Is Lyme Disease A BioWeapon? Did The FEDS Coerce A Well Know Lyme Disease Physician Into Taking Early Retirement?
Chronic Lyme Disease Now Affects Millions Of Americans Who've Been Permanently Disabled By Its Crippling Effects On Their Health. Is this plague on the American people a US Government created biological weapon?
"I Did Not Start Out Looking For Conspiracies"
Please allow me to take a moment to clarify something of great importance. Some may call what I've written here the act of someone totally consumed with conspiracy theories. However, I can honestly say that I never started out looking for conspiracies. Over the course of time I just began to experience so many anomalies in my life and noticed them occurring within the lives of myriad others with whom I was in contact, that I could no longer ignore the fact that something criminal was going on behind the scene.
It would take years for me to find out who the catalyst behind the conspiracy against me was (an FBI Federal agent), and over the course of time I would learn of numerous other criminal conspiracies taking place against other Americans -- most of which were perpetrated by the United States Department Of Defense, NSA, CIA and FBI.
I became the focus of a mainstream criminal conspiracy back in 1981, while I was still attending college. However, it would not be until 1993 (when I was bitten on several occasions by deer ticks which subsequently led to my contracting of a pathogenic illness which is today known as Lyme Disease), that I would be catapulted headlong into learning of these other criminal conspiracies that would affect the lives of millions of unwitting American citizens, all at the hands of the United States Federal Government.
While the name itself sounds benign enough, I can assure you that chronic Lyme disease is in fact an insidious illness which devastates those who have contracted it. I can also tell you that chronic Lyme disease has caused tremendous human suffering, and that those afflicted with this illness have suffered in ways that most people cannot possibly comprehend. Many have been financially bankrupted by it and in numerous instances had their lives destroyed. Many Lyme patients have even died after contracting this horrific illness and many of it lesser known coinfectons.
I had heard some years back that perhaps a million or more people have suffered with chronic Lyme disease since it was first discovered in 1976. However, I believe that the number has now been upgraded and is substantially higher. The United States Government's "Centers For Disease Control" will never allow the public in general to learn about this though, as they have for years deliberately underreported the numbers of cases in an effort to keep it out of the public eye.
Note: While Borellia Burgdorferi (Lyme Disease) was first given attention by the medical community in 1976, there is considerable evidence to show that it could be found in Long Island's Hampton's community at least a decade earlier, masquerading as the malady, "Montauk Knee." Montauk Knee, an arthritic condition which affected the knee joints in those so afflicted, plagued many Hamptonites as early as the late 1950's. Later on some astute people would recognize that the arthritic conditions associated with Montauk Knee were merely undiagnosed cases of Lyme disease manifesting itself as arthritis -- one of myriad symptoms that this illness is capable of causing. Hence its nickname: the great masquerader.
Chronic Lyme disease is also a "hot bed" of controversy, because it is extremely difficult and expensive to treat. Consequently, it's an illness that the health insurance industry would prefer to forget about since as one former insurance carrier put it: "if we covered all of those policy holders whom we have contracts with, for the long-term protocols needed in treating their chronic Lyme disease symptoms, between covering AIDS and Lyme disease patients we would go broke!"
Given this stance by health insurance carriers, it's safer for a physician to misdiagnose someone who has contracted Lyme disease with some other illness, or dismiss the patient as someone experiencing a psychological problem.
This is safer then incurring the wrath of the health insurance industry, something that (given its powerful government lobby) any wise physician will avoid at all costs. So what happens to doctors who are Lyme literate and treat their patients aggressively, going against the American Medical Association's prescribed treatment protocol for this illness?
They are quietly blackballed from the medical community and treated as pariahs.
I can personally attest to observing a criminal conspiracy orchestrated by the United States Health Insurance Industry in efforts to put one of the foremost experts on Lyme disease treatment in this country out of business. His name is Dr. Joseph Burrascano.
Since testifying before a US Senate Health comittee back in 1993, Dr. Burrascano has been repeatedly harassed by the New York State Office Of Professional Medical Conduct, in an attempt to prevent him from continuing to treat chronically ill Lyme disease patients aggressively. (Several other Lyme disease experts were also attacked by the OPMC as a form of intimidation -- at least two of these doctors lost their medical licenses while two others committed suicide as a result of this harassment.)
The following Website contains the testimony that Dr. Burrascano presented to a Senate Oversight Hearing Committee in regard to Lyme disease and the treatment dilemma that it presented to the medical community.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/romarkaraoke/testDrB.html
Burrascano is an excellent clinician and realized that chronically ill Lyme disease patients needed long-term intravenous antibiotic therapy in order to give them relief from the devasting and disabling symptoms that this illness causes. He also understood that there was no cure for chronic Lyme disease and that as a result of this, many Lyme patients would need careful and expensive monitoring for the rest of their lives. (The health insurance carriers also knew this which is why they looked for every possible reason to deny medical claims by Lyme disease patients.)
He refused to back down to the pressure being placed upon him, because he knew that if he did follow a shorter treatment protocol, it might have cost many of his patients their lives.
As a result, Burrascano was repeatedly observed by the OPMC because his treatment protocol was in direct contrast to that of the medical community as a whole, which operated under the assumption that a short treatment was all that was needed to cure Lyme disease. This belief left a myriad of chronically ill Lyme disease patients with little or no way of getting the treatment that they needed to battle this illness.
To this very day, they are still fighting to receive the necessary treatment for it, and a great number of Americans are newly infected with Lyme disease each year, when bitten by numerous vectors including deer ticks, mosquitos, the green headed fly and sand mites. There are more than likely many other vectors that also transmit this illness, however the aforementioned ones are recognized by the Lyme community. There is also strong evidence suggesting that Lyme disease can be sexually transmitted during intercourse, yet most physicians are still leary of reporting this, for fear of losing credibility.
