Welkom bij het Lymeforum

Artsen maken zich vooral zorgen over zogeheten multiresistente tbc (MDR-tbc). Daartegen werken de gebruikelijke medicijnen niet goed. Die variant is daardoor moeilijker te behandelen. MDR-tbc is vorig jaar tien keer vastgesteld. Dat is meer dan in 2014, toen er zes van zulke gevallen waren, maar minder dan de zeventien gevallen uit 2013.

‘Epidemic Alert’ As Doctors Diagnose Outbreak of Highly Contagious, Deadly Disease Among Migrants

A former luxury hotel-turned migrant centre in Austria is the site of an outbreak of a deadly bacterial disease which has seen at least one migrant put into intensive care.
The outbreak of louse-born relapsing fever is just the latest re-emergence of diseases long thought exterminated in Europe, carried back to the continent by a great migratory movement of millions of people from Africa and Asia. Particularly associated with Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia, the extremely contagious bacteria causes severe illness and can be fatal in 30 to 70 per cent of cases, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
If untreated, the disease has a similar fatality rate to that of the 2015 West African Ebola outbreak.

Borrelia recurrentis, the bacteria transferred from infected lice to humans which causes Relapsing Fever was a global disease a century ago until it was eradicated in Europe. It ravaged eastern Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Great War and during the Russian revolution, killing five million people from 13 million known cases between 1919 and 1923.

Migrants have been credited with a host of other diseases appearing in Europe again, in some cases for the first time in decades. As reported by Breitbart London, European hospitals have seen Diphtheria, Tuberculosis, And Malaria cases in historic numbers in the past year.