Jorge Benach falsely claims to have discovered Borrelia burgdoferi
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Subject: Jorge Benach falsely claims to have discovered Borrelia
burgdoferi
Date: Mar 30, 2010 12:57 PM
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"Dr. Benach brought recognition to the Stony Brook School of Medicine
in 1983 when he made the landmark discovery of the organism that
causes Lyme Disease that was published in the New England Journal of
Medicine."
Hmm. Someone oughtta check that
out with Willy. (Besides, I woulda called
it Borrelia plumislandi
http://www.actionlyme.org/PIIB.htm )
To our knowledge, Benach re-discovered
that spirochetes eat brains:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2345299
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2760500
The affinity of the spirochete for cells of primary rat brain cultures
and of the C6 glioma cell line was studied. B. burgdorferi adhered to
both types of cells in a dose-dependent manner and exhibited an
affinity for an extracellular matrix produced by the primary and by
glioma cell cultures. Adherence of the spirochetes to the glial
components of the primary brain culture could be an early event in the
production of neurological injury; its affinity for cells could be the
reason for its infrequent isolation from cerebrospinal fluid.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAIN_PERMANENT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICOCHRON.htm
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This is of course, not to mention
that Benach slandered/libeled us
Lyme victims in the New York Times:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/46b413aa29117098?hl=en#
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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Updated: March 30, 2010, 11:21 am
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New East End Tick Findings To Be Presented By Researcher Who First
Discovered Organism That Causes Lyme Disease
Dr. Jorge L. Benach to make presentation. (SBSH)
Southampton - As tick season is beginning on Eastern Long Island,
Stony Brook University's Dr. Jorge L. Benach will discuss the history
of tick-borne diseases in our area, which is among the most endemic in
the world. He will also cover the associations among the ticks of
Eastern Long Island with the microbes that they carry.
Dr. Benach, a Distinguished University Professor, Director of the
Center for Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook University and Chair of
the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, will offer a
talk titled "Tick-Borne Diseases of Eastern Long Island" as part of
the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
April 8, in Stony Brook Southampton's Duke Lecture Hall. The event is
hosted by Stony Brook Southampton Dean and Vice President Mary Pearl.
He will provide the latest figures on the prevalence of tick-borne
diseases in our environment.
Dr. Benach brought recognition to the Stony Brook School of Medicine
in 1983 when he made the landmark discovery of the organism that
causes Lyme Disease that was published in the New England Journal of
Medicine.
As the Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases in the Centers
for Molecular Medicine, Dr. Benach overlooks basic and applied
research on how microbes cause disease, as well as how the body fights
off infection. His research career has focused on the area of vector-
borne diseases, particularly in the area of spirochetal infections.
This department at Stony Brook University has been a home for world-
class research programs in areas ranging from microbial pathogenesis
and model organism genetics to cancer biology. The mission of the
department is to advance the knowledge of the fundamental causes of
human diseases.
Dr. Benach is a past Fulbright Scholar. He served as a member of the
Advisory Council of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1997 to 2001. He presently holds a
Merit Research Award from the NIH.
More Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Events
The Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series continues with Michael Balick,
Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology
Curator, New York Botanical Garden Institute of Economic Botany, on
April 29, speaking on "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine: Plants,
People, and Cultures in the Tropical Rainforest."
Events are on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall and are free
and open to the public. For further information, call 631-632-5028.
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