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- Dear Congressman Turner:
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- I have quite a story to tell in this letter and I will
try to cover all bases. The beginning of the story concerns my search for
answers for my son's illness and you may wonder what that has to do with
the mycoplasma experiments; but, if you please bear with me you will tie
it all together at the end. I will be asking you to initiate an epidemiologic
investigation of this area concerning the rare illnesses which were reported
in 1994 and continue today. The information I give to you in this letter
is compelling enough for an investigation.
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- My son was 10 1/2 years old when he became ill on February
6, 1997. His symptoms were flu-like. Within a short time he was unable
to bear weight on his knees which rendered him unable to walk. He was in
a wheelchair and I was told he had a viral illness and to allow it to
run its course.
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- I kept searching for answers which meant "doctor
shopping". Please understand, it was very difficult to watch my son
go from healthy to watching his muscles waste away while he was in the
wheelchair. Finally, late in March he was diagnosed with human parvovirus
B19. I did not know at that time that humans could contract parvo. When
the doctor told me what my son had I asked that he prescribe an antibiotic
because I knew from having animals that dogs and cats are given an antibiotic
when they contract parvo. He stated that the standard protocol was the
use of steroids, NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatories), immuno-suppressives
and immunoglobulin IVIG. So, there was nothing to do at that time except
go with the standard protocol. My son was prescribed steroids and NSAIDs.
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- I didn't like the idea of using steroids and I especially
didn't like the idea of physicians having very little knowledge of this
particular viral illness. I began to research on my own looking for answers
for my son. I had to give myself crash courses in immunology, virology,
microbiology, rheumatology, hematology, etc. It was not an easy task, but
I knew no one cared as much for my son as I did and it would be up to
me to find the answer. At this same time, since he didn't fit the "perfect
square of cause and effect" for human parvovirus B19, the physicians
turned to my son as being the problem. I was even told by one physician
if my son tested positive for human parvovirus B19 he would not be able
to diagnose it as such because my son did not fit the "perfect square
of cause and effect." My son was immediately evaluated to lay this
ludicrous idea to rest, but even after being verified "sane"
the doctors kept pointing at my son as the problem. In the end my son was
evaluated three times and was still not believed by some of the doctors
we had seen.
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- I think it appropriate that I share a few of the symptoms
which my son was experiencing. He suffered with severe headaches, gastrointestinal
problems, blurred vision, throat spasms, ring worms, rashes that would
come and go, vomiting, knee pain episodes, esophagus spasms, chest pain,
fevers that would come and go, incontinence, extreme fatigue, dental problems,
etc.
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- This is not a complete list, but you can imagine watching
a child of your own going through such symptoms and no physician able
to explain why this was happening and unable to stop them.
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- When I was told, more or less, that the physicians were
going to wait until he fit the "perfect square of cause and effect"
for Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) I began searching everything I
could find regarding arthritis. I came across an article written by Dr.
Thomas McPherson Brown, et al which described an infectious etiology known
as mycoplasma. Dr. Brown treated his Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients
with tetracycline and/or tetracycline derivatives. Dr. Brown's background
was impressive. He worked with Dr. Sabin who was one of the developers
of the polio vaccine. He was the first to identify and culture the mycoplasma
from mice and this work was published in 1939. Mycoplasmas were also called
L-forms, virus-like forms and PPLO (pleuropneumonia-like forms).
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- Mycoplasmas are bacteria which lack a cell-wall. The
definition of virus states viruses also lack a cell wall. They seem to
complement each other.
