Gary Wormser lying to the press again-- hair dye alert

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Subject: Gary Wormser lying to the press again

Date: Sunday, June 04, 2006 21:04:10 [View Source]

(Re: The below news story)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8272083&query_hl=5&itool=pubmed_docsum
The above report shows that even with the primers
Steere used (which were not flagellin primers, or 16S
RNA, primarily, but OspA primers, and so the result is
inconclusive), he was able to detect borrelia organism
in the knees of people are far out as 10 years post
initial infection. Look at the full text report, and
the graphics, and not just the abstract.

Here is Klempner showing that ceftriaxone does not
kill all the spirochetes after two weeks of
ceftriaxone:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1634816&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum

So, Wormser is lying to the press again as usual, ho
hum. They haven't ever stated the *reason* they
continue to lie and deny that Lyme is a permanent
brain infection. One assumes Kaiser at New York
Medical College has something to do with it:
http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/spring98pj/strategy.html

Or the fact that Wormser is supporting the new Baxter
OspA vaccine which will be useless against a brain
infection, since OspC is the antigen responsible for
brain invasion?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=9234797%5BUID%5D

"These findings indicate that a function of the
Vsp-OspC family of proteins of Borrelia spp. may be
differential localization in organs, including the
brain, during infection."

And so what the hell is the point of Wormser?
Who cares about a knee disease? Knee diseases have
zero to do with falling asleep at the wheel and even
walking into walls or blindess or vertigo or strokes
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=8255484%5BUID%5D

or migraines or this:
http://actionlyme.org/Spirochetes%20on%20your%20brain_%20Liegner_Autopsy.htm

Wormser said in the Discovery Channel TV Special
"Ticks- the real vampires" that ticks carry all sorts
of diseases, and we don't know what infections people
are getting when they get bitten by a tick.

But Wormser knows if 28 days of antibiotics doesn't
cure you, the tick gave you hysteria or aporia or
catastrophizing:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=11083273%5BUID%5D

And the obvious question: What do we need a vaccine
for, for a knee disease that is easily diagnosed and
cured?

OspA that becomes a superantigen in some people:
http://actionlyme.org/THE_CENTRAL_LYME_RICO_PATENTS.htm
5) Tufts, Huber, 6,689,364

"The present invention provides novel polypeptides
which are substantially free of a B. burgdorferi
spirochete or fragments thereof and which are thus
useful in compositions and methods for the treatment
and prevention of B. burgdorferi infection and Lyme
disease. In one preferred embodiment, this invention
provides modified OspA polypeptides and
pharmaceutically effective compositions and methods
comprising those polypeptides. Preferred modified OspA
polypeptides are characterized by modifications which
diminish and/or ablate their *** ability to bind the
human MHC allele HLA-DRB1*0401."***

"Ability to bind the MHC allele means," basically,
"superantigen." (Look up what that means)

It's clearly Wormser who has the "Lyme hysteria"
http://actionlyme.org/UN_PETITION.htm
and other "mental illness" signs. He keeps repeating
the same lies and nonsense, despite all of these
published reports which show he is lying to the press.
http://actionlyme.org/GUBMENT_LEAKERS.htm

"Telling women and girls inaccurately that they have
Lyme disease "condemns patients to long-term,
untreated debility and useless, toxic and expensive
courses of antibiotics," Sigal wrote in an editorial
in
the May 15 issue of the journal Hospital
Practice."--Emerging diseases // Ticks carry multitude
of threats //
( Minneapolis Star Tribune ) Gordon Slovut; Staff
Writer; 06-05-1996

Don't tell women and girls they have Lyme.

Only men can have Lyme? If that were true, this
disease would have had a cure by 1980. *Think* of the
international global disaster of Erectile Dysfunction
and all the money spent on that!!!

By the way, Wormser dyes his hair red, or I would have
joked about the global health disaster of male pattern
baldness. His hair was white in the Discovery Channel
Special:
http://actionlyme.org/SPINDOCTORS.htm

Priorities, people.

