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Every pandemic in history has had the greatest impact on poor and marginalized communities, going back to the Black Death—communities deprived of adequate nutrition, healthcare, and safe housing; and most likely to have chronic underlying conditions. Viral and bacterial co-infection can lead to more severe disease. Patients with chronic chlamydia pneumonia can develop heart problems; patients with chronic strep or other types of chlamydia can develop kidney problems. Influenza patients can develop a stroke months after acute influenza has resolved……
Chlamydia psittacosis is an intracellular bird pathogen, which can be transmitted to other animal species and to humans. Psittacosis can host bird viruses, and which can trigger evolution of both the psittacosis and the viruses. Psittacosis has a remarkably similar presentation and clinical findings to covid-19. Psittacosis can become psittacosis pneumonia, which also has similar clinical and x-ray findings to severe and fatal cases of covid-19. In Feb. 2020, Sweden recently reported an outbreak of dozens of cases of psittacosis;…..
Chlamydia trachoma is considered the main cause of preventable blindness. Trachoma can be spread by intimate contact, close contact within the family, or acquired from flies in the form of ocular trachoma. At Ellis Island, the eyes of immigrants were screened using the same dirty eye hook on every patient, which would have spread trachoma and defeated the purpose of the screening. Sexually acquired trachoma can spread from the reproductive tract to the eye. Ocular trachoma can be transmitted by…..
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a major chronic disease worldwide, which is now occurring at an increasing rate in younger adults. Hypertension is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that leads to congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, and significant mortality. Immortal intracellular pathogens in cardiovascular tissue lead to chronic infection, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease. The pathogens and the immune response to the pathogens stimulates the evolution of chronic disease.
Fibromyalgia is a complex “autoimmune” disease, describing widespread muscle and skeletal pain, fatigue, cognitive disorders, and “somatic” symptoms (headache, dizziness, gastrointestinal disorders, bladder, sleep disturbances, fatigue, anxiety, and brain-fog). Fibromyalgia patients have increased oxidative stress and neurogenic inflammation (inflammation arising in nervous tissue). Their microglia overproduce TNF-alpha, cytokines, and other chemical substances that trigger pain. They have an altered microbiome, which negatively impacts the gut-brain pain connection, and induces an overreaction to mild sensory stimulus. Fibromyalgia is more common in…..
Chronic infections cause Alzheimer’s. Findings in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients—plaque and tangles, abnormal proteins, and inflammation, are caused by pathogens and the response of the immune system. Chlamydia has been identified and cultured from Alzheimer’ brains, at the location of plaque and tangles, and inside microglia and immune cells. The microbiology of chronic chlamydia infection is consistent with the pathology found in Alzheimer’s brains. Retinal scans (OCTA) can view small blood vessels and measure neuronal loss, in the back…..