Biochemistry of Lyme Disease: Borrelia burgdorferi

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"Major Diseases Linked to Lyme Spirochete "
Lyme Spirochete Found in the Brain of MS Patients

The causative organism of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been found in the brains of many victims of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Listing 5: Lyme Disease Linked to Four Major Diseases Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Systemic Scleroderma and Arthritis

ALZHEIMER'S The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has been found in the brain of many Alzheimer patients. Also in the brain, antigens and genes of Bb have been co-localized with beta-amyloid deposits.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) has been found in the brain of many multiple sclerosis (MS) patients along with amyloid deposits. MS has been linked to Lyme disease both seasonally and by location.

SYSTEMIC SCLERODERMA The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has been found in the blood in systemic scleroderma. Treatment with antibiotics effective against Bb returned the skin to normal.

LYME-INDUCED ARTHRITIS Only certain strains of Bb are capable of causing the symptoms of arthritis.

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Biochemistry of Lyme Disease: Borrelia burgdorferi Spirochete/Cyst ... http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/page2.html

"Major Diseases Linked to Lyme Spirochete "
Lyme Spirochete Found in the Brain of MS Patients

The causative organism of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been found in the brains of many victims of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Listing 5: Lyme Disease Linked to Four Major Diseases Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Systemic Scleroderma and Arthritis

ALZHEIMER'S The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has been found in the brain of many Alzheimer patients. Also in the brain, antigens and genes of Bb have been co-localized with beta-amyloid deposits.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) has been found in the brain of many multiple sclerosis (MS) patients along with amyloid deposits. MS has been linked to Lyme disease both seasonally and by location.

SYSTEMIC SCLERODERMA The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has been found in the blood in systemic scleroderma. Treatment with antibiotics effective against Bb returned the skin to normal.

LYME-INDUCED ARTHRITIS Only certain strains of Bb are capable of causing the symptoms of arthritis.

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Alzheimer's disease has been called a "demographic time b" that has evolved from a curious affliction to an American epidemic. In the past quarter century, the number of elderly people diagnosed with the disease has risen from 500,000 to five million.

And the disease is not just an American affliction. Over the next 50 years, estimates of the number of people who will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's range from 80 million to 100 million.

In the past syphilis was a significant cause of dementia. If syphilis remains untreated for years it often moves into internal organs such as the heart, eyes, and BRAIN. Patients with "neurosyphilis" often have memory loss, multiple psychological problems, loss of balance, loss of feeling in the extremities, loss of bladder control, and impotence. Antibiotics have almost eliminated neurosyphilis from the developed regions of the world.

The latest research revealing the ASTONISHING pathological SIMILARITIES between Lyme Disease and SYPHILIS should be a wake up call for the mainstream scientific medical community, and the desperate need to re-examine the popular, glamorous and blindly held view of HIV etiology. There is no justification whatsoever, for medical science to divorce itself from the long standing historic and symptomatic role, that syphilis had in pandemics of human society.

Because Bb infection involves a spirochete, the disease process - like syphilis, a venereal disease also caused by a spirochete - can become
severe. As with syphilis, Lyme symptoms can be anything and everything,or nothing at all, for months to years after infection. There's goods reason why Lyme has been called the New Great Pretender. Leading misdiagoses for LD include juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, systemic lupus erythematous and chronic fatigue syndrome. Attention deficit disorders and mild to severe psychiatric disorders also have had Lyme as the actual underlying cause.

Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) and its cousin, syphilis, is known as "The Great Medical Imitator". Both illnesses are multisystemic infections caused by chameleon-like, intracellular pathogens called spirochetes. Syphilis was able to destroy the nervous system and other organs. Lyme can do the same but the diagnosis of Lyme is often missed. Most physicians are either not familiar with the symptoms or the way Lyme can mimic other autoimmune diseases like MS.

