Re: Of interest ? Bill P.

[Guest guest]

Hi Bill P., That article reads like an episode of X-Files. Weird and

creepy. I don't believe everything it says and wouldn't even know where to

begin to look to try to verify most of it.. like military germ warfare

experiments carried out over Canadian cities... my brain doesn't want to go

there!

I do think though that there is sometimes a shred of truth in the most

bizarre of stories so I looked up " Mycoplasma " and Chronic Fatigue and found

a few articles that might be of interest. If I understand correctly from

your previous posts, your doctors believe you might have Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome or Fibromyalgia so have you (or are you going to)asked them to put

you on a trial of antibiotics?

Regards,

Pam

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Mycoplasmas - The Missing Link in Fatiguing Illnesses

by Guthrie, R.Ph.

http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=3066

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Antibiotic May Defeat Gulf War Syndrome

Veterans set to begin trials of medication here, across U.S.

By Duerksen

http://www.shasta.com/cybermom/antibiotics.htm

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From MEDLINE Search on " mycoplasma chronic fatigue "

Semin Neurol 2000;20(3):375-86

Controversies in neurological infectious diseases.

Greenlee JE, Rose JW.

Neurology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of

Neurology, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City

84148-001, USA.

The past several years have seen major advances in our understanding of

neurological infectious diseases, their diagnosis, and their treatment.

Along with these advances, however, new information about infectious agents

and new therapeutic options have also introduced both uncertainty and

controversy in the approach and management of patients with diseases of the

central nervous system. Here, we discuss six such areas: the long-term

efficacy of HAART therapy in treatment of HIV infection; the role of viral

infection in chronic fatigue syndrome; Rasmussen's encephalitis as an

infectious or autoimmune disease; the spectrum of neurological diseases

caused by rickettsial infection; the role of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in human

central nervous system disease; and the possible association of Chlamydia

pneumoniae and human herpesvirus 6 with multiple sclerosis.

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Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1999 Dec;18(12):859-65

Multiple mycoplasmal infections detected in blood of patients with chronic

fatigue syndrome and/or fibromyalgia syndrome.

Nasralla M, Haier J, Nicolson GL.

The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1041, USA.

The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of different

mycoplasmal species in blood samples from patients with chronic fatigue

syndrome and/or fibromyalgia syndrome. Previously, more than 60% of patients

with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia syndrome were found to have

mycoplasmal blood infections, such as Mycoplasma fermentans infection. In

this study, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia syndrome

were examined for multiple mycoplasmal infections in their blood. A total of

91 patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia syndrome

and with a positive test for any mycoplasmal infection were investigated for

the presence of Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma

hominis and Mycoplasma penetrans in blood using forensic polymerase chain

reaction. Among these mycoplasma-positive patients, infections were detected

with Mycoplasma pneumoniae (54/91), Mycoplasma fermentans (44/91),

Mycoplasma hominis (28/91) and Mycoplasma penetrans (18/91). Multiple

mycoplasmal infections were found in 48 of 91 patients, with double

infections being detected in 30.8% and triple infections in 22%, but only

when one of the species was Mycoplasma pneumoniae or Mycoplasma fermentans.

Patients infected with more than one mycoplasmal species generally had a

longer history of illness, suggesting that they may have contracted

additional mycoplasmal infections with time.

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Of interest ?

I thought I would send this article in. I don't know if it is relevant to

any of the members or not. It is very much so to me. If you don't think it

is relevant discard it as you wish

Bill Pilgrim