important/Human Experimentation at Texas Dept.

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this is very long.

i think we ALL need to read this. i haven't finished it yet. i have made it

through part 1.

even if you read just a little at a time i think it is a very important

article.

there is a COMMON THREAD with all of these diseases that CAN NOT be denied.

in that common thread can we find a cure?

because of that common thread can we all band together to find a cure? to

fight the fight?

freedom,

kay

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Human Experimentation at Texas Dept. Corrections " Day Lily "

Fri Jul 28 20:57:05 2000

Re: Mycoplasma Experiments Conducted at the Texas Department of Corrections

Dear Congressman :

I have quite a story to tell in this letter and I will try to cover all

bases. The beginning of the story concerns my search for

answers for my son's illness and you may wonder what that has to do with the

mycoplasma experiments; but, if you please

bear with me you will tie it all together at the end. I will be asking you

to initiate an epidemiologic investigation of this area

concerning the rare illnesses which were reported in 1994 and continue

today. The information I give to you in this letter is

compelling enough for an investigation.

My son was 10 1/2 years old when he became ill on February 6, 1997. His

symptoms were flu-like. Within a short time he

was unable to bear weight on his knees which rendered him unable to walk. He

was in a wheelchair and I was told he had a

viral illness and to allow it to run its course.

I kept searching for answers which meant " doctor shopping " . Please

understand, it was very difficult to watch my son go from

healthy to watching his muscles waste away while he was in the wheelchair.

Finally, late in March he was diagnosed with

human parvovirus B19. I did not know at that time that humans could contract

parvo. When the doctor told me what my son

had I asked that he prescribe an antibiotic because I knew from having

animals that dogs and cats are given an antibiotic

when they contract parvo. He stated that the standard protocol was the use

of steroids, NSAIDs (non-steroidal

anti-inflammatories), immuno-suppressives and immunoglobulin IVIG. So, there

was nothing to do at that time except go with

the standard protocol. My son was prescribed steroids and NSAIDs.

I didn't like the idea of using steroids and I especially didn't like the

idea of physicians having very little knowledge of this

particular viral illness. I began to research on my own looking for answers

for my son. I had to give myself crash courses in

immunology, virology, microbiology, rheumatology, hematology, etc. It was

not an easy task, but I knew no one cared as

much for my son as I did and it would be up to me to find the answer. At

this same time, since he didn't fit the " perfect square

of cause and effect " for human parvovirus B19, the physicians turned to my

son as being the problem. I was even told by one

physician if my son tested positive for human parvovirus B19 he would not be

able to diagnose it as such because my son did

not fit the " perfect square of cause and effect. " My son was immediately

evaluated to lay this ludicrous idea to rest, but even

after being verified " sane " the doctors kept pointing at my son as the

problem. In the end my son was evaluated three times

and was still not believed by some of the doctors we had seen.

I think it appropriate that I share a few of the symptoms which my son was

experiencing. He suffered with severe headaches,

gastrointestinal problems, blurred vision, throat spasms, ring worms, rashes

that would come and go, vomiting, knee pain

episodes, esophagus spasms, chest pain, fevers that would come and go,

incontinence, extreme fatigue, dental problems, etc.

This is not a complete list, but you can imagine watching a child of your

own going through such symptoms and no physician

able to explain why this was happening and unable to stop them.

When I was told, more or less, that the physicians were going to wait until

he fit the " perfect square of cause and effect " for

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) I began searching everything I could

find regarding arthritis. I came across an article

written by Dr. McPherson Brown, et al which described an infectious

etiology known as mycoplasma. Dr. Brown

treated his Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients with tetracycline and/or

tetracycline derivatives. Dr. Brown=s background was

impressive. He worked with Dr. Sabin who was one of the developers of the

polio vaccine. He was the first to identify and

culture the mycoplasma from mice and this work was published in 1939.