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- Dr. Brown was achieving remission in cases of RA with
his long-term antibiotic treatment. He was also achieving remission in
scleroderma, which had previously been a death sentence. The scientific
medical community turned their backs on Dr. Brown for many reasons and
most were political. Dr. Brown did not endorse the blanket use of steroids
which provided relief, but not a cure and he paid for that. He also didn't
endorse the blanket use of gold shots or immuno-suppressive because he
knew they caused more damage. Dr. Brown knew mycoplasmas were the cause
for the connective tissue diseases, but no one would listen. He continued
to treat his patients for 50 years until the day he died in 1989. It has
been his former patients who have continued to carry-on his treatment protocol
for connective tissue diseases. One of them is Pat Ganger who is President
of The Road Back Foundation. She has funded research using Dr. Brown's
protocol and the most recent one deals with curing (CNN report used the
word "cure") 4 out of 6 patients diagnosed with scleroderma.
I am proud to call her my friend.
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- I continually provided all of my research to my son's
pediatrician. It was November, 1997 when CNN reported a study by Dr. James
O'Dell at the University of Nebraska. Dr. O'Dell found significant relief
in RA patients using an acne drug called minocycline--a tetracycline derivative.
I called my son's pediatrician and left a message for him concerning the
CNN report and he prescribed the minocycline. Within three short days the
constant headache which my son had from the beginning of his illness was
going away. He had missed half of his fifth grade year and nearly all of
the sixth grade from this virus. The last two months of his sixth grade
year he was able to attend full time. It was remarkable how this acne drug
seemed to make such a difference in a viral illness. However, I knew that
an antibiotic could not make a difference in a virus; only bacteria therefore,
I knew I was on the right track by convincing the doctor to prescribe
the acne drug for my son. Mycoplasmas had to be involved for my son to
respond so dramatically to the acne drug.
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- I made contact with Dr. Joel B. Baseman (University of
Texas Science Health Center) after reading a wonderful article he and
Dr. Joseph Tully (National Institutes of Health) wrote concerning mycoplasmas.
Dr. Baseman is a world renown researcher of mycoplasmas. The article stated
the use of steroids in Crohn's Disease could exacerbate the illness if
mycoplasmas were present. This is what I saw when my son was on steroids;
he became more ill. Dr. Baseman was kind enough to respond to my questions
concerning mycoplasmas and was interested in the hypothesis I developed.
I asked him if it were possible for a bacteriophage to have developed
from parvovirus B19 and mycoplasmas. Dr. Baseman and Dr. Tully researched
this area and Dr. Baseman suggested I contact Dr. Gabe Mirkin out of Kinsington,
MD, which I did.
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- Dr. Mirkin treats mycoplasmal infections with long-term
antibiotic treatment, just as Dr. Thomas McPherson Brown did. I relayed
to him my son's illness and symptoms and he stated how lucky I was to have
a physician listen to my research because mycoplasmas caused JRA. I had
to sit down after he made that statement, because that's what the physicians
were waiting for my son to develop. Later, I found Dr. Mirkin was somewhat
a celebrity. He is Larry King's physician. I subscribed to Dr. Mirkin's
newsletter and he stated that tetracycline derivatives target wall-less
bacteria and that is what a mycoplasma is. He also stated the normal lab
tests will not show the mycoplasmal infections. In other words, you may
be very ill and all of the regular lab tests will be negative.
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- Of course when the antibiotic began working on my son
I found myself without a physician. None of them wanted to see my son.
There was a liver function test performed which I had requested because
of all the medications my son had been on. I did not have the opportunity
to have it reviewed by a physician and the test results did not look right
to me. I took my son off the antibiotic thinking his liver needed a rest
and within a month his symptoms returned. This was in August of 1998. He
was placed back on the antibiotic and again improved. The antibiotic worked
twice; not once. Since then, I have had to carry the guilt of taking my
son off the medication which was keeping him well.
