All Posts Tagged With: "Lyme"

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RESULTS: Antibodies were detected in all evaluated groups. In
group of neuroborreliosis (lymphocytic meningitis with cranial
nerve invoIvement) there was no essential difference with control
group.
It was stated in group of forestry workers with serological
features of infection B. burgdorferi lasting for years.
CONCLUSIONS: Results of the study do
not support the thesis of participation of IgG autoantibodies
against gangliosides in pathogenesis early disseminated Lyme
borreliosis in form of lymphocytic meningitis with cranial nerves
paresis. Antibodies against endogenous glicosfingolipides in Lyme
borreliosis probably can lead to affecting nervous system
(demielinisation and polineuropathy) but probably require
long-term immunization, what is suggested by results of examined
group of patients with the multi-annual serological features of
infection.

AAAS article on most recent XMRV study

 In their publication “Science Now.”  Hedging their bets?

Linda’s comment: So as I see it, it is just another pathogen that chronically ill people need to deal with….Is it really a virus, parasite, bacterial?????  Don’t feed it, get on the FIGHT program and stop it in its track. All of these critters like the spirochete love feeding off GMO, toxic chemical sweeteners, heavy metals, etc., etc., etc.,  This gives them their energies/food supply to wreak havoc on our bodies.  Healthy people have an advantage over chronic illness.  The FIGHT program is one of the best prevention programs I have ever experienced.

Listen up as the XMRV is just one of many new things that are attacking our bodies.  Scientists are having a difficult time keeping up with all the new tragedies attacking our bodies because of our toxic environments.

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A theory linking chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) to an infectious mouse virus known as XMRV has taken a second major hit. First proposed last October in Science, the virus-CFS connection was quickly challenged by a British group. Now a second team of British virologists reports that, after examining tissue from 170 CFS patients, they have failed to find evidence of XMRV.

Patients with CFS often report that their condition–a mix of symptoms including unexplained pains and excessive fatigue–began after an otherwise normal viral infection. And scientists in the past have preliminarily linked CFS to a few viruses. However, those links have fallen apart under scrutiny, and without a firm biological cause for CFS, victims continue to face skepticism that their condition is a “real” disease.

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The aim of this study is to report three cases of patients with
endometriosis and infertility, and associated with Lyme disease.
The medical files of 405 women with endometriosis and 200 without
endometriosis were studied retrospectively. We report 3 cases
with endometriosis and Lyme disease. Of 405 patients with
endometriosis treated in our study over a 6-year period, 3(0.8%)
had Lyme disease. All cases presented with typical erythema
migraines, fever and fatigue. The serological findings were
positive for Borrelia burgdorferi, for 3 cases. Two out of 3
women underwent IVF-ET procedures and one of them conceived in
the first cycle without complication during pregnancy or after
childbirth recorded. We concluded that women with endometriosis
are more likely to have chronic fatigue syndrome, systemic lupus
erythematous, Sjogren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple
sclerosis, and other autoimmune inflammatory and endocrine
diseases. A review of the literature confirms the uniqueness of
the co-existence of Lyme disease in women with endometriosis in
these cases.

*********They had to spend thousands perhaps, even more to find that Birds are playing an important role in the spread of Lyme Disease??  What???   Are you telling me that birds stop at each border and request the right to fly over your state??  What a big waste of money….why doesn’t Yale and the Infectious Disease docs and other specialists at Yale, who say there is NO chronic Lyme, spend money finding a cure for Lyme disease instead of finding out what we patient’s already know.  Give me a break!!

*********It is time that patient’s start standing up and pushing back….sitting back and doing nothing is getting us no where.

*********We need to stop “fearing” city hall, when we can be city hall in these Lyme wars.

*********Just remember folks, Lyme isn’t just carried by ticks….look to birds, rodents, mice, we need to understand that it is up to us Lymie’s to take a stand.

Regards,

Linda

Article Excerpt:

New Haven, Conn. – The range of Lyme disease is spreading in North America and it appears that birds play a significant role by transporting the Lyme disease bacterium over long distances, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study appears online in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Researchers analyzed published records and concluded that at least 70 species of North American birds are susceptible to infection by black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), the principal vector of the Lyme disease bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi). The evidence also suggests that these bird species are dispersing infected ticks into areas that had previously been free of the disease, such as Canada.

Lyme disease bacterium is usually associated with small mammals such as mice and squirrels. Immature ticks (in the larval and nymphal stages) become infected with the bacterium when they feed on these mammals. During subsequent blood meals, an infected tick transmits the infection to other hosts, including humans. White-tailed deer-while playing an important role in maintaining and spreading tick populations-are a biological dead end for the bacterium because its blood is immune to infection.

Birds, however, are not immune and numerous species get infected and are capable of transmitting the pathogen onto ticks, the researchers found. What remains to be seen is whether the B. burgdorferi strains that can infect birds can also cause disease in humans. If so, the role of birds in the epidemiology of Lyme disease could be profound.
 

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Linda’s comment:  This would not make for a great Christmas….This is a serious situation and I have to admit, I hadn’t thought about it until reading this article….Be very careful  and don’t let these blood-sucking ticks ruin your Holidays.

Families who bring Christmas trees into their homes should watch out for ticks this holiday season because the tiny blood-sucking, disease-ridden creatures often survive winter temperatures, German daily Bild reported. Continued

Abstract: The life transmission cycle of B. burgdorferi requires migration of spirochetes from tick’s gut to its salivary glands during vertebrate’s blood sucking, penetrating to the vertebrate’s tissues and their colonization. A special feature of these bacteria, despite
its relatively small genome, is the ability to adapt in different host environments. Continued

NOTHING is rare these days!!  If Hepatitis, parasites, Lyme, can be passed on why do they find it so hard to believe that this amoeba can be passed on????  There are liver recipients who get a new liver ONLY to find it is infected with Hepatitis, Lyme and parasites!!  If the health departments will not classify Lyme as an STD, how can we expect them test for parasites.  Yes, I agree there are many parasites that we humans can and DO pass on to each other….Another reason to make sure you are on a life-long detox, so you are aggressively fighting these “rare” issues and disease.  If it is true and you can get the infection by breathing it in, then it is a MUST that we use ACS200ppm. 
 
Regards,
Linda or Angel

JACKSON, Miss. – An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday. Four people in three states received organs from a patient who died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in November after suffering from neurological problems, said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention. Continued

A 15-year-old girl being treated with imatinib for chronic myelogenous
leukemia (CML) presented with acute vision loss in her right eye
accompanied by swelling of the right side of her neck. On examination,
she was found to have disk and macular edema of the right eye.
Fine-needle aspiration and excisional biopsies of an enlarged
submandibular lymph node were negative for malignancy. Although initial
serologies were equivocal for Bartonella henselae, repeat serologies
performed 1 week later upon the appearance of a macular star were
positive. This is the first reported case of B. henselae in a patient
with CML. Continued

TACDA is the acronym for the American Civil Defence Association.
In one of the documents on their web site at www.tacda.org, there are
instructions on how to prepare for both chemical and biological attacks. Continued