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When: March 26, 2022
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
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https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-cause-cognitive-dysfunction-dementia/ Video Here
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing a paper that addresses the question, “Can Lyme disease cause objective cognitive dysfunction or dementia?”
The question of whether Lyme disease could cause dementia was addressed by Wormser and colleagues in an article entitled “Lack of Convincing Evidence That Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Causes Either Alzheimer Disease or Lewy Body Dementia,” published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.¹
The authors reviewed a paper by Gadila et al.² which concluded that a Lyme disease infection might cause Lewy body dementia. The case described a 69-year-old woman who died 15 years after her initial infection with Lyme disease with a clinical diagnosis of Lewy body dementia.
The woman had initially presented with an erythema migrans rash, headache, joint pain, and fever. Her symptoms resolved with 10 days of doxycycline.
Over time, she developed a sleep behavior disorder, cognitive problems (processing speed, mental tracking, and word-finding), photophobia, paresthesias, fasciculations, and myoclonic jerks. She initially improved with IV followed by oral antibiotics. But her condition later worsened.
“The extensive workup at that time led to the diagnoses of both a REM behavioral disorder with verbalizations and movements and a neurodegenerative dementia characterized by expressive aphasia, visual agnosia, anomia, deficits in executive function and calculation, and mild memory problems.”
She passed away 15 years after the onset of her illness.²
The authors point out, “These results, however do not clarify whether the Borrelia infection had anything to do with her progressive neurodegenerative disorder.”
“Lewy body dementia is characterized by fluctuations in cognitive function, sometimes also with fluctuations in alertness and attention,” wrote Wormser et al.
The authors also added, “Patients with Lewy body dementia are easily distracted and can appear to be ‘zoning out’ at times. Impaired job performance is a common early sign, and patients with Lewy body dementia have problems with multitasking. Sleep disorders are common.”¹
No precise test can accurately diagnose Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). “Due to the incomplete specificity in the clinical diagnosis and the pathological definition of the disease, a postmortem biopsy or autopsy is the only method to secure a definite diagnosis,” explains Haider et al.³
Can Lyme disease cause dementia?
In their article, Wormser et. al conclude, “no convincing evidence exists that Lyme disease is a cause of either Alzheimer disease or Lewy body dementia.”
The authors expressed concern over the validity of laboratory testing, as it did not meet the CDC criteria and the temporary effectiveness of the antibiotic treatment prescribed. They also had reservations regarding the use of a nested PCR technique and the immunofluorescence antibody test.
“Cognitive complaints, such as concentration or memory disturbances, are common in patients with Lyme disease and in patients with residual subjective symptoms after treatment for Lyme disease,” Wormser et al. suggest.
“Dementia-like syndromes from Lyme disease occur as a consequence of the very rare late neurologic manifestation of Lyme disease referred to as chronic progressing meningoencephalomyelitis (also referred to as chronic encephalomyelitis).”
“Anecdotal evidence, however, does suggest that Lyme disease may rarely cause dementia.”¹
These dementia-like Lyme cases are primarily in Europe. “Thus, the few reported cases of dementia-like syndromes from Lyme disease are clinically very different from the Lewy body dementia case attributed to Lyme disease by Gadila and colleagues.”
The following questions are addressed in this Podcast episode:
1. What is Lewy body dementia?
2. How is Lewy body dementia diagnosed?
3. What findings in this patient suggested Lewy body dementia?
4. What cognitive problems have been described in Lyme disease?
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For the other side of the story: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/01/05/study-association-of-pathogens-biofilms-with-alzheimers-disease-but-wormser-repeats-no-evidence-mantra/
By Roman Balmakov
According to a bombshell report that came out of The New York Times, it turns out that the CDC has been withholding a large amount of data from the general public.
In fact, according to this report, the CDC has been collecting detailed information on COVID-19 hospitalizations for more than a year now, and this data breaks down the cases by age, by race, as well as by vaccination status. However, instead of releasing all of this information to the public, the CDC has instead been withholding most of it.
And what’s even more damning, is that it appears that the CDC was not keeping all of this information in a vault. Instead, they were selectively pushing out only the information that supported their messaging regarding boosters.
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The New York Times reported this past weekend that the CDC has chosen not to publish huge amounts of COVID data, instead keeping it secret, because it fears that the information would cause ‘vaccine hesitancy’ among the American public.
The report notes that the withheld data includes informative data on boosters, hospitalizations, wastewater analyses, as well as critical information on COVID infections and deaths broken down by age, race, and “vaccination” status.
The justification for holding the information back? Fears that the data would be “ misinterpreted” and lead to “ vaccine hesitancy, ” in line with the report.
Quite simply, it didn’t fit into the narrative that everyone must get vaccinated and boosted no matter who they are and what their situation is. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
Recently Dr. Vinay Prasad came out with a scathing video and article on “How the CDC Abandoned Science.” The information shared is important to know and understand; however, the CDC has been guilty of manipulating science and data for decades to suit their own purposes. One doctor has accused them of not even bothering to read the science. COVID has just made it more widely seen and experienced by the public. We need a complete overhaul of public health as these are captured agencies riddled with conflicts of interest. It’s so bad that a group within the agency called Spider has detailed the agency’s corruption.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/fired-pharmaceutical-workers-explain-why-they-didnt-get-covid-19-shots
A major pharmaceutical company this week fired many employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Syneos Health is a global pharmaceutical outsourcing company with some 28,000 employees in more than 110 countries. It contracts with bigger pharmaceutical companies including COVID-19 vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson/Janssen.
While J & J employs pharmaceutical representatives, it also contracts with Syneos Health to provide additional pharmaceutical representatives. Each Syneos representative is paired with one from J&J and they work together, selling drugs to doctors and other health care providers.
“It’s the same exact job, same exact customers, same exact expense reporting. Everything is the same, we’re just employed through different employers. And yet we’re being forced to be vaccinated and they’re not. We’re being told it’s because we can’t do our job, yet my Janssen counterpart can be unvaccinated, have an exemption, and still do the same exact job,” one sales representative told The Epoch Times.
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
This article perfectly exemplifies the randomness of “vaccine” mandates. They are not logical, scientific, or ethical in the least. Similar lunacy of wearing a mask all the way to the restaurant but removing it to eat (as if the virus understands this), these employees, doing the exact same work as their colleagues are forced to get the COVID jabs while their colleagues are exempt.
The employees, most with science or health backgrounds, attend a two-month pharmaceutical school when hired to learn the science behind the drugs they sell. They are foregoing the shots for the following reasons:
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A few weeks after my 6th birthday, I went to bed one night a happy, healthy child, and I woke up the next morning riddled with anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), tics, and a laundry list of psychiatric symptoms I’d never experienced before. I couldn’t sit still for more than a few seconds without moving my body; I could barely write my own name, and I was so afraid of choking that I couldn’t even swallow my own saliva. I saw doctors, therapists, psychiatrists and behavior specialists, and none of them could provide a diagnosis, other than “anxiety.”
I did have anxiety. I cried most of the day because the entire world felt like it was crashing down on me. But there was something else.
I had PANDAS: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections. PANDAS and its sister diagnosis PANS (Post-infectious Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) are infection-mediated neuropsychiatric disorders. That means that when an infection develops in the body, the immune system sends a misdirected immune response to the brain. It causes inflammation in the areas of the brain responsible for emotions, behavior, sleep and impulse control. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
While PANDAS is associated with strep, PANS includes tick-borne illness infections. One Lyme literate doctor in Wisconsin has stated that 80% of his PANS patients have Lyme/MSIDS.
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