LYMErix article

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Fawcett, director of the immunology laboratories at the duPont

Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, and a noted expert on

Lyme disease serology, says he'd observed the ability of the OspA

vaccine to provoke a wide range of Borrelia-specific bands on Western

blots well before the product reached market, as patients involved in

clinical trials appeared for routine Lyme disease tests. Fascinated

by the phenomenon, he coordinated a study of 20 adult volunteers, all

employees of the hospital, who received three vaccine doses each and

submitted blood for analysis.

As it turned out, the elaborate banding patterns showed up in all but

one subject in Fawcett's experimental group. In fact, the banding was

so robust that 30 days after the second dose of vaccine, the only two

commercial Western blots then approved by the FDA were " rendered

virtually useless for diagnostic purposes. " On one of the FDA-

approved tests, for instance, he found that OspA vaccinees tested

with " antigens covering the whole length of the strip, so that they

were positive for Lyme disease by CDC criteria. These people were so

reactive, " adds Fawcett, " that they often showed 15 to 20 bands, " far

more than the minimum requirement of five. The other FDA-approved

Western blot, he notes, " showed several bands below the OspA region

and one dark gray smear of reactivity at OspA and above. "

[...]

Donta says he was alerted to the possibility after the vaccine hit

the market and he began to see, within his own practice, LYMErix

recipients who appeared to have the symptoms of chronic Lyme disease,

most often reported after the third shot. Donta found that these

patients tended to test positive for Lyme bacteria proteins other

than Osp-A on Western blots. Moreover, treating them with

antibiotics, he found most got well, just as he would expect in bona

fide cases of the disease. In a formal study of 50 such patients, 25

within his own practice, Donta has found the observations hold.

[...]

Hogan also notes that " in a study in which 4,087 healthy children

between the ages of 4 and 18 were vaccinated, arthritis was no more

frequent in those who received the vaccine than in those who received

the placebo. "

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