CDC admits "Lyme disease" is a fraud
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Subject: CDC's Paul Mead admits they've been lying all along on the
testing for Lyme Disease
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 17:09:37 [View Source]
"Blood tests aren't good at detecting early disease,
but they are reliable for late-stage disease, said
Paul Mead, an epidemiologist for the CDC."
Late stage "Lyme disease" has been falsely redefined
as the hypersensitivity reaction (arthritis) in a
knee, which is demonstrated here in the RICO
complaint:
http://actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
And we wonder, who needs an accurate test for late
Lyme arthritis? Don't we want to detect the disease
early before it causes too much damage?
http://actionlyme.org/YALE_AND_THEIR_BOGUS_BLOOD_TEST_AND_VACCINE.htm
Because in 2/3 of the people who don't treat on tick
attachment already have central nervous system
invasion if they wait to see if the Lyme rash shows
up?
http://actionlyme.org/Dattwyler_Luft_Bb_DNA_in_CSF.htm
And so kinda wouldn't that mean that Durland Fish and
Edward McSweegan committed a crime here:
http://actionlyme.org/TICK_BITE_CONSPIRACY.htm
Treatment on tick bite as a standard procedure at the
time of the vaccine traisl, would have interfered with
the vaccine trials: No one would know if the vaccine
or the antibiotic prevented Lyme.
So they simply did not want anyone being treated on
tick bite- and they did not explain why, or the
dangers.
And since 1991 there has been an early, accurate, and
specific test for Lyme (or any other borreliosis), and
Yale owns the patent. The actual CLAIM of the patent
is the validity of the method- according to FDA rules
for a method validation.
Voila!
A major international scientific fraud committed by
Yale University and the NIH do-nothing-but-stalk and
harass-Lyme pstients, and clearly psychopathological
employee, Edward McSweegan.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://actionlyme.org
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Posted on Tue, May. 30, 2006
Doctor's unorthodox treatments land him in the `Lyme
Wars'
BY KAREN GARLOCH
Knight Ridder Newspapers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - By the time DeAnn Lipe found Dr.
Joseph Jemsek, she had been sick for seven years.
It started with pain in her chest and tingling in her
toes. Then came pain in her hips and left eye, memory
loss and incredible fatigue.
Doctors diagnosed allergies, gallbladder disease and
depression. They prescribed steroids, antibiotics and
antidepressants. Nothing helped.
Then a nurse friend noticed a rash on Lipe's arm and
referred her to Jemsek, an infectious disease
specialist. At his Huntersville, N.C., clinic, Lipe
found her answer - Lyme disease.
That diagnosis put her in the middle of a national
medical dispute that has been dubbed the "Lyme Wars."
At the center of the fight is Jemsek, one of 30
doctors in 10 states to be brought before licensing
boards for discipline because of the way they diagnose
and treat the tick-borne disease.
Jemsek and other so-called "Lyme-literate" doctors say
chronic Lyme disease is rampant, often ignored and
needs to be treated with antibiotics, both orally and
intravenously, for months or even years.
Mainstream physicians say the approach of aggressive
Lyme doctors is dangerous and without scientific
merit. Persistent Lyme disease is rare, they say, and
there is no evidence to support treatment with
antibiotics for such a long time.
In North Carolina, the medical board alleges that
Jemsek diagnosed and treated at least 10 patients for
Lyme disease when they did not have it.
One of the patients died. Another, Phillip Moore, said
he got worse while taking IV antibiotics for more than
four months. "He was treating me for something he
couldn't prove I really had."
Moore expects to testify against Jemsek when the two
sides face off at a public hearing in Raleigh on June
14.
Jemsek's focus on Lyme disease came after years of
concentrating on HIV. He diagnosed the first AIDS case
in Mecklenburg County, N.C., in 1983, and opened his
own AIDS clinic in 2000.
Several months later, he saw a patient who changed his
career.
"Do you treat Lyme disease?" she asked.
Of course, Jemsek said.
The patient said many doctors don't believe Lyme
disease exists in the Southeast. Jemsek didn't balk.
He prescribed tetracycline, an antibiotic in a pill.
Soon after, another Lyme patient contacted Jemsek.
Then another and another.
They'd heard by word of mouth or over the Internet
that he was a Lyme-literate medical doctor, willing to
treat their difficult problems.
Their stories were similar: foggy memories, extreme
fatigue, unusual pain, fevers, numbness in their
limbs. They had been diagnosed with many ailments,
including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, depression,
multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome.
It reminded Jemsek of the early days of AIDS, when few
doctors wanted to treat it and patients were
desperate. He says he had a feeling: "There's
something here."
To learn more, Jemsek attended a meeting of the
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. It
was created in 1998 to support doctors who believe
mainstream medicine has ignored patients with chronic
Lyme disease.