Mycoplasmas were also called L-forms, virus-like

forms and PPLO (pleuropneumonia-like forms). Mycoplasmas are bacteria which

lacked a cell-wall. The definition of virus

states viruses also lack a cell wall. They seem to complement each other.

Dr. Brown was achieving remission in cases of RA with his long-term

antibiotic treatment. He was also achieving remission in

scleroderma, which had previously been a death sentence. The scientific

medical community turned their backs on Dr. Brown

for many reasons and most were political. Dr. Brown did not endorse the

blanket use of steroids which provided relief, but

not a cure and he paid for that. He also didn=t endorse the blanket use of

gold shots or immuno-suppressive because he

knew they caused more damage. Dr. Brown knew mycoplasmas were the cause for

the connective tissue diseases, but no

one would listen. He continued to treat his patients for 50 years until the

day he died in 1989. It has been his former patients

who have continued to carry-on his treatment protocol for connective tissue

diseases. One of them is Pat Ganger who is

President of The Road Back Foundation. She has funded research using Dr.

Brown=s protocol and the most recent one

deals with curing (CNN report used the word " cure " ) 4 out of 6 patients

diagnosed with scleroderma. I am proud to call her

my friend.

I continually provided all of my research to my son's pediatrician. It was

November, 1997 when CNN reported a study by

Dr. O'Dell at the University of Nebraska. Dr. O'Dell found significant

relief in RA patients using an acne drug called

minocycline-a tetracycline derivative. I called my son's pediatrician and

left a message for him concerning the CNN report

and he prescribed the minocycline. Within three short days the constant

headache which my son had from the beginning of his

illness was going away. He had missed half of his fifth grade year and

nearly all of the sixth grade from this virus. The last two

months of his sixth grade year he was able to attend full time. It was

remarkable how this acne drug seemed to make such a

difference in a viral illness. However, I knew that an antibiotic could not

make a difference in a virus; only bacteria therefore, I

knew I was on the right track by convincing the doctor to prescribe the acne

drug for my son. Mycoplasmas had to be

involved for my son to respond so dramatically to the acne drug.

I made contact with Dr. B. Baseman (University of Texas Science Health

Center) after reading a wonderful article he

and Dr. ph Tully (National Institutes of Health) wrote concerning

mycoplasmas. Dr. Baseman is a world renown

researcher of mycoplasmas. The article stated the use of steroids in Crohn's

Disease could exacerbate the illness if

mycoplasmas were present. This is what I saw when my son was on steroids; he

became more ill. Dr. Baseman was kind

enough to respond to my questions concerning mycoplasmas and was interested

in the hypothesis I developed. I asked him if

it were possible for a bacteriophage to have developed from parvovirus B19

and mycoplasmas. Dr. Baseman and Dr. Tully

researched this area and Dr. Baseman suggested I contact Dr. Gabe Mirkin out

of Kinsington, MD, which I did.

Dr. Mirkin treats mycoplasmal infections with long-term antibiotic

treatment, just as Dr. McPherson Brown did. I

relayed to him my son's illness and symptoms and he stated how lucky I was

to have a physician listen to my research

because mycoplasmas caused JRA. I had to sit down after he made that

statement, because that's what the physicians were

waiting for my son to develop. Later, I found Dr. Mirkin was somewhat a

celebrity. He is Larry King's physician. I

subscribed to Dr. Mirkin's newsletter and he stated that tetracycline

derivatives target wall-less bacteria and that is what a

mycoplasma is. He also stated the normal lab tests will not show the

mycoplasmal infections. In other words, you may be

very ill and all of the regular lab tests will be negative.

Of course when the antibiotic began working on my son I found myself without

a physician. None of them wanted to see my

son. There was a liver function test performed which I had requested because

of all the medications my son had been on. I

did not have the opportunity to have it reviewed by a physician and the test

results did not look right to me. I took my son off

the antibiotic thinking his liver needed a rest and within a month his

symptoms returned. This was in August of 1998. He was

placed back on the antibiotic and again improved. The antibiotic worked

twice; not once. Since then, I have had to carry the

guilt of taking my son off the medication which was keeping him well.