The OPMC's witchhunt against Dr. Burrascano eventually resulted in a timely and costly (to Dr. Burrascano) investigation which for the most part exonerated him of any wrong doing. The most logical question is why was the OPMC used to investigate him?
The answer is simple enough. The OPMC was used to investigate this doctor as well as many other Lyme literate physicians because it was the only real venue in which their detractors within the medical community and health insurance industry could find plausible means by which to destroy their careers.
While Burrascano's long-term antibiotic protocol for treating Lyme disease was far more effective than that of most doctors, it was expensive, leaving the health insurance industry to foot the bill for it. If there were just a few doctors following his protocol, it probably would not have become an issue.
However, Dr. Burrascano's protocol was catching on in the medical community and in the late 1990's was published in the prestigious medical journal, Conn's Current Therapy. This event only helped to further the belief that long-term antibiotic treatment protocols were the proper way in which to treat chronically ill Lyme patients.
While Burrascano's patients were thrilled at this news, his detractors were not. And the more popular his protocol became, the more the insurance carriers had to shell out on expensive treatment protocols. Moreover, it further discredited those physicians promoting a shorter-term treatment for Lyme.
On the surface it appeared that having his monograph published in Conn's Current Therapy would be the catalyst to create widestream acceptance of this superior treatment protocol. However, it would instead become the final straw for the health insurance industry and Dr. Burrascano's detractors, giving them the motivation they'd long needed to destroy the good doctor's reputation, and those of any doctors who stood firm with him in support of the more aggresive treatment protocols for chronically ill Lyme patients.
Something had to be done to discredit Burrascano before his protocol would be followed by the mainstream medical community (causing even more headaches for the health insurance carriers), and done quickly. Hence the orchestration by the US Health Insurance Industry of a bogus OPMC investigation into Dr. Burrascano and other physicians who not only followed, but also recommended his treatment protocol to still other physicians who were having a difficult time in treating their chronically ill Lyme patients.
As a chronically ill Lyme disease patient of Dr. Burrascano's, who saw him on hundreds of occasions between the years of 1996 and 2004, I can personally attest to the fact that his practice was thriving, and patients who had contacted him were being turned away simply because he did not have the time or enough staff to treat them all.
His office was at times nearly standing room only given the great numbers of patients whom he saw each day. And while Burrascano would experience little resistance from insurers in his early years treating Lyme disease, this would eventually change, when many of them would transform from being "non profit" companies which were given government subsidies, to "for profit" businesses no longer able to rely on this financial assistance. Blue Cross and Blue Shield would become a prime example of this problem, as the once dependable company would begin to reject numerous claims that it had once willingly paid for, forever changing the landscape of the once profitable chronic Lyme treatment "cottage industry" which had sprung up nearly a decade earlier.
Nowadays, long-term antibiotic treatment protocols in relation to chronic Lyme disease are seldom if ever paid for by health care providers. The Lyme disease specialists that I know of no longer even accept insurance when treating their patients, knowing full well that they'd have a nearly impossible time being paid for their services. Sadly, this leaves it up to the patients or their families to pay out of pocket for much of this treatment, which can and in numerous cases has lead to financial ruin for them.
Still, many others who actually suffer with chronic Lyme disease continue to be misdiagnosed with other ailments or psychiatric conditions, when in fact Lyme is at the root of their problems. In myriad instances it may take years for them to receive a proper medical diagnosis, and tragically, some die before ever receiving one. As a chronically ill Lyme patient, I've continued to wonder why after being treated with enormous doses of antibiotics (both intravenously and orally), so many of us have never experienced a complete remission of our symptoms.
This led me on a search which provided answers that I was not expecting. My journey brought me to a Canadian researcher by the name of Dr. Donald W. Scott. Dr. Scott, has done much research on chronic illnesses and in his book "The Brucellosis Triangle" tied many of them to biological weapons' experiments conducted by the United States Department Of Defense as early as the 1940's.
Dr. Scott discovered through declassified government records (by way of the Freedom Of Information Act) that the United States created a biological weapon's program in the 1940's to compete with the ones they had discovered other governments developing overseas. For them it was a race against time to beat the enemy at their own game. The only problem was that in attempting to do so they would deliberately infect their own unwitting citizens to study how effective their genetically engineered biological mutations would be on the enemy. And as one of these American victims, I can tell you that I am not at all pleased with the US Government for committing such heinous and treasonous crimes against its own people.
In his book, Dr. Scott mentions three distinct locations where these programs were being conducted: Fort Detrick, in Fredericksburg, Maryland, The USDA's Plum Island facility, in New York (just north of Long Island), and Cold Spring Labs, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He also learned that there were two types of biological weapons which were created at that time: those which were meant to kill quickly and those which were meant to disable.
What Dr. Scott has deduced from this declassified government information is that many of the chronic illnesses and some of the most deadly ones which we find in society today, can be traced back to these biological weapons' experiments, and are in fact, biological weapons of the first or second type of classification.
He mentions a common linking pathogen in all of these illnesses which he describes as genetically engineered mycoplasmas, which were altered to become harmful to those who would become infected with them. In general, mycoplasmas are harmless strains of bacteria, unless they are genetically altered to become virulent. Brucellosis was derived from brucella (a harmless bacteria found in the stomach of goats).
Dr. Scott has been quoted as saying that the following illnesses are genetically altered mycoplasmas, which were created as biological weapons. They include Lyme Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Mad Cow Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Crohns-Colitis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Dystonia, Myalgic Encephalo Myelitis, Schizophrenia and Huntingtons.
At the end of this article the reader will find several links to more information on brucellosis, including Dr. Scott's book "The Brucellosis Triangle." I have also included a link to one of the best books ever written pertaining to the US Government's complicity in germ warfare (one which was written in regard to the United States Department Of Agriculture's Plum Island facility).
