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Wikipedia France Acknowledges Morgellons Science, While US Wikipedia Avoids

March 3, 2023April 8, 2019 by Jeremy Murphree

In a stunning turn of events last week, Wikipedia France published new information on its Morgellons page that acknowledges the efforts of research scientists to determine an infectious etiology. This same information is quietly absent from the US Wikipedia, however, keeping most Morgellons patients and caregivers in the dark. A new emerging infection? As of … Read more

Borreliosis (Lyme Disease) and its known involvement in Mental Health

March 4, 2023March 21, 2019 by Denise Longman

Scientists and physicians across the world have discovered that the growing numbers of people with mental illness and diseases of the nervous system are being cured or improved by treatment with antibiotics. In other words, it is now known that bacteria can make you mentally ill as well as physically ill!

From Croatia to California, from Sweden to Sicily, conditions such as Schizophrenia and Multiple Sclerosis, even Alzheimer’s disease and Stroke, are being found to have common to all one of the most insidiously infective bacteria on the planet, namely Borrelia.

Who Owns the Fake Twitter Account, @LymeScience?

March 3, 2023February 17, 2019 by Jeremy Murphree

For the past several years there have been fake social media accounts spreading misinformation while laying down astroturf in a decrepit attempt to sway public opinion of Chronic Lyme Disease. First and most importantly, Chronic Lyme Disease is very real and has an established case definition. So what’s the purpose of these misinformation operations and who would be in charge of such a dishonorable enterprise? A simple whois query of lymescience.org reveals very little as privacy is enabled. Outside of this, however, we can see the domain was only first registered around the same time @LymeScience joined Twitter in December of 2017, and was most recently renewed one year later. Year to year registration indicates a novice approach to web development and lack of understanding regarding search engine optimization basics, it often suggests an uncertainty for how long an operation is expected to last. But what else can we determine?

What’s in the TBDWG Report for Morgellons Patients?

March 3, 2023February 1, 2019 by Jeremy Murphree

In December of 2018, the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group released its first report to Congress regarding the epidemic of emerging disease. This article gives a basic rundown of relevant statements contained in the first of three TBDWG reports to Congress.

The Role of Infections in Mental Illness

March 4, 2023October 3, 2018 by Frank Strick

by Frank Strick, Clinical Research Director

THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS

(The Research Institute for Infectious Mental Illness is no longer open.).

In considering an infectious etiology to any chronic mental illness there are at least four categories to consider. First are those infections already recognized to induce psychiatric symptoms. These include pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, malaria, Legionnaire’s disease, syphilis, typhoid, diphtheria, HIV, rheumatic fever and herpes. (Ref: Chuang)