It was in January of 1998 when I met a woman by the name of Sally Medley. A

friend of mine introduced me to her through

the Huntsville Item newspaper articles from 1994. It seemed that there was a

Huntsville Mystery Illness in our area. There

were 28 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's

Disease and 68 cases of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in

1994. Five of the ALS cases lived in the same area. Sally had formed a group

of ill people after her 17 year old daughter

became ill with multiple symptoms. The doctors in this case were leaning

toward ALS as a diagnosis for her daughter when

Sally was introduced to Dr. Garth Nicolson and Nicolson and the word

mycoplasma. I was thrilled to find another

individual who knew about mycoplasmas. The physicians I had seen either did

not know or had a limited knowledge of

mycoplasmas; but here was another mom who was searching for answers for her

child and she knew. Her search for answers

to her child's illness had led her to the same conclusion concerning

mycoplasmas and the same tetracycline derivative

treatment.

Dr. Garth Nicolson, at that time, was a cancer researcher at MD

Cancer Center. He had found a mycoplasma

which was involved in the Gulf War Illness. His stepdaughter had returned

from the Gulf War and was ill. He found this

mycoplasma trying to make a member of his family well. He told Sally about

the doxycycline (another tetracycline

derivative) treatment and how it was working on the Gulf War Illness. Sally

found a physician who prescribed the doxycycline

and within 8 months her daughter was well.

While trying to get newspapers, television stations, etc. interested in

reporting about the Huntsville Mystery Illness Sally

became a target. She was warned to be quiet. Other people who were assisting

Sally also received threats or were followed

by strangers. It has been alleged that Sally was the victim of nerve gas.

She has the medical records to prove she was given

Atropine at the Huntsville Memorial Hospital. The physician told Sally she

was suffering from an anxiety attack. I would

prefer if you spoke directly to Ms. Medley concerning this area of

information.

Dr. Nicolson was not greeted with open arms when he began speaking about the

Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognitus he

found in the Gulf War Illness patients. He had his computer tampered with,

his mail and anything that was connected to his

research concerning mycoplasmas. He soon had to leave MD Cancer

Center and moved to California where he

has a lab known as The Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach,

California. This information came from Dr.

Nicolson soon after I had met him. Dr. Nicolson could also fill you in on

what he endured (and still endures) while trying to

help individuals with the Gulf War Illness.

After spending 5 hours on my living room floor comparing scientific

documents Sally realized what I had. Parvovirus B19 and

mycoplasmas seemed to mirror each other. Both caused arthritis, both caused

false-positive results and both mimicked other

illness. Parvovirus B19 was found in the synovial membrane and mycoplasmas

were found in the synovial fluid.

My first letter to Dr. Nicolson explained what I had found. He wrote back

and made a statement that the modified

mycoplasma (M. fermentans incognitus) " ...was found especially near TDCJ

institutions. " TDCJ is the acronym for the

Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It had previously been known as the

Texas Department of Corrections (TDC).

When I asked Sally why he was telling me this she stated Dr. Nicolson had

been saying the inmates at the Texas Department

of Corrections had been part of a biological warfare experiment which

involved mycoplasmas. When the newspaper articles

and the television coverage of the Huntsville Mystery Illness heightened,

Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, who worked for the Armed

Forces Institute of Pathology, was asked to test the blood samples of the

Huntsville people for M. fermentans incognitus. Dr.

Lo is the discoverer of M. fermentans incognitus and has a patent on it. The

people in Huntsville sent approximately 100

blood samples to Dr. Lo. The exact number of blood samples which were sent I

am not sure of, but again, Ms. Medley can

fill that part in. Dr. Lo seemed to have a problem with the blood samples.

