The articles are lacking an entire explanation as to how simultaneously young children across the western world would develop lyme. The situation is not confined to children; the same strange geographic and statistical data applies to the explosive growth of Lyme disease amongst adults.
It is apparent that with the incidence of Lyme significantly increasing there can only be three scenarios. Either the ticks have become more active more virulent .We have become more susceptible to tick bourn infections or the infection is contracted from an entirely different source.
We are becoming more susceptible to infections in general [ more on this in Normal Gut Flora section] While it used to be uncommon for children to have more than one or two infections a year, now more than six is the norm. it is a factor, but enough evidence is now becoming available to suggest that Spirochete infection could have an entirely unsuspected mode of transmission.
The case for Lyme to be implicated in Autism is clearer when we find that we host Intestinal Spirochetes as part of our natural flora ,[including Borrelia species] the surprising thing is they have no detectable function at all. There are two schools of thought on this, some consider that they are commensal and how we react with them is still a mystery while others consider that they are opportunistic pathogens waiting their chance to infect systemically.
In Lyme it’s known that the infectious agent a spirochete [Borrelia] is a pleomorphic organism that is it has the ability to change shape. It has at least two forms, in addition to the spirochete form it “morphs” into cell wall deficient bacteria [CWD] [sometimes called other names “L“form , nanobacterium
Many credible articles now cite cell wall deficient bacteria [CWD] as responsible for much chronic illness. In fact they are responsible for ALL the diseases where the immune system is involved and acts against the host, the so-called autoimmune TH1 diseases.
The same diseases that a disproportionate large number of parents of Autistic children also suffer with .