Hi,
Then I can believe the mosquito is a carrier. Why not?
Jean
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LYME DISEASE
The Unknown Epidemic
By DJ Fletcher and Tom Klaber
Millions of people who are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia,
Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue syndrome and other degenerative diseases could
have Lyme Disease causing or contributing to their condition.
Forget just about everything you think you know about Lyme disease.
It is not a rare disease, it is epidemic. It is not just tick-borne; it can
also be transmitted by other insects, including fleas, mosquitoes and
mites - and by human-to-human contact. Neither is Lyme usually indicated by
a bull's-eye rash; this is found in only a minority of cases. And, except
when it is diagnosed at a very early stage, Lyme is rarely cured by a simple
course of antibiotics. Finally, Lyme is not just a disease that makes you
tired and achy - it can utterly destroy a person's life and ultimately be
fatal.
Lyme disease, in fact, might be the most insidious-and least
understood-infectious disease of our day. If it weren't for AIDS, says
Nick Harris, Ph.D., President of Igenex, Inc., a research and testing
laboratory in Palo Alto, California, Lyme would be the number one
infectious disease in the United States and Western Europe.
Many now see the disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, as more than a
simple infection, but rather as a complex illness that can consist of other
co-infections, especially of the parasitic pathogens Babesia and Ehrlichia.
Lyme is sometimes called the Great Imposter because it can manifest such a
broad range of symptoms that it is often misdiagnosed as other diseases.
Charles Ray Jones, M.D., of New Haven, Connecticut, says that many people
who have Lyme are thought to have multiple sclerosis, ALS [Lou Gehrig's
disease], chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's and other
debilitating conditions. .
The answer is that Lyme is not transmitted just by ticks.
Of the more than 5,000 children I've treated, 240 have been born with the
disease, says Dr. Jones, who specializes in Pediatric and Adolescent
Medicine. Twelve children who've been breast-fed have subsequently
developed Lyme. Bb can be transmitted transplacentally, even with in vitro
fertilization; I've seen eight children infected in this way. People from
Asia who come to me with the classic Lyme rash have been infected by fleas
and gnats.
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For that reason, when he treats a Lyme patient in a relationship, he often
treats the spouse; otherwise, he says, they can just pass the Bb back and
forth, reinfecting each other.
Dr. Tang adds other avenues of infection: Transmission may also occur via
blood transfusion and through the bite of mosquitoes or other insects. Dr.
Cowden contends that unpasteurized goat or cow milk can infect a person with
Bb.
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More importantly, Lyme can disseminate throughout the body remarkably
rapidly. In its classic spirochete form, the bacteria can contract like a
large muscle and twist to propel itself forward: because of this spring-like
action it can actually swim better in tissue than in blood. It can travel
through blood vessel walls and through connective tissue. Animal studies
have shown that in less than a week after being infected, the Lyme
spirochete can be deeply embedded inside tendons, muscle, the heart and the
brain. It invades tissue, replicates and destroys its host cell as it
emerges. Sometimes the cell wall collapses around the bacterium, forming a
cloaking device, allowing it to evade detection by many tests and by the
body's immune system.
But the main reason that Lyme is so resistant to detection and therapy is
that it can radically change form - it is pleomorphic. Explains Dr.
Whitaker; We have examined blood samples from over 800 patients with
clinically diagnosed Lyme disease with RiBb test and have rarely seen Bb in
anything but a cell wall deficient (CWD) form. The problem is that a CWD
organism doesn't have a fixed exterior membrane presenting information - a
target - that would allow our immune systems or drugs to attack it, or allow
most current tests to detect it.
As a CWD organism, says Dr. Mattman, Bb is extremely diverse in its
appearance, its activity and its vulnerability. Adds Dr. Cowden, Because Bb
is very pleomorphic, you can't expect any one antibiotic to be effective.
Also, bacteria share genetic material with one another; so the offspring of
the next bug can have a new genetic sequence that can resist the
antibiotic.
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Avoid sugars because they feed these bugs, advises Dr. Cowden. It is most
important to balance saliva pH between 6.7 and 70. Sufficient dietary
minerals bring pH up if low. Reducing stress will raise pH; so will
identifying and removing food, nutrient