It seems the samples all went bad. He requested

another sampling. Twenty more samples of blood were sent and only 5 were

analyzed. Out of that 5, one tested positive for

M. fermentans incognitus and the other 4 tested positive for other forms of

mycoplasma. Sally also tested positive for M.

fermentans incognitus. Sally has never been in the Armed Forces and was

never in the Gulf War. However, her husband

worked for TDCJ and they lived in Huntsville, Texas. Later, her husband was

tested and he was also positive.

When Sally told me of the alleged experiments I asked where she had looked

for documentation of the experiments. She

stated she had searched the TDC Board Agendas and Minutes. She said the

search was limited to the 1980's because that

was the time when Dr. was seen at TDC. Dr. is the head

of the Human Genome Project and was a

co-discoverer of DNA. It seemed pretty strange to me that someone of that

magnitude would be running around the Texas

prisons. I was told at the time Dr. was here there were experimental

flu vaccines being administered to inmates. Bill

Langlois, producer of Channel 11 in Houston, has also verified that Dr.

was at the Texas Department of Corrections

during that time. Sally stated she had not found anything looking at the

1980's Board Agendas and Minutes. I asked if she had

looked further back than the 80's and she said " No " .

I wrote a Freedom of Information Act letter and requested the TDC Board

Agendas and Minutes for 1965 through 1979. I

asked Sally if she was interested in reviewing these documents and she

agreed. On the day Sally was ill I found the

experiments involving mycoplasmas. One of the experiments involved the use

of M. pneumoniae. It is one of the most virulent

types of mycoplasmas. Another experiment involved the mixing of viruses and

mycoplasmas. The experiment of viruses

and mycoplasmas was the hypothesis I made in 1997. However, the researchers

who experimented on the inmates knew the

effect of viruses and mycoplasmas as far back as 1976; twenty-one years

earlier.

I carried these documents to some of my son's physicians. One stated, " Maybe

they didn=t realize what they were

releasing. " Another stated, " Now I know why we have so many rare illnesses

in this area. " This is not what I wanted to

hear. I wanted them to tell me there was nothing to it. Instead, they

confirmed what Sally and I had concluded. This pathogen

had been released in our community with complete lack of regard for the

inmates, the guards who worked at the prisons, the

guards' families they came home to and the community at large. No one was

informed. The experiments using M. pneumoniae

lasted 10 years. The other had a time duration of " indefinite " with each

overlapping one another.

I needed to make the connection between the viruses and mycoplasmas with

scientific documents. I found only two which

state DNA viruses (parvovirus B19 is a DNA virus) infect mycoplasmas. I also

found other documents stating ticks carry

mycoplasmas. These documents were not found searching under the word

mycoplasmas. They were found searching under

" spiroplasmas " . My next question was " How do you control a pathogen? " The

answer was a CDC level 4 lab. That was

Part 2 Day Lily Project

Fri Jul 28 20:59:21 2000

The TDC mycoplasma experiments I have mentioned began 10-1-66 to 10-1-76

(with 12-19-71 to 12-10-72

included)-ten years. The other experiment mixed the virus and mycoplasma and

was approved by the Baylor Committee

Research on November 7, 1972 and had an indefinite time period. The

September 13, 1976 Board Agenda is the document

to which I refer. There are numerous addendums to the original experiments,

which link the subsequent studies back to the

virus/mycoplasma experiment.

Counting from the cover page of this particular document to page 40 under

the title " Immunoresponsiveness during

Influenza Virus Infection " you will see at the top of page 41 the word

" Abbreviations " . I'm not a scientist, but it appears that

the mix includes Candidin and Streptokinase-streptodornase. The KLH was

prepared by MD Cancer Center and

administered to the inmates by Baylor College of Medicine. Additional

information was acquired for the National Institutes of

Health (NIH) concerning the " Development of a Reproducible and Effective

Challenge System for Mysoplamsa

pneumoniae. "

Some of the agencies involved in this September Agenda of experiments are:

Baylor College of Medicine

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

M. D. Cancer Center

Radioisotope Committee of the Methodist Hospital

Committee on Research Involving Human Beings at the Methodist Hospital

Baylor Committee on Research Involving Human Beings

United States Public Health System (USPHS)