The book, Lab 257, written by author Michael Christopher Carrol, took seven years to research, and delves deeply into the criminal goings on at this facility, dating from the early 1940's up until the early part of the new millenium. It is a must read for all Americans, especially since the Department Of Homeland Security is now in charge of this facility -- an agency whose ethics, moral compass, and indeed ostensible reason for coming into existence are all in need of serious public scrutiny.
I should also state that Dr. Scott as well as the eminent Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, have researched HIV/AIDS and have concluded that it is not (as reported by the Centers For Disease Control) a naturally occurring illness. Both of these men, Dr. Horowitz in particular, have been highly criticized by their peers for their provocative research, since it is clear that the US and Canadian Governments do not want their citizens to know the truth about these bioweapons and how they were illegally turned loose on US citizens to determine their effectiveness.
Drs. Scott and Horowitz have instead deduced that AIDS is a biological weapon, which was first introduced to the American people in the 1970's, through both the San Francisco and New York City gay communities. It was its introduction to these populations through advertisements in local newspapers, encouraging them to receive a free hepatitis B innoculation which would allow for the rampant spread of the AIDS virus throughout the United States.
Hepatitis B was a common problem within the homosexual community, and they would readily receive the vaccine for it in an effort to protect themselves. Drs. Horowitz and Scott have through years of careful research, discovered that the innoculations which these gay men received was in fact not the hepatitis B vaccine at all, but in reality, the AIDS virus.
Moreover, one may conclude that AIDS might have been limited solely to the gay population had it not been for homosexual men donating blood, which would ultimately allow for the spread of AIDS into United States blood banks.
This problem would only become further compounded with bisexual men spreading the disease to uninfected women, which also contributed in large part to the rapid spread of AIDS within the heterosexual population in this country.
According to Dr. Scott, AIDS is to be considered a biological weapon of the first type; i.e., one which was meant to kill. Based on the enormous numbers of people who've died from AIDS, one must surmise that it has been one of the most deadly biological weapons ever created. For the sake of emphasis, I will also reiterate that Lyme disease does not appear to be a "naturally occurring illness," but instead, a biological weapon of the second type, created by the United States Government to disable those infected with it.
This goes a long way towards explaining why people whom are afflicted with chronic Lyme disease or some of these other illnesses, have been unable to be cured. In the case of Lyme disease patients, it may well also offer the best explanation for why we have been unable to receive government intervention on behalf of long-term treatment protocols for this illness. The Lyme community has been largely ignored by the US Government despite our genuine attempts to bring the truth about this illness and its debilitating effects to the public. I have personally sent letters to several members of the NY State Legislature, only to have my concerns completely ignored.
I can say without hesitation that for the most part Lyme patients are simply amazing people, who battle their disablity on a daily basis, and despite the tremendous adversity that each faces, manage to soldier on. I would give each one of them the Purple Heart if I could, because enduring life with this bioweapon for years on end becomes a living hell.
Non consensual biological weapons' experimentation on unwitting Americans is just another form of treasonous governmental abuse, as is the electronic warfare that the Department Of Defense and National Security Agency are employing against their own citizens, by way of satellite based remote neural monitoring and electromagnetic directed energy weapons -- both of which can be used to remotely, physically and psychologically torture persons targeted for these crimes.
While these perpetrators are able to avoid culpability for their actions, they should nonetheless still be seen for the monsters that they are, since these Nazi protocols while done remotely, are no less cruel or inhumane than if they were being done directly to us.
In addition, the US Government's use of psychological operations and psychotronic weaponry against its own people are crimes against humanity, and in violation of the Bill Of Rights, Geneva Convention and Nuremburg Code. Consequently, these abuses must -- whatever the cost -- END.
And since it is the US Government and for that matter all NATO member governments that are utilizing these insideous and inhuman technologies against a myriad of their own citizens, with horrifyng consequences, the only way in which to catalyse positive change is for the people on this planet to be collectivelly alerted to these heinous acts. The human race will never stand for these crimes against humanity, and will (by force if necessary) prevent these inherently and irrevocably corrupted governments from continuing to perpetrate them.
***Update
On an aside, I recently received a letter from my Lyme treating physician, Dr. Joseph Burrascano, stating that he now intends to close his practice (once a veritable gold mine) within the next few months.
Most disturbing to me was that this doctor was used by the FEDS or their handlers to falsify documentation in regard to my medical treatment. Burrascano presented me with fraudulent lab work from Igenex Labs in Palo Alto, California which listed bogus titer numbers, while claiming that they showed that I had a new Lyme disease infection. Making matters worse is that based on this fraud, Burrascano wanted to treat me for it, which only deepened his role in this criminal conspiracy.
Still worse, was that I was charged $1000 for these fradulent tests, making both Burrascano and Igenex Labs complicit in the commission of grand larceny, as well as being party to a criminal conspiracy. I had these bogus documents on my desk as evidence of such, however, they were mysteriously removed, since they offered concrete proof of the criminal conspiracy perpetrated against me by the FBI.
As for Burrascano, in spite of what he did to me, I still consider him to be an excellent physician who's helped many Lyme patients including myself. And it is my contention that as in the case with my Family, he was coerced by the FEDS into taking part in what is most certainly a very large and complex conspiracy against me.
At this time I have to ask myself a question that has been bothering me since I first received the letter regarding Burrascano's decision to retire. If his medical practice has been thriving as he has said, why would he have not sold it to another doctor for a very lucrative capital gain and stayed on over the short term as a hired consultant?
After all, he built this practice from the ground up, so if anyone is entitled to profit from its sale, it should be Burrascano. Moreover, many other doctors with successful practices have gradually worked their way into retirement in this way, reaping the lucrative rewards that they have toiled hard for over the years.
So why didn't Burrascano do the same thing? One would have to admit that given the strange events surrounding his exit from the medical community, it is a most pertinent question.
From the letter of release he sent to his patients, we've instead been led to believe that Dr. B is just closing this lucrative practice down to pursue other interests, while foregoing a substantial payday in the process. This is an extremely strange situation and from my own personal experiences, atypical of how most lucrative medical practices are handled, once their founding physicians decide to sell them and retire from the field of medicine.
