MacLean’s Magazine: Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?

[CanLyme Note: Many decades of research, prior to MS being too simply labeled an ‘autoimmune’ disease, showed convincingly that spirochetal (spirochaetal) bacteria, like Lyme disease bacteria, played a significant role in the disease process.  Is all MS Lyme disease?  Likely not, but much of it may be a misdiagnosed, untreated, mistreated Lyme disease or other spirochetal infection. In CanLyme’s search string type multiple sclerosis and look at research that has been largely ignored in favor of pushing only immune suppressant drugs. Read 1954 study identifying spirochete in MS patients]

MacLeans:

“The cheeky rebranding of multiple sclerosis in Canada raises the fair question: why are rates so high here?”

April 20, 2015

“Misdiagnosis is a risk. A 2012 study conducted at Oregon Health and Science University found 75 per cent of specialists reported seeing three or more misdiagnosed MS patients within the previous year; of 600 misdiagnosed patients, 280 were on MS drugs, many of which cause serious side effects and can cost more than $50,000 per patient per year. Concern has also been raised that infectious diseases, including Lyme disease, are being misdiagnosed as MS; MRI scans for both appear similar. Lyme disease is curable with antibiotics; being given immunosuppressant drugs, as many MS patients are, worsens it. The National MS Society in the U.S. has added information about Lyme disease to its website. The Canadian MS Society has none.”

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1 Comment

  • Robert Murray says:
    April 23, 2015 at 9:21 am

    In the comments to this article online there is mention that high MS rates in Canada may be linked to our low levels of manganese. This is the same element on which Borrelia are so dependent and will scavenge from the rest of the body.

    Why does Canada have the highest rate of Lyme disease in the world and the lowest rate of Lyme borreliosis?