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Medicine fails to consider infectious pathogens acquired years or decades earlier, as a cause of chronic disease. The Spanish Flu epidemic is thought to have started, when soldiers returned from WWI. People who survived the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1920, had a reduced life-expectancy of up to 10 years. A chlamydia psittacosis pneumonia outbreak occurred, in Pennsylvania, in 1917; and a psittacosis pneumonia epidemic was confirmed, in Baltimore, in 1929-1930—both originating from contact with exotic birds, and then transmitted person-to-person……
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day, and we take this opportunity to share a remarkable website, which has many experts in the field of intracellular pathogens serving its board. The group posts scientific articles supporting chlamydia pneumonia, trachoma, and emerging chlamydia species, as an infectious cause of Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, asthma, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. The website endorses a broader view of chronic disease, and provides educational information about chlamydia. The intracellular research group, and “The Origin of Disease: The War…..
Epidemiological studies of MS, in the Faroe Islands, supported an infectious cause of MS. The Faroe Islands had no known reports of MS prior to 1943, among native-born residents. The Faroe Islands were occupied by British troops for five years during World War II, and many of the soldiers were from the Scottish Highlands, an area with a high rate of MS. The troops are believed to have introduced a widespread, specific, persistent (unknown) infection that triggered multiple sclerosis, 2-6…..
Patients with multiple sclerosis can have co-morbid conditions, which may include autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, intestinal diseases, ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, hypothyroid, mental illness, and/or epilepsy, any or all of which may be caused by the same infectious pathogens proposed as a cause of MS. Infectious pathogens can cause more than one chronic disease in the same person; and the patients’ co-morbid conditions are a clue to the likely pathogens, in MS.
Multiple sclerosis has been described for 300 years, and has been a clinical entity for 125 years. Drs. Stratton and Sriram suggested the infectious nature of MS was inescapable, because if it was a genetic disease the genetic cost would have eliminated MS from the population in 300 years. Stratton and Sriram reported chlamydia pneumonia is a likely trigger for MS and relapsing MS, alone or in combination with other pathogens. MS has occurred in epidemics and clusters, and the…..
MS is classified as an autoimmune disease, meaning the immune system is thought to be attacking normal tissue, for an unknown reason. MS should be classified as an infectious disease—it is caused by a chronic intracellular infection in the central nervous system. The immune system tries unsuccessfully to attack the intracellular infection; and the attack generates inflammation, abnormal proteins, inclusions, and damage to tissue in the central nervous system.
Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis are similar diseases—Parkinson’s occurs in the brain and multiple sclerosis in the central nervous system. Pathogens found in multiple sclerosis include chlamydia pneumonia, chlamydia psittacosis, chlamydia trachoma, h-pylori and toxoplasmosis; all can invade the central nervous system; and, alone or in combination, are likely causes of multiple sclerosis. The causes of MS can be diagnosed, and treatment of diagnosed chronic infections may benefit the patient. Chlamydia pneumonia’s has the strongest correlation with MS, because it is the…..
Dr. Merchant saw a young woman with a history of waking up blind in one eye, and thereafter waking up blind in the other eye. Each time, she would be hospitalized and treated with a prolonged course of steroids. Her ophthalmologist diagnosed optic neuritis, which describes inflammation of the optic nerves. She was also seen by a neurologist, who found white spots on her brain scan, and who was rapidly progressing to making a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Dr. Merchant…..
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