What
this is saying is that we have diseases that are actually sexually
transmitted that are at least debilitating although not fatal. The
scary ones have got the attention while the others are been ignored.
Yet
we now have the tools available to pay real attention. After all
successful pathogens do not kill their hosts. This could well be a
tamer version of something like the same problem that is at least
side stepping our testing protocols.
I
suspect we are overdue for a full search for these obscure pathogens
simply because all possible pathogens are now active parts of the
human community.
This
also means that everyone needs to carefully manage their sexual
partners to a higher degree and that this problem needs to be taught
universally in this manner. The good news is that the worst
pathogens have long run their course and we are combating their
little sisters.
The AIDS-like
Disease Seldom Mentioned
June 18, 2013
Karen Lambert
I have Chronic
Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS/ME)
and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia. With these
two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof
that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the
medical establishment seems unable to admit or to acknowledge. I
also believe it makes me living proof that CFS and HIV-NEGATIVE
AIDS are basically the same mysterious immune disorder.
Three years ago, after
a heterosexual sexual encounter, I became seriously ill
with what looks like the natural disease progression of AIDS.
After an “acute infection” and a “period of
asymptomatic health”, I have fallen extremely ill to an
unrelenting, progressively-worsening AIDS-like demise. I can
pinpoint exactly when I was infected with my “chronic viral
syndrome of unknown etiology” and because the “acute
infection” stage was so distinguishable, I can also pinpoint
exactly when my undiagnosed pathogen left my body and infected
yet another host.
Whatever I am
currently dealing with, it strongly resembles classic textbook
HIV/AIDS disease. But, to add to my inquiry, I also clinically
satisfy the CDC’s criteria for the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome.
Increasingly, I have
become concerned that my systemic diagnosis is caught up in the
treacherous politics of CFS/ME and AIDS. Most people with CFS/ME
do not like to talk about the many symptoms andimmune abnormalities
that they share with AIDS patients. I also suspect that most ailing
patients would rather be told that they have the very mysterious CFS
than to be told that they have AIDS.
I have a Master’s degree. I am a director at my firm. I used to
be a triathlete. I have never used IV drugs. I have never
traveled abroad. I can count my sexual partners on two hands.
Statistically speaking, I know that my undiagnosed infectious
and communicable disease is not rare…so, you tell
me, if they are not in the miscellaneous CFS/ME category, where
are all these other immunosuppressed people?
Anyone with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, who does not consider the possibility that
CFS/ME will eventually progress to a NON-HIV AIDS diagnosis, is
very well trumping their own ability to diagnosis the root cause
of their illness.
Why isn’t CFS/ME a
reportable disease overseen by our public health department? Why
are ME and CFS (i.e., the same exact disorder) suspiciously
categorized as two separate illnesses on a worldwide level
(i.e., by ICD codes)? Doesn’t anyone else but me, very clearly see,
the catastrophic cover-up going on here?
Why are we not reading
about Non-HIV AIDS cases (and/or the AIDS-like nature of CFS) on
the front pages of every newspaper in the world? And if CFS/ME
is Non-HIV AIDS, then, depending on who you believe, there are
anywhere between 500,000 – 14,000,000 Americans out there with
a transmissible illness. If that is what it truly is, our new
form of AIDS dwarfs the ‘original’ AIDS epidemic —
tenfold!
I want honest answers
for myself, for everyone who is suffering from this hideous
illness, and especially for those who remain uninfected by my
undiagnosed infectious and communicable disease.
As worrisome as my
health is to me, I am extremely troubled by the strong
likelihood that more people are being infected every minute that
Non-HIV AIDS cases (like mine) are allowed to go undetected
– especially if it turns out that AIDS and CFIDS/ME are
basically the same disorder.
You can label my
AIDS-like illness whatever you wish. I would even allow you to
call it infectious-CFS, even though it is utterly beyond my
realm of comprehension as to how the medical establishment
can generically name an entire disease paradigm based
on just one (of my numerous) symptom(s).
Regardless of how
politics may try to dissuade or delude you, all you need to know
is that my idiopathic immune dysfunction is infectious! It
is contagious! And it is spreading, unleashed, in the
world’s population!
I am not afraid to say
that I have AIDS without HIV — idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia —
my second officialclinical diagnosis. I am equally as unafraid
of saying the most obvious thing about CFS/ME: it sure does look like
AIDS to me.
We talk openly about
preparing for an impending Avian Flu pandemic. Why not talk
about the HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS epidemic that already exists (and is
spreading) amongst us?
If it takes courage to
think and to say the things that I do, I hope that there will be
a miraculous outbreak of bravery from coast-to-coast.
I stopped fighting for myself a long, long time ago. I fight for
humanity.
I demand a CFS/HIV
revolution. Vive La RevoluciĆ³n.
To learn more about
non-HIV AIDS, and to see the *new* face of AIDS, please
visit: CFS Straight Talk
Could I be you?
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