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The saga of the retrovirus XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have ended, now that researchers in a federally funded study said they found no relationship between the retrovirus and the illness.
The controversy dates back to 2009, when a paper in the journal Science found a possible connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and XMRV. A retrovirus is a kind of virus that copies its own genes into a host’s DNA.
Neuroscience News February 21, 2020 …” The researchers show that plant extracts from black walnut, cat’s claw, sweet wormwood, Mediterranean rockrose, and Chinese skullcap had strong activity against B. burgdorferi, outperforming both tested antibiotics.” Read full article
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information about improving treatment in Canada. Dr. Vett Lloyd has been tracking ticks infected with the disease for years and says many people who are infected are forced to seek help in the United States. That means…
[CanLyme note: The Infectious Disease Society of America’s Lyme Disease guidelines have so many flaws, and are so devoid of independent ethical evaluation in relation to the global databank of research that they may become the most notorious guidelines of the past one-hundred years to have caused so much global disability … all while the…
Abstract This study provides a novel method of documenting established populations of bird-feeding ticks. Single populations of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, and the rabbit tick, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, were revealed in southwestern Québec, Canada. Blacklegged tick nymphs and, similarly, larval and nymphal rabbit ticks were tested for the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl), using PCR and…
Lyme Disease Challenges for Family Caregivers and Family Members August 14, 2012 Hosted by Dr. Gordon Atherley Jim Wilson, President and founder of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, is himself a victim of Lyme disease and the father of victims of Lyme disease. Janet Sperling is a trained entomologist whose 15 year-old son fell desperately…
Paul Auwaerter and colleagues1 are among the handful of individuals who have controlled the Lyme disease research agenda for decades and ultimately which data have been reported. Why is it that, in my experience, many people in New Hampshire have been severely debilitated by Lyme disease or know someone who has, whereas Auwaerter and co-workers…