The Methodist Hospital Clinical Research Center

National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Committee for Clinical Investigation Involving Human Beings of Methodist

Hospital

Bayer Company Division of Sterling Drug Inc. (provided data)

Faculty Committee on Research Involving Human Beings

Texas State Department of Health (now known as Texas Department of Health)

Some of the pathogens from the September 13, 1976 Agenda are:

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (strain 10433 and strain 1428)

Rhinovirus with mycoplasmal infections (M. pneumoniae)

sackie A21 with M. pneumoniae

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)

C = Candidin

PPD= Tuberculin reactivity

SK-SD= Streptokinase-streptodornase

Scotland strain of influenza A

Antigens included those approved by the FDA and those which were still

experimental listed as:

1) dermatophytin 0

2) candida

3) varidase

4) streptococcus toxin

5) brucellergen

6) histoplasmin

7) coccidicdin

8) mumps antigen

9) blastomycin

10) diphtheria toxin and toxoid

11) typhoid-paratyphoid

12) " and so forth "

Since the copy is not legible in places I listed the ones I could read.

Please note the location of the experiments. It was the

Ramsey Unit. On page 4 of the " Cate Protocol " it states: " ...the men will

have already volunteered for participation in

one of the earlier protocols " . The " earlier protocols " indicate the previous

M. pneumoniae experiment and the previous

virus and mycoplasma combination experiment. I have no idea what " and so

forth " means. M. pneumoniae was approved for

use in these experiments, but it has been suggested that substitution of

Mycoplasma fermentans was made. Also note that the

mycoplasma was aerosolized for the experiments. This listing above is taken

from the September, 1976 agenda only. There

are many more experiments.

I have reviewed some of the records concerning Representative

Markey's 1986 report. It is titled " American

Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on U. S.

Citizens " . Mr. Markey had presented his

findings during the Reagan administration and it was ignored until President

Clinton created the Advisory Committee on

Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) through Executive Order on January 15,

1994. Mr. Markey's report has finally

been recognized and more searching for the truth has been accomplished under

this committee. The time frame of the

experiments was from 1940's through 1974. It seems the same standards of

rules concerning human experimentation

we have today, existed then. So what is keeping these types of experiments

from continuing? Honesty? Integrity? Common

sense?

There was informed consent with the TDC experiments, but until someone has

studied medicine there is no true " informed "

consent. You could not possibly explain everything to an inmate whose

average schooling at that time would be approximately

the 6th or 7th grade level. You could not explain everything to anyone

unless they were educated in that particular field. The

Principal Investigator of the M. pneumoniae experiment and of the combined

virus and M. pneumonaie experiment was a

virologist. At that particular time (1976) very little was known concerning

mycoplasmal infections and it seems strange that a

virologist would be handling such. It is doubtful that the Principal

Investigator had full knowledge of M. pneumonaie alone

without mixing it with various other pathogens.

As Mr. Markey's 1986 report states the " ...Nuremberg Code was in effect,

written by the United States and the Allies in the

aftermath of World War II, and it established guidelines on obtaining

informed consent. " These scientists worded the consent

forms liberally and medically which would be difficult for an inmate to

understand. The inmates were only interested in being

paid so they could survive inside the prisons. They were not volunteering

for the advancement of medicine as some

researchers claim. This claim is to justify what they (the scientists)

injected into the inmates and perhaps spread through our

community.

In one of the meetings of the ACHRE a Dr. Macklin made a statement which was

extremely important to this situation in

Huntsville, Texas. The statement was: " Observation in nature can be culpable

if people aren't warned, if people aren't

alerted, or if some intervention that might help them is not undertaken. "

From what has been discovered I wonder if

this community is still being observed.

I tried to contact our County Health Department last month and to my

surprise we no longer have one. I found the

County Health Department was replaced by the University of Texas

Medical Branch (UTMB) and Sealy.

