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MAYBE, MAYBE NOT: DOES MALARIA MAKE SYPHILIS BETTER? WHAT ABOUT AIDS , AND CFS? (fwd)
K. Weber (kweber@efn.org)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:05:14 -0800
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:58:59 -0800
From: "K. Weber" <kweber@efn.org>
Newsgroups: bionet.virology, bionet.parasitology, bionet.immunology,
bionet.microbiology
Subject: MAYBE, MAYBE NOT: DOES MALARIA MAKE SYPHILIS BETTER? WHAT ABOUT AIDS , AND CFS?
There is a malarial treatment according to one journalist I talked to.
Developed in an earlier era, which involves an old observation that
malaria tended to make people with syphilis better. If this was truly
observed, there were plenty of syphilis infected sailors to observe it
about. The current treatment which according to the same source is in
second stage AIDS trials, involves a short course of injected malaria (do
they weaken it?) followed by malarial treatment. If it were not weakened,
it would concern me that someone with pre existing encephilitis, seen in
CFIDS and AIDS, not to mention syphilis, might have these little creatures
get past their blood brain barrier in a way which it is thought to
be difficult to
address medically.
I'm all for patient directed treatment of serious diseases, so long as
accurate information gets out and is fully discussed. So hope this can be
discussed here. CFS involves hypoxia and cell malformations, as does
sickle cell anemia. Do syphilis and Lyme's involve these phenomenon? Was
it the improvement with treatment that was noticed, or the improvement
with malaria itself? A good reference on malaria and sickle cel diseases
is
"Coevolution: Genes, Culture," by William H. Durham. This does not have
any suggestion of an interrelationship between syphilis and malaria, to my
memory.
If you respond to this, plese send me an e-mail, as well. I will try to
get it to a journalist who will be interviewing the doctor involved soon.
Kathleen
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