At first, Jemsek thought many of the presentations
were strange. "They scared the hell out of me," he
said, and he considered leaving.
But he met a few doctors who impressed him with their
knowledge and passion. They compared patients and
treatments and talked about the need for more
research.
"Essentially it's been trial and error," said Dr.
Raphael Stricker, a California hematologist and
president of the Lyme society. "Patients remain ill
after standard therapy, but when you put them on
longer treatment, they tend to do very well."
The two published studies on long-term antibiotic
treatment for Lyme disease showed no benefit. But
Stricker and Jemsek say the studies were flawed and
the treatment didn't last long enough to be helpful.
They point to a third, as yet unpublished study by a
Columbia University researcher who found improvement
in chronic Lyme patients who received antibiotics for
70 days.
One of Stricker's most famous patients is best-selling
author Amy Tan, whose works include "The Joy Luck
Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife." She has written a
chapter about her Lyme disease in "The Opposite of
Fate," a book of essays. "I am in this for the long
haul," she wrote, "with treatment that will likely
last for years."
So far Jemsek has evaluated 2,000 patients for Lyme
disease from 42 states and as far away as Europe.
Today, he is treating about 400 Lyme patients in
addition to 1,200 HIV patients.
He says blood tests for Lyme disease aren't always
accurate, and the chronic disease is more prevalent
than most doctors believe. "We get so wrapped up in
our tests, we forget to talk to the patient. You have
to go back to what you see with your eyes."
If it's caught early, Lyme disease is easily treated.
The Lyme Wars erupted over what happens when the
disease isn't detected initially.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
advises looking for a tick bite, a classic bull's-eye
rash and symptoms such as joint pain and fever.
Mainstream doctors acknowledge some Lyme patients will
have persistent nervous system and heart problems even
after treatment. But Allen Steere, the Yale University
specialist who first identified an outbreak in Lyme,
Conn., in 1976, said those patients will have specific
symptoms and test results. They are also rare, Steere
said, because doctors are better at diagnosing and
treating early disease.
Blood tests aren't good at detecting early disease,
but they are reliable for late-stage disease, said
Paul Mead, an epidemiologist for the CDC. If weeks or
months have passed since the initial infection, Mead
said, antibodies should be present. Someone with Lyme
disease should test positive.
Based on recommendations of the Infectious Diseases
Society of America, most doctors believe four weeks of
oral antibiotics - or a second four weeks in extreme
cases - is all that research supports. "If there was
evidence (for longer treatment), I'd jump on the
bandwagon," said Eugene Shapiro, an infectious disease
specialist at Yale.
People who take antibiotics for a long time risk
getting an infection in the catheters used to deliver
IV medicine, Shapiro said. Also, overuse of the drugs
can lead to antibiotic-resistance "superbugs."
"You have potential adverse effects without any
benefit," he said.
Phillip Moore, a 40-year-old Concord patient who
expects to testify for the medical board in June, said
Jemsek never explained to him that long-term
antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease was not standard
practice.
Like many of Jemsek's patients, Moore had spent more
than a year seeing specialists who couldn't figure out
what caused his health problems, including chronic
diarrhea. His family doctor referred him to Jemsek,
who diagnosed Lyme disease.
"I just wanted to feel better," Moore said.
He started IV antibiotics in September 2004, and a
month later he became so ill he took a leave of
absence from work. "I was just weak and pale. It was
affecting my personality." He noticed mood swings,
anxiety and angry "road rage" episodes.
After 4 1/2 months, Moore asked Jemsek to take the IV
catheter out of his arm. He didn't feel any better,
and he was suspicious of the treatment, which he said
cost his insurance company thousands of dollars a
month. Two other specialists told him they thought he
never had Lyme disease.
While Moore was in treatment, Jemsek was building a
new $8 million Huntersville, N.C., office complex,
which opened in January.
"It should have a wing dedicated to me," Moore said.
Jemsek declined comment on Moore's treatment. In
general, the doctor said, "We always tell folks this
is a partnership. We never claim to have the answers."
Another patient cited in the medical board's
allegations is Kathleen Jabkiewicz of Concord, N.C.
She was 41, the mother of twin 10-year-old sons, when
she died while being treated by Jemsek for Lyme
disease. Her husband, Joseph, has sued the doctor,
claiming his wife didn't have the disease and that
nearly two years of IV antibiotics contributed to her
March 2004 death.
Jabkiewicz was a pediatric intensive care nurse at
NorthEast Medical Center when, in 2002, she was
referred to Jemsek by her internist. She complained of
body aches and migraines, and had seen multiple
doctors. Although lab tests were negative, Jemsek
diagnosed Lyme disease, the lawsuit says.
As treatment progressed, she began having what
appeared to be epileptic seizures, according to the
lawsuit. Following a second hospital stay for
seizures, Jabkiewicz got a morphine prescription from
Jemsek's nurse practitioner for headache pain.
