WARNING

NEW CAT MICROBE (MYCOPLASMA) CAN INFECT YOUR FAMILY

with Lupus, Arthritis and Pulmonary Pneumonia

By: ANITA SANDS 

CREATED 02-28-2002

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PREFACE

After the UDDER DENIAL article in this same section (click here), which describes history and momentous gravity of current global prion infection, this is second article from the same author, Anita Sands, a film and television star and astrologer, which is posted here following her kind permission.

Her site is linked to the above Anita's Star Power logo above or, if does not go right here.

Article is impressive result of author's extensive research in mycoplasma bacterium infection and it's cure.

INTRODUCTION

Like many cat lovers, I became an involuntary cat breeder after taking in a pregnant Queen back in the 70's. She and her babies multiplied in intervening decades, until I had as many as thirty cats in the back yard of my rented house, a jungle which looked like a Rousseau painting with these green eyes staring out at you from under every leaf.

It wasn't all so picturesque, however. Cat Plagues ping-ponged among my flock, among them a smelly lung disease. Having holistic interests, I nursed cats who had it with New Age herbs. While dosing them with astragalus and echinecea from an eyedropper, my face close up, I noted the odd, fetid aroma to the lung phlegm.

One day, a sick cat I was holding sneezed! I felt mucus enter my eye. SPLATT. An hour later I had a massive sore throat, HIGH FEVER, followed by chills, aches in my joints, that same, odd, fetid phlegm in my lungs and a 103 degree fever that didn't break for two weeks.

I tended myself with orange and carrot juices, echinecea, astragalus, zinc, Vit C but neither herbs nor my immune system recognized the bug. The disease ran over me like a train, progressing into a pneumonia type bronchitis with bad chest/lung phlegm (in spite of my Hollywood tofu & green salad lifestyle, "mucus-free" California root and nut diet, very small amounts of dairy and meat,) the bug
JUST PLOWED ME UNDER. I lay flat on my back in bed. In this period, I had time to think about the cat that did this to me.

The sprayer had chronic respiratory problems from a kitten disease which she'd survived. MOST of my kittens died of whatever it was. The survivor's Virus or Bacteria had abated in her, but somehow became resident . When the disease peaked, once a year, she'd get the bad odor and wheeze and sneeze and shoot green phlegm like a Martian out of Men in Black. The smell would announce it was time to try to keep her away from other cats and their dishes but several adult cats caught it from her and strong though they were, they died of it.

Was I dying? MY phlegm had same fetid, cheesy odor, reinforcing the feeling that I caught a CAT disease which, by the way, was having the time of its BUG life in a non whiskered life form. This bug was unlike any flu I'd known in my first half century of life. The fever lasted so LONG and was so violent, I knew it was NO microbe that I'd ever had before. THIS WAS truly from Mars.

Slowly, I began to recover, and when I did, I noticed that I had joint aches. I assumed that the first arthritis of my age group has struck. I accepted old age and just kept on swigging carrot juice and eating my tofu. Grateful to be well, I thought nothing of it. Except that once a year I seem to get a running start on the same sore throat glands and fever, but now my immune system beats it much faster. I don't get all-the-way ill. For years, it goes on that way. I 'come down with it' occasionally.
Spontaneously, on my own, as I no longer get within sneezing distance of the sick cat or her dish.

MYCOPLASMA

Then I get this PC. First week on the Net, I go surfing around, looking for vets who have websites, find plenty of these. I click on "lung diseases" and find the names of all cat lung diseases. I look at a lot of wetbsites. ONE of the lung diseases is mycoplasma, so I go elsewhere looking that one up.

Holistic writers and magazine publishers have plenty on mycoplasma as it's tied into chronic fatigue syndrome and immune system failure. Many websites in cyberspace have researches on this new, wide-spread plague of auto immune diseases and on one, The Townsend Letter for Physicians and Doctors, in an article on Lupus and chronic fatigue syndrome, I read that both can be caused by mycoplasma bacteria which basically is a barnyard bacteria. When found in humans (usually in the blood of Gulf War Veterans, victims of intentionally applied bio-toxins) it causes immune system failure similar to AIDS.

The Iraquis took the only thing they had plenty OF ---Barnyard bacteria --- and put it in their bombs. There were other ways for humans to get it, direct close contact with animals who carried it, and as pigs and lambs were part of the barnyard carriers, humans sometimes became ill from eating rare-cooked flesh.

