The Worldwide Lyme Disease protest will take place in 21 different countries on 10th and 11th May 2013. Australia is part of this worldwide protest. If you would like to be involved please add your name to the face-book site:
Lyme disease is in Australia let know one tell you otherwise. Lyme Disease is a very mimicking disease and as such it needs to be distinguished from other conditions such as Sarcoidosis, Lupus, Parkinson's, RA, ALS, Fibromyalgia, Psychiatric Illness, Multiple Sclerosis, CFS and many other autoimmune diseases. I have personal experience in this as I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis in 1985 and have just proven by DNA testing using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology that I have Borrelia in both my urine and blood. I also know of two others in the same circumstances along with many pending confirmation. I also have no knowledge of ever being bitten by a tick.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology has the ability to detect certain pathogenic and opportunistic micro-organisms present in blood, urine and tissue. PCR, whether in a single assay or multiple assay (multiplex PCR) has allowed single detection or simultaneous detection and differentiation of multiple species of organisms in which the level of sensitivity and specificity is still unmatched by any other laboratory procedures.
Pathogenic organisms that can be tested:
Borrelia species
Mycoplasma species.
Mycoplasma fermentans
Chlamydia species.
For more information follow this link or contactAustralian Biologic Testing ServicesFayworth
House Suite 605, 6th
Floor 379 - 383 Pitt Street, Sydney,
NSW 2000.
Phone:
02 9283 0807
"Persistent Infection With Lyme Disease" Dr Phil
"Faces of Lyme, Our Children"
Rest In Peace Fellow Lyme Friends with Classical Music
Under Our Skin
Oh Jeremy McNulty from NSW Health - Director of communicable diseases - Are you living in another country. How can you possibly say these things with such so overwhelming evidence.
How do you think your comments affect those of us that are affected and some are suffering so badly. You could have structured your comments so differently.
Shame on you for making those suffering look like they are making all this up. You are unethical and definitely very, very wrong. How do you sleep at night. I sincerely hope your family and friends do not ever contract this disease. Although I am sure then your response will be a little different.
Australian Lyme Crimes of the 21st Century
Do you have a 21st Century Lyme Crime Story to share? If so please send your story to support@sarcoidosisaustralia.comand we will compile them into a book or document.
Borreliosis (Lyme/Lyme-like disease) is one the fastest
growing infectious diseases in the world – faster than AIDS in some countries.
It is transmitted by a tick bite? In humans it is caused by at least three
different strains of the Borrelia bacteria. In the USA, the predominant strain
is Borrelia burgdorferi, while in Europe it is B. garinii and B. afzelii. Other
strains include B. valarisiana, B. lusitanae, in Asia B. japonica and B.
miyamotoi.
Although Lyme disease has been named after the town Lyme in Connecticut, where
this disease was first identified in 1975, borreliosis (Lyme/Lyme-like disease)
as an infectious disease was identified in Europe back in the early 1920's. The
diversity of borreliosis symptoms – skin problems, arthritis, neurological,
cardiac, ophthalmological – were already characterised.
Because of the complexity of symptoms Borreliosis has acquired many other names
in Europe. Bannwarth’s syndrome for neurological symptoms, chronic lymphocytic
meningitis, poly meningoradiculitis, erythema migrans rash etc (see above- this
is only present in 20% of people who go on to develop Lyme Disease)
So Lyme is an old disease, not a new disease.
Borrelia – the bacteria that causes Lyme disease – is a very clever pathogen.
It has characteristics similar to protozoa. It is the only bacteria with 21
plasmids, 12 straight, and 9 are circular. These plasmids code for active
genes, pseudogenes and phages (bacterial virus) which can be used for survive
and flourish in the host.
Most hospitals have enough problems trying to keep golden staph infection under
control. And Staphylococcus aureus – the bacterium that causes the infection –
has only one plasmid. So imagine the plasmid power you are fighting against
with Borrelia bacteria.
Borrelia also has the unique ability to release blebs. These are DNA material
enclosed in a membrane that is pinched off from the bacterial membrane. The
real role of blebs is not clear but it has been postulated that blebs may cause
the inflammatory response in the body and tissue damage. Alternatively, blebs
are also seen to confuse the immune system so there is no immune response to
Borrelia antigens.
