"Ignorant" Lyme victims and the news on Mycoplasmal/Lyme as a cause of Multiple Sclerosis
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: "Ignorant" Lyme victims and the news on Mycoplasmal/Lyme as a
cause of Multiple Sclerosis
Date: Mar 29, 2010 4:41 AM
I hope everyone enjoys this as much
as I did.
http://www.actionlyme.org
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"Some MS patients had increased reactivity with the hydrophobic FMCs
and with glycoglycerophospholipid MfGL-II from Mycoplasma fermentans."
http://www.jlr.org/cgi/rapidpdf/jlr.M001396v1
vs:
Neurology. 1992 Jul;42(7):1341-8.
Borrelia burgdorferi and other related spirochetes bind to
galactocerebroside.
Garcia Monco JC, Fernandez Villar B, Rogers RC, Szczepanski A, Wheeler
CM, Benach JL.
Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Stony Brook
11794.
Spirochetes are agents of neurologic disease that may utilize specific
neural cell surface molecules for adhesion. Borrelia burgdorferi, the
etiologic agent of Lyme disease, bound to galactocerebroside (GalCer)
in numbers that were two- to threefold greater than to ceramide and
glucocerebroside, and four- to fivefold greater than to sphingosine,
psychosine, sulfatide, cholesterol, and three membrane phospholipids.
The adherence was greater to GalCer and ceramide with a higher content
of alpha-hydroxyl fatty acids. Treponema phagedenis Reiter and
Borrelia hermsii also bound to GalCer. The binding of B burgdorferi to
GalCer was inhibited in a concentration-dependent manner by rabbit
polyclonal and murine monoclonal antibodies to this glycosphingolipid
component of myelin. The monoclonal antibody to GalCer also inhibited
adhesion of the organisms to Schwann cells. Neither free D or L
monosaccharides nor the lectin peanut agglutinin inhibited binding.
Since B burgdorferi and other spirochetes cause neurologic disease,
these results suggest a role for GalCer as a binding site in both the
central and peripheral nervous systems.
Oh, see, I thought Benach said we were "crazy, and that "Allen Steere
had
the SCIENCE ON HIS SIDE," in a letter he wrote to the New York Times,
when all along, the immunosuppression and inability to fight off
fungal infections and the likes of Epstein-barr immortalizations were
indeed incidents related to IDSA's and especially Allen Steere's 1991
acknowledgement that Lyme causes Multiple Sclerosis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/30/science/l-a-lyme-battle-rages-511803.html
"Increasingly, groups of patients (who may or may not have Lyme
disease) are attempting to impose their will on governmental agencies
charged with health care and research, and thus to subvert the
scientific process. The ''bitter debate over Lyme disease'' is not
that at all; it is a debate between science and ignorance, with
science on the side of Dr. Steere."
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Now we see that there is pretty damned good evidence that Jorge
Benach,
when investigating why Lyme causes MS, discovered, in 1992, a
mechanism
by which Lyme and LYMErix causes MS and not "Only a Bad Knee:"
'Tolerance to fungal infections due to the specific immunosuppression
caused by the fungal antigens, OspA and LYMErix... and then
Mycoplasma.
6. Steere (1991), Part I; "Lyme is characterized by subtlety":
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/031ec42451d35e5c?hl=en&dmode=source
"If B. burgdorferi does cause this syndrome, it's absolutely amazing
that this spirochete would mimic not only rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
but
also multiple sclerosis (MS), two of the most puzzling and devastating
autoimmune diseases.
"Now I would like to proceed to the issue of seronegative Lyme
disease. I am convinced this entity exists."-- 1991 Allen Steere,
Rheumatology News
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I, for one, am enjoying my
"IGNORANCE" and "Lyme PARANOIA,
as I call it":
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOMARKERS2.htm
It's funny when the whole world
slams Yale and the CDC over their
scientific incompetence.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci