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Maria, Thanks for moving this interesting excerpt to a thread of it's own.  I have already printed it out and am bookmarking it too!   Louise

I came across this article while Googling "spider bite and infection" My huge cascade of symptoms began the next day after I was bitten by a spider. Seeing this quote: "If you have inflammation, a spider bite, a viral joint infection, viral meningitis or encephalitisii, it doesn't matter what it is, if a Chlamydia-infected cells happens to end up in that inflamed area, you may have just started yourself a Chlamydia farm." really got my attention!!!

Now I have to jump in the sauna because it has been in the 40's here during the day and my thin Calif blood just can't take it!!!

Raven

I am happy to have this article to copy & share as it explains things so well. My thanks for posting it. I am wondering when folks read it if they will treat us like a carrier of TB though knowing we carry Cpn.  

"It is an airborne organism that you get from breathing after a person carrying the organism has coughed."

Does anyone know when we are no longer contagious? For example with Strep after you are on antibiotics for 48 hrs. I believe you aren't contagious.

Wow Raven! That is incredible reading it in view of your spider bite, etc.

Thanks for posting this. This is such a good explanation, it shoudl be attached to the Handbook. MM- If you don't have an active respiratory infection, i.e. pneumonia, you will not be infectious through coughing or sneezing.

Thanks Maria for posting this little gem.   This information is fairly well known to the veterans but as you say it is often difficult to understand the actual process, especially if like me one is not used to scientific language.   I agree with Jim this should be placed in the handbook.  

Jim do you want me to do it?

This article helped me understand two things.  One, why my daughter was sick with cpn -- that her immune system had not cleared the primary infection from her body and had disseminated the cpn to peripheral blood mononuclear cells and then the cpn had silently infected other cells in her body.  Two, why she had such persistent neck pain since the mono infection.  When she got mono her immune system tried to "help" by fighting the infection but instead had sent cpn infected cells to her neck. To paraphrase Dr. Stratton ...they set up a little chlamydia farm in my daughters neck!  It was very much an aah haa moment for me.

Glad it can help others.

Maria

Would it be possible to have the actual link for this?  I usually can "google" things pretty well, but haven't been able to get the actual article.  I am especially concerned about a close friend of mine who was very ill this past summer from what she said was a "spider bite".... would like to forward it to her.

 Thanks much 

Sure here is the link.  I don't know how to make it "clickable" for you so you will have to cut and paste it into your browser.  Also, for some reason the article  just ends in mid-sentence. Don't know why but at least the important part is there.

 http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=779

 Maria

Good to understand a bit more. I thank you JimK for sharing your point. With all my lung congestion these days I do feel & sound very contagious. Hope folks will believe me this holiday when I say I am not. <wink> 

Thanks for the link Maria. Wondering if there are more articles by Dr. Stratton like this one for us to read. It really helps to understand.

So wonderful your daughter has you for her health advocate. Amazing what you shared about her story via the infection process. Like Raven you have such a clear picture. So glad she is getting proper treatment early in life. Kudos to the both of you.