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What The IDSA Knew In 1989
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Introduction
From the IDSA's Journal, Reviews of Infectious Diseases • Vol. 11, Supplement 6 • September-October 1989, Lyme Disease and Other Spirochetal Diseases. The publication describes Lyme disease as a very serious disabling infectious disease.
The description is very different from what they present today. The change occurred around the time of The Dearborn conference in 1994. The disease was redefined then as merely an arthritis of the knee with minor neurological symptoms. The change was done to make it look like a useless vaccine worked when it didn't work at all. The severe neurological symptoms were eliminated from the definition of Lyme disease because their inclusion would reveal the failure of the Lyme vaccine. The mild nourological complaints could be explained away since many things could cause them. The arthritis could be explained away as an autoimmune disease unrelated to Lyme. The severe neurological symptoms cannot be easily dismissed.
They designed the test so those with the more severe neurological issues would test negative. The severe neuro patients produce fewer antibodies than those with Lyme arthritis so deliberately raising the cutoff value led to most patients testing negative especially the worst neuro-patients.
These studies combined show that Lyme disease can be confused with multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, and dementia and can cause heart failure. Lyme can pass from the placenta to an unborn childs organs. Lyme disease is associated with birth defects, and fetal and infant deaths. Infants can be and have been born with Lyme disease. That hardly sounds like the Lyme disease the IDSA describes now.
The 1989 IDSA Journal,
Reviews of Infectious Diseases
Neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease, the new "great imitator".
They recognized the many similarities between the Syphilis spirochete and the Lyme spirochete. Lyme disease can be confused with multiple sclerosis, brain tumor, dementia, encephalitis, and psychiatric illness.
They knew then and they still know Lyme disease;
- Can be confused with multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, dementia, and psychiatric illness. Symptoms like major paralysis, seizures, dementia, manic depression and more can all be caused by Lyme disease.
- Invades the brain.
- Can exist dormant in the central nervous system.
For thirty years now patients who have undiagnosed Lyme disease have been told these severe symptoms are not even real and they are sent off to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist will tell them that they are imagining their illness and pump them full of psychiatric drugs. Power rules medicine, not science.
Immunologic aspects of Lyme borreliosis.
In humans, B. burgdorferi is capable of infecting the fetus [35]. sequelae (including abortion and fetal abnormalities) have been associated with infection [36, 37]. The time, incidence, and morbidity of in utero infection are not known. However, both humoral and cellular B. burgdorferi-specific responses can be detected in cord blood of previously infected neonates (authors' unpublished observations). In addition, Borrelia-specific antibodies have been found in the CSF of an infant with evidence of neonatal neurologic dysfunction whose mother had been infected in the second trimester. The mother, who was asymptomatic, had been treated with oral antibiotics and did not have diagnostic levels of antibodies to B. burgdorferi at the time of parturition (authors' unpublished observations). Effective therapy to eradicate borreliae on both the maternal and the fetal side of the placenta is essential, as persistent infection may be difficult to diagnose after the initial course of antibiotics.
University of New York School of Medicine
Clinical Pathologic Correlations of Lyme Disease.
Isolation Techniques for Spirochetes and Their Sensitivity to Antibiotics in Vitro and in Vivo.
A Perspective on the Treatment of Lyme Borreliosis.
Abnormalities of the Nervous System in Lyme Disease: Response to Antimicrobial Therapy.
Lyme disease can lead to severe pain and brain lesions.
Seven of the 16 patients with cognitive difficulties had focal white-matter abnormalities ... [figure 1]). None of the seven without encephalopathy had such lesions
Epidemiology and clinical similarities of human spirochetal diseases
Heart failure due to Lyme disease.
Summary
Lyme disease can be confused with multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, and dementia and can cause heart failure. Lyme can pass from the placenta to an unborn childs organs. Lyme disease is associated with birth defects, and fetal and infant deaths. Infants can be and have been born with Lyme disease. The IDSA knows how severe Lyme disease really is.
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References
- Pachner AR. Neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease, the new "great imitator". Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1482-6.
- Dattwyler RJ, Volkman DJ, Luft BJ. Immunologic aspects of Lyme borreliosis. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1494-8.
- Duray PH. Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1487-93.
- Johnson RC. Isolation techniques for spirochetes and their sensitivity to antibiotics in vitro and in vivo. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1505-10.
- Luft BJ, Gorevic PD, Halperin JJ, Volkman DJ, Dattwyler RJ. A perspective on the treatment of Lyme borreliosis. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1518-25.
- Halperin JJ. Abnormalities of the nervous system in Lyme disease: response to antimicrobial therapy. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1499-504.
- Schmid GP. Epidemiology and clinical similarities of human spirochetal diseases. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 6:S1460-9.