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Lyme Disease Propaganda
Scott
Smith,
Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Redwood City "The Professor of Parasites"
“Local cases of Lyme disease are quite unusual -- I see maybe one case
per year. I would say that local residents are at very low risk for
contracting Lyme disease.
There's a lot more risk in Humboldt and other northern counties in California. Only
about 1
percent of local ticks carry Lyme disease.” (Note; Factual information
from Santa Cruz Public Health
Department; “A two-year study by biologists at San Jose State
University found infection rates
ranging from 5 to 9 percent among western black-legged ticks (Ixodes
pacificus) and American dog ticks
(Dermancentor variabilis) in Santa Cruz County.”) Note: The
following is now placed in
sfgate archives.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2003/10/27/urbananimal.DTL
Kaiser
Permanente responds:
"Of
course we treat
Lyme disease at Kaiser Permanente -- but it is infrequent in California," said
David J. Witt, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases for Kaiser Permanente
Northern California. Kaiser Permanente's medical group of 4400
physicians serve more than 3.1
million members in 17 hospitals and 152 medical office buildings in
Northern California."
"We
follow clinical guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme Disease
that were published jointly by The
Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Rheumatologic
Association. Our world-class clinical
laboratories diagnose complex diseases - including Lyme
disease. If there is any question, we send
specimens to the laboratory run by Allen Steere, MD of Massachusetts
General Hospital," he
said.
(Note:
The Lyme disease panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America is
under an antitrust investigation
filed by
the Connecticut Attorney General. Steere, part of the antitrust
investigation, has publicly
bragged that
his laboratory could not find evidence of Lyme disease in samples when
other laboratories
had
positive results (for the same sample).
Lyme
Disease is a Ticking Epidemic - SF Chronicle - November 2003
Now
archived at SF Chronicle
In
Mendocino county in California, one of the few counties where long term
studies have been done they
reported a 41.5% nymphal Ixodes Pacificus tick
infection rate with B. burgdorferi and with an adult
infection rate of 4%. In Santa Cruz county they had an infection rate
of 30% in state parks in nymphal
ticks. These infection rates are not the average though. It averages
out to 7% of Ixodes ticks infected
with Lyme disease in Mendocino county.
Reference
for the above...
www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/dcdc/disb/
pdf/dhs_lyme_medbd_news_10_2001.pdf
Kaiser’s
Lyme
Disease Executive Summary which was removed from the Internet
by
Kaiser. Note that these
guidelines discourage testing, give a high (and false) accuracy of the
Lyme ELISA screening test, restrict
diagnostic criteria by focusing on joint inflammation and Bell’s palsy,
and encourage a diagnosis of
fibromyalgia.
http://www.harp.org/eng/kaiserslymesummary.htm
“In
Sonoma
County, only about 1 percent of adult ticks and 5 percent of nymphs are
infected with the Lyme disease bacteria, (Gary) Green (Kaiser Santa
Rosa, Infectious
Diseases) said.”
http://www.msmosquito.com/PD080507.html
stored at:https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/pdfs/PD080507.pdf
Note;
In the
same article…“But the tick infection rate can vary widely in
areas
of Northern
California . Anne
Kjemtrup, an epidemiologist with the state Department of Health
Services, said that in some spots of Trinity, Humboldt and Mendocino
counties, up to 40 percent of
nymphal ticks have the Lyme bacterium.”
http://www.sonoma-county.org/health/ph/diseasecontrol/pdf/lyme_ca.pdf
https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/pdfs/lyme_ca.pdf
Sonoma County
continues to
have this on their health page despite numerous requests to have it removed.
This is the only non-government reference cited on
the
Sonoma County Lyme page. This presentation
by Gary Green of Kaiser Santa Rosa suggests the use of CDC surveillance
criteria as diagnostic
criteria, relies on sources approved by the Infectious Diseases Society
of America (IDSA), now
under a Civil Antitrust Investigation by the Connecticut Attorney
General, promotes the use of test kits
and laboratories that are modeled around East Coast strains of Lyme
disease (and less likely to give
a
positive result for West Coast Lyme disease), ignores laboratories on
the West Coast and East Coast
that have demonstrated expertise and highest accuracy in diagnosing
Lyme disease, ignores many
medical and scientific references that do not support Dr. Green’s (and
Kaiser’s) position, and ignores
alternative guidelines by the International Lyme and Associated
Diseases Society (ILADS).
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