I mention this situation because it is my belief that Dr. Burrascano was coerced into giving up his practice, by the same people who have been guilty of conspiring against me for the past few decades -- the Federal Bureau Of Investigation -- quite possibly now with the help of Homeland Security. It is my contention that Burrascano may have lost business as a result of the FEDS harassing him and possibly working covertly to get his unwitting patients to go elsewhere for treatment.
So why would the FEDS get involved in the attack on Burrascano and his practice?
Haven't you been reading this article carefully? What were we talking about several paragraphs back? Dr. Burrascano's refusal to cooperate with the American Medical Association and the mainstream medical community, by adhereing to a much longer treatment protocol for chronic Lyme disease than they were recommending.
By doing this Burrascano was violating the status quo within the medical community. And historically, which organization has the US Federal Government always relied on to maintain the status quo, even if it meant using covert terrorism to do so? Why the Federal Bureau Of Investigation of course!
As I stated earlier, Dr. Burrascano has also been a bane to the mainstream medical community since he testified before a Senate Oversight Committee chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy, back in 1993. It was at that time that Burrascano truthfully spoke about the horrors that chronically ill Lyme disease patients were experiencing at the hands of a very ignorant mainstream medical community. He was reported to have have said that the medical community was dropping the ball on Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, and that unless something was done immediately to remedy the situation it was going to erupt into a major confrontation.
And years later, that is exactly what would happen, pitting the mainstream medical community against Burrascano and several other Lyme literate physicians who were treating Lyme disease far more aggressively, and with greater success at bringing their patients into a remission, than their less successful and combative peers.
(I should note here that to date there has been no cure for chronic Lyme disease, and while some patients do experience a remission from their symptoms, most chronically ill Lyme disease patients do not.)
Back in 2000, when Dr. Burrascano's "Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines" protocol in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other tickborne disorders made it into the prestigious medical journal Conn's Current Therapy, all hell broke loose, since this was further evidence that Burrascano was on the right track with his long-term treatment protocol, and that the mainstream medical community was not.
If the medical community had wanted to save face by finding ways in which to humiliate Burrascano and put him out of business, this accolade to the man certainly created an imminent situation in which they found it necessary to do so.
It was shortly after this publishing that Burrascano found himself being targeted by a New York State Office Of Professional Medical Conduct board on trumped up disciplinary charges, which would put him out of commission for two years, and cost him over $100,000 in legal fees. He was for the most part exonerated of any wrong doing, especially in the most important areas of the investigation, yet the added stress would result in compromising his immune system and IMHO his later developing of prostate cancer.
While it would appear based on the release letter that he sent to all of his patients that his health is improving, in my opinion, the reasons for his sudden and unexpected retirement simply don't add up.
You don't spend over $100,000 to defend your medical practice over several years, only to willingly let it go without any compensation a few years later. His explanation simply flies in the face of logic.
While we may never know what really happened to Burrascano, it is my opinion that the FEDS were behind his expedient retirement.
I also believe that Dr. Burrascano's absence as a clinician will be sorely felt throughout the Lyme community, as his contributions have been substantial. He will be missed by many of his patients whom, including myself, owe him a debt of gratitude for saving our lives.
Since the mainstream medical community and health insurance industry have been looking to obtain payback against this doctor for his 1993 testimony against them, this latest and lethal attack on the man and his medical practice would indicate that they've finally succeeded. And that furthermore, the FBI and its modern day COINTELPRO activities have played a role in aiding and abetting them in doing so.
It is also my contention that they were able to attack him in ways that the State's OPMC could not, as a result of the ridiculous lattitude which the fascist Patriot Act has given the FBI, and that Dr. Burrascano may very well have been subjected to violations of his civil rights in regard to every aspect of what has surrounded his subsequent retirement, and the loss of revenue from a once flourishing medical practice.
If only they had put so much effort into finding a cure for Lyme disease.
I am also certain that there are many low life scumbags within the medical community including Drs. Alan Steere and Raymond Dattwyler (two of Burrascano's greatest detractors, both of whom did considerable damage to the Lyme community by circulating disinformation about this illness), who were quite pleased to learn of Burrascano's premature and unexpected retirement.
However, there was NO justice served here.
An excellent doctor has been wrongfully taken from his patients, who must now find other and more than likely lesser means of medical support. And given the climate in the medical community which concerns an all out witchhunt on Lyme literate physicians, this situation is only going to be further complicated by the exit of a man who was perhaps the most qualified Lyme disease physician on this planet.
The Following Websites And Books Were Used In Writing The Above Article, And Are All Highly Recommended Since They Cover The Extensive Role That The United States Federal Government Has Played In The Creation Of Biological Warfare:
Purchase The Brucellosis Triangle Here:
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Mycoplasma The Linking Pathogen In Neurosystemic Diseases
http://www.whale.to/m/scott7.html
Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/activism/brucellosis-scott.html
Gulf War Syndrome Was A Biologically Engineered Weapon
http://www.rense.com/political/bac.htm
Lab 257 The USDA's Biological Weapon's Lab -- Purchase It Here:
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There are a number of alternative medicine books which claim to be able to help Lyme patients. While I am skeptical of most, I am familiar with the author of the following book and do believe that his research as a botanist can put Lyme patients on the right to track. While Steven Harrod Buhner's book may not enable a Lyme patient to experience a complete remission from their symptoms, the herbs that he recommends can be effective in easing them.
If you are being treated for Lyme disease, please consult with your treating physician before beginning any adjunctive protocol to the ones you are presently using. To ensure your safety your physicans must know about all of the substances that you are taking into your bodies, some of which may interfere with the medications that they have prescribed for you.
Wishing you a complete remission someday!
