Re: Au revoir, Matias

Pd <peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2008-07-01 13:11:06 +0100, peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Pd) said:
> > 
> > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> You could take up the strumpet instead, if you insisted.
> > > 
> > > Gosh, two references to treponema pallidum in one day.
> > 
> > According to the image at 
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treponema_pallidum>
it is short and 
> > curly, which I feel is quite appropriate!
> 
> So it is!
> 
> Right little buggers, those spirochetes - they cause leptospirosis, Lyme
> disease, relapsing fever, syphilis, yaws, pinta, and bejel amongst
> others. Don't know anyone who has a nice word to say about them.

A cousin of mine had ME for 20 years, all his adult life, but it was
only in the last couple of years that he was in contact with a doctor
working on the theory that ME is actually caused by a spirochete from a
tick - and lo, they found it in his blood, and he had to take nuclear
doses of antibiotics.  bloody waste of 20 years.

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