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- It was in January of 1998 when I met a woman by the name
of Sally Medley. A friend of mine introduced me to her through the Huntsville
Item newspaper articles from 1994. It seemed that there was a Huntsville
Mystery Illness in our area. There were 28 cases of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's Disease and 68 cases of Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) in 1994. Five of the ALS cases lived in the same area. Sally had
formed a group of ill people after her 17 year old daughter became ill
with multiple symptoms. The doctors in this case were leaning toward ALS
as a diagnosis for her daughter when Sally was introduced to Dr. Garth
Nicolson and Nancy Nicolson and the word mycoplasma. I was thrilled to
find another individual who knew about mycoplasmas. The physicians I had
seen either did not know or had a limited knowledge of mycoplasmas; but
here was another mom who was searching for answers for her child and she
knew. Her search for answers to her child's illness had led her to the
same conclusion concerning mycoplasmas and the same tetracycline derivative
treatment.
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- Dr. Garth Nicolson, at that time, was a cancer researcher
at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He had found a mycoplasma which was involved
in the Gulf War Illness. His stepdaughter had returned from the Gulf War
and was ill. He found this mycoplasma trying to make a member of his family
well. He told Sally about the doxycycline (another tetracycline derivative)
treatment and how it was working on the Gulf War Illness. Sally found a
physician who prescribed the doxycycline and within 8 months her daughter
was well.
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- While trying to get newspapers, television stations,
etc. interested in reporting about the Huntsville Mystery Illness Sally
became a target. She was warned to be quiet. Other people who were assisting
Sally also received threats or were followed by strangers. It has been
alleged that Sally was the victim of nerve gas. She has the medical records
to prove she was given Atropine at the Huntsville Memorial Hospital. The
physician told Sally she was suffering from an anxiety attack. I would
prefer if you spoke directly to Ms. Medley concerning this area of information.
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- Dr. Nicolson was not greeted with open arms when he began
speaking about the Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognitus he found in the Gulf
War Illness patients. He had his computer tampered with, his mail and anything
that was connected to his research concerning mycoplasmas. He soon had
to leave MD Anderson Cancer Center and moved to California where he has
a lab known as The Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach,
California. This information came from Dr. Nicolson soon after I had met
him. Dr. Nicolson could also fill you in on what he endured (and still
endures) while trying to help individuals with the Gulf War Illness.
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- After spending 5 hours on my living room floor comparing
scientific documents Sally realized what I had. Parvovirus B19 and mycoplasmas
seemed to mirror each other. Both caused arthritis, both caused false-positive
results and both mimicked other illness. Parvovirus B19 was found in the
synovial membrane and mycoplasmas were found in the synovial fluid.
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- My first letter to Dr. Nicolson explained what I had
found. He wrote back and made a statement that the modified mycoplasma
(M. fermentans incognitus) "...was found especially near TDCJ institutions."
TDCJ is the acronym for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It had
previously been known as the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC).
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- When I asked Sally why he was telling me this she stated
Dr. Nicolson had been saying the inmates at the Texas Department of Corrections
had been part of a biological warfare experiment which involved mycoplasmas.
When the newspaper articles and the television coverage of the Huntsville
Mystery Illness heightened, Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, who worked for the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology, was asked to test the blood samples of
the Huntsville people for M. fermentans incognitus. Dr. Lo is the discoverer
of M. fermentans incognitus and has a patent on it.
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- The people in Huntsville sent approximately 100 blood
samples to Dr. Lo. The exact number of blood samples which were sent I
am not sure of, but again, Ms. Medley can fill that part in. Dr. Lo seemed
to have a problem with the blood samples. It seems the samples all went
bad. He requested another sampling. Twenty more samples of blood were sent
and only 5 were analyzed. Out of that 5, one tested positive for M. fermentans
incognitus and the other 4 tested positive for other forms of mycoplasma.
Sally also tested positive for M. fermentans incognitus. Sally has never
been in the Armed Forces and was never in the Gulf War. However, her husband
worked for TDCJ and they lived in Huntsville, Texas. Later, her husband
was tested and he was also positive.
