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Barb Peck wrote:

> Re Bowen & the videos:

> IMO, if a very

> large percentage of RBCs are infected with anything, the patient is

> going to be very sick- and by sick I mean fever and high WBC.

> Sometimes I see on Lymenet people talk about high WBcs- but now

> often..mostly it's the reverse of me (low WBCs)

Why necessarily a fever and leucocytosis? Certainly sustained or

intermittant fever is the rule in malaria... Homers article on

babs says fever is not a necessary charecteristic of babs, but then

again many people with chronic babesiosis might have substantially

lower infection mass compared to acute malaria (I'm not sure).

Concurrent infections could also be a factor there.

But anyway, those are both piroplasmoses... so what else can we

compare to, to get a broader picture? I dont know any other

intra-red-cell infections? I guess bacteremia (in the serum, not the

cells) is usually/always(?) pretty febrile - is that a fact thats

contributing to your assessment?