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Oh, FFS. What's next, functional death?

When I introduce to a doctor something I got off the web - which is A LOT - I try to note its pedigree. I point out its true source, e.g, researcher and publication, whether NIH-sponsored or otherwise. I have far too many clinicians AND researchers who are clueless to backstories they should...

If they are insinuating patients on the internet created the concept of chronic Lyme, they need to do some more homework. IDSA and NIH papers are laden with chronic Lyme references well back into the early and mid-'80's. There are a ton of case studies, the most famous (infamous?) of which may...

First sentence into the narrative: "The existence of a chronic form of Lyme disease is a source of worldwide controversy." No, it is not, nor has it ever been - at least for clinicians and researchers and patients with a bit more than a simple, superficial relationship with the disease.

Nonviable spirochetal remnants or debris is the theory IDSA-types try to run with.

Well, technically, "a" Lyme treatment. :) Incidentally, PCR's are far more likely to have a false negative when it comes to Borrelia, than a false positive, simply by virtue of the spirochetes aversion to blood.

Yes, I wasn't suggesting what was dropped in 1962 was either babesia or Lyme. Indeed, neither seems likely since, according to Newby, one of the crew members brought a contagion back with him and it infected one of his children with a "long, hard-to-remember name." The child recovered. But a...

Records are sparse, but apparently enough survive for Newby to piece a narrative together that suggests directives mandating "non-lethal" agents, with an eye toward disabling large swaths of sugar cane laborers for protracted periods to disrupt Cuba's economy. Weaponizing ticks was happening...

"...both OCHOS/SFN were attributed to Post Treatment Lyme disease Syndrome of presumed autoimmune etiology." Presumed? Is that how they do medicine? "Patient recovered on symptomatic therapy." Bets? "COVID-19 triggered exacerbation of OCHOS/SFN..." Oh, so the patient hadn't fully recovered...

I find myself wondering if Willy interacted with Erich Traub of Operation Paperclip fame. I cannot see how they could have avoided at least meeting one another given their respective expertise and frequency of visits to Ft. Detrick, and/or the conference circuit.

Makes for a good read, though. :) She's on my list of author's I'd like to talk to.

Re-reading it. It's all pretty eye-opening, but one chapter in particular is fascinating. It concerns Operation Mongoose back in 1962. It arguably should be a must read by anyone with more than a passing interest in weaponizing TBDs, and the motivations behind US involvement in ticks and...

Plenty of precedent for this, I suspect. Although not viruses, spirochetes are notoriously adept at making the immune system think they are not there. So it's not as if our immune systems always get it right. Diagnostics don't always help. Testing brings in the overtly human arrogant blunder...

This is an Aucott product. If memory serves me, isn't he an ex-Infectious-Disease-expert-turned-rheumatologist? Wonder what his emphasis might be. "...there is no biological method to diagnose PTLDS..." Sure there is. There are several. At least three are FDA-approved: Conventional ELISA...

Clearly, CFS is unacceptable. Regardless, do we know definitively that even a majority of people diagnosed with ME/CFS are, in fact, post anything? Do we trust diagnostics, or their assorted protocols, across the board enough to accept a label which by definition states we are cleared of a...

Ah, some one had the presence of mind to avoid embracing "chronic covid". Talk about stigma associated with a simple, single adjective...

More than one infection may be at play, or have triggered what we call ME/CFS. I also had slow and progressive onset comprised primarily of neurological and autonomic symptoms, but had a vicious bout of acute Lyme that intersected roughly five years into that slow descent, and which caused rapid...

I suspect what they are trying to diagnose is Lyme disease. "Chronic" is nothing more than an adjective. Do they use "chronic"? Probably. At one time, pretty much everybody did, even IDSA-types in the US. It's just an adjective. However, it became politicized around the early 1990's, and remains...

"Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of autoimmune origin..." Maybe, maybe not. Not an encouraging sign they make such a declaration when the origin debate remains very much in play.

Feels like an exercise in marketing.