Kathleen
http://actionlyme.org
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To: "SpinLyme" <SpinLyme@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [SpinLyme] Pesky Lyme disease hangs on
Date: Sunday, June 04, 2006 11:36:16 [View Source]

http://news.newstimeslive.com/storyprint.php?id=85338<http://news.newstimeslive.com/storyprint.php?id=85338>

Jun 04 2006 9:03 AM
Pesky Lyme disease hangs on
Medical professionals disagree on treatment
By Robert Miller
THE NEWS-TIMES
If you get bitten by a black-legged tick, what's your
next move?
If you start showing symptoms of Lyme disease, one
school of treatment argues
you should take at least two months of antibiotics for
the simplest case and
much more for complicated ones.

You can also expect the tick to be carrying more than
the strain of bacteria
that causes the disease.

Dr. Richard Horowitz of Hyde Park, N.Y.,
president-elect of the International
Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), said
"99.9 percent of the patients
I see with Lyme disease are co-infected. There are 10
other diseases we should
be looking for."

Horowitz spoke last week at a forum held by the
Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force.

The second school of thought would argue that the
longest you should ever take
antibiotics is 28 days - even if you've got the
painful arthritis that's a
symptom of Lyme.

It also questions whether there's a condition called
chronic Lyme disease - a
persistent infection that can last for years - and
discounts the threat of
omnipresent co-infection.

"The evidence does not support that - far from it,"
said Dr. Gary Wormser, chief
of the infectious diseases division at New York
Medical College in Valhalla,
N.Y., and vice-chairman of its department of medicine.

The differences between the two approaches and the
implications for the way
patients are treated for Lyme disease are profound.
And this comes at a time of
increasing threat from the disease.

Lyme disease is at the epidemic stage in the state.
There were 1,810 cases
reported to the state Department of Public Health in
2005, compared to 1,348 in
2004 - a 26 percent increase.

Connecticut has the highest per capita rate of Lyme
disease in the country with
about 136 cases per 100,000 people.

But by all accounts, the disease is underreported by a
factor of 10 or more.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported there were 19,804 cases
(nationwide) of Lyme disease in 2004," said Pat Smith,
president of the Lyme
Disease Association, a patient advocacy group, who
also spoke at the Task Force
meeting.

"That means there were about 200,000 cases, and that
doesn't count the ones that
don't fit the CDC requirements."

Lyme disease is caused by a cork-screw-shaped
bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi.
The black-legged tick - also known as the deer tick -
ingests the bacteria when
it feeds on deer, white-footed mice and small rodents,
which act as sort of
moveable reservoirs of Borrelia. When an infected tick
bites a human, the human
can get infected as well.

The initial symptoms of the disease can include a
bull's-eye rash, fever,
headache and sore joints - like a case of the flu
without a cough. If the
disease is diagnosed early, it can usually be treated
successfully with a month
of antibiotics.

"We've found there's a six-week window where treatment
is really successful,"
said Thomas Forschner, executive director of the Lyme
Disease Foundation based
in Tolland, Conn.

But only about half the people infected by a tick bite
get the telltale rash.
Some have no symptoms at all. Others are treated with
antibiotics, but relapse.
They can develop much more severe symptoms, including
swollen joints.

But because the most common blood tests for Lyme
disease are highly inaccurate,
doctors who rely on them can easily misdiagnose or
disregard the symptoms. The
CDC says doctors should not base a diagnosis on those
tests but on clinical
observations.

"You only use the blood tests to support your
diagnosis," said Horowitz of
ILADS, whose members are often doctors whose practices
are devoted to treating
the disease.

What's most controversial is the diagnosis of chronic
Lyme disease.

Doctors in the ILADS and patient advocates like Smith
insist that people can
develop long-term, recurring Lyme infections that can
manifest themselves in a
host of symptoms - chronic fatigue, sight and hearing
loss, memory loss,
depression and personality changes, heart damage and
arthritic pain that can
flare up in different places.