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- When Sally told me of the alleged experiments I asked
where she had looked for documentation of the experiments. She stated
she had searched the TDC Board Agendas and Minutes. She said the search
was limited to the 1980's because that was the time when Dr. James Watson
was seen at TDC. Dr. Watson is the head of the Human Genome Project and
was a co-discoverer of DNA. It seemed pretty strange to me that someone
of that magnitude would be running around the Texas prisons. I was told
at the time Dr. Watson was here there were experimental flu vaccines being
administered to inmates. Bill Langlois, producer of Channel 11 in Houston,
has also verified that Dr. Watson was at the Texas Department of Corrections
during that time. Sally stated she had not found anything looking at the
1980's Board Agendas and Minutes. I asked if she had looked further back
than the 80's and she said "No".
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- I wrote a Freedom of Information Act letter and requested
the TDC Board Agendas and Minutes for 1965 through 1979. I asked Sally
if she was interested in reviewing these documents and she agreed. On the
day Sally was ill I found the experiments involving mycoplasmas. One of
the experiments involved the use of M. pneumoniae. It is one of the most
virulent types of mycoplasmas. Another experiment involved the mixing
of viruses and mycoplasmas. The experiment of viruses and mycoplasmas was
the hypothesis I made in 1997. However, the researchers who experimented
on the inmates knew the effect of viruses and mycoplasmas as far back
as 1976; twenty-one years earlier.
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- I carried these documents to some of my on's physicians.
One stated, "Maybe they didn't realize what they were releasing."
Another stated, "Now I know why we have so many rare illnesses in
this area." This is not what I wanted to hear. I wanted them to tell
me there was nothing to it. Instead, they confirmed what Sally and I had
concluded. This pathogen had been released in our community with complete
lack of regard for the inmates, the guards who worked at the prisons, the
guards' families they came home to and the community at large. No one
was informed. The experiments using M. pneumoniae lasted 10 years. The
other had a time duration of "indefinite" with each overlapping
one another.
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- I needed to make the connection between the viruses and
mycoplasmas with scientific documents. I found only two which state DNA
viruses (parvovirus B19 is a DNA virus) infect mycoplasmas. I also found
other documents stating ticks carry mycoplasmas. These documents were
not found searching under the word mycoplasmas. They were found searching
under "spiroplasmas". My next question was "How do you
control a pathogen?" The answer was a CDC level 4 lab. That was
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- The TDC mycoplasma experiments I have mentioned began
10-1-66 to 10-1-76 (with 12-19-71 to 12-10-72 included)--ten years. The
other experiment mixed the virus and mycoplasma and was approved by the
Baylor Committee Research on November 7, 1972 and had an indefinite time
period. The September 13, 1976 Board Agenda is the document to which I
refer. There are numerous addendums to the original experiments, which
link the subsequent studies back to the virus/mycoplasma experiment.
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- Counting from the cover page of this particular document
to page 40 under the title "Immunoresponsiveness during Influenza
Virus Infection" you will see at the top of page 41 the word "Abbreviations".
I'm not a scientist, but it appears that the mix includes Candidin and
Streptokinase-streptodornase. The KLH was prepared by MD Anderson Cancer
Center and administered to the inmates by Baylor College of Medicine.
Additional information was acquired for the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) concerning the "Development of a Reproducible and Effective
Challenge System for Mysoplamsa pneumoniae."
