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Well, I finally sent my info in to the reporter even though she was practically done with her story...She decided to use one paragraph of what I sent and put it a sidebar article about the controversy around reporting lyme disease in my state of Oklahoma.
I think it turned out OK. My part is in the middle.
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copying this here to read in larger print...
Views of disease stir controversy *********************************
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer 8/17/2008 Last Modified: 8/17/2008 2:41 AM
State accused of not reporting Lyme disease cases.
Lyme disease is caught up in a swirl of confusion and controversy across the nation, and Oklahoma is no exception.
The controversy has arisen over disagreement about diagnosis, testing, treatment and prevalence of this complex disease.
Janet Segraves, facilitator for the Lyme Disease Support Group of Oklahoma, said the Oklahoma State Department of Health refuses to report hundreds of Oklahomans with Lyme disease to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It has not always been this way in Oklahoma. Prior to 1999, the Department of Health reported to the CDC up to 110 cases of Lyme a year," she said.
Oklahoma health officials insist Lyme disease is uncommon in the state, and that many people who think they have Lyme actually have a similar, but less severe disease, called Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI).
A patient's thoughts ******************* *******************
Stacey Arnold of Oklahoma City, who was recently diagnosed with Lyme disease:
"I had no idea that a bacterial infectious disease could be considered controversial until I began discussing my test results with physicians.
Apparently, some doctors are so adamant that Lyme disease doesn't exist here, that no amount of evidence would convince them otherwise.
"Keep in mind that there is a form of Lyme disease in Europe, and scientists think that an infected tick was carried across the Atlantic Ocean on a migratory bird.
It defies all logic to then refuse to accept the possibility that borrelia (the bacteria that causes Lyme infection) couldn't find its way to Oklahoma.
"Our doctors are being told that there is no Lyme disease in Oklahoma, and in turn, they are telling their patients the same thing. Oklahoma has only three human cases reported since 2001, but somehow 533 reported cases in dogs.
This just means that there are many more sick Oklahomans that are either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed."
Dr. Kristy Bradley, state epidemiologist with the Oklahoma State Department of Health:
"Lyme disease is currently the most commonly reported tick-borne disease in the U.S., with more than 90 percent of cases reported from states in the Northeast, Upper Midwest and Pacific Coast regions of the country.
"In Oklahoma and other southern states where the incidence appears to be very low, some confusion and debate exists over the risk of acquiring Lyme disease in our geographical region.
"The Oklahoma State Department of Health investigates all reports from physicians and laboratories of patients who are found to have a positive screening test for Lyme disease.
Our investigations have identified only three Western immunoblot confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Oklahoma since 2001.
This suggests that the risk of true Lyme disease in Oklahoma is extremely low.
"The Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory identifies very few positive B. burgdorferi tests in dogs in comparison to ehrlichiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
In my research of canine infections, I have found that their proportion of tick-borne illness diagnoses is consistent with the relatively low incidence of human Lyme disease in Oklahoma." ----------------------------
Kim Archer 581-8315 [email protected] ************************** By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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touitsmrs, (8/17/2008 7:32:15 AM)
The reason why drs are saying the disease doesnt exsist is because Lyme disease is a chemical weapon created at a govt facility in Lyme Connecticut that was "accidentally" released into the enviroment in the USA serveral years ago.
People are left to die because if enough people get together to hold the govt responsible for this horrible disease there would be lawsuits galore.
It is just crazy to me that the Mayo clinic is still giving false negatives when people are seeking help.
It can make one think that the govt is really going all out to cover up the problem that they created.
Im sure they hope lyme sufferers will just die off but the problem is more and more people are becoming infected with the disease and that is how the word is getting around.
When is our govt going to help these people that are in the worst pain imaginable? Someone needs to tell the truth and come forward instead of letting so many people suffer for a life time.