"It's a multi-system bacterial infection," Horowitz
said at the Newtown Lyme
Task Force meeting. "There are 300 different strains
of Borrelia burgdorferi
internationally and 100 in the United States. The
symptoms can come and go and
they can migrate. It's a gestalt of symptoms."

Doctors who are convinced chronic Lyme disease exists
treat those patients with
long-term courses of antibiotics, often lasting months
or years. The ILADS
criteria do not limit how long patients should be on
antibiotics, leaving that
up to the doctors' discretion.

Horowitz said his rule of thumb is to continue
antibiotics until a patient is
symptom-free for two months.

Horowitz also said ticks carry several other
illnesses, including anaplasmosis,
the malaria-like babesiosis, and bartonella, commonly
known as Cat Scratch
fever. All of these come with their own set of
symptoms, which must be treated
as well. This means patients must get a mix of
antibiotics.

"When I see a patient with chronic Lyme disease, I see
a patient with chronic
Lyme and co-infection," he said.

But Wormser of New York Medical College follows the
guidelines of the Infectious
Diseases Society, or IDSA. He said there's no evidence
for so much co-infection
in Lyme patients. IDSA also says there's no scientific
proof for a diagnosis of
chronic Lyme disease, and thus no need whatsoever for
long-term antibiotic
therapy.

"Study after study has shown this," he said. They've
tested patients who claim
they have chronic Lyme disease. Half never had Lyme
disease to begin with.

"Another study at Yale showed that half the people
being treated for chronic
Lyme actually had other treatable diseases," Wormser
said.

Wormser co-authored the IDSA Lyme disease guidelines.
The society represents
about 8,000 infectious disease specialists in the
United States.

The society is now rewriting those guidelines. Wormser
said he does not expect
them to be substantially different than they are now .

But proponents of more liberal use of antibiotics to
treat Lyme said last week
that they expect, if anything, the new IDSA guidelines
will be even more
conservative than they are now.

"It doesn't make any sense," said Forschner of the
Lyme Disease Foundation about
any reduction in the IDSA guidelines, which now allow
14 to 28 days of
antibiotic treatment. "What difference does a little
bit more of antibiotics
make?"

Forschner said the scientific literature does not
support long-term antibiotic
therapy for early Lyme disease, which some doctors now
prescribe.

"I think the new IDSA guidelines are in reaction to
that. But why swing the
pendulum so far in the other direction?" Forschner
said.

There is one substantial change to the IDSA
guidelines, Wormser said. It will
advise doctors that, on a selective basis, they can
prescribe a single large
dose of antibiotics to a patient immediately after a
black-legged tick bite,
before the patient starts exhibiting any symptoms of
the disease.

A 2001 study in the New England Journal of Medicine
showed that such treatment,
given within three days of a deer tick bite, was 87
percent effective in
stopping the disease in its tracks.

Smith of the Lyme Disease Association said what her
group would like is for
doctors to tell patients with Lyme disease that there
are two established
standards of care - the conservative one endorsed by
the infectious diseases
association, and the liberal one written by the
International Lyme and
Associated Diseases Society.

Then, at the very least, she said, patients would know
the options. "We need to
make sure the patients are aware of this."

Smith praised a bill in the U.S. Congress sponsored by
Sen. Christopher Dodd,
D-Conn., and Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., that would
provide an additional $100
million in federal funding for Lyme research over the
next five years.

Smith said the federal government currently spends
about $32 million a year for
research on the disease and all its manifestations.

"Another $20 million a year will be a significant
increase," she said.

The funding is also tied to specific goals, including
finding a reliable blood
test for Lyme infection.

"It took researchers five or six years to find a
reliable blood test for AIDS,"
she said. "We've know about Lyme disease for 30 years
and we still don't have a
reliable blood test. That's outrageous."

Contact Robert Miller

at bmiller@newstimes.com<mailto:bmiller@newstimes.com>

or at (203) 731-3345.

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