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- Some of the agencies involved in this September Agenda
of experiments are: Baylor College of Medicine National Institutes of Health
(NIH) M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Radioisotope Committee of the Methodist
Hospital Committee on Research Involving Human Beings at the Methodist
Hospital Baylor Committee on Research Involving Human Beings United States
Public Health System (USPHS) The Methodist Hospital Clinical Research Center
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Committee
for Clinical Investigation Involving Human Beings of Methodist Hospital
Bayer Company Division of Sterling Drug Inc. (provided data) Faculty Committee
on Research Involving Human Beings Texas State Department of Health (now
known as Texas Department of Health) Some of the pathogens from the September
13, 1976 Agenda are: Mycoplasma pneumoniae (strain 10433 and strain 1428)
Rhinovirus with mycoplasmal infections (M. pneumoniae) Coxsackie A21 with
M. pneumoniae Keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) C = Candidin PPD= Tuberculin
reactivity SK-SD= Streptokinase-streptodornase Scotland strain of influenza
A Antigens included those approved by the FDA and those which were still
experimental listed as:
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- 1) dermatophytin 0
- 2) candida
- 3) varidase
- 4) streptococcus toxin
- 5) brucellergen
- 6) histoplasmin
- 7) coccidicdin
- 8) mumps antigen
- 9) blastomycin
- 10) diphtheria toxin and toxoid
- 11) typhoid-paratyphoid
- 12) "and so forth"
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- Since the copy is not legible in places I listed the
ones I could read. Please note the location of the experiments. It was
the Ramsey Unit. On page 4 of the "Cate Protocol" it states:
"...the men will have already volunteered for participation in one
of the earlier protocols". The "earlier protocols" indicate
the previous M. pneumoniae experiment and the previous virus and mycoplasma
combination experiment. I have no idea what "and so forth" means.
M. pneumoniae was approved for use in these experiments, but it has been
suggested that substitution of Mycoplasma fermentans was made. Also note
that the mycoplasma was aerosolized for the experiments. This listing
above is taken from the September, 1976 agenda only. There are many more
experiments. I have reviewed some of the records concerning Representative
Edward Markey's 1986 report. It is titled "American Nuclear Guinea
Pigs: Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on U. S. Citizens". Mr.
Markey had presented his findings during the Reagan administration and
it was ignored until President Clinton created the Advisory Committee on
Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) through Executive Order on January
15, 1994. Mr. Markey's report has finally been recognized and more searching
for the truth has been accomplished under this committee. The time frame
of the experiments was from 1940's through 1974. It seems the same standards
of rules concerning human experimentation we have today, existed then.
So what is keeping these types of experiments from continuing? Honesty?
Integrity? Common sense? There was informed consent with the TDC experiments,
but until someone has studied medicine there is no true "informed"
consent. You could not possibly explain everything to an inmate whose
average schooling at that time would be approximately the 6th or 7th grade
level. You could not explain everything to anyone unless they were educated
in that particular field. The Principal Investigator of the M. pneumoniae
experiment and of the combined virus and M. pneumonaie experiment was a
virologist. At that particular time (1976) very little was known concerning
mycoplasmal infections and it seems strange that a virologist would be
handling such. It is doubtful that the Principal Investigator had full
knowledge of M. pneumonaie alone without mixing it with various other
pathogens.
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- As Mr. Markey's 1986 report states the "...Nuremberg
Code was in effect, written by the United States and the Allies in the
aftermath of World War II, and it established guidelines on obtaining
informed consent." These scientists worded the consent forms liberally
and medically which would be difficult for an inmate to understand. The
inmates were only interested in being paid so they could survive inside
the prisons. They were not volunteering for the advancement of medicine
as some researchers claim. This claim is to justify what they (the scientists)
injected into the inmates and perhaps spread through our community.
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- In one of the meetings of the ACHRE a Dr. Macklin made
a statement which was extremely important to this situation in Huntsville,
Texas. The statement was: "Observation in nature can be culpable if
people aren't warned, if people aren't alerted, or if some intervention
that might help them is not undertaken." From what has been discovered
I wonder if this community is still being observed.
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- I tried to contact our Walker County Health Department
last month and to my surprise we no longer have one. I found the Walker
County Health Department was replaced by the University of Texas Medical
Branch (UTMB) and John Sealy. John Sealy is the hospital where the inmates
are taken. The date of UTMB taking over was the summer of 1994. It was
in January of 1994 when the first article appeared in the local Huntsville
Item newspaper concerning the Huntsville Mystery Illness. Other surrounding
counties (San Jacinto and Polk) were also placed under UTMB in the summer
of 1994. UTMB is presently over the Walker County health; the experimental
animals; and is also in charge of the health care for the inmates.
