A new paper and call for action from Karel Hruska and Arnost Cepica, ahead of the UC Berkeley conference on 21st and 22nd of this month.
“The first step in correcting the problem must be official statements by health and food hygiene authorities that human exposure to mycobacterial triggers poses a definite risk with respect to immune-mediated chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.”

“After successful culture and identification of viable MAP in [the patient’s] blood, treatment with the MAP antibiotic regime for one year led to complete metabolic resolution of the previously avid cardiac sarcoidosis and no PET evidence of any metabolically active sarcoidosis anywhere. Such reversal of cardiac sarcoidosis has never previously been reported.”

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Here, the author presents current information assessing the link between numerous diseases states in humans such inflammatory bowel disease, Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis and autism following infection with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis. The possibility of zoonotic transmission of the organism and its significant risk to public health safety as a consequence is also discussed.

Mary Garvey, Department of Life Science, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ash lane, Sligo, Ireland

June 2018