Jim Marino
Chronic Lyme Disease Patient Since 1993
Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections
By Naturalist Steven Harrod Buhner
http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Lyme-Prevention-Borreliosis-Coinfections/dp/0970869630/ref=pd_rhf_f_2/103-7856346-6591853
"I Did Not Start Out Looking For Conspiracies"
Please allow me to take a moment to clarify something of great importance. Some may call what I've written here the act of someone totally consumed with conspiracy theories. However, I can honestly say that I never started out looking for conspiracies. Over the course of time I just began to experience so many anomalies in my life and noticed them occurring within the lives of myriad others with whom I was in contact, that I could no longer ignore the fact that something criminal was going on behind the scene.
It would take years for me to find out who the catalyst behind the conspiracy against me was (an FBI Federal agent), and over the course of time I would learn of numerous other criminal conspiracies taking place against other Americans -- most of which were perpetrated by the United States Department Of Defense, NSA, CIA and FBI.
I became the focus of a mainstream criminal conspiracy back in 1981, while I was still attending college. However, it would not be until 1993 (when I was bitten on several occasions by deer ticks which subsequently led to my contracting of a pathogenic illness which is today known as Lyme Disease), that I would be catapulted headlong into learning of these other criminal conspiracies that would affect the lives of millions of unwitting American citizens, all at the hands of the United States Federal Government.
While the name itself sounds benign enough, I can assure you that chronic Lyme disease is in fact an insidious illness which devastates those who have contracted it. I can also tell you that chronic Lyme disease has caused tremendous human suffering, and that those afflicted with this illness have suffered in ways that most people cannot possibly comprehend. Many have been financially bankrupted by it and in numerous instances had their lives destroyed. Many Lyme patients have even died after contracting this horrific illness and many of it lesser known coinfectons.
I had heard some years back that perhaps a million or more people have suffered with chronic Lyme disease since it was first discovered in 1976. However, I believe that the number has now been upgraded and is substantially higher. The United States Government's "Centers For Disease Control" will never allow the public in general to learn about this though, as they have for years deliberately underreported the numbers of cases in an effort to keep it out of the public eye.
Note: While Borellia Burgdorferi (Lyme Disease) was first given attention by the medical community in 1976, there is considerable evidence to show that it could be found in Long Island's Hampton's community at least a decade earlier, masquerading as the malady, "Montauk Knee." Montauk Knee, an arthritic condition which affected the knee joints in those so afflicted, plagued many Hamptonites as early as the late 1950's. Later on some astute people would recognize that the arthritic conditions associated with Montauk Knee were merely undiagnosed cases of Lyme disease manifesting itself as arthritis -- one of myriad symptoms that this illness is capable of causing. Hence its nickname: the great masquerader.
Chronic Lyme disease is also a "hot bed" of controversy, because it is extremely difficult and expensive to treat. Consequently, it's an illness that the health insurance industry would prefer to forget about since as one former insurance carrier put it: "if we covered all of those policy holders whom we have contracts with, for the long-term protocols needed in treating their chronic Lyme disease symptoms, between covering AIDS and Lyme disease patients we would go broke!"
Given this stance by health insurance carriers, it's safer for a physician to misdiagnose someone who has contracted Lyme disease with some other illness, or dismiss the patient as someone experiencing a psychological problem.
This is safer then incurring the wrath of the health insurance industry, something that (given its powerful government lobby) any wise physician will avoid at all costs. So what happens to doctors who are Lyme literate and treat their patients aggressively, going against the American Medical Association's prescribed treatment protocol for this illness?
They are quietly blackballed from the medical community and treated as pariahs.
I can personally attest to observing a criminal conspiracy orchestrated by the United States Health Insurance Industry in efforts to put one of the foremost experts on Lyme disease treatment in this country out of business. His name is Dr. Joseph Burrascano.
Since testifying before a US Senate Health comittee back in 1993, Dr. Burrascano has been repeatedly harassed by the New York State Office Of Professional Medical Conduct, in an attempt to prevent him from continuing to treat chronically ill Lyme disease patients aggressively. (Several other Lyme disease experts were also attacked by the OPMC as a form of intimidation -- at least two of these doctors lost their medical licenses while two others committed suicide as a result of this harassment.)
The following Website contains the testimony that Dr. Burrascano presented to a Senate Oversight Hearing Committee in regard to Lyme disease and the treatment dilemma that it presented to the medical community.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/romarkaraoke/testDrB.html
Burrascano is an excellent clinician and realized that chronically ill Lyme disease patients needed long-term intravenous antibiotic therapy in order to give them relief from the devasting and disabling symptoms that this illness causes. He also understood that there was no cure for chronic Lyme disease and that as a result of this, many Lyme patients would need careful and expensive monitoring for the rest of their lives. (The health insurance carriers also knew this which is why they looked for every possible reason to deny medical claims by Lyme disease patients.)
He refused to back down to the pressure being placed upon him, because he knew that if he did follow a shorter treatment protocol, it might have cost many of his patients their lives.
As a result, Burrascano was repeatedly observed by the OPMC because his treatment protocol was in direct contrast to that of the medical community as a whole, which operated under the assumption that a short treatment was all that was needed to cure Lyme disease. This belief left a myriad of chronically ill Lyme disease patients with little or no way of getting the treatment that they needed to battle this illness.
To this very day, they are still fighting to receive the necessary treatment for it, and a great number of Americans are newly infected with Lyme disease each year, when bitten by numerous vectors including deer ticks, mosquitos, the green headed fly and sand mites. There are more than likely many other vectors that also transmit this illness, however the aforementioned ones are recognized by the Lyme community. There is also strong evidence suggesting that Lyme disease can be sexually transmitted during intercourse, yet most physicians are still leary of reporting this, for fear of losing credibility.
The OPMC's witchhunt against Dr. Burrascano eventually resulted in a timely and costly (to Dr. Burrascano) investigation which for the most part exonerated him of any wrong doing. The most logical question is why was the OPMC used to investigate him?
