Post by Lyme Challenged on Oct 12, 2022 4:31:10 GMT -5
Thomas Grier updated his status.
Excerpt from my booklet:
Untrue/Never-True Facts About Lyme Disease
(…that we were told as absolute true facts)
• Only Ixodes dammini Ticks transmit Lyme
• Lyme Ticks are only found in the NE USA
• Lyme disease is only an arthritic disease
• The serology tests are 99% accurate
• Borreliosis is not an intracellular disease
• No scientific evidence of relapse after antibiotics
• No such thing as persistent infection after antibiotics
• Does not cause dementia
• Two-tiered testing is better than a single test
• Not transmitted transplacentally
• No one ever dies from Lyme disease
• Lyme disease is self-limiting
• Lyme is not related to Relapsing Fevers
• If a patient is still symptomatic after two weeks of antibiotics; they need to see a psychiatrist (ACP video)
No other disease in America was handled and manipulated the way Lyme disease was manipulated. Years later we would come to know that many of the early Lyme researchers had Naval Intelligence backgrounds, and some were even known to be associated with biowarfare labs. Despite the lack of support or comment from the military, the coincidences of being connected to biowarfare science are just too much to ignore. (See “Bitten” by Kris Newby)
Another biowarfare coincidence is the fact that in 1981-1982, Borrelia burgdorferi was first isolated from ticks from an island not far from Old Lyme CT. Shelter Island is just off the coast of NY and just north of Old Lyme. But just 25 miles north of Shelter Island was Plum Island, the world’s largest biowarfare facility.
Incidentally, long before Lyme Arthritis was described, there was another Shelter Island disease. It was a well-known local disorder called Montauk’s Knee. A swollen painful knee. (Take notice of where Montauk Point is?
Long Island doctors diagnosed a variety of diseases with names like 'Montauk knee' or 'Montauk Fisherman’s syndrome. Patients with Tick bites from the local islands had arthralgia and fatigue all pre-dating the 1975 discovery of “Lyme Arthritis”. “Island patients had symptoms similar to Lyme disease, and may have been Lyme disease.” according to Dr. David Persing, a pathologist, and pioneer of PCR testing. (Mayo Clinic who led the research while at Yale)
Another earlier version of Lyme disease in Europe was Bannwarth’s syndrome – caused by infected European Ixodes ticks with one of three species of Borrelia. In 1989 Bb was found in the CSF and brains of three Bannworth’s patients in 1989. (Note: Bb was found in the brains of three Bannworth-patient in 1989.) The medical community learned nothing from this discovery and ignored the implications.
This coincidental triad of Lyme-like disorders in the area of Plum Island (Biowarfare Facility) starts to make one wonder?
Later the late Dr. Andrew Spielman will further muddy these waters with his Ixodes dammini debacle. So back to 1975-1981 and the newly discovered disorder called “Lyme Arthritis”: What was being done with the ever-growing cases of “Lyme-Arthritis”? Most of them were given 10 days of tetracycline.
Miraculously when these long-standing cases of JRA were treated with tetracycline, the symptoms of the children mostly improved. NOTE: Not all the treated JRA-kids agreed twenty years later, that all their symptoms were gone. Mental clarity was diminished and chronic fatigue remained with many of the treated kids even decades after treatment, yet epidemiology reports listed them as cured and asymptomatic, or “mostly asymptomatic”. Because many cases of Lyme Arthritis responded to antibiotics (tetracycline, and doxycycline), it was assumed that there was an as-yet-to-be-discovered, undiagnosed bacterial infection causing Lyme disease. This clinical response to tetracycline led to the first incorrect assumption. From 1975-1981 “Lyme Arthritis” experts had a treatment protocol for Lyme disease. This was before they knew what they were actually treating.
What they had was an intracellular, slow-dividing, immune-evading, intracranial, highly-motile parasitic spirochete. All reasons why two weeks of antibiotics are often inadequate. You would never try to treat Leprosy or Tuberculosis Syphilis in such a cavalier manner.
Incorrect assumption #1
Since most bacterial infections are cured in 7-10 days with antibiotics, it is reasonable to treat “Lyme Arthritis” for just 7-10 days just like you would treat strep throat. (The example of comparing Lyme disease infections to Streptococcus, was used in the early medical literature to support an early treatment protocol with an antibiotic proven to be child safe.) Since strep throat was cured with 10 days of antibiotics, it was assumed that Lyme disease would respond exactly the same way to antibiotic treatment. But streptococcus divides in 20 minutes and likes to grow on cell surfaces like tonsils. This makes STREP an easier target for both antibiotics and the immune system. Almost as soon as antibiotics were used to treat early Lyme disease/arthritis, antibiotic failures were being reported. To date, dozens of antibiotic trials have reported Lyme disease antibiotic-treatment failures.
