Re: Au revoir, Matias

Bella Jones <me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

Did it fix him? Lyme disease is caused by one of the spirochetes that
you can get from tick bites. Apparently they're quite susceptible to a
short course of antibiotics.

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Pd