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- Through several more phone calls to the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) and the Texas Department of Health (TDH) I was informed
there is no law which requires rare illnesses to be reported to anyone.
Communicable diseases are the only ones that are reported and the ones
listed seemed to be hand-picked. There is no mention of human parvovirus
B19 as being a communicable disease, which it is. I was also told the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) officials keep very secretive
records concerning illnesses of the inmate population and when I called
to inquire, I was met with tremendous hostility. The only sexually transmitted
disease TDCJ has reported to TDH has been syphilis. AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis
C are sexually transmittable, but only syphilis is reported. It would
be interesting to find how many inmates have MS, ALS or any other rare
illness. Can you assist in gathering this data?
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- I was told by TDH that the prison was not considered
part of the community. I don't know how that can be rationalized since
the guards, who have constant physical contact with inmates, come home
to their families and communities. Anything the inmates have the guards
will have and I don't think you have to be a scientist to figure that one
out. I also learned the inmate population is not included with the community
population. I would like to know if there is a law excluding the inmate
population from being counted with the communities. I would also like
to know if there is a law which excludes the reporting of diseases found
in a prison setting from the surrounding communities. At this point I need
to mention Sean and Leslee Dudley. This is a couple from California who
contracted the Gulf War Illness. Neither served in the Armed Forces. I
have enclosed one of their letters to their representative Mr. Filner.
Mr. Filner has asked the GAO to investigate why Dr. Nicolson's funding
is being denied. It seems Dr. Lo is still misplacing blood samples or
the blood samples turn bad while in his possession as the samples from
Huntsville seemed to do. Dr. Nicolson desperately needs the funding and
is being denied. I hope you can look into this matter as well or locate
someone who can help. 60 Minutes contacted Dr. Nicolson and Sally Medley.
They were interested in this story. Sally has moved and the responsibility
of providing the media with documents has been left to me while her family
is relocating. It is a daunting task, to say the least, but one that must
be pursued. Channel 11 of Houston is also interested in the story as is
KREM Channel 2 and KXLY T.V. of Spokane, Washington. I have tapes and
other documents if you request them. Dr. Garth Nicolson and Nancy Nicolson,
Sally Medley, Congressman Filner, Leslee and Sean Dudley, could provide
more information as well as some of the Huntsville residents who are very
ill. It seems we all have a piece to this puzzle and have been brought
together through circumstance. There was a report put together by Will
Northrup and Suzanne Migdall. They were employed by a law firm and sent
to Huntsville to investigate the Gulf War Illness. Their report is amazing.
It is the closest thing we have to an epidemiologic study. These two wonderful
individuals are still trying to help this community. They will also be
able to provide more information. Legislatively I would like to see changes
in the health laws. All diseases should be monitored; not just the hand-picked
communicable/sexually transmittable diseases. How will we learn anything
about diseases if we don't track all of them? Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, Fibromyalgia, Myasenthia Gravis, Human
Parvovirus B19, Lupus, etc. all need to be counted as the communicable
diseases and sexually transmitted diseases are counted. According to the
MS Organization the east Texas area is considered a low risk area. If you
ask a local physician about MS he will tell you it is nearly epidemic including
the MS-like symptoms. With the scientific technology and computer capabilities
we have in our era there is no reason for rare illnesses not being counted
and tracked. If rare diseases would have been reportable and tracked back
in 1994, the questions which I ask today could have been answered back
then and some of the people who have died from the rare illnesses could
possibly be alive today.
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- From the research of parvovirus B19 I found false-positive
test results for rubella and Lyme Disease. Therefore, I question the development
of vaccines and the tracking of illnesses. Is it parvovirus B19 or rubella?
