Dr. Bjorn Sigurdsson, the chief medical examiner for Iceland during WWII, who was actually a vetinarian, also puzzling about the epidemic in the far northern town of Akureyri, said that the disease simulated poliomyelitis (there were 3 actual cases of polio prior to this outbreak).
The 3inch thick tome published in 1992 by the Florence Nightingale Foundation in Canada, The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also brought up the by-now-fading-but-lingering poliomyelitis theory. One contributor stated that CFS was subclinical poliomyelitis; another that it was delayed acute onset poliomyelitis-like illness.
Yet the very same book has a couple of different contributors noting that during the acute febrile phase of the illness, people do not get colds. Now colds are caused by an adenovirus, so it seems obvious to me that the disease is not caused by a virus; that there is a virus suppressing mechanism at work here.
The acute phase has often been called as feeling as though the sufferer has "a dose of flu"; this is actually carrageenan (a seaweed additive common in many foods) reaching a certain point, a point of no return, where it overloads the intestinal system causing lysosomes (containing caustic digestive enzymes) to break open spilling their contents thus damaging and ulcerating the intestinal wall. Carrageenan then floods into the body - this is the part that people say feels like the flu.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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