As the Lyme-political climate changed, all references to treatment failures, lingering symptoms, and brain involvement were squashed by the CDC, and the NIH but mostly Yale, Harvard, Mayo Clinic SUNY, and NY State College doctors and their respective Health Departments all denied persistent disease and treatment failures. (See references – Antibiotic Treatment Failure Studies at the end of this paper.) Later I will show you in the revealing light of pathology; that the contradictions by Lyme-disease experts make no sense unless they are intended to have an agenda to suppress the true nature and extent of the Lyme-disease epidemic.
• Dattwyler RJ, Halperin JJ. Failure of Tetracycline therapy in
early Lyme disease. Arthritis Rheum 1987;30:448-452
• Logigian (1990) 37% After 6 months, 10 of 27 patients treated relapsed or failed treatment. 17 (63%) improved, 6 (22 percent) improved, then relapsed, 4 (15%)
had no response.”
• Pfister (1991) 37% 33 patients with neuroborreliosis treated. After a mean of 8.1 months, 10 of 27 were symptomatic and borrelia persisted in the CSF of one patient:
• Asch (1994) 28% 3.2 years after initial treatment: 28% relapsed with major organ involvement; 18% were re-infected. Persistent symptoms of arthralgia, arthritis, cardiac or neurologic involvement, were present in 114 (53%) patients.”
• Shadick (1994) 26% 10 of the 38 patients …relapsed within 1 year of treatment and had repeated antibiotic treatment.”
• Shadick (1999) >37% 69 of 184 previously treated patients (37%) reported a previous relapse.
• Treib (1998) >50% After 4.2 years, more than ½ of 44 treated patients with clinical signs of neuroborreliosis and specific intrathecal antibody production were symptomatic.
• Valesova (1996) 38% At 36 months, 10 of 26 had relapsed or progressed: complete response or marked improvement in 19, relapse in 6, and new symptoms in 4.
OLD Lyme CT is 27 miles from Montauk and 12 miles from Plum IslandAnimal research Center.
Excerpt from my booklet:
Untrue/Never-True Facts About Lyme Disease
(…that we were told as absolute true facts)
• Only Ixodes dammini Ticks transmit Lyme
• Lyme Ticks are only found in the NE USA
• Lyme disease is only an arthritic disease
• The serology tests are 99% accurate
• Borreliosis is not an intracellular disease
• No scientific evidence of relapse after antibiotics
• No such thing as persistent infection after antibiotics
• Does not cause dementia
• Two-tiered testing is better than a single test
• Not transmitted transplacentally
• No one ever dies from Lyme disease
• Lyme disease is self-limiting
• Lyme is not related to Relapsing Fevers
• If a patient is still symptomatic after two weeks of antibiotics; they need to see a psychiatrist (ACP video)
No other disease in America was handled and manipulated the way Lyme disease was manipulated. Years later we would come to know that many of the early Lyme researchers had Naval Intelligence backgrounds, and some were even known to be associated with biowarfare labs. Despite the lack of support or comment from the military, the coincidences of being connected to biowarfare science are just too much to ignore. (See “Bitten” by Kris Newby)
Another biowarfare coincidence is the fact that in 1981-1982, Borrelia burgdorferi was first isolated from ticks from an island not far from Old Lyme CT. Shelter Island is just off the coast of NY and just north of Old Lyme. But just 25 miles north of Shelter Island was Plum Island, the world’s largest biowarfare facility.
Incidentally, long before Lyme Arthritis was described, there was another Shelter Island disease. It was a well-known local disorder called Montauk’s Knee. A swollen painful knee. (Take notice of where Montauk Point is?
Long Island doctors diagnosed a variety of diseases with names like 'Montauk knee' or 'Montauk Fisherman’s syndrome. Patients with Tick bites from the local islands had arthralgia and fatigue all pre-dating the 1975 discovery of “Lyme Arthritis”. “Island patients had symptoms similar to Lyme disease, and may have been Lyme disease.” according to Dr. David Persing, a pathologist, and pioneer of PCR testing. (Mayo Clinic who led the research while at Yale)
Another earlier version of Lyme disease in Europe was Bannwarth’s syndrome – caused by infected European Ixodes ticks with one of three species of Borrelia. In 1989 Bb was found in the CSF and brains of three Bannworth’s patients in 1989. (Note: Bb was found in the brains of three Bannworth-patient in 1989.) The medical community learned nothing from this discovery and ignored the implications.