I can imagine how many people have been told that nothing is wrong with them or they have been misdiagnosed just so the govt doesnt have to do anything about the biological weapon they created. **************
touitsmrs, (8/17/2008 7:38:46 AM)
I know of at least three people myself that saved their ticks, had the bulls eye rash and took it to local tulsa hospitals and were still told it wasnt lyme disease!!! Just how big of cover up is there when Drs can look at the tick, test the tick, see the symptoms and still do nothing about it.
Yeah an infected bird carried a tick across the atlantic and that is how everything got started! NOT! When are people going to wake up... oh they cant wake up because even our drs are covering it up and misinforming the public. **************
touitsmrs, (8/17/2008 7:45:46 AM)
Lyme disease has been found in other biting insects and has also been found in semen, breast milk and transmited from mother to newborn infant! ************
oldrustytulsa, (8/17/2008 10:39:03 AM)
And just to think, everybody just believes everything the government puts out.Like the high price of gasoline, and drilling off the coasts, and in Alaska., what a bunch of saps you all are.Trust No one. ********************
Fred, (8/17/2008 1:37:24 PM)
That dogsandticks link in the article is a real eye-opener. Move from state to state with your pointer and see the levels of the four major dog diseases change. ********************************** *********************************
to anyone from OKLAHOMA,
write your rebuttal and use this info!! *************************************
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current Jan. 2008 ...totals shown by STATE!
I took the email addy to her and wrote her a lot of my current research. When I finish it all, I will post it. Here is what I wrote her:
Hi Kim,
I read your article on Lyme disease!
Are you aware that there are 300 species of Bb (Borrelia Burgdorferi) in the world, 100 of them alone in America, but the species that they test on the Western Blot is a GERMAN species?
Are you aware that they try to deny that late stage Lyme exists, and conveniently remove two of the specific bands on the test, Osp A and Osp B?
That Osp A (one of the late stage Lyme bands on the Western Blot), despite their trying to claim there is NO SUCH THING as late Lyme, they use that very same band, Osp A for their Lymex vaccinations?
That the CDC says Lymex was removed because of lack of demand when in fact it was GIVING people Lyme symptoms? Yes, Osp A, specific to late stage Lyme that "doesn't exist" yet in their vaccination causes Lyme symptoms!
That they deny that -- despite Plum Island situated only 10 miles south of Lyme, CT where Lyme originated and where there is the highest risk of Lyme-- that they don't study Lyme or test the public unbeknownst to them, but they admit they are now studying it in their new biolab in Colorado?
That fibromyalgia is now known to have those same 3 mycoplasmas?
Despite their denial of what or how fibromyalgia exists, or the fact that studies show it starts in the same way as Lyme (trauma including car accidents and vaccinations) or that it is in fact late Lyme, a women in 2000 was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibrolyalgia, and was subsequently found to have been infected with three those SAME THREE specific mycoplasma organisms:
Mycoplasma fermantans, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma genitalium!
She was treated, by the way, with olive leaf extract and subsequently had negative lab tests for those same mycoplasmas).
And that many who have Alzheimer's really have late stage Lyme disease and become 'cured' when given IV Rocephin, but then sometimes relapse with memory loss and confusion until treated again?
That many who have been thought to have "Alzheimer's" were found upon autopsy to have not only these plaques--similar to Lyme patients plaques found on MRI's-- during autopsy they have been found to have LIVE spriochetes in their brains?!
That they say Lyme is easy to find easy to treat, yet when curing animals for mycoplasmas that admit it is "Mycoplasma is very difficult to treat because many commonly used antibiotics do not work well."
That micoplasma bovis sounds similar to some common Lyme symptoms?
Here's a quote: "Some calves with ... due to M. bovis will develop a severe arthritis two to four weeks later.
Different strains of M. bovis have different likelihoods of causing joint problems so some outbreaks have many lame calves while others have none.
Affected calves will have swollen joints that are so painful ... The carpus (knee) and stifle are the most commonly affected joints, but any joint can be involved.
The two most important factors in the treatment of Mycoplasma are early recognition and prolonged treatment.
Calves treated early in the course of the disease respond fairly well. The need for longer treatment than usual for BRDC is underscored by the fact that without extended therapy, 30 percent to 70 percent of the calves can relapse and require treatment again.
