Steere acknowledges the severity of Lyme disease
- From: Sewer Rat <ratfromthesewer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:29:07 +0200
Why is Lymeland attacking Steere so much? At least Steere acknowledges the severity of Lyme disease, unlike e.g. the failed microbiologist Edward "LD50" McSweegan.
Steere believes that there may be an autoimmune component in Lyme disease, and he has the right to believe that, and perhaps he is right.
The following was posted by "shazdancer" on LymeNUT. It shows again that Steere does NOT believe that "Lyme disease is just a common, irritating bacterial infection".
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Steere, A. (2001, March). Grand Rounds: Lyme Disease and its Treatment [video recording]. Tufts University. Retrieved from ResearchChannel.org
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=2706&fID=345
[Transcripted excerpt]
(27:04) "Back in the old days, in the early 70s, before we knew the cause of this disease, we identified patients and simply followed them perspectively, to see what happened. At the time, we were trying to associate erythema migrans with arthritis, but of course we learned that they not only developed arthritis, but some other things."
(28:04) "In 1986, so this is now 8 years after the onset of his disease, the onset of chronic neuroborreliosis."
(37:04) "It was a whole cohort, hundreds of patients, that I had seen at Yale, and we continued to follow them, on a yearly/every other year basis, by telephone calls or letters. 'How are you doing?' in other words."
"About 1985, 86, 87, it became apparent that some patients were having neurologic syndromes afterward, and it became enough of them for us to wonder, is there a connection between this and earlier Lyme disease?"
"I enlisted Eric Logigian, a junior faculty member. He enlisted Richard Kaplan, a neuropsychologist, and their first paper on the subject was in the New England Journal in 1990 and it was a description of 27 patients. Most of those were patients that I had seen at Yale, who had subsequently, after a latent period, developed neurologic syndromes."
"And what were these syndromes like?" [He goes on to describe encephalopathy with cognitive and sleep problems, polyneuropathy, fatigue and headache, and hearing loss.]
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