Internet researchers called mycoplasma something between a bacteria and a virus. It had features of both. Like many pneumococci organisms, this single celled creature can become bloodstream resident meaning you don't need people to give it to you again once you've got it-- like flus and colds, measles or chicken pox get 'given' which explained why I was able to get relapses annually when I am a hermit. I live far from people, I am not exposed to anyone's water glass, or hand on my towels. No kids sneeze in my face. My cats are happy in the yard or garage. They don't give it to me, anymore. However, WHENEVER I get tired or worn out, I get the sore throat glands and fever and fight it for a month at a time (I am currently in third or fourth week of it). My immune system fights and I always win. I mean, I'm still here. No segue into lung phlegm any more. The fever and sore glands whip my body into a heat which seems to bake it out but it's a bother as it's a month of CHILLS and feverish feelings, and fatiguey feelings but my antibodies recognize that bacteria. NO LONGER do I go into that massive high fever, (103), totally painful, achey joints, laid out in bed-lung infection and smelly lung phlegm.

When I'm in good health, I beat it in ten days. If I'm having a hard life, not sleeping, not eating well, the FIGHTING it stage lasts a month. THIS TIME it is lasting almost a month due to a slightly bad tooth root also contributing some contamination to the throat lymph area.

Anyway, I'm up studying the thing again and here's what I learned on the web, and I'll quote from my notes: "Examination of the joints of Lupus, Scleroderma and Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferers have turned up the very common, feline, mycoplasma bacteria. There are 20 known species of Mycoplasma found in sheep, pigs, goats and calves, animals that we generally don't live with but do consume."

 I had read that sputum could transfer the disease, but here was information saying that ingestion of rare meat also cause this disease to transfer to meat eaters' bodies. There was another possibility mentioned, breathing near cat litter boxes. "Mycoplasma bacterium is a single cell life form that mimics mushrooms and ferns in that it spreads by airborn spores, hence the name, 'myco' or 'like a mushroom.' The spores are in cat feces and float in the air when feces is dry. " This made me uneasy. Living with an infected cat, or next door to one may possibly transfer this disease to humans. My cats could be spreading it even from the yard. If this were so and as cats are the most frequently owned pet in America, we could be talking about an airborne disaster and perhaps the source of all chronic fatigue syndrome in the USA.

The question for any pet owner is ---does your cat have it? This week, I have one less cat as the last of them who had the lung problem for her brief, three years, or since weaning, when they get it, just died of her worst outbreak. Her current companions never caught it. I believe this is because I began adding freshly grown greens to home-cooked turkey burger and sprinkling the finished stew with garlic powder. ( Back in the old days when I used canned Whiskas meat, every cat caught the disease from a sick one. Nobody had an immune system).

Today I note that the several wild tomcats that visit our house daily for turkey and greens stay healthy, so I feel increasing an animal's immune system through good diet works. (Secrets of cooking Super kittie cuisine easily are at http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/holistic.html if you want to take a peek).

Now while I don't fully trust Vets who don't know from good diet and still recommend canned meat-by-products I believe them when they say --- as they do in the Merck Veterinary Manual (pps 760-761) that 40-45% of chronic, feline upper respiratory diseases are caused by Rhino virus, Herpes virus, Calcivirus, Chlamydia or Mycoplasma. There are diverse causes of cat-lung problems. Some cats die of this lung affliction, I read but most will live for years with the bacteria, exhibiting only a light lung mucus, hence becoming carriers. As sneezing or airborn spores can spread Mycoplasma, I deduced that arthritis and Lupus can be given to humans from cats. Of course, the research I read indicated there were other causes of the disease in humans. Eating Rare cooked meat could do it so
it's possible that undercooked veal, lamb or pork chops could transfer Mycoplsma to humans as pigs and lamb communities frequently have Mycoplasma. Cats don't get arthritis from mycoplasma but Sheep and pigs do!

If one has the head to be a medical detective, ponder another part of the Mycoplasma puzzle: Mycoplasma is the bacteria found in joints affected by both rheumatoid arthritis and Lupus. Is it possible that the Lupus and Arthritis are mistaken for one another? The more frequently diagnosed rheumatoid syndrome might really be undiagnosed Lupus or the other way around. Only a blood test for antibodies or a culture of the joint fluid could tell you for certain but if your bones ache, one might
invest in a complete panel of tests.