Each time a calf relapses it will have more lung damage and be less likely to recover. Current recommendations are to provide continuous therapeutic levels of antibiotics to calves with Mycoplasma pneumonia for 10 to 14 days.
That they will use the PCR (Polymer Chain Reaction) test for animals, but refuse to except the results when humans are tested by that type of test instead of the Western Blot?
That they use antibiotics for animals for our food consumption every day, including our milk, and give antibiotics almost carelessly even giving them to patients who request them for colds,
... even though they are a virus and not a bacteiria yet deny them to Lyme patients, and tell them it's all in their head?
Or that they never had Lyme seeing as one month of antibiotics would have cured them if it was, yet admit with cows that it's hard to treat?
That they admit when dealing with animals that unless antibiotics are given in high enough doses for long periods of time, that they are only bacteriostatic, like a temporary birth control for the bacteria, and they will relapse?
Francis A Boyle, in her article, Biowarfare and Terrorism, states, "Bush Sr., Cheney, General Colin Powell ... General Norman Schwarzkopf, and the rest of the U.S. military High Command inflicted a Nuremburg Crime on United States armed forces by forcing them to take these experimental medical vaccines in violation of the Nuremburg Code on Medical Experimentation."
In an article, ``Pentagon Bioweapons: Crimes Against Humanity, William Bowles writes, ``Boyle's short and impassioned book deals with the US government's illegal multi-billion dollar biological weapons programme. A program that as Boyle makes abundantly clear presents itself as "defensive" but of course, in order to produce a 'defense', requires the development of offensive bioweapons.
In fact, the penalties involved for engaging in even the research into biological weapons under US domestic law are life imprisonment and under certain circumstances, even the death penalty as well as impeachment for the president (followed rapidly one hopes by life imprisonment).
But not only does it deal with the illegal bioweapons programme initiated under the Reagan government, continued under Clinton and vastly expanded under the current regime, it reveals the linkage between the anthrax attack on Congress and 9-11;''
They can test 'human subjects' for biological and chemical agents for:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity.
(2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
(3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related to riot control.
Under the common law doctrine of informed consent, as well as the due process clause in the Constitution you have the right to refuse medical treatment, including vaccinations.
If I give an injection to a patient despite their refusal, it is considered assault. However, do you have the right to withhold vaccinations for your child? If your children are not immunized, they can't go to school.
If they don't go to school, you go to jail. So in fact, you don't have the right to withhold vaccinations from your child, despite research hinting that they might cause autism or worse, death. The ``State's interests'' override your liberty rights.
Despite research that other additives to those vaccinations used to potentiate (increase) the effect, such as squalene or preservatives such as thermosol alone might make you or your child ill.
Refer to the article on the military use of squalene and its effects. It is also used in Tetanus vaccines.
You've seen the laws and articles I have given you. If you have any doubt the government won't allow this to happen, read this article regarding ``The History of the Development of AIDS'' and use this as a jumping board for your own research http://www.boydgraves.com/timeline
... as well as the book AIDS: The Crime Beyong Belief, by William L. C. Scott and Donald William Scott, and Osler's Web by Hillary Johnson.
That all polio vaccines between the dates of 1954 and 1963 were contaminated with the Simian virus SV40 and when mixing the dormant sv40 virus and asbestos can cause mesothelioma quickly instead of 30-50 years? (think post 9/11 workers)
That Lyme is very political, benefiting the CDC and other agencies, as well as the health insurance companies?
That doctors are given bonuses if they deny Lyme patients their needed treatment?
That there is no way the CDC can say there is no such thing as late stage Lyme disease because it hasn't been around long enough?
That there has been much speculation that Lyme may have originated in Syphillis another Spirochete?
That that is why they had those poor African American sharecroppers suffer for 12 odd years even though they already had the cure for syphilis because they were drawing their blood and tapping their spines for research?
What research? They already had a cure!
That Plum Island is now conveniently under "Homeland Security"?
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