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Thanks for posting this. I've treated a woman in Saraland for MS. She tells me there is also a high incidence of MS in the Mobile area.
I've long suspected a possible causative agent from something released into the air by the paper mills. I've no research that indicates similar clusters of other or similar diseases in other areas with paper mills.
An MS patient in Colorado once told me that there were six cases of MS in her subdivision. That is almost statistically impossible for so many to contract the disease in such a small area without some environmental causative agent. She told me they all had lived in the neighborhood for a fairly short time. Unfortunately, she died soon after I met her.
Since this article is part one could you ping me if and when there are subsequent articles printed. Thank you.
Thanks for posting this. I've treated a woman in Saraland for MS. She tells me there is also a high incidence of MS in the Mobile area.
I've long suspected a possible causative agent from something released into the air by the paper mills. I've no research that indicates similar clusters of other or similar diseases in other areas with paper mills.
An MS patient in Colorado once told me that there were six cases of MS in her subdivision. That is almost statistically impossible for so many to contract the disease in such a small area without some environmental causative agent. She told me they all had lived in the neighborhood for a fairly short time. Unfortunately, she died soon after I met her.
Since this article is part one could you ping me if and when there are subsequent articles printed. Thank you.
When is somebody going to investigate those areas where there is a statistically significant LACK of a certain (any) disease?
Finding out why might result in a cure.
Statistically insignificant.
As a small town family physician, I have documented "hot spots" around the area for several environmental cancers. The CDC is too busy with that butt-fupping illness to bother with my data. We have been drinking water from N. Wisconsin for 15 years, FYI
I spent half my life in the water of the Bay since it was my front yard. I hope I don't get sick.
My father-in-law died of ALS in '97 at the age of 57. It's certainly a hard way for kids to lose their grandpa.
If you start a ping list for this subject, please include me. My grandmother is one of the ALS cases in the Point Clear/Bon Secour group and I have a 4 year old niece who is battling (successfully so far) leukemia (ALL type). She lives in the same area. I, too, grew up on the bay, crabbing and floundering, and learning to swim right infront of my parents' home. I find it hard to believe it's the water, but perhaps some other environmental factor. Your point about the spanish moss, the north wind and the paper mills is also a memory I share.
There have been cases where people with ALS-like symptoms had mercury-amalgam fillings removed from their teeth and showed an immediate improvement. Mercury certainly seems to be an aggravating factor for ALS, if not the cause.
A friend died from ALS a few years ago. Very cruel disease. The comments above are quite interesting. This "rare" disease is evidently not rare in certain areas and I should think the medical community ought to sit up and take notice. Perhaps someone in a position to have influence should get in touch with the people charged with our public health.
ALS seems to be more prevalent in the male population and MS more so in the female population. I've always thought this was interesting and should invite investigation.
FYI, I have always suspected that the "no-see-ums" (midges) that we have in the area carry an infectious agent similar to Lyme Disease. I was raised in the Theodore - Grand Bay area and left the area right after high school.
When I decided to retire (at age 50), I came back to the area, bought property cleared it and built a new house.
During the clearing of the property I was floored by something? I went from wanting to work from daylight to dark to barely being able to get out of bed...I was tired and slept all the time, I became mentally confused and began to have panic attacks...all out of the clear blue. Suprisingly, daily antibiotics helped the situation.
I went to many doctors and even had a spinal-tap looking for Lyme disease, which came back negative. The MD's eventually sent me to a shrink where I was diagnosed with major depression and ADHD at the age of 50. They put me on anti-depressants and Ritlin...which didn't do a damn thing and I quit taking them after about a year and one-half.
I have been retired in this area for ten years now and have gradually gotten better over this ten year period. I'm still convinced something happened to me when I spent the time here to build the house. I still do very little and tire out easily. I'm in excellent physical health otherwise. I don't eat (never-have) the seafood in the area.
It might be nothing. Let's say for example, that the chance of a certain disease occuring in a population is 1 in 100,000. that does not mean that there will be one case in every locale of 100,000 people. Due to randomness and probability, there will be some areas that have sinificantly more than 1 in 100,000, and some that have significantly less than 1 in 100,000. It doesn't neccessarily mean tha there is something in the air where there are more than 1 in 100,000 cases.