In the United States, we spend three trillion dollars per year on medical care and eighty billion dollars per year on medical research. After decades of research and many trillions of dollars spent, medical science has not yet explained the causes of chronic disease. A research bias persists against investigating infectious causes; and when a study does identify an infectious pathogen, researchers report an “association” rather than a cause. Research seldom moves on to investigate whether treatment of the pathogen is beneficial to the patient or improves the chronic disease.

Chronic diseases are increasing in the population and occurring in younger patients because doctors are not diagnosing and appropriately treating infectious causes of chronic disease, allowing immortal pathogens to spread in the population and in the person.