Who is Curtis Fritz?!

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Friends/colleagues:

Curtis Fritz, DVM is one of the new members of the California DHS team

causing problems for Lyme disease patients in California. Upon information

and belief, Curtis Fritz, DVM was one of the individuals who went into a

doctor's office in California -- the doctor treating many cases of Lyme

disease --- and pulling records of this doctor, later " determined " that NONE

of these patients had Lyme disease. Sound familiar???

What is so remarkable is that Fritz is also clearly part of the circle of the

people who are causing so much trouble for Lyme patients on the East coast.

Note that Curtis Fritz publishes with Gubler, Dennis, Nowakowski, Wormser,

and Fish. There's also a paper that he published with CJ s, another big

biowarfare type. Note that besides Lyme disease and erlichiosis, Curtiz Fritz

has published on the topics of plague, hantavirus and dengue --- ALL topics

of great interest to biowarfare types.

Our officials continue to deny that these tick borne diseases are of any

consequence re: biowarfare -- either of offensive or defensive interest to

the U.S. I am skeptical, given the associations here. Note that Dennis,

MD also sits on the Civilian Biodefense Committee at s Hopkins, as does

Ascher, MD PhD of the California DHS. This is the same committee that

has published the recent series of articles in the Journal of the American

Medical Association on organisms of relevance as biowarfare agents.

Note that Curtis Fritz is also a former EIS officer, as are Barbour and

Steere. On the CDC's own webpage for the EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service),

it states that the EIS was founded with the intent that it's focus be on

biowarfare issues and " man-made epidemics. "

See, http://www.cdc.gov/eis ---

<<The EIS was established in 1951 following the start of the Korean War as an

early warning system against biological warfare and man-made epidemics. The

program, comprised of medical doctors, researchers, and scientists who serve

in 2-year assignments, today has expanded into a surveillance and response

unit for all types of epidemics, including chronic disease and injuries.

Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating

the root causes of major epidemics. The EIS played a key role in the global

eradication of smallpox by sending officers to the farthest reaches of the

world; restored public confidence in the first polio vaccine after a

defective vaccine led to panic; and discovered how the AIDS virus was

transmitted. More recently, EIS officers have documented the obesity epidemic

in the United States, helped states reduce tobacco use, and studied whether

disease outbreaks were a result of bioterrorism. Many of the nation's medical

and public health leaders, including CDC directors and deans of the country's

top schools of public health, are EIS alumni/ae.>>

Below are the citations to Fritz's publications.

Lynn

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Display & DB=PubMed

1: Young JC, Hansen GR, Graves TK, Deasy MP, Humphreys JG, Fritz CL, Gorham

KL, Khan AS, Ksiazek TG, Metzger KB, s CJ.

The incubation period of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2000 Jun;62(6):714-7.

PMID: 11304061 [PubMed - in process]

2: Gage KL, Dennis DT, Orloski KA, Ettestad P, Brown TL, Reynolds PJ, Pape

WJ, Fritz CL, LG, Stein JD.

Cases of cat-associated human plague in the Western US, 1977-1998.

Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Jun;30(6):893-900. Review.

PMID: 10852811 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3: -Lainz A, Fritz CL, McKenna WR.

Animal and human health risks associated with Africanized honeybees.

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1999 Dec 15;215(12):1799-804. Review. No abstract

available.

PMID: 10613211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4: Kitsutani PT, Denton RW, Fritz CL, Murray RA, Todd RL, Pape WJ, Wyatt

Frampton J, Young JC, Khan AS, s CJ, Ksiazek TG.

Acute Sin Nombre hantavirus infection without pulmonary syndrome, United

States.

Emerg Infect Dis. 1999 Sep-Oct;5(5):701-5.

PMID: 10511527 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

5: GL, Fritz CL, Fish D, Nowakowski J, Nadelman RB, Wormser GP.

Estimation of the incidence of Lyme disease.

Am J Epidemiol. 1998 Nov 15;148(10):1018-26.

PMID: 9829875 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6: Savage HM, Fritz CL, Rutstein D, Yolwa A, Vorndam V, Gubler DJ.

Epidemic of dengue-4 virus in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, and

implication of Aedes hensilli as an epidemic vector.

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1998 Apr;58(4):519-24.

PMID: 9574802 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

7: Fritz CL, Glaser CA.

Ehrlichiosis.

Infect Dis Clin North Am. 1998 Mar;12(1):123-36. Review.

PMID: 9494834 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

8: Madon MB, Hitchcock JC, RM, Myers CM, CR, Fritz CL, Emery KW,

O'Rullian W.

An overview of plague in the United States and a report of investigations of

two human cases in Kern county, California, 1995.

J Vector Ecol. 1997 Jun;22(1):77-82.

PMID: 9221742 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

9: Fritz CL, Kjemtrup AM, Conrad PA, GR, GL, Schriefer ME,

Gallo D, Vugia DJ.

Seroepidemiology of emerging tickborne infectious diseases in a Northern

California community.

J Infect Dis. 1997 Jun;175(6):1432-9.

PMID: 9180183 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

10: Fritz CL, Farver TB, Kass PH, Hart LA.

Correlation among three psychological scales used in research of caregivers

for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Psychol Rep. 1997 Feb;80(1):67-80.

PMID: 9122354 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

11: Fritz CL, Farver TB, Hart LA, Kass PH.

Companion animals and the psychological health of Alzheimer patients'

caregivers.

Psychol Rep. 1996 Apr;78(2):467-81.

PMID: 9148303 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

12: Fritz CL, Dennis DT, Tipple MA, GL, McCance CR, Gubler DJ.

Surveillance for pneumonic plague in the United States during an

international emergency: a model for control of imported emerging diseases.

Emerg Infect Dis. 1996 Jan-Mar;2(1):30-6.

PMID: 8964057 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

13: Fritz CL, Farver TB, Kass PH, Hart LA.

Association with companion animals and the expression of noncognitive

symptoms in Alzheimer's patients.

J Nerv Ment Dis. 1995 Jul;183(7):459-63.

PMID: 7623018 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

14: Fritz CL.

Semantics of euthanasia.

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1994 Aug 15;205(4):536-7. No abstract available.

PMID: 7961084 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[Guest guest]

How would a vet determine that human patients he had never even seen

didn't have Lyme disease? This is surreal.

Lou

> Friends/colleagues:

>

> Curtis Fritz, DVM is one of the new members of the California DHS

team

> causing problems for Lyme disease patients in California. Upon

information

> and belief, Curtis Fritz, DVM was one of the individuals who went

into a

> doctor's office in California -- the doctor treating many cases of

Lyme

> disease --- and pulling records of this doctor, later " determined "

that NONE

> of these patients had Lyme disease. Sound familiar???