LOOKING AT LYME DISEASE - MSIDS: WILLY BURGDORFER - LYME DISEASE A BIOWEAPONS EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG.

Sunday, 20 January 2019

WILLY BURGDORFER - LYME DISEASE A BIOWEAPONS EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG.

From Kris Newby Senior Producer of Under our Skin.
'I’m happy to announce that my narrative nonfiction book, “BITTEN: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,” can now be pre-ordered from your favorite book retailer: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062896278/bitten/

About 5 years ago, I received a videotaped interview of Lyme discoverer Willy Burgdorfer saying that the Lyme disease outbreak was caused by a bioweapons experiment gone wrong. It was a stunning confession given his reputation, and I knew I couldn’t walk away from it.

BITTEN takes readers on my investigation of this claim, starting with Willy’s role in weaponizing ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes for the U.S. military’s bioweapons program, and ending with evidence supporting the theory that this epidemic began around Long Island Sound in 1968 as fallout from a secret bioweapons release.'

The epilogue of BITTEN:

“I believe that history will judge the tick-borne disease outbreak that began in 1968 to be one of the worst public health failures of the last century … The myopic focus on only one of the tick diseases, Lyme disease, has led to treatment delays and fatalities in patients who have serious mixed infections. Physicians urgently need rapid screening tests and the freedom to use clinical judgement in treating these complex patient cases — without the real and present danger of losing their medical licenses.”

If you want to join Kris in this campaign to educate a worldwide audience on the importance of increasing funding and treatment options for tick-borne diseases, here’s how you can help:
Preorder the book *now* if you think you’ll eventually want to read it: TV, radio and podcasters are currently using these tallies to prioritize and schedule author interviews for May, Lyme awareness month.

Word-of-mouth makes a difference: Forward this email to your Lyme-community lists.

Please send Kris any media or celebrity connections that might be helpful in this campaign.

Do you have conferences, Lyme groups, or indie bookstores where you’d like Kris to give a talk? HarperCollins will be sending me on a book tour May through the summer and I’ll add these to my list.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Under Our Skin - http://underourskin.com/film/

5 comments:

Unknown20 January 2019 at 12:30
My family fight w lyme and co infections is part of under our skin documentary. What a nightmare. I am an RN and hosted 2 seminars re same with USF/Morton Plant Hospital/All Children’s Hospital all in Pinellas County Florida. I continue to get referrals. Please add me to your email list and let me know if I can be of assistance in any way! Thanks for what you are doing! Pamela Marks, RN Sunny Slopes Organic Farms/Yellow Bay Orchards, Bigfork, Montana. Lyme, bartonella, Babesia and mycoplasma survivor—- never ever give up!
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Abennett13 February 2019 at 11:03
Looking for contact info for Kris Newby to invite to our annual Lyme conference this May. I can be reached at abennett@stlyme.org - thank you!
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Unknown14 February 2019 at 04:27
can the video be shared? is it available to the public?
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Lyme Life written in 2009

I started suffering with arthritis in mainly my large joints especially my knees 6 years ago. The symptoms varied and I remember saying that every joint was affected except my elbows to one doctor. I was told it would be hormonal and to take the usual supplements cod liver oil or glucosamine ( I would certainly recommend buying shares in the companies producing these supplements) They had no noticeable affect.

All my symptoms deteriorated significantly over a few weeks,4 years ago. Hips shoulders and knees being the worst and I started with muscle weakness in upper arms and upper legs. I had difficulty standing and walking across a room. I was unable to walk upstairs and my husband was making plans to convert to a downstairs bedroom. I had seen 5 doctors and 3 Rheumatologists and put on steroids for Poly Myalgia Rheumatica diagnosis. I had been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.

I have X rays and scans showing signs of osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis. ( later note.- the X rays done some years into treatment showed my hands completely normal no signs of inflammation or RA confirming how they felt - normal) I have been retired early from the Civil Service having lost my job not to mention my earning potential. My illness seemed to progress through my body not affecting the same joints left to right at the same time. I had bursitis in left hip, right hip, left elbow. I had synovial thickening in both wrists. At that time I could not lift and hold a magazine so lifting a kettle I could only do if a third full and with two hands. Each joint in my hands fingers feet and toes were affected. I had swallowing difficulties and many other symptoms. None of this describes the endless and awful pain whenever I moved or the tiredness but inability to get quality sleep.

Two years ago my GP gave me Amoxicilin for a sinus/throat/chest infection. All my arthritis symptoms improved. The course ended the symptoms deteriorated I started a second course the symptoms improved. The improvement was more significant than when I had started taking steroids. This led my GP to suspect Lyme Disease. I laughed because we do not travel abroad but she said they had had other cases in the surgery in the early stages of tick bite and Erythma Migrans rash. She said but you have not had a bite. I said oh yes I have I had two on my ankles with rashes, March 05 this was confirmed on her computer when I had seen a locum doctor. My worst symptoms were waking up feeling rigid and having to painfully flex every joint in my body before struggling to get up. The only other time I had experienced this was in May 2003 during a flu like illness like no other I had ever experienced. At that time I had a bite and similar rash on my right foot which lasted like the other rashes about four weeks. I had also consulted the surgery and it was dismissed as a virus. I walked our dog daily in the woods adjacent to our house where the deer roam, prime tick area. Thus started my very lengthy search about Lyme Disease leading me through Lyme Disease Action to a doctor who specialises in this illness. He confirmed my GP's suspicions. I never had a positive blood test but then they are antigen tests and there is much research that shows they are unreliable. In my case the year of steroids and many weeks antibiotics could have affected the results. So with a clinical diagnosis and following ILADS International Lyme and Associated Disease Society guidelines I continued on antibiotics for two years. Both my doctors continued to treat me despite of Health Protection Agency advising against long term antibiotics. I am now nearly 100% recovered I have no pain or muscle weakness. I can walk upstairs something I could not do for three and a half years. I can garden do house work and live a normal life. I still need to pace myself and with only a few months to 60 will not be looking to return to work. Life is such a joy. Sadly there is much controversy about Lyme Disease and doctors in UK are taught that it is so rare. Well where I live in Guildford I have been in contact with a dozen other people with it so perhaps not so rare as HPA would like us to believe. I am in touch with nearly 2000 other patients through a chat line Eurolyme most had been misdiagnosed with several other illnesses. Look at UK charity Lyme Disease Action if you want to read more about this illness. There are many MP's taking an interest in the problems surrounding diagnosis and treatment see above charity links into a recent meeting at the House of Commons.

Thank goodness there are some thinking doctors around who have courageously treated me against opposition and I have made such a miraculous recovery albeit rather a lengthy one. One day there will be many more people who are helped with their chronic illnesses when IDSA starts taking note of what our courageous LLMD’s are doing following ILADS Guidelines.

ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Poly Myalgia Rheumatica, Arthritis, Bell’s Palsy, MS,MN, ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Heart Block, Stroke, Psychiatric, gastric problems the list is endless. Not all suffering from Lyme Borrelia but how many are even properly assessed for it.

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UPDATE 10 January 2012