Sealy is the hospital where the inmates are taken. The date of UTMB taking

over was the summer of 1994. It was in January

of 1994 when the first article appeared in the local Huntsville Item

newspaper concerning the Huntsville Mystery Illness.

Other surrounding counties (San Jacinto and Polk) were also placed under

UTMB in the summer of 1994. UTMB is

presently over the County health; the experimental animals; and is

also in charge of the health care for the

inmates.

Part 3

Fri Jul 28 21:01:43 2000

Through several more phone calls to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

and the Texas Department of Health (TDH) I

was informed there is no law which requires rare illnesses to be reported to

anyone. Communicable diseases are the only

ones that are reported and the ones listed seemed to be hand-picked. There

is no mention of human parvovirus B19 as being

a communicable disease, which it is. I was also told the Texas Department of

Criminal Justice (TDCJ) officials keep very

secretive records concerning illnesses of the inmate population and when I

called to inquire, I was met with tremendous

hostility. The only sexually transmitted disease TDCJ has reported to TDH

has been syphilis. AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis C are

sexually transmittable, but only syphilis is reported. It would be

interesting to find how many inmates have MS, ALS or any

other rare illness. Can you assist in gathering this data?

I was told by TDH that the prison was not considered part of the community.

I don't know how that can be rationalized since

the guards, who have constant physical contact with inmates, come home to

their families and communities. Anything the

inmates have the guards will have and I don't think you have to be a

scientist to figure that one out. I also learned the inmate

population is not included with the community population. I would like to

know if there is a law excluding the inmate

population from being counted with the communities. I would also like to

know if there is a law which excludes the reporting

of diseases found in a prison setting from the surrounding communities.

At this point I need to mention and Leslee Dudley. This is a couple

from California who contracted the Gulf War

Illness. Neither served in the Armed Forces. I have enclosed one of their

letters to their representative Mr. Filner. Mr. Filner

has asked the GAO to investigate why Dr. Nicolson's funding is being denied.

It seems Dr. Lo is still misplacing blood

samples or the blood samples turn bad while in his possession as the samples

from Huntsville seemed to do. Dr. Nicolson

desperately needs the funding and is being denied. I hope you can look into

this matter as well or locate someone who can

help.

60 Minutes contacted Dr. Nicolson and Sally Medley. They were interested in

this story. Sally has moved and the

responsibility of providing the media with documents has been left to me

while her family is relocating. It is a daunting task, to

say the least, but one that must be pursued. Channel 11 of Houston is also

interested in the story as is KREM Channel 2 and

KXLY T.V. of Spokane, Washington. I have tapes and other documents if you

request them. Dr. Garth Nicolson and

Nicolson, Sally Medley, Congressman Filner, Leslee and Dudley, could

provide more information as well as some of

the Huntsville residents who are very ill. It seems we all have a piece to

this puzzle and have been brought together through

circumstance.

There was a report put together by Will Northrup and Suzanne Migdall. They

were employed by a law firm and sent to

Huntsville to investigate the Gulf War Illness. Their report is amazing. It

is the closest thing we have to an epidemiologic study.

These two wonderful individuals are still trying to help this community.

They will also be able to provide more information.

Legislatively I would like to see changes in the health laws. All diseases

should be monitored; not just the hand-picked

communicable/sexually transmittable diseases. How will we learn anything

about diseases if we don't track all of them?

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness,

Fibromyalgia, Myasenthia Gravis, Human Parvovirus

B19, Lupus, etc. all need to be counted as the communicable diseases and

sexually transmitted diseases are counted.

According to the MS Organization the east Texas area is considered a low

risk area. If you ask a local physician about MS

he will tell you it is nearly epidemic including the MS-like symptoms. With

the scientific technology and computer capabilities

we have in our era there is no reason for rare illnesses not being counted

and tracked. If rare diseases would have been

reportable and tracked back in 1994, the questions which I ask today could

have been answered back then and some of the

people who have died from the rare illnesses could possibly be alive today.

