Off stage Interview 2020 - Author Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Not Just Lyme: How An Adulterated Planet Let

Not Just Lyme: How An Adulterated Planet Let Loose A Scourge Of Ticks And Diseases by Mary Beth Pfeiffer

Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, has been an award-winning investigative journalist for three decades. A reporter who has specialized in social justice, environmental and health issues, she is also author of Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill. The book is a critically acclaimed look at treatment of the mentally ill in prisons and jails in the United States.

Pfeiffer’s reporting for the Poughkeepsie Journal drew national attention in 2001 when she documented the suicides of mentally ill inmates in round-the-clock solitary confinement. As a 2004-2005 Soros Justice Media Fellow, she found systemic abuse in lockups across the nation, where people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia were subjected to psychologically torturous isolation. Her October 2004 article in the New York Times Magazine, about the suicide of a 21-year-old mentally ill woman in solitary confinement, became the genesis of Crazy in America.
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[hokeypokeypots]

I got Lyme's in 1985, when I was maintaining a 13-acre cemetery...and got the run-around for 4 years from doctors before they finally diagnosed and treated me with antibiotics. It kept coming back and I had three courses of Doxycycline before I was able to feel better.

Since my profession was as a gardener, I kept getting reinfected over the years until I was able to get the Lymrex vaccination in 2000, which protected me for almost 8 years. But the company that made the vaccine took it off the market for human use because people who didn't have the disease complained that the vaccine gave them symptoms. My dog can still get the vaccine once a year as a preventative, but the company didn't want to be sued if there was a chance that humans could get sick. Damn shame they didn't keep it just for people like me who had Lime's previously.

Since 2008, I've had several reinfections, including one in March of this year. Got another three-week course of Doxy, but you never really feel that you're 'cured' after it. Since 1985, I've never really felt that I was free of this. It changed the quality of my life...and as I get older, I feel less able to overcome it on my own.

[ktex]

They've known for a while that the Lonestar tick can survive being frozen for two years!