by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/tickbusters-on-the-lookout-for-lyme Comment; Good to be on the lookout and maintain surveilance, interesting Re; the pharmacopia in tick saliva… They come bearing vials and tweezers, with their pant legs tucked into...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=243971 Comment; This should have happened years ago. How many folks with Lyme have not been diagnosed because of the narrow criteria proposed for surveilance case definition–which is not the same as clinical...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/8/3/102 Comment; Babesia can be an occult infection-hard to find, hard to treat, supresses the immune system. With those genetically susceptible to CIRS it compounds the already impaired/dysregulated immune system leading to worse...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Newby responds to Washington Post’s slam about BITTEN Comment; WaPo is hardly a paragon of virtue & accurate reporting of news and current events–more of an opinion piece (to which they’re entitled as we all are), that, unfortunately portrays...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.00651/full Comment; This study looks at what genes are turned on when frontal cortex neuron’s of Rheuses monkeys are exposed to Borrelia-the cause of Lyme disease. As it turns out, thousands of genes are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://iai.asm.org/content/early/2019/07/09/IAI.00442-19 Comment; Viable, non-cultivable persistence 18 months after antibiotic treatment in mice. Wow. We can’t grow ’em in the lab, we’ couldn’t kill them, they still live in the host and cause...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.trasci.com/article/S1473-0502(19)30119-3/fulltext Comment; Maybe we can approach exchange transfusion more slowly and rely more on antimicrobial and other supportive treatments.
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://gizmodo.com/the-new-bad-tick-is-going-to-take-over-half-the-united-1831079855 Comment; A new tick species invading North America that hosts a new virus–Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). Ed Cara12/13/18 4:10pmFiled...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
http://danielcameronmd.com/infected-deer-ticks-moving-into-new-york-city/ Comment; Urbanized deer ticks in the big apple! Greatest risk with parks that have vegetated connecting pathways allowing migration of deer and passerine birds may aid in tick dispersement. In...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01596/full Comment; The perfect storm, Babesiosis with Lyme co-infection; Lyme is accelerated by the Babesia. Next we’ll need to see the mechanism of action and look for a defense against this synergistic...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks Comment; It would be great to see what really happened–but I highly doubt that this will EVER happen! The order requires the agency to say if it experimented with...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1779 Comment; What a great way to make accurate & early diagnosis! Nucleic acid probes can be done quickly, costs for them are coming down as the volume of the testing increases. This could be a game-changer, further increasing...