From the research of parvovirus B19 I found false-positive test results for

rubella and Lyme Disease. Therefore, I question

the development of vaccines and the tracking of illnesses. Is it parvovirus

B19 or rubella? We will never know until

confirmation of the illnesses are made. Why are Lyme vaccines being produced

when no one definitely knows which cases

are really parvovirus B19 or mycoplasmas or Lyme Disease? Perhaps there is a

mixture of pathogens in some of these

illnesses which present overlapping symptoms. Presently, symptom names are

given to children who present the symptoms of

parvovirus B19 instead of confirmation of the illness. The symptom names for

parvovirus B19 are: slapped cheek syndrome,

fifth disease or erythema infectiosum and these symptoms names become the

diagnosis and the parent walks away ignorant of

what their child has. According to research, 90% of the world population can

test positive for human parvovirus B19. It has

yet to be included in the reportable communicable disease list. Another

important point is that the parvovirus B19 test has not

been approved by the FDA. Dr. Garth Nicolson's test has not been approved by

the FDA either. However, the parvovirus

B19 test is considered confirmation of the illness. Why isn't Dr. Nicolson's

test considered the same?

There are numerous organizations all across our country that have been

created out of necessity and desperation. Anyone,

particularly with a rare illness, is on their own regarding research and at

the mercy of the medical community and their

suggestions for treatment. If the CDC were to be the headquarters for

counting and tracking illnesses, rare or not, individuals,

physicians and other researchers would have somewhere to begin their

research. Treating a disease might become second

place to curing the disease. With confirmation of illnesses and tracking,

the cause of these diseases could be found.

Currently, TDH is tracking an outbreak of MS in El Paso, Texas. Why would

they look into that outbreak of MS when the

outbreak in the Huntsville area was never investigated? And the word

" outbreak " , does that mean MS could possibly be

contagious? There is no way of knowing if we do not keep accurate records

which will assist in research. I lost a dear friend

to the Huntsville Mystery Illness. Could taking doxycycline or an acne drug

have cured him? We will never know. There have

been many who have died who were in Ms. Medley's group back in 1994. A

recent loss was in December, 1998. Physicians

are not trained in medical school to treat this type of illness. Koch=s

postulates should be thrown out the window. How can

you recreate an illness when it has been modified? The same goes for the

" perfect square of cause and effect " . There is no

perfect square when there are a myriad of overlapping symptoms from a

mixture of pathogens. I would like to see an

epidemiologic study for this area. Something has been wrong for a long time

and now, with the assistance of the documents,

we can at least begin to address the illnesses in our area and our

physicians will not be in the dark as how to treat it. I don't

want to watch another member of my family, or friends, or another person in

our community become ill just because the

government doesn't want to admit what they have done. We know what they have

done. Now, we need to fix it.

My son has not been tested for mycoplasmal infections. You have to be off

the antibiotic for 6 weeks to be tested and I don't

want to chance his health again. I'm grateful for the improvement he has

made and grateful for the physicians who now believe

in mycoplasmas. But if I had not found the documents to prove that viruses

and mycoplasmas were known back in 1976 they

would not have believed. I just don't want to see another child or mother

put in the same situation as we have been in.

The Markey Report is a good start to continue on in finding the truth of how

U.S. citizens have been used without their

knowledge. The ACHRE report concerns radiation experiments, but there are

also biological, chemical and psychiatric

experiments. The introduction of the ACHRE report seemed to have difficulty

in trying to describe the different roles of the

physicians who participated freely in the experiments. It states: " As

physicians, they had a commitment to prevent disease

and heal. At the same time, as government advisors, they were called upon to

participate in making decisions to

proceed with weapons development and testing programs that they knew could

put citizens, soldiers, and workers at

risk. As experts they were they were asked to ensure that the risks would

not be excessive. And as researchers they

saw these programs as an opportunity for gathering data. "

After reading this statement I realized this statement could have been

written as a defense for Hitler's

physicians/researchers/scientists to justify their actions against the

Jewish people because they wore the same number of hats.