THE CURE
I however, trusted my Sherlock Holmes work, knew that my joints had begun to ache after a cat had snorted in my eye so I deduced that she and I had mycoplasma and continued to research along those lines and lo and behold, found that the good news was: this mushroom-like (hence called myco) plasma bacteria that causes my sore throat and Lupus and Arthritis can easily be attacked with anti-biotics.

The very harmless Minocycline is the anti-biotic of choice and has worked well in placebo trials. There seem to be very little side effects from it use although it's always good to take a good, multi-flora Acidophillis strain for a few weeks after treatment to replenish friendly bacteria in the digestive tract.

Can the average catowner tell if he has Mycoplasma in his body? The cat owner might not know if he'd ever been exposed. He might have a painfully swollen joint somewhere, a thumb, ankle, foot or wrist but the lung congestion caused by the bacteria would long ago have been confused with a cold that came and went and would now be forgotten and he'd assume as I did for years that my joints were simply aging.

Or, you might have a very developed case of the disease and lots of medical coverage and be able to afford tests and you might know what you have is diagnosed Lupus which occurs when the immune system seems to go wild, attacking many of the patient's joints at once. Well, I'm here to tell you that my research indicates you might try Minocyline and say goodbye LUPUS!

The latest researches with Lupus indicate that the disease can be alleviated (AMA has the patent on the word 'cure' or 'heal') with some other holistic methods that make use of youth hormones which in turn, tone the body's immune system, giving it the ability to fight Mycoplasma naturally, from the inside, with our own antibiodies.

Researchers have used DHEA, a natural body hormone, and precursor stimulant of the body's abilities to make other hormones, hence a "Master" hormone. Deepak Chopra calls DHEA "the single most significant medical breakthrough in the field of anti-aging/longevity research."

DHEA is found in Mexican Yam Extract and Raw Adrenal Concentrate which will supplement and stimulate the body's own natural DHEA production. Such production naturally ceases with old age. (A loss of hair on the legs, lower body is a symptom of a need for DHEA.) Mexican Squaw vine, Yam and adrenal concentrate are sold in all healthfood stores. They are not toxic, and don't cause cancer the way estrogen can. DHEA is very safe and there appeared to be no downside to its use. In fact, there appeared to be a significent upside: Rats live twice as long with a little in their diets! But recently it was found that 25 to 50 milligrams a day caused fast or arrthymic heart beats to some humans, but it would be easy to lower the dosage if that occurred, as the benefits of DHEA are hefty.

Researchers have also used Progesterone hormone which the young body produces, and the aging body doesn't, along with Pregnenolone, a DHEA precursor hormone. By rejuvenating the body's immune system and making it more like that of a young person, Dr. Davis Lamson, a private practitioner and researcher in Kent, Washington, has had success in backing off arthritis with none of the side effects that the doctors' favorite rheumatism drug, cortisone causes, i.e. osteoporosis.

Some researchers have used another natural substance, DMSO, to transport topically applied hormones into the bones. DMSO is a sulfur oxide that penetrates the skin very easily, as all sulfur will; (you'll recall the ancients soaking their aching bones in sulfur and mineral-rich hot springs?) Well, the sulfur carried the other minerals RIGHT into the bones, fixing the arthritis! DMSO is the Vet's favorite shin rub for race horses and is easy to get from equine doctors but in our case we will have to add something TO the DMSO to get carried IN.

I remember doing Ann Miller's horoscope, visiting her at her house. She complained that the American run of BABES had been hard on her legs, and she was not going to do the London run. She had only one hope. She thought she might get a jar of shin rub from her vet. (She must have done so because she went on to open in London to great reviews).

Those of us who suspect Lupus, Arthritis or Mycoplasma bacteria to reside in our bones, might might mix DMSO shin rub with Minocycline, pregnenolone and a liberal dose of fresh squeezed garlic, (a bacteriacide) apply this germ-killing mush to our aches. It is literally transported into the joints.

Holistic doctors warn you to be careful that hands are 100% clean as cosmetics, chemicals, --- anything that is on your hands will also be carried in through the skin! Sterile bandages wrap the garlicky joint and one goes off to dreamland, smelling like a pizza!

