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To kill a piroplasm: genetic technologies to advance drug discovery and target identification in Babesia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020751918302480?via%3Dihub Comment; Piroplasmids divide by binary fission and as sporozoan parasites they possess sexual and asexual forms. The haploid state in the human host should make QPCR nucleic acid...
Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/17/where-lyme-disease-came-from-and-why-it-eludes-treatment/ Comment; Phenomonal investigative reporting! So Plum Island CT & the US Dept. of Defense produced Lyme disease by making Borrelia much more toxic & downright...
Bartonella Treatment in Lyme Disease; Ross Protocol
https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/kills-bartonella-a-brief-guide Comment; Lyme is such a difficult disease--typical of spirochetes, causing so much harm. Dr. Ross provides a great overview, stepwise approach. In my experience, recovering from Bartonella, one of the Lyme...
TOUCHED BY LYME: Is Lyme disease a bioweapons experiment gone bad?
https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-disease-bitten-bioweapons/ Comment; Incredible! Lyme disease weaponized to become more virulent as part of a cold war experiment--we know that the trichothecenes of Stachybotrus have been weaponized, Lyme too!? What had been a mild...
Evidence for transmission of the zoonotic apicomplexan parasite Babesia duncani by the tick Dermacentor albipictus
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020751918302431?via%3Dihub Comment; Molecular evidence that Babesia duncani, the causative agent of Babessiosis is carried by Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, in which the common mule deer is a common...
A 117-year retrospective analysis of Pennsylvania tick community dynamics
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3451-6 Comment; Interesting and somewhat scary that Ixodes scapularis is replacing other species as the dominant tick in undeveloped areas, the vector for Lyme disease, Babessiosis & Human...
Values & Performance of diagnostic tests for different species of spirochetes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18309636?via%3Dihub Comment; Spirochetes as a phylum are difficult to study. Polymerase Chain Reaction immunological studies are the best lab tests we have to date. Syphillis, Lyme, Relapsing Fever, &...
Why Patients with Chronic Lyme-MSIDS Should Have Hope
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/home-page-featured/richard-i-horowitz-md-pllc/ Comment; Dr. Horowitz is an exceptional physician & scientist, the ISEAI inaugral event was a GREAT meeting, so much information presented, all cutting edge. Tick-borne illnesses are...
Citizen science informs human-tick exposure in the Northeastern United States
https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-019-0173-0 Comment; Great idea to use volunteers to sample and collect specimens for analysis to generate an ongoing survey of when/where tick activity is highest to coordinate with the CDC Re;...
Physicians Get Addicted Too
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/opioid-epidemic-west-virginia-doctor/586036/ Comment; For years physicians were taught (falsely, due to Purdue's deception) that opioids were safe for long term use. Now, guys like Lou Ortenzio, a great physician by...
Bullying, pain and analgesic use in school‐age children
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.14799 Comment; Great premise for a study, and as expected, bullying is a big factor in use of children's pain medications--even when the pain is not only physical--as an escape! Aim The aim of this study was to...
Sex- and Age-specific Increases in Suicide Attempts by Self-Poisoning in the United States among Youth and Young Adults from 2000 to 2018
https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(19)30277-X/fulltext Comment; Over 1.6 million suicide attempts by poisoning in children under 19 years of age, mostly female is way to much! So much pain in our society, we've gone so far astray of our moral & spiritual...
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