They wore one as a physician, a government adviser, an expert and

researcher. But they forgot about (and so did the

ACHRE) the medical oaths which promise never to harm. How could a such an

educated, prestigious group as the ACHRE

omit " never to harm " which is the first oath a physician takes? A favorite

medical oath of mine is called " Prayer of

Maimonides " and can be located in any medical dictionary.

The conclusion that all physicians/researchers/scientists are inherently bad

would be completely wrong. I'm against the ones

who do not lift their heads and piece together the research which they are

most capable of doing. Most physicians dismiss the

patient who has done their homework concerning their illness and the patient

is labeled " over zealous " . Most scientists and

physicians take their oaths seriously, but there are those who would go so

far as to putting others in harm's way for their own

benefit. The history, again, speaks for itself.

In summary, I will list the areas which I am asking you to address. They

are:

1. This area needs an epidemiologic study by TDH and CDC which should

include the inmates at TDCJ. We will never know

how many illnesses are in this area, what kind of illnesses and how many

have been affected, until the numbers are counted

and illnesses listed. This list should include the now deceased individuals

who were ill back in 1994.

2. I would also like to be informed of the types of animal experiments which

have been performed on TDC land and what

laws are in place for these experiments to continue.

3. The current health laws concerning reportable diseases should be changed

to include rare illnesses which is essential in

research.

4. A change in the criminal laws should hold any scientist, researcher or

physician accountable for placing people in harm's

way for the sake of notoriety and financial gain; even if employed by the U.

S. Government.

5. I would also like for you to inquire about the denials of Dr. Garth

Nicolson's research grants from the Department of

Defense (DOD) through the General Accounting Office (GAO) as Congressman

Filner has.

6. Please inform me of any laws which prevent the prison population from

being counted with the communities and why the

prison illnesses are not counted with the community's illnesses.

I don't particularly want to blame anyone for what happened in the past. I

do however, want to make sure the truth gets out,

people can get the proper medical treatment without having to beg for it and

that this will never happen again. Having criminal

laws in place for the scientists/ researchers/ physicians is needed. That is

the only thing left for us to do. The rules and

regulations are not working and by history's account, have never worked.

This insanity in science needs to be stopped. The

ends do not justify the means.

Please feel free to contact me for phone numbers and addresses of the other

individuals. All of us will continue to search for

answers and it is hoped that you will assist us. I should mention the

Veteran's Administration has granted 12 million

concerning a mycoplasma trial for 20 VA institutions using Dr. Nicolson's

protocol for Gulf War Illness. This was approved

on October 22, 1998.

Sincerely,

Candace Brown

PO Box 6894

Huntsville, TX 77342-6894

cc:

Representative Ron

Solly Granatstein

Bill Langlois

Representative Markey

Tamara Lehman

Tom Grant

Representative Bob Filner

Representative Loretta L.

Representative Shays

Senator V. Roth, Jr.

Senator M. Kennedy

Senator Carl Levin

Representative Barcia

Representative Bernard

Representative Jack Metcalf

Representative Norman D. Dicks

Senator D. Rockefeller, IV

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1. September 13, 1976, Minutes Texas Board of Corrections, 350th Meeting

2. Antibiotic Therapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Observational Cohort Study

of 98 Patients with 451 Patient-Years of Follow-Up, Congress

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3. CNN May 8, 1998 " Common antibiotic knocks out rare skin disease "

4. Mirkin Report for Healthier Living Mycoplasma, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma

The Hidden Epidemic The Long Term Treatment

5. Letter from Dr. Garth Nicolson dated April 21, 1998

6. " Gulf War Illness Probe To advance With New Study " , The Wanderer, by

Likoudis

7. " Multiplex PCR for the Detection of Mycoplasma Fermentans, M. Hominis,

and M. Penetrans in Patients with Chronic Fatigue,

Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gulf War Syndrome " ; Fourth

International AACFS Research & Clinical Conference on CFIDS