The answer is simple enough. The OPMC was used to investigate this doctor as well as many other Lyme literate physicians because it was the only real venue in which their detractors within the medical community and health insurance industry could find plausible means by which to destroy their careers.
While Burrascano's long-term antibiotic protocol for treating Lyme disease was far more effective than that of most doctors, it was expensive, leaving the health insurance industry to foot the bill for it. If there were just a few doctors following his protocol, it probably would not have become an issue.
However, Dr. Burrascano's protocol was catching on in the medical community and in the late 1990's was published in the prestigious medical journal, Conn's Current Therapy. This event only helped to further the belief that long-term antibiotic treatment protocols were the proper way in which to treat chronically ill Lyme patients.
While Burrascano's patients were thrilled at this news, his detractors were not. And the more popular his protocol became, the more the insurance carriers had to shell out on expensive treatment protocols. Moreover, it further discredited those physicians promoting a shorter-term treatment for Lyme.
On the surface it appeared that having his monograph published in Conn's Current Therapy would be the catalyst to create widestream acceptance of this superior treatment protocol. However, it would instead become the final straw for the health insurance industry and Dr. Burrascano's detractors, giving them the motivation they'd long needed to destroy the good doctor's reputation, and those of any doctors who stood firm with him in support of the more aggresive treatment protocols for chronically ill Lyme patients.
Something had to be done to discredit Burrascano before his protocol would be followed by the mainstream medical community (causing even more headaches for the health insurance carriers), and done quickly. Hence the orchestration by the US Health Insurance Industry of a bogus OPMC investigation into Dr. Burrascano and other physicians who not only followed, but also recommended his treatment protocol to still other physicians who were having a difficult time in treating their chronically ill Lyme patients.
As a chronically ill Lyme disease patient of Dr. Burrascano's, who saw him on hundreds of occasions between the years of 1996 and 2004, I can personally attest to the fact that his practice was thriving, and patients who had contacted him were being turned away simply because he did not have the time or enough staff to treat them all.
His office was at times nearly standing room only given the great numbers of patients whom he saw each day. And while Burrascano would experience little resistance from insurers in his early years treating Lyme disease, this would eventually change, when many of them would transform from being "non profit" companies which were given government subsidies, to "for profit" businesses no longer able to rely on this financial assistance. Blue Cross and Blue Shield would become a prime example of this problem, as the once dependable company would begin to reject numerous claims that it had once willingly paid for, forever changing the landscape of the once profitable chronic Lyme treatment "cottage industry" which had sprung up nearly a decade earlier.
Nowadays, long-term antibiotic treatment protocols in relation to chronic Lyme disease are seldom if ever paid for by health care providers. The Lyme disease specialists that I know of no longer even accept insurance when treating their patients, knowing full well that they'd have a nearly impossible time being paid for their services. Sadly, this leaves it up to the patients or their families to pay out of pocket for much of this treatment, which can and in numerous cases has lead to financial ruin for them.
Still, many others who actually suffer with chronic Lyme disease continue to be misdiagnosed with other ailments or psychiatric conditions, when in fact Lyme is at the root of their problems. In myriad instances it may take years for them to receive a proper medical diagnosis, and tragically, some die before ever receiving one. As a chronically ill Lyme patient, I've continued to wonder why after being treated with enormous doses of antibiotics (both intravenously and orally), so many of us have never experienced a complete remission of our symptoms.
This led me on a search which provided answers that I was not expecting. My journey brought me to a Canadian researcher by the name of Dr. Donald W. Scott. Dr. Scott, has done much research on chronic illnesses and in his book "The Brucellosis Triangle" tied many of them to biological weapons' experiments conducted by the United States Department Of Defense as early as the 1940's.
Dr. Scott discovered through declassified government records (by way of the Freedom Of Information Act) that the United States created a biological weapon's program in the 1940's to compete with the ones they had discovered other governments developing overseas. For them it was a race against time to beat the enemy at their own game. The only problem was that in attempting to do so they would deliberately infect their own unwitting citizens to study how effective their genetically engineered biological mutations would be on the enemy. And as one of these American victims, I can tell you that I am not at all pleased with the US Government for committing such heinous and treasonous crimes against its own people.
In his book, Dr. Scott mentions three distinct locations where these programs were being conducted: Fort Detrick, in Fredericksburg, Maryland, The USDA's Plum Island facility, in New York (just north of Long Island), and Cold Spring Labs, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He also learned that there were two types of biological weapons which were created at that time: those which were meant to kill quickly and those which were meant to disable.
What Dr. Scott has deduced from this declassified government information is that many of the chronic illnesses and some of the most deadly ones which we find in society today, can be traced back to these biological weapons' experiments, and are in fact, biological weapons of the first or second type of classification.
He mentions a common linking pathogen in all of these illnesses which he describes as genetically engineered mycoplasmas, which were altered to become harmful to those who would become infected with them. In general, mycoplasmas are harmless strains of bacteria, unless they are genetically altered to become virulent. Brucellosis was derived from brucella (a harmless bacteria found in the stomach of goats).
Dr. Scott has been quoted as saying that the following illnesses are genetically altered mycoplasmas, which were created as biological weapons. They include Lyme Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Mad Cow Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Crohns-Colitis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Dystonia, Myalgic Encephalo Myelitis, Schizophrenia and Huntingtons.
At the end of this article the reader will find several links to more information on brucellosis, including Dr. Scott's book "The Brucellosis Triangle." I have also included a link to one of the best books ever written pertaining to the US Government's complicity in germ warfare (one which was written in regard to the United States Department Of Agriculture's Plum Island facility).
The book, Lab 257, written by author Michael Christopher Carrol, took seven years to research, and delves deeply into the criminal goings on at this facility, dating from the early 1940's up until the early part of the new millenium. It is a must read for all Americans, especially since the Department Of Homeland Security is now in charge of this facility -- an agency whose ethics, moral compass, and indeed ostensible reason for coming into existence are all in need of serious public scrutiny.