There is much one can read on the subject of aging, aching bones, and youth hormones. The Number #1 Researcher in the field is Dr. Ray Peat, PHD, a nutritional scientist who specializes in Auto Immune diseases. Dr. Peat is a regular contributor to America's best holistic bulletin for doctors, The Townsend Newsletter for Physicians & Doctors and one of America's most respected medical researchers. He's written many books, thousands of articles for medical journals and has his own newsletter. His book on Progesterone treatment of LUPUS and rheumatoid arthritis is seminal.

To contact researchers: holistic writer, Dr. Julian Whitaker, c/o his publishers, Dr. Eugene Roberts, City of Hope Medical Ctr, Duarte CA, Dr William Regelson, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Medical College; Elizabeth Barret Connor, M.D. Dept Community Med, UCSD; Dr. Kenneth Bonnet, Dept of Psych NYU. Send SASE and all will send you research.

I know one should show this material to a doctor and get his OK to do the treatment. Dr. Peat says diagnosed Lupus sufferers should take DHEA, Progesterone, Pregnenolone and DMSO. The hormones are fairly easy to get through holistic pharmaceutical channels.* For dosages, call Dr. Ray Peat, and when you do, get on his mailing list. DMSO is available through an equine vet or through Arizona Healthfoods.

The criteria for diagnosis of Lupus is by its most common symptoms: photo sensitivity, low leukocytes in blood, anti-DNA antibodies in blood, renal disorder, oral ulcers, body rashes, skin lesions and aching bones and joints. It's easy to see why Lupus in early stages can be mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis. All aching joints are the same in the dark! "Tout les chats son le meme en la nuit."

According to another Lupus researcher, Dr. Stanley Jacob, MD Oregon Health Sciences University, (the author of 8 textbooks, 140 Medical Journal articles,) one should take DMSO with the anti-biotic Minocycline worked into the gel.

As DMSO is a harmless mineral, sulfur, we can use it orally, in venous transfusion or topically. Always dilute with distilled water. As DMSO is a carrying agent that moves toward the bones, it acts to transport the antibiotic into the affected areas, just as it will transport hormones applied topically.

Dr. Stanley Jacob points out that Mycoplasma is a cellwall-deficient bacteria, hence your usual, activated antibiotics don't work. Luckily Doxycycline, Tetracycline and "Minocin" or Minocycline work well on it, especially, if you add human or vet grade DMSO to the medication.

If anyone suspects his cat has Mycoplasma lung bacteria, he might have the vet outline a cure for FLUFFY using Minocycline antibiotic. Maybe the Vet could win himself a Nobel Prize or something.

The link between cats and arthritis has been known for a long time but ignored. In NATURE JOURNAL in 1939, (56 years ago), Dr. Thomas McPherson Brown recounted how he isolated the Mycoplasma Bacterium that cats have in human, rheumatoid joints. It is tragic that the medical community is so slow to listen to holistic researchers and that for more than a half century, millions of people have been crippled by a disease that one of the least injurious anti-biotics could have cured.

As some readers may already know they are diagnosed with Lupus and would be interested, --- here's a piece of info on ALTERNATE THERAPY FOR ARTHRITIS OR LUPUS: Another tack for Lupus is based on research done by the famed Mexican Cancer clinic, and is called "The GERSON therapy". It works on cleansing the liver, and involves a wheatgrass juice fast. Dr. Max Gerson says fasting works well on Lupus. (If that's true, this would indicate that many of our livers are very toxic and many of our immune systems are deficient these days. Yeah, No DUH!).

To mimic Gerson's clinical approach at home, go on a good 14 day raw juice fast, (no food at all) with 6 mini meals a day of mixed juices (carrot, celery, wheatgrass and beet). The trick is to stir in a few tbsps of psyllium seed (unflavored metamucil), and drink immediately, before it 'clots.' First time fasters should go on a high-bulk, vegetarian diet for a week beforehand to get the colon whisked clean enough to tolerate the highly cleansing, liquid diet. Wheatgrass is easy to grow in flats at home. Try your neighborhood farm or poulty feed store to find wheat seed, sow it thickly on rich loam in a horticulturist's flat, shear when blades are 3 inches long. Get a wheatgrass extractor at your healthfood store as the usual juicer will have no effect on these 'blades of steel.' If you are hypoglycemic, have avocado, beansprouts and peeled, blanched almonds FRESHLY SOAKED AT HOME to loosen skins .. when you get hungry and there'll be no problem. It'll be a " SORT OF" Fast.

