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accompanied by fever or not, is at once put down as_ About the Author: ‘influenza’; every headache, every coryza [nasal Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, is currently an internist and congestion, common cold], every sore-throat, every medical researcher. He was on staff at New York affiliate attack of gastroenteritis, from whatever cause, is hospitals of SUNY Downstate, Cornell and New York promptly self-diagnosed as ‘influenza’, and when the universities for approximately 14 years. In conjunction with practitioner arrives upon the scene he will be expected to colleagues in San Francisco and at the University of all in with this view, and there is a great temptation to Nebraska, he first pursued, as lead author and originator, a do so." The authors go on to suggest that the rise in novel technique to kill AIDS mycobacteria and tuberculosis emperature and general malaise frequently met with in with outstanding results (see The Journal of Infectious his New York epidemic wasn't influenza at all. Diseases 2002 Oct 15; 186[8]:1155-60). He contributed a . . : ‘ chapter regarding these findings to Sleator and Hill’s oF aan eson, who practised dluring the Great Panclemic textbook Patho-Biotechnology (Landes Bio-science, 2008). many cases of tuberculosis whose death certificates were He has also written many peer-reviewed articles, available abeled influenza during the pandemic owing to lack of on PubMed of the US National Library of Medicine — : kea di is by th ked physician.” National Institutes of Health at http://www.ncbi.nlm. ime toma € a diagnosis by the overworked physician. nih.gov/pubmed?term=broxmeyer%20L. Dr Broxmeyer’s He reiterates that when an attack of influenza intervenes ; . ; : research covers the most challenging medical problems of in a patient suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, the our times, including AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease. His two- uberculosis process is likely to be aggravated “and very part article “The Untold Truth About Cancer” was published often terminates fatally in a comparatively short time". Of in NEXUS vol. 17, nos | and 2. more vital interest, even in the Dr Broxmeyer can be contacted cases of dormant, healed TB in by email at nyinstituteofmedical which the individual has research@yahoo.com and via his contracted the disease in ...measles—in marked website http://drbroxmeyer.net childhood, he quotes Osler on irms.com/. influenza being "an important analogy to influenza—could exciting cause" of latent Avey Endnotes tuberculosis.* At the same time, also cause the reactivation 1. Bradford J.R., E.F. Bashford Hendrickson clarifies why in and rapid spread of and ~ Wi ae Preliminary i i . eport on the Presence of a ‘Filter certain US Army barracks in 1918, dormant tuberculosis. Passing’ Virus in Certain measles—in marked analogy to influenza—could also cause the reactivation and rapid spread o} 2. Noymer A. and M. Garenne, dormant tuberculosis. : ; "The 1918 influenza epidemic’s Hendrickson, in 1918, therefore told American science _ effects on sex differentials in mortality in the United States", all it needed to know about the pandemic, but it just Popul Dev Rev 2000; 26(3):565-81 wasn't listening. Epidemic measles had kicked things off 3. Grassberger R., "Zur Frage der Scheinfadenbildung bei in Army barracks before the influenza epidemic, during influnzakulturen", Centralbl f Bakt | Abt 1898; 23(9/10):353-364 the bitterly cold winter of 1917-18. But unlike childhood — 4. MetchnikoffE., "Uber die phagocytare Rolle der measles, it was deadly, racking its victims with high fever, iho » Virchow's Arch f Pathol Anat 1888; i tabl h h i 02 Intrac a e cough, savage earacl es and even brain 5. Tekaia F., A. Lazcano and B. Dujon, "The Genomic Tree inflammation. As with tuberculosis, the measles didn't fi . . . ds as Revealed from Whole Proteome Comparisons", Genome kill by itself; rather, it killed by the very same secondary Rocoarch 1999: 9:550-557 bacterial infections that dogged TB-infested lungs. 6. Stobie W., "Prognosis in Pulmonary Tuberculosis", Br So, even prior to Pfeiffer's bacillus becoming the focus ed } 1933 Mar 25; 1:507-509, p. 508 of national attention in the "influenza" epidemic, 7. Wiltschur AJ., "Ueber den Einfluss der Gippe auf den upwards of 5,000 out of approximately 30,000 barracks — Verlauf der Phthise und deren Krankheitsbild bei soldiers died of measles "complications" on American Complicationen mit Gippe", Petersburger med Wochenschrift soil. At Camp Shelby, Mississippi, alone, almost half of 890; XV(5) a the deaths from all reportable causes were linked to é. Vo Kort, Mogens, Cynthia ree pane Horsfall, Jr, and pneumonia secondary to the measles. American ene J. Dubos, “The Enhancing Ettect of Concurrent newspapers began to headline a measles fiasco, and nfection with Pneumotropic Viruses on Pulmonary I willi led ’ k uberculosis in Mice", Journal of Experimental Medicine 1947 Army Surgeon General Wi iam Gorgas was called to task. Aug 31; 86(3):203-214, pp. 212-213 Hendrickson warned American medicine that both 9, Dubos R. and Dubos J., The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, measles and then Pfeiffer's bacillus were nothing but red and Society, Rutgers University Press, 1987, p. 205 (first herrings landing on an underlying tubercular infection. ublished by Little, Brown & Co., 1952) But American medicine wasn't listening. Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... Continued on page 81 Diseases", British Medical Journal 919 Feb; 1:127-28, p. 128 and rapid spread of dormant tuberculosis. 22 * NEXUS ...measles—in marked analogy to influenza—could also cause the reactivation Continued on page 81 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 20I1 www.nexusmagazine.com