Lyme Disease and Rage

Hi my friends,
This is an interesting article concerning the current public discourse of Lyme Disease and whether it can cause incidents of rage.

I hope everyone is keeping up with the ISDA's current attempt to stop the treatment of Lyme disease with long-term antibiotics. I hope to post an update soon.

Be well,
Richard


Pastor killing: Another act of violence attributed to Lyme disease
March 9, 2009
From the Psychology Today blog, Emerging Diseases
By Pamela Weintraub

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/emerging-diseases/200903/pastor-killing-another-act-violence-attributed-lyme-disease
or http://tinyurl.com/ctxmlu

Here's a quick post to supplement my story on the chimp attack in
Connecticut, which some pundits attributed to a rage reaction caused by
Lyme disease.

On the heels of the rage-filled chimp story comes a human version: This
weekend a man opened fire on a pastor in a church in Maryville,
Illinois, murdering him with a rain of gunfire. Here, too, the
explanation for the attack has been given as psychiatric illness caused
by Lyme disease. Infected by a tick on the family farm in the early
1990's, the young man was, his family said, left with lesions on his brain.

There's no question that Lyme disease is a neurological illness. It has
been associated with neurological disease for decades in rigorous peer
review in the top medical journals in the world.

Read the complete blog post and join the conversation:
http://tinyurl.com/ctxmlu