Am I contagious?
The evidence is mounting that Th1 diseases are communicable. This is not the same as being contagious. Transmission of these bacteria requires close contact and is seen most often within the family unit. You are not contagious and need not limit contacts with the general public.
"There have been no studies done on this, so the answer to your question must be based on theoretical analysis.
Once the amount of minocycline you are taking goes above the MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) needed to kill opportunistic blood-borne bacteria there is little chance of you passing bacteria to another person, as the bacteria will be killed within 48 hours of leaving the cells and entering the bloodstream.
The MIC for minocycline (for most species) is surpassed by a 100mg dose, and the MIC for the other phase 2 and 3 abx are also surpassed by a full capsule or tablet.
So once you 'graduate' from phase 1, the risk of passing bacteria becomes pretty small, probably negligable, IMO."
..Trevor..
If you are on the MP, your bacterial load is reduced during phase one and by six months, or so, you are not likely to pass the CWD bacteria to others. In the meantime, the usual precautions that we take to prevent the spread of disease are adequate. Keep in mind that everyone is exposed to CWD pathogens in a variety of ways. They are in our food/milk (they are not killed by pasturization), water (they are not killed by fluoridation), and biologic (injectible) medicines (they are too small to be filtered during the 'purification' processes used in pharmaceutical manufacturing procedures). So you should not be overly concerned about your communicability.
Someone not on the Marshall Protocol who is symptomatic with Th1 disease, including sarcoidosis, has a heavy CWD bacterial load. Theoretically, that bacteria could be passed to someone else by close contact through bodily fluids such as coughing or sneezing and other intimate contact.
The biggest study of Sarcoidosis in history, the NIH 6-year ACCESS study, found that the risk for sarcoidosis increased nearly 5-fold in parents and siblings with the disease.
For additional material in our brochure explaining the ACCESS study, an electronic copy is at URL
http://autoimmunityresech.org/sarcoidosis.pdf
"It seems that the 'germs' are passed around families pretty easily. The NIH ACCESS study found an incidence of Sarcoidosis in spouses 1000 times higher than could be expected. Dr Garth Nicholson's studies on Chronic Fatigue and Autism and Golf War Syndrome, found that 70% or more of family members were infected at 10 years after their fathers returned from Iraq (see URL http://autoimmunityresearch.org/garth-30th.ram )
The good news is those words "10 years." These bacteria grow very slowly, and are easy to kill before they overcome the immune system, now that we have the knowledge of how to do that.
In exactly the same way that 'healthy folks' have flu shots every year, folks who have recovered from Th1 disease will need a short course of MP antibiotics to make sure that any bugs they accumulate will get killed off before they can cause any more chronic disease."
..Trevor..
Rolf Zinkernagle has shown that a virus that is re-injected into an adult mouse that received the virus as a neonate will die whereas those injected with the virus but not infected as a neo-nate will survive.
The really important thing to be drawn from Rolf's work is the reminder that the infant is unprotected in the days and weeks following birth, until it starts producing antibodies. The innate immune system is all it has got, although many think that antibody transfer from the mother may be present in the breast milk. I am not sure that would be much help, but I just don't know. Nobody does.
Dave Relman's lab has, however, done a study where they found that a baby picks up all of the mother's, and most of the family's, flora within a couple of weeks of birth.
..Trevor..
Related info:
Will re-infection occur if my partner or family members are not treated?
Disease clusters & Husband/Wife cases
Last edited on Mon Jun 25th, 2007 17:38 by Foundation Staff
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