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To: long-gone who wrote (88751)	8/13/2002 5:52:39 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116784

Insanity is catching. Schizophrenia, (and both of I agree on this), is almost certainly caused by a bacterial or other infection/attack on/of the brain. The brain in Schiz patients is attacked, and shows physical abnormalities such as reduction in folds which increase as the patient ages. A U of T physician and researcher is exploring the angle that this and other illnesses may be caused by bacteria. A slow acting infection would explain why it runs in families who may have susceptibility to the disease and why the disease appears to be progressive and manifests itself in a marked change in blood chemistry. There is one benefit to schizophrenia that may have aided its survival and that is the fact that no schizophrenic is recorded to have died of cancer. Perhaps this could educe a strategy for a therapy. We have seen such illnesses as stomach ulcers and crib death now clearly explained by bacterial infection, in these two cases by the common H. Pylori bacteria, (politicians and other baby kissers take note), so I can see that other major and baffling illnesses may someday yield to similar explanations. It may even be that viral infections that create immune system disorders and cause the immune system to attack the brain may be the root cause, as was found with Multiple Sclerosis, where it is now recognized that antibodies developed in humans to the canine parvo virus attack the nervous system to cause that disease. EC<:-}