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able to be absorbed into the bloodstream, tumour caused by undiagnosed Lyme disease because reliable antigens and antibodies directed against parts of the ests are no longer available to diagnose this disease. body perceived as foreign (e.g., auto-antibodies to In addition, Chaga's disease, a parasitic illness from islet cells, bronchial epithelium, synovial membranes, Latin America, damages the heart and is certainly etc.). The blood may also contain residues of cigarette being infused into unfortunate persons getting blood smoke as well as pesticides, herbicides, inhaled ransfusions these days. Neither Chaga's disease nor cleaning substances, chemicals, etc. Lyme disease is likely to be considered in the ¢ We are all constantly fighting off infections. postoperative period. Therefore, donated blood may contain viral, bacterial, ¢ Diagnosable transfusion reactions (e.g., chills, spirochaetal, mycoplasmal, parasitic and fungal ever, skin rash) occur in one out of every 100 organisms which the donor was battling. This means ransfused persons. A major operation like bypass that donated blood may contain pathogens capable of | surgery causes a profound immuno-suppressive causing a cold, gingivitis, sinusitis or even a serious reaction which damages the body's ability to kill infection such as Lyme disease or Chaga's disease in _ bacteria and cancer cells for several months. the recipient. For example, it is estimated that one in every six persons in the world is infected with Borrelia Results of Blood Transfusions in Other Health burgdorferi (Bb) spirochaetes, the cause of Lyme __ Conditions disease.’ ¢ Cancer Therapy So, all blood can and does The immuno-suppressive transmit infectious agents. state following colon cancer Given to a healthy person, this Donated blood may contain surgery, for instance, can be blood would not usually cause 7 i i blocked by the drug Tagamet® a fatal problem; but, given to Viral, bacterial, spirochaetal, taken before or started shortly an immuno-suppressed mycoplasmal, parasitic and after the operation. Patients patient trying to recuperate fungal organisms which the treated with Tagamet for one from a major operation, it may . year have a significantly higher become the straw that broke donor was battling. survival rate than controls not the camel's back. receiving Tagamet.* ¢ The most important However, chemotherapy and pathogen in blood is probably radiation treatment suppress Borrelia burgdorferi, but it is not tested for in transfused bone marrow production of red blood cells. The blood. It is easy to understand how a patient seriously resulting anaemia is often treated with blood ill after bypass surgery could be overwhelmed by the transfusions. These transfusions in cancer patients onset of Lyme disease postoperatively. Lyme disease come with a price. is rampant because it is easily spread from person to In Holland, a study of colon cancer patients revealed person. Most patients with Lyme disease have a silent that only 48 per cent of transfused patients were alive infection that does not become evident until a serious at five years compared to 74 per cent of non- incident damages their immune system. Such an incident transfused patients.’ The results for head and neck could be major surgery, accident, infection, immune cancers were even worse. Cancer of the larynx had injury from alcohol or drugs, insomnia, stress, etc. _ only 14 per cent survivors at five years in transfused This means that there are millions of persons walking patients but had 65 per cent in non-transfused around who may look healthy but their blood would patients. In cancers of the oral cavity, the cancer be dangerous to receive because it contains Bb recurrence rate was 71 per cent in transfused patients spirochaetes. but 31 per cent in non-transfused patients.® Lyme disease is now impossible to be diagnosed A lung cancer study from Europe confirmed adverse accurately because the two best tests for the disease _ results with transfusions. Thirty-day mortality rose are no longer available (i.e, Dr Lida Mattman's Blood from 2.4 per cent for patients not transfused to 10.9 Culture Technique and Dr JoAnne Whitaker's Q-RIBb per cent for those getting two or fewer transfusions test). These tests were foolproof because growing and to 21.9 per cent for patients receiving more than spirochaetes out of the blood or visualising pieces of | two units of blood.’ Other studies in patients with spirochaetes in blood samples constitutes undeniable colon cancer have confirmed that the more blood proof of diagnosis. transfused, the worse the results.* So, considering that one in six persons has the Bb spirochaetes in their blood, if you receive six units of | * Hip Replacement Surgery blood in a transfusion you are probably getting Bb Patients undergoing hip replacement surgery who spirochaetes. We will never know how many _ received transfusions had a 35 per cent greater risk of postoperative deaths in transfused patients have been a serious bacterial infection and a 52 per cent greater caused by undiagnosed Lyme disease because reliable ests are no longer available to diagnose this disease. In addition, Chaga's disease, a parasitic illness from Latin America, damages the heart and is certainly being infused into unfortunate persons getting blood ransfusions these days. Neither Chaga's disease nor Lyme disease is likely to be considered in the postoperative period. ¢ Diagnosable transfusion reactions (e.g., chills, ever, skin rash) occur in one out of every 100 ransfused persons. A major operation like bypass surgery causes a profound immuno-suppressive reaction which damages the body's ability to kill bacteria and cancer cells for several months. Results of Blood Transfusions in Other Health Conditions r ™ Donated blood may contain viral, bacterial, spirochaetal, mycoplasmal, parasitic and fungal organisms which the donor was battling. an ¢ Hip Replacement Surgery Patients undergoing hip replacement surgery who received transfusions had a 35 per cent greater risk of a serious bacterial infection and a 52 per cent greater 20 ¢ NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com