A year ago Greg Hunt, Minister for Health, announced the allocation of $3 million for Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks (DSCATT) research. This week Minister Hunt announced the 2 recipients of the grant funding. I was advised by Minister Hunt that this $3 million is seed funding, for the purpose of generating new knowledge [...]
The forum was opened by Prof Brendan Murphy. His main message was the government does not believe that chronic diseases can be caused by chronic infections. This theme resonated through the forum. The government acknowledges that rickettsia can be transmitted by ticks so ticks can transmit pathogens. Bartonella as a tick borne infection was not [...]
NEW research has found that Australian ticks carry Borrelia bacteria. However, it is not Lyme Borrelia, which has been long debated, but rather Australian Borrelia that belongs to a unique hybrid group. Currently there are 3 medically accepted groups of Borrelia. B.burgdorferi (USA and Europe), relapsing fever Borrelia (Asia, Africa, South America and USA) and [...]
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Dear Karl McManus Foundation (KMF) Supporters, As the founder of this organisation, I am sharing this update to provide an explanation to recent events and problems some may have experienced with the KMF websites and social media. The foundation has recently suffered from the actions of some individuals who have attempted to divert the organisation [...]
ILADS is the premier tick borne disease educational society in the world. Each year ILADS conference is growing bigger with more and more delegates. This year’s theme was “global perspective on tick borne diseases.” Speakers came from all continents. Dr. McManus headed the programme committee for the conference for which Dr Richard Horowitz said was the [...]
The Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee final report: Inquiry into the growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients was tabled at the November 15th sitting of the Australian Senate. http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/8246306026A29C08CA2581D30010C8E4/$File/Govt-response-Senate-inquiry-final-report-%202017.pdf In response to the report this Ministerial statement from The Hon. Greg [...]
We can say finally the Senate Committee report has been tabled in the parliament with positive response from all parties. Looks like bipartisan support. Next there will be a teleconference with Canberra to discuss the findings from the NRL report “Investigation of the Performance of Assays for Lyme Disease in Australia”. It is anticipated that this [...]
Borrelia is a family of bacteria, a subset of which is responsible for Lyme disease. The Borrelia family also have other subsets like the Relapsing fever Borrelia and Reptilian Borrelia. While the Lyme variety of Borrelia has not been found in Australia, this paper confirms that varieties of uniquely Australian Borrelia have been identified and [...]
Borrelia is the name of the family , where all other members get their DNA from. As a genus-family it has the highest number of plasmids in any bacteria known so far. Plasmids are phages that are viruses that infect bacteria. It must have a brilliant immune system to keep these phages in its cytoplasm [...]
