"Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans. Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly." -- Associated Press, April 10, 2005
I find this remarkable in the sense that these scientists could make a fruit fly do anything other than what they normally do - bother people. I find this interesting that these researchers even thought of doing such a thing, but then I recall tying a human hair around a fly's body for an animated mini kite. I find this fruit fly story sad because obesity and violence can be controlled, while Lyme Disease is allowed to remain out of control.
Is there any chance of the researchers herding some ticks and mosquitoes up, hooking them up to lasers and learning some facts about Lyme Disease in order for us to be tested and treated properly? I know that mosquitoes are smaller and quicker than fruit flies, but if they are able to catch a fly, they surely could be able to think of a way to snare a mosquito. Ticks are lethargic, but the researchers could apprehend these creatures on their slow days.
Why are we hearing about obesity these days? Is it the too-busy lifestyle we live in order to work two jobs to pay for gasoline? Or is it the fast-food restaurants that are loosely monitored for genetically modified, fatty foods that they advertise in bright attention-getting colors on virtually every street corner? Why is Yale so interested in obesity? Aren't their conditions such as MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Lyme Disease? Would they like to know that the antibiotics that Lymers must take to for this lab-created disease makes us fat? Is this what they are possibly studying? The affects of medications, not fast food or simply overeating, on our bodies? I am not saying that obesity isn't an important issue, but the situation is getting attention - Lyme Disease is not. If you disagree, ask yourself when the last time you heard anything from the World Health Organization mention Lyme Disease.
Physicians are up against state agencies that want to take their licenses for aggressively treating Lyme Disease. The FDA approved a Lyme vaccination that did more harm than good. The CDC does everything but keep it top secret that Lyme Disease is "clinically diagnosed." The military dismisses Lyme Disease as chronic, but not worthy of compassionate reassignments so that the family member may be cared for -- and the Lymer is not allowed to see a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD). The World Health Organization (WHO) does not have Lyme Disease in the "top ten" of world concerns (obesity is, however). Lyme Disease is everywhere, but Lyme Disease help is scarce. Lyme Disease kills, but the government doesn't seem overly concerned -- are we that expendable? Doctors who actively treat Lyme Disease seem to be dwindling, but the disease is spreading faster than melted butter on a hot cob of corn.
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