News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
On July 17, 2009 the HHS Appropriations Committee reported an increase of $3.66 million for Lyme disease, from $5.27 million to $8.93 million, for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the only increase for diseases in the National Center for Zoonotic and Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases.
The following thought-provoking information has been generously given by Geraldine, a chronic Lyme sufferer.
Geraldine owned a massage school “BL” (before Lyme) 15 years ago, and has researched many aspects of coping with Lyme and the parasites and co-infections that are so common with chronic Lyme sufferers. I have added some links and further references [...]
The Lyme disease spirochete is far more virulent than syphilis. We don’t know the end yet. And [we] can’t even make a [blood] smear with Borrelia burgdorferi and see the organism. It’s there. But you don’t see it. You cannot find this spirochete. Why not? After all, I have a sick person here. He is trembling all over. His spinal fluid is full of spirochetes. But when it comes to blood, it’s not there. So there is something associated with this organism that makes it different.
Sexual transmission of Lyme disease is hotly debated, however, Syphilis, the cousin of Lyme, is contracted primarily through sexual contact.
Thanks to the courageous voices from an ever increasing number of chronically disabled Lyme victims, and with the incredibly successful distribution and promotion of Under Our Skin, the general public is beginning to question conventional approach to diagnosis and treatment of Lyme.
