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Definition
By Mayo Clinic staff
H. pylori infection occurs when a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infects your stomach or the first part of your small intestine.
H. pylori infection is thought to be present in about half the people in the world. For many people, H. pylori infection causes no signs or symptoms and doesn’t lead to any complications. But for others, H. pylori can lead to serious complications, such as ulcers and stomach cancer.
In the United States, H. pylori infection rates are declining. In turn, the rates of serious complications are also declining.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/h-pylori/DS00958
H. Pylori is also linked directly to ulcers. Interesting...
This is noteworthy, because one or more variety of Parkinson’s disease are believe to occur in clusters. For example, in Michael J. Fox’s case:
“Mr. Fox, it turns out, was one of four people who worked on a production crew at a television studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the late 1970’s and developed Parkinson’s disease. Given that only 125 people worked on the crew in those years — including actors, directors, writers, production people and technicians — the number of cases seems extraordinary.”
Some years ago there was a suspicion that one *type* of Parkinson’s disease might be virus based, thus explaining the cluster, yet no virus was found. But because H. Pylori is so common, it might have been the cause, “hiding in plain sight”.
But it needs another factor. Other trivia surrounding this cluster:
Fewer than 5 percent of Parkinson’s patients develop symptoms before age 50. But all four in the Vancouver Cluster were under the age of 40. Fox himself was only 16, yet didn’t show symptoms until he was 30.
Parkinson’s progresses gradually, taking 5 to 10 years from the time it starts to the appearance of the first symptoms — usually, rigidity in an arm or leg or tremor in a hand.
There are three classes of drugs that are likely to produce Parkinsonism:
1. Dopamine receptor blocking agents, including the phenothiazines (such as Compazine, Stelazine, and Thorazine), butyrophenones (such as Haldol), and metoclopramide (Reglan).
2. Dopamine-depleting agents, including reserpine (rarely used) and tetrabenazine (used to control dyskinesia)
3. Drugs that act by various known and unknown mechanisms, including the atypical antipsychotic drugs such as Resperidal, Orap, and Zyprexa).
One study shows that farm workers who used the common herbicide Paraquat had two to three times the normal risk of Parkinson’s.
Those at higher risk of contracting Parkinson’s Disease are teachers, medical workers, farm workers, loggers and miners.
Oddly, individuals may have Parkinson’s Syndrome from a multitude of causes other than disease, such as induced symptoms caused by repeated concussions in boxing and football, such as Muhammed Ali, the boxer.
Very interesting article...