We will never know until confirmation of the illnesses are made. Why are
Lyme vaccines being produced when no one definitely knows which cases
are really parvovirus B19 or mycoplasmas or Lyme Disease? Perhaps there
is a mixture of pathogens in some of these illnesses which present overlapping
symptoms. Presently, symptom names are given to children who present the
symptoms of parvovirus B19 instead of confirmation of the illness. The
symptom names for parvovirus B19 are: slapped cheek syndrome, fifth disease
or erythema infectiosum and these symptoms names become the diagnosis and
the parent walks away ignorant of what their child has. According to research,
90% of the world population can test positive for human parvovirus B19.
It has yet to be included in the reportable communicable disease list.
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- Another important point is that the parvovirus B19 test
has not been approved by the FDA. Dr. Garth Nicolson's test has not been
approved by the FDA either. However, the parvovirus B19 test is considered
confirmation of the illness. Why isn't Dr. Nicolson's test considered the
same?
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- There are numerous organizations all across our country
that have been created out of necessity and desperation. Anyone, particularly
with a rare illness, is on their own regarding research and at the mercy
of the medical community and their suggestions for treatment. If the CDC
were to be the headquarters for counting and tracking illnesses, rare or
not, individuals, physicians and other researchers would have somewhere
to begin their research. Treating a disease might become second place
to curing the disease. With confirmation of illnesses and tracking, the
cause of these diseases could be found.
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- Currently, TDH is tracking an outbreak of MS in El Paso,
Texas. Why would they look into that outbreak of MS when the outbreak
in the Huntsville area was never investigated? And the word "outbreak",
does that mean MS could possibly be contagious? There is no way of knowing
if we do not keep accurate records which will assist in research. I lost
a dear friend to the Huntsville Mystery Illness. Could taking doxycycline
or an acne drug have cured him? We will never know. There have been many
who have died who were in Ms. Medley's group back in 1994. A recent loss
was in December, 1998. Physicians are not trained in medical school to
treat this type of illness. Koch's postulates should be thrown out the
window. How can you recreate an illness when it has been modified? The
same goes for the "perfect square of cause and effect". There
is no perfect square when there are a myriad of overlapping symptoms from
a mixture of pathogens. I would like to see an epidemiologic study for
this area. Something has been wrong for a long time and now, with the assistance
of the documents, we can at least begin to address the illnesses in our
area and our physicians will not be in the dark as how to treat it. I don't
want to watch another member of my family, or friends, or another person
in our community become ill just because the government doesn't want to
admit what they have done. We know what they have done. Now, we need to
fix it.
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- My son has not been tested for mycoplasmal infections.
You have to be off the antibiotic for 6 weeks to be tested and I don't
want to chance his health again. I'm grateful for the improvement he has
made and grateful for the physicians who now believe in mycoplasmas. But
if I had not found the documents to prove that viruses and mycoplasmas
were known back in 1976 they would not have believed. I just don't want
to see another child or mother put in the same situation as we have been
in.
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- The Markey Report is a good start to continue on in finding
the truth of how U.S. citizens have been used without their knowledge.
The ACHRE report concerns radiation experiments, but there are also biological,
chemical and psychiatric experiments. The introduction of the ACHRE report
seemed to have difficulty in trying to describe the different roles of
the physicians who participated freely in the experiments. It states:
"As physicians, they had a commitment to prevent disease and heal.
At the same time, as government advisors, they were called upon to participate
in making decisions to proceed with weapons development and testing programs
that they knew could put citizens, soldiers, and workers at risk. As experts
they were they were asked to ensure that the risks would not be excessive.
And as researchers they saw these programs as an opportunity for gathering
data."
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- After reading this statement I realized this statement
could have been written as a defense for Hitler's physicians/researchers/scientists
to justify their actions against the Jewish people because they wore the
same number of hats. They wore one as a physician, a government adviser,
an expert and researcher. But they forgot about (and so did the ACHRE)
the medical oaths which promise never to harm. How could a such an educated,
prestigious group as the ACHRE omit "never to harm" which is
the first oath a physician takes? A favorite medical oath of mine is called
"Prayer of Maimonides" and can be located in any medical dictionary.