I should also state that Dr. Scott as well as the eminent Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, have researched HIV/AIDS and have concluded that it is not (as reported by the Centers For Disease Control) a naturally occurring illness. Both of these men, Dr. Horowitz in particular, have been highly criticized by their peers for their provocative research, since it is clear that the US and Canadian Governments do not want their citizens to know the truth about these bioweapons and how they were illegally turned loose on US citizens to determine their effectiveness.
Drs. Scott and Horowitz have instead deduced that AIDS is a biological weapon, which was first introduced to the American people in the 1970's, through both the San Francisco and New York City gay communities. It was its introduction to these populations through advertisements in local newspapers, encouraging them to receive a free hepatitis B innoculation which would allow for the rampant spread of the AIDS virus throughout the United States.
Hepatitis B was a common problem within the homosexual community, and they would readily receive the vaccine for it in an effort to protect themselves. Drs. Horowitz and Scott have through years of careful research, discovered that the innoculations which these gay men received was in fact not the hepatitis B vaccine at all, but in reality, the AIDS virus.
Moreover, one may conclude that AIDS might have been limited solely to the gay population had it not been for homosexual men donating blood, which would ultimately allow for the spread of AIDS into United States blood banks.
This problem would only become further compounded with bisexual men spreading the disease to uninfected women, which also contributed in large part to the rapid spread of AIDS within the heterosexual population in this country.
According to Dr. Scott, AIDS is to be considered a biological weapon of the first type; i.e., one which was meant to kill. Based on the enormous numbers of people who've died from AIDS, one must surmise that it has been one of the most deadly biological weapons ever created. For the sake of emphasis, I will also reiterate that Lyme disease does not appear to be a "naturally occurring illness," but instead, a biological weapon of the second type, created by the United States Government to disable those infected with it.
This goes a long way towards explaining why people whom are afflicted with chronic Lyme disease or some of these other illnesses, have been unable to be cured. In the case of Lyme disease patients, it may well also offer the best explanation for why we have been unable to receive government intervention on behalf of long-term treatment protocols for this illness. The Lyme community has been largely ignored by the US Government despite our genuine attempts to bring the truth about this illness and its debilitating effects to the public. I have personally sent letters to several members of the NY State Legislature, only to have my concerns completely ignored.
I can say without hesitation that for the most part Lyme patients are simply amazing people, who battle their disablity on a daily basis, and despite the tremendous adversity that each faces, manage to soldier on. I would give each one of them the Purple Heart if I could, because enduring life with this bioweapon for years on end becomes a living hell.
Non consensual biological weapons' experimentation on unwitting Americans is just another form of treasonous governmental abuse, as is the electronic warfare that the Department Of Defense and National Security Agency are employing against their own citizens, by way of satellite based remote neural monitoring and electromagnetic directed energy weapons -- both of which can be used to remotely, physically and psychologically torture persons targeted for these crimes.
While these perpetrators are able to avoid culpability for their actions, they should nonetheless still be seen for the monsters that they are, since these Nazi protocols while done remotely, are no less cruel or inhumane than if they were being done directly to us.
In addition, the US Government's use of psychological operations and psychotronic weaponry against its own people are crimes against humanity, and in violation of the Bill Of Rights, Geneva Convention and Nuremburg Code. Consequently, these abuses must -- whatever the cost -- END.
And since it is the US Government and for that matter all NATO member governments that are utilizing these insideous and inhuman technologies against a myriad of their own citizens, with horrifyng consequences, the only way in which to catalyse positive change is for the people on this planet to be collectivelly alerted to these heinous acts. The human race will never stand for these crimes against humanity, and will (by force if necessary) prevent these inherently and irrevocably corrupted governments from continuing to perpetrate them.
***Update
On an aside, I recently received a letter from my Lyme treating physician, Dr. Joseph Burrascano, stating that he now intends to close his practice (once a veritable gold mine) within the next few months.
Most disturbing to me was that this doctor was used by the FEDS or their handlers to falsify documentation in regard to my medical treatment. Burrascano presented me with fraudulent lab work from Igenex Labs in Palo Alto, California which listed bogus titer numbers, while claiming that they showed that I had a new Lyme disease infection. Making matters worse is that based on this fraud, Burrascano wanted to treat me for it, which only deepened his role in this criminal conspiracy.
Still worse, was that I was charged $1000 for these fradulent tests, making both Burrascano and Igenex Labs complicit in the commission of grand larceny, as well as being party to a criminal conspiracy. I had these bogus documents on my desk as evidence of such, however, they were mysteriously removed, since they offered concrete proof of the criminal conspiracy perpetrated against me by the FBI.
As for Burrascano, in spite of what he did to me, I still consider him to be an excellent physician who's helped many Lyme patients including myself. And it is my contention that as in the case with my Family, he was coerced by the FEDS into taking part in what is most certainly a very large and complex conspiracy against me.
At this time I have to ask myself a question that has been bothering me since I first received the letter regarding Burrascano's decision to retire. If his medical practice has been thriving as he has said, why would he have not sold it to another doctor for a very lucrative capital gain and stayed on over the short term as a hired consultant?
After all, he built this practice from the ground up, so if anyone is entitled to profit from its sale, it should be Burrascano. Moreover, many other doctors with successful practices have gradually worked their way into retirement in this way, reaping the lucrative rewards that they have toiled hard for over the years.
So why didn't Burrascano do the same thing? One would have to admit that given the strange events surrounding his exit from the medical community, it is a most pertinent question.
From the letter of release he sent to his patients, we've instead been led to believe that Dr. B is just closing this lucrative practice down to pursue other interests, while foregoing a substantial payday in the process. This is an extremely strange situation and from my own personal experiences, atypical of how most lucrative medical practices are handled, once their founding physicians decide to sell them and retire from the field of medicine.