NOTES

For more background facts, read Townsend Letter for Doctors, Issue # 145 Pg 111, Issue #141 P 132, Issue #143 Pg 104, Issue # 148 Pg 18 and Issue 149, P 99. Read the January 95 article by Dr. Tilly B.C. Volume 122 Pg 81-89, in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

For more info on Minocycline for Lupus, send SASE with 55c to The Road Back Foundation 4985 N. Lakehill Rd. Delaware OH 43015.

Contact Dr. Peat at PO BOX 5764 Eugene OR 97405, (503) 345-9855 in Eugene Or.

*You can get Pregnenolone and DHEA hormones from "Lifelink" 445 Lierly Ln Arroyo Grande CA 93420. (805) 473-1389. 180 capsules 40$ but there are other dosages at other prices. Shipping 4.50 UPS. TRY: HOME LINK 800-272-4767. Maybe cheapest of all suppliers: LIFE ENHANCEMENT PROD. PO Box 751390, Petaluma CA 94975. Get pregnenalone hormone from BEYOND A CENTURY 800-777-1324, 150 caps of 30m $59.50 It is a precursor of body's own supply of DHEA.

+ARIZONA HEALTHFOODS in PHOENIX has DMSO; try 800-INFO for #. Get DMSO more cheaply from your VET. Veterinarian grade is just as pure as human grade. Just tell vet "my horse limps, I want shin rub."

For INFO on DMSO protocols send SASE to Dr. Stanley Jacob L225, Oregon Health Sciences Univ. Portland OR 97201. For more about DMSO, call American Academy Metabolic Medicine 800-982-2101 ext 123. Treatment protocols will be provided.

Get DHEA RESEARCH bulletin #463 from American Society of Nutritional Research, 12416 N. 28th, Suite 18, PO Box 241 Phoenix AZ 85029.

Get NUTRITION NEWS "DHEA WILD YAM" PO Box 55279 Riverside CA 92517.

Contact Dr. Arthur Schwartz, Fels Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. a longtime researcher in DHEA.

DOSEAGES: DHEA can be given in doses of from 3 mg to 30mg daily but as high as 1,600 mg a day for 28 days was found not to be injurious, subsiding later to a low daily maintenance level, 3x a week. If arrthymia's result, retreat to 25 mg. If Deepak Chopra who is a DR, calls it the true Fountain of Youth and Doctors tell us there is no downside, maybe you can believe it. All it does is juice up the natural hormone-making ability of the body, which we lose in old age.

APPENDIX I

DOCUMENT BY CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL ON MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA: Investigation into community-acquired pneumonia bad enough to require hospitalization, & Results of a population- based active surveillance Study in Ohio, "The Community-Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group" written by some doctors at Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Ga 30303, USA where THEY SAID:

"Pneumonia seems to be the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases in the United States; however, the incidence of most infections causing community-acquired pneumonia in adults is not well defined.

METHODS: 

We reviewuated all adults, residing in 2 counties in Ohio, who were hospitalized in 1991 because of community-acquired pneumonia. Information about risk factors, symptoms, and outcome was collected through interview and medical chart review. Serum samples were collected from consenting individuals during the acute and convalescent phases, and specific etiologic diagnoses were assigned based on esults of bacteriologic and immunologic tests.

RESULTS: 

The incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in the study counties in 1991 was 266.8 per 100,000 population; the overall case-fatality rate was 8.8%. Pneumonia incidence was higher among blacks than whites (337.7/100,000 vs 253.9/100,000; P < .001), was higher among males than females (291.4 vs 244.8; P < .001), and increased with age (91.6/100,000 for persons aged < 45 years, 277.2/ 100,000 for persons aged 45-64 years, and 1012.3/ 100,000 for persons aged > or = 65 years; P < .001). Extrapolation from study incidence data showed the projected annual number of cases of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in the United States to be 485,000. These data provide previously unavailable estimates of the annual number of cases that are due to Legionella species (8000-18,000), Mycoplasma pneumoniae (18,700-108,000), and Chlamydia pneumoniae (5890-49,700).
CONCLUSIONS: 

These data provide information about the importance of community-acquired pneumonia and the relative and overall impact of specific causes of pneumonia. The study provides a basis for choosing optimal empiric pneumonia therapy, and allows interventions for prevention of pneumonia to be targeted at groups at greatest risk for serious illness and death.

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