in fast-food soda fountains.

A scary 48 percent of machine beverages tested contained coliform bacteria – which can originate in fecal matter, the International Journal of Food Microbiology study showed. Even more worrying: Most of the bacteria identified were resistant to antibiotics.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a disease that was prominent with
increased inflammation response in immune system, appeared mostly with
peripheral arthritis and endogenous and exogenous antigens play a role
in the pathogenesis of disease. Two major reasons were thinking to be
considerably important. First of them is immunological predisposition
and the second one is environmental factors.

Infections are considered to be the most important between environmental factors but also stress and trauma are also important in the etiology of the disease. However,
the relation between JIA and infections is not clearly defined but the
relation between adult chronic arthritis and infections was
well-defined. A total of 70 patients, 26 with primer JIA, 20 with
recurrent JIA, 24 healthy control were included in this study.
Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae and C. Jejuni were
detected in 4, 1 and 1 of 10 (38.46%) patients with primer JIA,
respectively. Salmonella enteritidis, EBV, M. pneumoniae, C. jejuni and
Borrelia burgdorferi were detected in 1, 2, 2, 2, and 1 of the 8(40%)
patients with recurrent JIA, respectively. S. enteritidis were isolated
in feces culture and also identified by agglutination method. Infection
was detected in total 18 (39.13%) of patient groups. C. pneumoniae and
C. jejuni were detected in 1 and 1 of 2(8.33) healthy control groups,
respectively. Throat culture positivity was not detected in any of the
patient and healthy control groups. In conclusion, etiopathogenesis of
JIA is not clearly understood and suggested that various factors can
trigger the disease and it is the most common rheumatoid disease of
childhood. However, there are some studies focusing especially on one
infectious agent but this is the first study including such a big range
of infectious agents in the literature for the microorganisms that can
be suggested to have a role in the etiopathogenesis of JIA. We have a
conclusion in the light of our results and suggest that some
microorganisms can trigger and increase the intensity of clinical
situation according to the case. When we evaluate the primer and
recurrent JIA groups; M. pneumoniae and C. jejuni come forward and seen
common in JIA cases. We also suggest that the pre-diagnosis of
microorganisms, which can play a role as primarily or by intervening in
the etiopathogenesis of JIA and adding specific antimicrobial therapy to
the standard JIA therapy, it is possible to perform new, extended,
especially molecular based serial case studies.

PMID: 20012631 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

Rheumatol Int.. [Epub ahead of print]

Do infections trigger juvenile idiopathic arthritis?

Aslan M, Kasapcopur O, Yasar H, Polat E, Saribas S, Cakan H, Dirican A,
Torun MM, Ar?soy N, Kocazeybek B.

Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology Department, Cerrahpasa Medical
Faculty, Istanbul University, Kocamustafapasa, 34303, Istanbul, Turkey.