Re: mutating genes in lyme

From: Phyllis Mervine (pmerv_at_direcway.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: 1 Oct 2004 22:06:59 -0700

Greatcod@Yahoo.com (Greatcod) wrote in message news:<caef409e.0410011303.72c28d33@posting.google.com>...
> CHRONICITY is the
> medical problem with Lyme: that as far as I know, there is no peer
> reviewed study or description of the scope and severity of Chronic
> Lyme (should I say "putative" post infection syndrome?) by the Allen
> and his grantswine colleagues.

Actually Mark Klempner compared the severity of chronic LD to
congestive heart failure and osteoarthritis - both pretty severe
illnesses - though of course after the study was published and they
could escape from the oversight of the Advisory Panel with its
inconvenient patient representatives, they could go back to calling it
PLDS - post-Lyme disease syndrome, implying that it really wasn't Lyme
any more but some sort of self-perpetuating, autoimmune problem.