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I think vaccine is the best play.Some of the vaccines being trialed today are kind of like tick vaccines, ie, they stop the tick from emptying anything into its victim, at least in theory. There are like 16 TBD's, though. Hard to believe they could stop them all dead in their tracks, but...

@chrisb, you rock!

https://bmcpublichealtbiomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7069-6h. I found this to be an interesting read for a couple reasons. First, Jorge Benach, one of the authors, was on the Lyme scene virtually at the very beginning. He is one of the individuals who supplied Willy Burgdorfer...

My gut tells me, few if any knew. They would have assumed he was simply referring to rickettsia helvetica. He'd been part of the Montana landscape for decades.

Maybe. To be sure, we'd need to have him reference the same sometime or some place other than what we have so far. Perhaps he was having some fun. There's a couple double entendres, and they would both double back to him and to the novel rickettsia. It was the size of the bank account that...

James Baraniuk over at Georgetown University has done CSF sampling of ME/CFS.

I agree with their end-point, but not how they got there, at least not completely. Masking the role of trauma and adverse events? Wasn't it this emphasis that was in part responsible for how the psych world got to this dilemma in the first place? I pretty much can fall in line with the other...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521364/

A little odd that out of 10,000+ completed surveys - many done at neurology clinics - not one was listed as a channelopathy, at least not that I found. It could be they categorized PP patients as a type of muscular dystrophy. My guess would be some of those identified as FND in fact have...

We win.

Veterinarians are on the front line when it comes to bartonella. I think I read somewhere it is the number one cause of animal acquired illness amongst them. Bartonella mimics a lot of diseases and conditions. The diagnostics are pretty poor, which only compounds the matter (one of the reason is...

I would think. She really doesn't go there, does she? Sure. He had kids. Eh, now we get into a higher degree of speculation. Our take-aways are that he was a spirochetal expert, a rickettsial expert, worked decades in this capacity in one shape or another, and was part of the Cold War...

Right? The $10,000 question. Newby isn't the only one to have mused about this chimeric thing. I seem to recall Dr. Alan McDonald discussing the same theory, but that was like a decade ago. Relative to Burgdorfer hoarding the rickettsia research until his death, and the cryptic warnings he'd...

Well, Steere would be one of those people, and I suppose Jorge Benach who gave Willy the samples, and I suspect a few upper echelon EIS. And yes, I think she meant By August 1979. In the Fall of 79 it appears Willy was confident an unusual strain of Rickettsia was behind the outbreak. But by...

Ah, you read it. :)

The chronic Lyme debate is largely a straw man. When I post on dedicated Lyme forums often I tell patients to leave the chronic Lyme polemics at the door. That well has been poisoned. Lyme basically has three acknowledged stages. Early or acute, early disseminated, and late stage. There is no...

I suspect their strategy will be just to keep on keeping on. PT Barnum had it right, sadly. Perhaps more to the point, if I had a nickle for every corrupt statesman...

It's where it came up that is so telling. And that it came up at all - remember, this is a US-based organization, and most patients and advocacies will not be as well-versed as to the implications of MUS. They only have till August 10th to come up the learning scale. There is a larger problem...

https://www.idsociety.org/lymepubliccomments?fbclid=IwAR0Eg45ggxiym3rPiT88aRyDusccTphiEujvZxA4tV0pFD0b_NIzu1NvVKo :( Tens of thousands of Lyme patients might be thrown under the bus unless major changes are made. MUS plays a prominent role.

A case of the fox in the hen house? https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/practice-management/news/online/%7Bc26d9861-1659-4c00-927c-505b8ef8214b%7D/qa-idsa-to-award-500k-in-search-for-infectious-cause-of-alzheimers-disease