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- The conclusion that all physicians/researchers/scientists
are inherently bad would be completely wrong. I'm against the ones who
do not lift their heads and piece together the research which they are
most capable of doing. Most physicians dismiss the patient who has done
their homework concerning their illness and the patient is labeled "over
zealous". Most scientists and physicians take their oaths seriously,
but there are those who would go so far as to putting others in harm's
way for their own benefit. The history, again, speaks for itself.
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- In summary, I will list the areas which I am asking you
to address.
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- They are:
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- 1. This area needs an epidemiologic study by TDH and
CDC which should include the inmates at TDCJ. We will never know how many
illnesses are in this area, what kind of illnesses and how many have been
affected, until the numbers are counted and illnesses listed. This list
should include the now deceased individuals who were ill back in 1994.
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- 2. I would also like to be informed of the types of animal
experiments which have been performed on TDC land and what laws are in
place for these experiments to continue.
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- 3. The current health laws concerning reportable diseases
should be changed to include rare illnesses which is essential in research.
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- 4. A change in the criminal laws should hold any scientist,
researcher or physician accountable for placing people in harm's way for
the sake of notoriety and financial gain; even if employed by the U. S.
Government.
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- 5. I would also like for you to inquire about the denials
of Dr. Garth Nicolson's research grants from the Department of Defense
(DOD) through the General Accounting Office (GAO) as Congressman Filner
has.
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- 6. Please inform me of any laws which prevent the prison
population from being counted with the communities and why the prison illnesses
are not counted with the community's illnesses.
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- I don't particularly want to blame anyone for what happened
in the past. I do however, want to make sure the truth gets out, people
can get the proper medical treatment without having to beg for it and that
this will never happen again. Having criminal laws in place for the scientists/
researchers/ physicians is needed. That is the only thing left for us to
do. The rules and regulations are not working and by history's account,
have never worked.
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- This insanity in science needs to be stopped. The ends
do not justify the means.
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- Please feel free to contact me for phone numbers and
addresses of the other individuals. All of us will continue to search for
answers and it is hoped that you will assist us. I should mention the
Veteran's Administration has granted 12 million concerning a mycoplasma
trial for 20 VA institutions using Dr. Nicolson's protocol for Gulf War
Illness. This was approved on October 22, 1998
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- Sincerely,
- Candace Brown
- PO Box 6894
- Huntsville, TX 77342-6894
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- cc:
- Representative Ron Paul
- Solly Granatstein
- Bill Langlois
- Representative Edward Markey
- Tamara Lehman
- Tom Grant
- Representative Bob Filner
- Representative Loretta L. Sanchez
- Representative Christopher Shays
- Senator William V. Roth, Jr.
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy
- Senator Carl Levin
- Representative James Barcia
- Representative Bernard Sanders
- Representative Jack Metcalf
- Representative Norman D. Dicks
- Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV
- ENCLOSURES:
- 1. September 13, 1976, Minutes Texas Board of Corrections,
350th Meeting
- 2. Antibiotic Therapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Observational
Cohort Study
- of 98 Patients with 451 Patient-Years of Follow-Up, Congress
of
- Rheumatology 1985:S85
- 3. CNN May 8, 1998 "Common antibiotic knocks out
rare skin disease"
- 4. Mirkin Report for Healthier Living Mycoplasma, Chlamydia
and Ureaplasma
- The Hidden Epidemic The Long Term Treatment
- 5. Letter from Dr. Garth Nicolson dated April 21, 1998
- 6. "Gulf War Illness Probe To advance With New Study",
The Wanderer, by Paul
- Likoudis
- 7. "Multiplex PCR for the Detection of Mycoplasma
Fermentans, M. Hominis,
- and M. Penetrans in Patients with Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia,
Rheumatoid
- Arthritis and Gulf War Syndrome"; Fourth International
AACFS Research &
- Clinical Conference on CFIDS
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- From the webpage Emerging Diseases
- http://discserver.snap.com/Indices/93896.html
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