You could have been infected years ago stayed healthy like syphilis patients and HIV patients do only to become sick after a surgical procedure or childbirth. Surgery and childbirth cause this infection and its cousin, syphilis, to come to the forefront. People will have a surgery and suddenly become weak, fatigued and achy. This is the way this infection works. "there is considerable under-reporting" of Lyme disease, maintaining that the actual infection rate may be 1.8 million, 10 times higher than the 180,000 cases currently reported. Dan Kinderleher, MD, an expert on Lyme disease, stated that the number of cases may be 100 times higher (18 million in the United States alone) than reported by the CDC. It is estimated that Lyme disease may be a contributing factor in more than 50% of chronically ill people. (1)According to an informal study conducted by the American Lyme Disease Alliance (ALDA), most patients diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are actually suffering from Lyme disease.

In a study of 31 patients diagnosed with CFS, 28 patients, or 90.3%, were found to be ill as a result of Lyme disease. The question has been raised, what is tertiary syphilis without the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum? Similarly one ought to ask, what is chronic Lyme disease without the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi?

What is being promoted as the "standard of care" for chronic Lyme disease is medical neglect, a vast de facto Tuskegee experiment.

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Alzheimer's disease has been called a "demographic time b" that has evolved from a curious affliction to an American epidemic. In the past quarter century, the number of elderly people diagnosed with the disease has risen from 500,000 to five million.

And the disease is not just an American affliction. Over the next 50 years, estimates of the number of people who will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's range from 80 million to 100 million.

In the past syphilis was a significant cause of dementia. If syphilis remains untreated for years it often moves into internal organs such as the heart, eyes, and BRAIN. Patients with "neurosyphilis" often have memory loss, multiple psychological problems, loss of balance, loss of feeling in the extremities, loss of bladder control, and impotence. Antibiotics have almost eliminated neurosyphilis from the developed regions of the world.

The latest research revealing the ASTONISHING pathological SIMILARITIES between Lyme Disease and SYPHILIS should be a wake up call for the mainstream scientific medical community, and the desperate need to re-examine the popular, glamorous and blindly held view of HIV etiology. There is no justification whatsoever, for medical science to divorce itself from the long standing historic and symptomatic role, that syphilis had in pandemics of human society.

Because Bb infection involves a spirochete, the disease process - like syphilis, a venereal disease also caused by a spirochete - can become
severe. As with syphilis, Lyme symptoms can be anything and everything,or nothing at all, for months to years after infection. There's goods reason why Lyme has been called the New Great Pretender. Leading misdiagoses for LD include juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, systemic lupus erythematous and chronic fatigue syndrome. Attention deficit disorders and mild to severe psychiatric disorders also have had Lyme as the actual underlying cause.

Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) and its cousin, syphilis, is known as "The Great Medical Imitator". Both illnesses are multisystemic infections caused by chameleon-like, intracellular pathogens called spirochetes. Syphilis was able to destroy the nervous system and other organs. Lyme can do the same but the diagnosis of Lyme is often missed. Most physicians are either not familiar with the symptoms or the way Lyme can mimic other autoimmune diseases like MS.

You could have been infected years ago stayed healthy like syphilis patients and HIV patients do only to become sick after a surgical procedure or childbirth. Surgery and childbirth cause this infection and its cousin, syphilis, to come to the forefront. People will have a surgery and suddenly become weak, fatigued and achy. This is the way this infection works. "there is considerable under-reporting" of Lyme disease, maintaining that the actual infection rate may be 1.8 million, 10 times higher than the 180,000 cases currently reported. Dan Kinderleher, MD, an expert on Lyme disease, stated that the number of cases may be 100 times higher (18 million in the United States alone) than reported by the CDC. It is estimated that Lyme disease may be a contributing factor in more than 50% of chronically ill people. (1)According to an informal study conducted by the American Lyme Disease Alliance (ALDA), most patients diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are actually suffering from Lyme disease.

In a study of 31 patients diagnosed with CFS, 28 patients, or 90.3%, were found to be ill as a result of Lyme disease. The question has been raised, what is tertiary syphilis without the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum? Similarly one ought to ask, what is chronic Lyme disease without the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi?

What is being promoted as the "standard of care" for chronic Lyme disease is medical neglect, a vast de facto Tuskegee experiment.