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Testimony of Elizabeth Naugle,

Candida and Dysbiosis Information Foundation

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APPENDIX C:

ORAL TESTIMONY OF ELIZABETH NAUGLE, Candida and Dysbiosis Information Foundation

presented to CDC & NIH

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee

January 30, 2001

Seattle, Washington

 

First, allow me to introduce myself. My name will be new to some members

among the CFIDS community of patient advocates - although I am not really

new at all to our Common Cause. I have been involved for over 15 years

as a patient activist, and I have served since 1994 as President of a

large, national lay-support organization, the Candida & Dysbiosis

Information Foundation. In this latter capacity, I have had contact via

our telephone hotline with hundreds of chronically-ill patients, many

(but not all) of whom fit the accepted criteria for CFIDS. Furthermore,

by nature of our group's broader focus, we network with many other

similar patient groups, including Gulf War Syndrome, Lyme disease,

various auto-immune disease groups (such as lupus, MS, etc.) and even

with AIDS patients. I preface my statement here today with this brief

self-introduction so that you will understand better my perspective and

my purpose in being here.

 

Disability issues are certainly a top concern among persons who attend

local area CFIDS support groups. This is unfortunate, because it should

not have to be this way. Disability has become an issue primarily

because there has been a determined refusal by the CDC and NIH to

recognize the true infectious nature and origin of CFIDS.

 

This point became embarrassingly obvious during the recent international

CFS scientific conference which took place here just this last weekend

when the research team from Belgium, led by Kenny De Meirleir, MD, Ph.D.,

presented their data on the diagnosis of mycoplasma infections in 2/3 of

their group of approximately 270 patients. Follow-up testing by the

Belgian doctors showed measurable objective evidence of improvement

because the patients' symptoms improved and their previously elevated

2-5-A enzyme titers went down following antibiotic treatment. Likewise,

the same point was clearly evident again during the Poster Session: (P

#94) by the South African researcher, Cecile Jadin, and (P#114) by

Philippe Bottero of France, regarding insect-vectored Rickettsial

diseases with their recommended antibiotic therapies.

 

Indeed, some of these infectious agents were designed by deliberate

intent to be disabling. That is to say, they were man-made - i.e.,

bio-engineered, modified, weaponized, take your choice - by our own US

Department of Defense. We have found documentation to support this

accusation on pages 116-129 of the Congressional Budget Hearings for the

DoD which took place on June 9, 1969. What's more, we have discovered

that the DoD holds the patent (US Patent # 5,242,820) yes, patent(!) --

on one of these disabling infectious pathogens!

 

This " wargerm " if-you-will (since it is being found in a significant

percentage of sick Gulf War veterans by the VA) was tested on inmates in

our Texas prison system prior to the Gulf War. These unethical human

medical experiments took place from mid-1983 through 1986. We have

witnesses who can testify to this event, and we have obtained documents

from our Texas State Archives and other public records which link these

experiments to the DoD.

 

As a consequence of these so-called " flu vaccine " experiments on Texas

prison inmates, conducted without their informed and voluntary consent,

there was a large and unusual outbreak of " Mystery Illnesses " (CFIDS,

fibromyalgia, " lupus-like " and " MS-like " diagnoses, not to mention more

than two dozen deaths from ALS) among the prison guards and their

immediate family members who live in the area surrounding Huntsville,

Texas, where our state prison system is head quartered, just 50 miles

from my hometown - or the " Huntsville Hot Zone " as some Texans call it.

 

I'm confident that our problem in Texas was not an isolated event. Why

do I say so? I say so because we possess a copy of the federal law

showing that it has been legal for the DoD to test biological warfare

agents on civilian populations for the last two decades. That law is

still on the books today(!) -- in spite of protests for repeal by Gulf

War veterans -- in its newly " revised " form. [A copy of PL 1520 (Title

50, USC) is available on the Internet at HYPERLINK

http://www.gulfwarvets.com www.gulfwarvets.com. Please pay special

attention to Paragraph B, entitled " Exceptions " to see all the loopholes

which permit this practice to continue.]

 

Yes, these illnesses are all very disabling. Furthermore, it is very

" disabling " to our Common CFIDS Cause that our First Amendment rights

have been abridged by virtue of the fact that " disability " is the only

permitted topic for public testimony at today's hearing. Thus, the

intent of the Congressional mandate authorizing this CFS Coordinating

Committee has been thwarted by this committee chairman's clever maneuver

to try to limit our testimony to only one topic, namely the topic of

disability issues, in order to silence public input regarding the truly

disabling and infectious nature of CFS.

 

I regret that the strict 5-minute time limit does not permit me to

provide more convincing details in support of my remarks; however, I will

gladly provide supplemental documentation, upon request from any

committee member(s). Furthermore, I am willing to work cooperatively

with any government official(s) or other committee member(s) who have a

genuine interest in helping patients to recover- because I am convinced

that there are certainly other better, more cost-effective treatments

available than the anti-depressants, painkillers and other addictive

prescription drugs recommended by the CDC, which contribute so heavily to

CFS patients' long-term disability due to their " legalized drug

dependency " - even more so than does the illness itself. (And I'm hoping

to receive a question about therapy aimed at recovery during my allotted

5-minutes for discussion.)

 

My oral testimony linking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to germ warfare

experiments by the US Department of Defense perpetrated on unsuspecting

American citizens will undoubtedly shock the members of the CFSCC panel.

Please believe me, though, when I say that ordinary citizens are not at

all shocked to hear such revelations. The typical response from my

fellow citizens is, " I don't doubt it at all, " or " I've suspected

something like this all along. " We simply cannot afford the luxury of

living in denial or of playing ostrich and burying our heads in the sand

about this matter. The God of Truth must be served, no matter how

painful that awful Truth may be.

 

We must be willing as a nation to admit our past mistakes and to trust

that ultimately we will be forgiven - but only if we are willing to

acknowledge our errors of the past and seek to make amends in the future.

In spite of the fact that our own daughter has been a CFIDS victim

herself for many years, we have been able to find forgiveness in our

hearts because we know and understand the long history of events (since

the end of World War II) that led up to this terrible sin against

humanity. [Read: The US & Biological Warfare by Stephen Endicott and

The Biology of Doom by Ed Regis; also Plague Times by Paul Ewald.] I

trust that other patients will quickly find the same capacity to forgive,

also, because I know that their many long years of suffering have

prepared them spiritually and strengthened them so that they will be

ready to move forward. In fact, I predict that the patients themselves

will be the first citizens to forgive and that they will be able to lead

the way for other Americans to follow their example by accepting this

ugly Truth.

 

What concerns me most, however, is that our elected and appointed

officials will be too frightened to deal appropriately with the horror of

this situation and that they will over-react with panic and will then

attempt to cover this up. I worry that you yourselves will be incapable

of responsible leadership. I have already discovered firsthand that our

so-called Free Press is not really free at all when it comes to matters

of this nature, and that the media will meekly follow the lead of our

leaders. Please remember, however, that the " crime of covering-up " is

always considered to be a far worse offense than the original criminal

act itself is ever judged to be.

 

So, members of the CFSCC, it is up to each one of you, acting both

individually and collectively, to examine the issue that I present to you

today. You serve here as the Grand Jury. You can choose to impede

progress through denial and by acts of deliberate deception, or you can

choose to lead with honesty. I pray that each and every one of you will

find the courage to choose to stand on the side of Truth.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Elizabeth Naugle,

Candida and Dysbiosis Information Foundation

College Station, Texas