She took the first dose at home March 6, 2004, and was
found dead the next morning.
An autopsy gave the cause of death as morphine
poisoning. It said blood levels indicate Jabkiewicz
took more than the prescribed amount of morphine, but
there was no indication of abuse. It also said she had
no evidence of active Lyme disease.
In court filings, Jemsek said Jabkiewicz' lab tests
were contradictory. He denies that he misdiagnosed her
or did anything to cause her death.
Largely through patient activism, the Lyme Wars have
become public and political.
In Rhode Island, the legislature passed a law several
years ago to protect doctors who prescribe open-ended
antibiotic therapy. The California Legislature did the
same thing, also requiring that doctors explain the
different approaches to care.
Rhode Island legislators have also mandated insurance
coverage for Lyme disease treatment. Reimbursement
varies in other states.
This month, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North
Carolina instituted its first policy on Lyme disease.
Previously, the company paid most claims for lab tests
and long-term antibiotics. The new policy doesn't set
limits on what the company will pay, but it cites
short-term antibiotic therapy as the standard to
follow.
If insurance won't pay, fewer patients could afford
months of drug treatment.
It happened to DeAnn Lipe, the 38-year-old nurse from
Troutman, N.C., who has been treated by Jemsek since
February 2005. After two months of treatment, just as
she was beginning to feel better, her insurance
company stopped paying claims.
She couldn't afford the "thousands of dollars a
month," so she stopped the treatment. Ten weeks later,
after finding three other doctors who supported
Jemsek's diagnosis, she re-started treatment, again
covered by insurance.
After six months of IV antibiotics, Lipe said she
began feeling better in March. She vacuumed her carpet
for the first time in months. She shopped for
groceries without assistance.
Confident that Jemsek's treatment is working, Lipe
worries what will happen to her and other patients if
the medical board takes his license.
Dr. Christopher Ohl, an infectious disease specialist
at Wake Forest University, shares her concern about
the patients.
Unlike Jemsek, he doesn't believe there's much Lyme
disease in North Carolina. But he agrees that people
with chronic, vague complaints aren't served well by
mainstream medicine.
"They're kind of pushed away, which makes them feel
worse," Ohl said.
"They may not need a year's worth of antibiotics. What
they need is recognition that they don't feel well
(and) that they have symptoms that aren't well
understood. We just don't have the answers yet."
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LYME DISEASE
_Caused by a bacterium spread by the bite of infected
deer ticks.
_First recognized in the United States in 1976 in
Lyme, Conn.
_Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue and a
characteristic bull's-eye skin rash. Not all patients
will develop the rash or recall a tick bite. If left
untreated, infection can spread to joints, the heart
and the nervous system.
_Blood tests are helpful in diagnosing later stages of
disease. Early Lyme disease is diagnosed based on
symptoms and the possibility of exposure to infected
ticks.
_Most cases of Lyme disease are treated successfully
with a few weeks of oral antibiotics. Some doctors
contend that chronic Lyme disease is prevalent and
requires long-term antibiotic treatment, but this is
controversial.
_Ticks that transmit Lyme disease sometimes transmit
other tick-borne diseases as well.
_Reported cases rose 69 percent from 11,700 in 1995 to
19,804 in 2004. Concentrated in the Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic states, northern Midwest and Northern
California. Reported cases are rare in the Carolinas -
122 in North Carolina and 22 in South Carolina in
2004.
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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FOR INFORMATION
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
www.cdc.gov.
Lyme Disease Association: Toll-free (888) 366-6611;
www.lymediseaseassociation.org.
Infectious Diseases Society of America: (703)
299-0200; www.idsociety.org.
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
(ILADS): (301) 263-1080; www.ilads.org.
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PREVENT TICK-BORNE DISEASE
_Wear light-colored clothing so you can see ticks
crawling.
_Tuck pants legs into socks so ticks cannot crawl
inside pants legs.
_Apply repellents to discourage tick attachment.
_Conduct a body check upon return from tick-infested
areas. Use a hand-held or full-length mirror to view
all parts of your body.
_Remove any tick you find.
_Check children for ticks, especially in the hair,
when returning from tick-infested areas. Ticks may be
carried inside on clothing and pets.
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DR. JOSEPH JEMSEK
_Born: April 16, 1949, in Mattoon, Ill.
_Married: June 1996 to Kay Jemsek; their children are
James, 6, and Jordan, 2. Two children, John, 29, and
Joanne, 25, from a previous marriage.
_Education: Graduated University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana in 1970, University of Illinois
medical school in Chicago in 1974.
_Residency: Medical University of South Carolina in
Charleston.
_Fellowship: Infectious disease at Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston.
_Career: Joined the Nalle Clinic in Charlotte in 1979.
Opened Jemsek Clinic in Huntersville in 2000.
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