This coincidental triad of Lyme-like disorders in the area of Plum Island (Biowarfare Facility) starts to make one wonder?
Later the late Dr. Andrew Spielman will further muddy these waters with his Ixodes dammini debacle. So back to 1975-1981 and the newly discovered disorder called “Lyme Arthritis”: What was being done with the ever-growing cases of “Lyme-Arthritis”? Most of them were given 10 days of tetracycline.
Miraculously when these long-standing cases of JRA were treated with tetracycline, the symptoms of the children mostly improved. NOTE: Not all the treated JRA-kids agreed twenty years later, that all their symptoms were gone. Mental clarity was diminished and chronic fatigue remained with many of the treated kids even decades after treatment, yet epidemiology reports listed them as cured and asymptomatic, or “mostly asymptomatic”. Because many cases of Lyme Arthritis responded to antibiotics (tetracycline, and doxycycline), it was assumed that there was an as-yet-to-be-discovered, undiagnosed bacterial infection causing Lyme disease. This clinical response to tetracycline led to the first incorrect assumption. From 1975-1981 “Lyme Arthritis” experts had a treatment protocol for Lyme disease. This was before they knew what they were actually treating.
What they had was an intracellular, slow-dividing, immune-evading, intracranial, highly-motile parasitic spirochete. All reasons why two weeks of antibiotics are often inadequate. You would never try to treat Leprosy or Tuberculosis Syphilis in such a cavalier manner.
Incorrect assumption #1
Since most bacterial infections are cured in 7-10 days with antibiotics, it is reasonable to treat “Lyme Arthritis” for just 7-10 days just like you would treat strep throat. (The example of comparing Lyme disease infections to Streptococcus, was used in the early medical literature to support an early treatment protocol with an antibiotic proven to be child safe.) Since strep throat was cured with 10 days of antibiotics, it was assumed that Lyme disease would respond exactly the same way to antibiotic treatment. But streptococcus divides in 20 minutes and likes to grow on cell surfaces like tonsils. This makes STREP an easier target for both antibiotics and the immune system. Almost as soon as antibiotics were used to treat early Lyme disease/arthritis, antibiotic failures were being reported. To date, dozens of antibiotic trials have reported Lyme disease antibiotic-treatment failures.
As the Lyme-political climate changed, all references to treatment failures, lingering symptoms, and brain involvement were squashed by the CDC, and the NIH but mostly Yale, Harvard, Mayo Clinic SUNY, and NY State College doctors and their respective Health Departments all denied persistent disease and treatment failures. (See references – Antibiotic Treatment Failure Studies at the end of this paper.) Later I will show you in the revealing light of pathology; that the contradictions by Lyme-disease experts make no sense unless they are intended to have an agenda to suppress the true nature and extent of the Lyme-disease epidemic.
• Dattwyler RJ, Halperin JJ. Failure of Tetracycline therapy in
early Lyme disease. Arthritis Rheum 1987;30:448-452
• Logigian (1990) 37% After 6 months, 10 of 27 patients treated relapsed or failed treatment. 17 (63%) improved, 6 (22 percent) improved, then relapsed, 4 (15%)
had no response.”
• Pfister (1991) 37% 33 patients with neuroborreliosis treated. After a mean of 8.1 months, 10 of 27 were symptomatic and borrelia persisted in the CSF of one patient:
• Asch (1994) 28% 3.2 years after initial treatment: 28% relapsed with major organ involvement; 18% were re-infected. Persistent symptoms of arthralgia, arthritis, cardiac or neurologic involvement, were present in 114 (53%) patients.”
• Shadick (1994) 26% 10 of the 38 patients …relapsed within 1 year of treatment and had repeated antibiotic treatment.”
• Shadick (1999) >37% 69 of 184 previously treated patients (37%) reported a previous relapse.
• Treib (1998) >50% After 4.2 years, more than ½ of 44 treated patients with clinical signs of neuroborreliosis and specific intrathecal antibody production were symptomatic.
• Valesova (1996) 38% At 36 months, 10 of 26 had relapsed or progressed: complete response or marked improvement in 19, relapse in 6, and new symptoms in 4.
OLD Lyme CT is 27 miles from Montauk and 12 miles from Plum IslandAnimal research Center.