I mention this situation because it is my belief that Dr. Burrascano was coerced into giving up his practice, by the same people who have been guilty of conspiring against me for the past few decades -- the Federal Bureau Of Investigation -- quite possibly now with the help of Homeland Security. It is my contention that Burrascano may have lost business as a result of the FEDS harassing him and possibly working covertly to get his unwitting patients to go elsewhere for treatment.
So why would the FEDS get involved in the attack on Burrascano and his practice?
Haven't you been reading this article carefully? What were we talking about several paragraphs back? Dr. Burrascano's refusal to cooperate with the American Medical Association and the mainstream medical community, by adhereing to a much longer treatment protocol for chronic Lyme disease than they were recommending.
By doing this Burrascano was violating the status quo within the medical community. And historically, which organization has the US Federal Government always relied on to maintain the status quo, even if it meant using covert terrorism to do so? Why the Federal Bureau Of Investigation of course!
As I stated earlier, Dr. Burrascano has also been a bane to the mainstream medical community since he testified before a Senate Oversight Committee chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy, back in 1993. It was at that time that Burrascano truthfully spoke about the horrors that chronically ill Lyme disease patients were experiencing at the hands of a very ignorant mainstream medical community. He was reported to have have said that the medical community was dropping the ball on Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, and that unless something was done immediately to remedy the situation it was going to erupt into a major confrontation.
And years later, that is exactly what would happen, pitting the mainstream medical community against Burrascano and several other Lyme literate physicians who were treating Lyme disease far more aggressively, and with greater success at bringing their patients into a remission, than their less successful and combative peers.
(I should note here that to date there has been no cure for chronic Lyme disease, and while some patients do experience a remission from their symptoms, most chronically ill Lyme disease patients do not.)
Back in 2000, when Dr. Burrascano's "Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines" protocol in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other tickborne disorders made it into the prestigious medical journal Conn's Current Therapy, all hell broke loose, since this was further evidence that Burrascano was on the right track with his long-term treatment protocol, and that the mainstream medical community was not.
If the medical community had wanted to save face by finding ways in which to humiliate Burrascano and put him out of business, this accolade to the man certainly created an imminent situation in which they found it necessary to do so.
It was shortly after this publishing that Burrascano found himself being targeted by a New York State Office Of Professional Medical Conduct board on trumped up disciplinary charges, which would put him out of commission for two years, and cost him over $100,000 in legal fees. He was for the most part exonerated of any wrong doing, especially in the most important areas of the investigation, yet the added stress would result in compromising his immune system and IMHO his later developing of prostate cancer.
While it would appear based on the release letter that he sent to all of his patients that his health is improving, in my opinion, the reasons for his sudden and unexpected retirement simply don't add up.
You don't spend over $100,000 to defend your medical practice over several years, only to willingly let it go without any compensation a few years later. His explanation simply flies in the face of logic.
While we may never know what really happened to Burrascano, it is my opinion that the FEDS were behind his expedient retirement.
I also believe that Dr. Burrascano's absence as a clinician will be sorely felt throughout the Lyme community, as his contributions have been substantial. He will be missed by many of his patients whom, including myself, owe him a debt of gratitude for saving our lives.
Since the mainstream medical community and health insurance industry have been looking to obtain payback against this doctor for his 1993 testimony against them, this latest and lethal attack on the man and his medical practice would indicate that they've finally succeeded. And that furthermore, the FBI and its modern day COINTELPRO activities have played a role in aiding and abetting them in doing so.
It is also my contention that they were able to attack him in ways that the State's OPMC could not, as a result of the ridiculous lattitude which the fascist Patriot Act has given the FBI, and that Dr. Burrascano may very well have been subjected to violations of his civil rights in regard to every aspect of what has surrounded his subsequent retirement, and the loss of revenue from a once flourishing medical practice.
If only they had put so much effort into finding a cure for Lyme disease.
I am also certain that there are many low life scumbags within the medical community including Drs. Alan Steere and Raymond Dattwyler (two of Burrascano's greatest detractors, both of whom did considerable damage to the Lyme community by circulating disinformation about this illness), who were quite pleased to learn of Burrascano's premature and unexpected retirement.
However, there was NO justice served here.
An excellent doctor has been wrongfully taken from his patients, who must now find other and more than likely lesser means of medical support. And given the climate in the medical community which concerns an all out witchhunt on Lyme literate physicians, this situation is only going to be further complicated by the exit of a man who was perhaps the most qualified Lyme disease physician on this planet.
The Following Websites And Books Were Used In Writing The Above Article, And Are All Highly Recommended Since They Cover The Extensive Role That The United States Federal Government Has Played In The Creation Of Biological Warfare:
Purchase The Brucellosis Triangle Here:
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Mycoplasma The Linking Pathogen In Neurosystemic Diseases
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Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/activism/brucellosis-scott.html
Gulf War Syndrome Was A Biologically Engineered Weapon
http://www.rense.com/political/bac.htm
Lab 257 The USDA's Biological Weapon's Lab -- Purchase It Here:
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There are a number of alternative medicine books which claim to be able to help Lyme patients. While I am skeptical of most, I am familiar with the author of the following book and do believe that his research as a botanist can put Lyme patients on the right to track. While Steven Harrod Buhner's book may not enable a Lyme patient to experience a complete remission from their symptoms, the herbs that he recommends can be effective in easing them.
If you are being treated for Lyme disease, please consult with your treating physician before beginning any adjunctive protocol to the ones you are presently using. To ensure your safety your physicans must know about all of the substances that you are taking into your bodies, some of which may interfere with the medications that they have prescribed for you.
Wishing you a complete remission someday!
Jim Marino
Chronic Lyme Disease Patient Since 1993
Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections
http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Lyme-Prevention-Borreliosis-Coinfections/dp/0970869630/ref=pd_rhf_f_2/103-7856346-6591853
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