Borrelia reproduces very slowly. The common penicillin-based antibiotics
kill bacteria with a cell wall, when the bacteria are dividing. However,
Borrelia can slow its reproduction time to once a month in vivo or to 48 hourly
in vitro. This is unlike strep throat bacteria which reproduce every 20
minutes. Strep bacteria need to be treated for 480 life cycles.
To treat Borrelia bacteria for 480 life cycles
you need to take antibiotics for 2.5 years minimum in order to get the
infection under control.
The treatment of neuroborreliosis is even more complicated as many antibiotics
penetration into the central nervous system (CNS) is limited, so the treatment
time for neuroborreliosis would be more than 3 years. This is not unlike
mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the CNS. The treatment regimen for TB
in the CNS involves more than 3 years of antibiotics.
Another trick Borrelia have up their sleeve in order to overcome the hostile
environment, they encounter in their host, is to change from the spirochete
shape to cell wall deficient L form (intracellular form) or to the cyst form. The existence of the
intracellular form of Borrelia explains why blood tests for antibodies for
Borrelia in chronic infections are negative even when the bacteria are present.
This ability to change forms means, to kill Borrelia properly three types of
antibiotics that target the three different cell forms are needed.
There are similarities between Borreliosis (Lyme/Lyme-like disease) and
syphilis. in that they are both caused by spirochete bacterium, are both
contagious diseases and can potentially be spread sexually, in utero and via
blood transfusions.
Borreliosis is a public health issue.
Furthermore, as the bacteria divide very slowly the development of clinical
symptoms are not evident until months or many years later. Because of this
latency the symptoms are not attributed to Borrelia infection or to the tick
bite.
Advanced Living Radio: Ken Lesser interviews Dr. Patricia Gerbarg about Lyme Disease Prevention, Diagnosis, and Recovery from Persistent Post-Lyme Symptoms
ILADS is The International Lyme and Associated Disease
Society
Here is the main link to the society http://www.ilads.org
A key Board member of ILADS is Joseph
Burruscano MD a physician. He is the author of "Advanced topics in Lyme
disease" The 2008 edition is
available free on the net at ILADS
Depression and Suicide Prevention An online interview
on how to overcome depression and thoughts of suicide. Hosted By Andrea R.
Garrison. Click on the "play" arrow in the player below to listen.
You can adjust the volume by clicking on the bars on the right side of the
player.
Dr. Steven Harris and Dr. Lynda Williams discuses the many Lyme Disease symptoms affecting the brain, nerves, eyes, joints, and heart beat, antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease, vaccine, diagnosis and bacterial effects of Lyme Disease, ELISA and Western blot blood tests, the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete, harmful bacterias and tick borne diseases, human pathogens, Lyme disease research, children with Lyme Disease, the comorbidities of Lyme Disease, Bell's palsy, Chlamydia, Bartonella, ILADS, the International Lyme And Associated Diseases Society. Video produced by Buck Stoval, Cable Consumer News and Partners in Education
Hartford (WTNH) - Connecticut has long been known as ground zero for Lyme Disease. Now, state lawmakers are taking the controversy surrounding Lyme Disease treatment head on. Over the years there has been a lot of debate over how patients are diagnosed and treated for Lyme Disease. A bill to protect doctors and help patients could ease that frustration driving many out of state for treatment.
The man charged with murdering the paster reportedly suffered from Lyme disease. Dr. Brian Fallon, head of the Columbia University Medical Center's Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Center, has described psychiatric manifestations of Lyme diease in th early 1990's. Brian Fallon, had described psychiatric manifestations in his recently published National Institutes of Health (NIH) trials. "Many of my Lyme disease patients experience anxiety, panic, rage, and depression during their illness," according to Dr. Daniel Cameron, President, International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)
One of the most controversial illnesses in the history of medicine, Lyme disease may be the fastest growing infectious disease in the United States. Yet each year thousands are misdiagnosed - many of them told that their symptoms are "all in their head." This upcoming documentary investigates the shocking human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic destroying countless numbers of lives. A case study of the dangers of the confluence of money and medicine, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our healthcare system and its inability to cope with a biological terror under our skin.
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coverage of UNDER OUR SKIN broadcast nationally on CNN on July 7, 2008.
Interview with Mandy Hughes.
By:CNN News
NBC4 News coverage of UNDER OUR SKIN
FROM NBC4 NEWS WASHINGTON DC
JUNE 23, 2008
News coverage of UNDER OUR SKIN at the Silverdocs Film Festival. Broadcast on NBC's DC Area affiliate on June 16, 2008.
