Lyme - The Dangers of Blood Transfusions...

July 16, 2008

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read the entire article....it talks about Lyme in our blood supply....

From the Townsend Letter

July 2008

The Dangers of Blood Transfusion: Reconsidering Needless Surgeries

by Jim Howenstine, MD

The most important pathogen in blood probably is Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb),

which causes Lyme disease. Borrelia is not tested for in donated blood. It

is easy to understand how a patient, seriously ill after bypass surgery, could

be overwhelmed by the onset of Lyme disease postoperatively. Lyme disease is

rampant, because it is easily spread person to person. Most patients with

Lyme disease have a silent infection that does not become evident until some

serious incident damages their immune system (major surgery, accident,

infection, immune injury from alcohol, drugs, insomnia, stress, etc). This

means

there are millions of persons walking around whose blood would be dangerous to

receive because they look okay but have Bb spirochetes.

It's currently impossible to diagnose Lyme disease accurately, because the

two best tests for the disease are no longer available (blood culture [Dr.

Lida Mattman], Q-RIBb [Dr. Jo Anne Whitaker]). These tests were foolproof

because growing spirochetes out of the blood or visualizing pieces of

spirochetes

in blood samples constitutes undeniable proof of diagnosis. Remember, one

person in six has the Bb spirochetes in their blood, so if you receive six

units

of blood, you have a very good chance of getting Bb spirochetes. We will

never know how many postoperative deaths in transfused patients are caused by

undiagnosed Lyme disease, because there are no reliable tests available to

diagnose this disease.

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