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Penticton High School supports one of their own who was stricken with tick borne disease.
Penticton High School students staged a very successful skating fundraiser for one of their peers on Sunday, January 16th, 2011 at the South Okanagan Events Centre.
John Pierce was bitten by a tick in the spring of 2008 when he was just 14 years of age. His health plummeted with him losing his eyesight and he became wheelchair bound. He had just previously been a medal winning martial arts student. John was also an excellent student but his brain's cognitive function became so disrupted his marks suffered to the point where he had to stop school. He remains out of school.
Doctors in British Columbia refused to acknowledge that John's sudden onset of symptoms, that only occured after the tick bite, may be caused by a tick borne disease. The doctors even alluded to the fact that he must be faking, suggesting he see a psychiatrist. All of this because a notoriously poor test for Lyme disease came back negative from the BC Center for Disease Control. Doctors in BC are mistakingly led to believe there is no Lyme disease here, or that it is very rare, and that the BC CDC tests are highly accurate.
Lyme disease was found in the Okanagan Valley area of BC in the early 1990's by the then Head of Vector borne disease ofr the BC Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Satyen Banerjee who along with the help of Order of Canada recipient Dr. L. Kindree, and his daughter Diane, they investigated throughout the province to see how widespread Lyme was. Their findings were published in the BC Medical Journal in 1994, indicating that anyone anywhere in BC could contract Lyme disease.
Since Dr. Banerjee retired in 1997, the BC Centre for Disease Control seems to have gone out of their way to downplay the threat of this disease. Doctors are given poor and misleading information regularly, from the accuracy of testing to the notion that even if you do contract Lyme disease it is easily treated in all cases with a short round of antibiotics. The evidence is overwhelming now in several research studies that because of the nature of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, and it's innate ability to avoid the threat of one's immune system or antibiotics, it can be a formidable disease to treat, sometimes requiring extensive periods of antibiotics. Tens of thousands of patients across North America have only got their quality of life back after extended antibiotics.
Surprisingly, the research funding guru's have totally avoided funding human pathology to study this illness.
John Pierce has improved greatly and hopes to go back to school next semester, no thanks to local specialist or the BC government.
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