Lyme Disease Patient Outcomes and Experiences; A Retrospective Cohort Study

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Mol Microbiol. 2012 Dec;86(5):1116-31. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12045. Epub 2012 Oct 24. Moriarty TJ, Shi M, Lin YP, Ebady R, Zhou H, Odisho T, Hardy PO, Salman-Dilgimen A, Wu J, Weening EH, Skare JT, Kubes P, Leong J, Chaconas G. Source Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine,…
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Available online 20 August 2014. Abstract The hard tick Ixodes uriae parasitises a wide range of seabird species in the circumpolar areas of both Northern and Southern hemispheres and has been shown to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the bacterial agents of Lyme borreliosis. Although it is assumed that seabirds…
The number of black-legged ticks in southeastern Manitoba is on the rise, which has led to a surge in the incidents of Lyme disease. Reports of the disease tripled in 2012 over the year before — going from seven to 21 — according to Shelley Buchan, the medical officer of health for the southern regional…
[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all standards upon a clinical diagnosis, and patient response to treatment. The level of misinformation and anti-scientific standards endorsed and supported by the United States Center for Disease Control and those countries like Canada and Sweden who blindly…
t started with her legs vibrating in March 2014. Elementary school teacher Shawna Hughes had dealt with some back pain issues, but this was different. She went to doctors. Specialists. Seven neurologists. No one could figure out what was wrong and her condition got worse. She was shaking all the time and her body was…
By WILLIAM WEIR, bweir@courant.com The Hartford Courant 10:06 p.m. EST, December 31, 2013 A series of fatal cases of Lyme disease in the Northeast, including one from Connecticut, have health officials on the lookout for a very rare complication of the tick-borne disease. The first fatality was in November 2012, when a Massachusetts resident was found dead in…
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This seems to be a very valuable study. Here is something I have often wondered about: there is a disagreement over whether the Lyme bacteria are actually still in the body of a person with chronic Lyme—so why don’t they do some autopsies and find out? The results would be indisputable.
I am not sure of the legalities, but generally autopsies are o my done j see certain circumstances – when the cause of death is unclear or there are criminal circumstances…. (?).
Only a very few deceased are actually autopsied, so unless a person has registered for a specific study, the likelihood of this happening is low.
Autopsies are rare, very expensive and we would need a number of them that would have to be organized into proper research. Proving that Borrelia caused the deaths might be problematic in many cases and rejected by the powers that be. Heart attacks causing death from Bb would be an easier target.
Dogma promoted by the CDC/ IDSA/ AMMI [Canada] and believed by 90%-95% of medical practitioners: Lyme disease is difficult to acquire, easy to diagnose, readily cured with a short course of antibiotics. If a patient has symptoms following treatment either initial diagnosis was wrong or they have Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome [PTLDS] since there is no such thing as chronic Lyme disease.
AMMI, IDSA, PHAC, CIHR the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network etc. speak with one voice on the Lyme disease file but that does not make them scientifically correct. They don’t have to prove anything, just raise a sufficient amount of doubt. These are tactics learned from the pioneering work of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries and the “Merchants of Doubt”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
They have done the autopsy on primates (a well recognized animal model for human) and found you kill the animal before you kill the bacteria.
There is no test to prove a “cure” so all such declarations are magical thinking.
The Lyme vaccine trial proved that 36% of culture positive patients remain seronegative for the life of the patients disease.
So, if they think a negative test proves cure …. bullshit! we need a better test!