What Is Crohn's Disease?

WHAT IS MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: pathogen, pathogenesis and diagnosis E.J.B. Manning & M.T. Collins School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin,

Mycobacterium Partuberculosis Linked to Multiple Scleroisis and Autism Update!!!!

Clinical Trials and Articles linking Multiple Sclerosis to Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis

 

We at MAP-Canada would like to dedicate this site to Dr. Thomas J. Borody of Australlia, Doctor Rod Chiodini (U.S.A.) and Doctor John Hermon-Taylor of the U.K., PROF THOMAS BORODY, the founder and Medical Director of CDD.(Center for Digestive Diseases. His keen interest in medical research led to the establishment of the Centre, so as to provide both diagnostic procedures and effective treatments, and to my husband Michael Fagen, who lost his 27 year battle against Crohn's disease on May 11th, 2003.

Dr. Rod Chiodini (Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) and Prof. John Hermon- Taylor (St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK) are two of the most prominent proponents of an association between M. aratuberculosis and Crohn's disease. Indeed it was Chiodini and his co-workers ho, in 1984, successfully cultured the first two strains of M. paratuberculosis in the USA from patients with Crohn's disease. since then this organism has been sporadically cultured from humans with Crohn's disease and a total of 10 isolates of M. paratuberculosis had been cultured from patients with Crohn's disease in the USA, Australia , the Netherlands and France (Chiodini, 1989).

The idea for MAP-Canada was inspired by the commitment and dedication of its sister organization PARA (Paratuberculosis Awareness and Research Association Inc.) an American based organization. This grassroots movement has grown from the dedication and sheer willpower of two women with children with Crohn's disease to address the alarming rise of the bacterium "Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis" in the environment and the growing evidence linking this bacterium to Crohn's disease. MAP-Canada was founded to address the same issue, but on Canadian soil. One hundred thousand or more people in Canada, and over a million in the United States have been diagnosed with Crohn's. Renowned Researchers all over the world have been working with little or no funding to try and find a solution for this devastating illness.

A bacterium called Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis found in every day food items is connected to IBD and Crohn's disease. Before Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing, this bacterium could not be cultured. In 1984, Dr. Rodrick Chiodini cultured mycobacteria from children with Crohn's, the same bacterium found in cattle with Johne's disease. This bacterium is shed in the feces and milk of cattle with Johne's Disease.

The symptoms of this disease in both cattle and humans is very similar; severe diarrhea, excessive weight loss, debilitating abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, bowel obstruction, fistulas, and abscesses. The pasteurization process does not kill this bacterium. Thus, this mycobacterium is passed into the foodchain and sold for human consumption, as these sick cows are not removed from the herd and disposed of. Johne's disease is not on the Reportable Diseases List at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency......

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To protect human and animal health, the CFIA conducts inspections and has monitoring and testing programs in place to prevent and control the spread of diseases to the livestock and poultry sectors. The CFIA carries out programs related to animal health and production to guard against the entry of foreign animal diseases and to prevent the spread of certain domestic animal diseases. Animal diseases are categorized as:

Reportable diseases
Animal owners, veterinarians and laboratories are required to immediately report the presence of an animal that is contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with one of these diseases to a CFIA district veterinarian. Control or eradication measures will be applied immediately. Federally Reportable Diseases in Canada - 2012

Immediately notifiable diseases
In general, immediately notifiable diseases are diseases exotic to Canada for which there are no control or eradication programs. Only laboratories are required to contact the CFIA regarding the suspicion or diagnosis of one of these diseases.

Annually notifiable diseases
are diseases for which Canada must submit an annual report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) indicating their presence within Canada. In general, they are diseases that are present in Canada, but are not classified as reportable or immediately notifiable.

Other Diseases Monitored by the CFIA Diseases of interest that are not currently reportable diseases or notifiable diseases.

 

Annually notifiable diseases are diseases for which Canada must submit an annual report to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) indicating their presence within Canada. In general, they are diseases that are present in Canada, but are not classified as reportable or immediately notifiable. All veterinary laboratories are required to comment on Canada's report to the OIE. Annually notifiable diseases (for laboratories only) Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) has only been added to this list. Johne's disease (Paratuberculosis) needs to be added to the Reportable diseases list, so it does not continue into our foodchain.

A Canadian Perspective on the Precautionary Approach/Principle

n the fall of 2001, the Government of Canada released a Discussion Document on the interpretation and implementation of the precautionary principle/approach. This document aims to clarify and formalise Canada's position on the precautionary principle.

In addition, is the Canadian Pasteurization process efficient enough to kill this bacterium, if it is in our milk?
  Many renowned doctors and scientists in the field of Crohn's and Johne's (yo-neez) from all over the world
say we have cause for concern. How about our water, is this bacterium in our water?

Once again, the Canadian Government has not tested our Pasteurization Process for milk to assure Canadians
that our milk is free from MAP, Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis. WHY?In the United Kingdom
researcher's have found the MAP bacterium in a percentage of pasteurized milk at the retail level.

Join Us In Our Fight with the Canadian Government to add Johne's disease in cattle to their Reportable Diseases List, in order to eliminate this bacterium from the Canadian Food Chain.

Researchers in many parts of the world have found a link between Crohn's disease in humans and Johne's disease in cattle. This bacterium is called MAP (Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis). This bacterium has
been found in the breast milk of breastfeeding mothers with Crohns.  It has been found in the resected tissues of the intestinal tract of Crohn's sufferers and it has been found in milk after pasteurization, the following
websites will give you the details

The evidence contained in this site, gives the Canadian Government an obligation to study this bacterium further.Our pasteurization process has to be retested to ensure that Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
(Map) is eliminated from our milk.

What is the Crohn's Disease Initiative? A Message from Dr. Chiodini How Can I Help?

It has been almost 25-years since I first isolated M. paratuberculosis from a patient with Crohn's disease and
suggested that this organism might be the cause of some cases of Crohn's disease. Since that time, I have
seen this suggestion turn into a hostile controversy created in large part by the loss of objectivity on both sides
of the issue.

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MEDIA DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
April 30, 2010: Bacterium in Cow’s Milk May Cause Crohn’s Disease

Source: CLEVELAND FREE TIMES, June 16-22, 1999, Title: “The Crohn’s Connection?,” Author: Lisa Chamberlain Faculty Evaluator: Derek Girman, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Lisa Desmond & Julia O’Connor Mounting research shows that a bacterium in cow’s milk may cause Crohn’s disease, a debilitating chronic inflam-matory disease of the gastrointestinal tract.

WORLDNET DAILY Crohn's disease, sick cows and contaminated milk by Chris Bennett

Crohn's was unknown until the early 1900s when two very similar diseases were described: one in domestic animals called Johne's disease and one in humans named after the physician who first wrote about it, Dr. Burrill Crohn. Dr. H.A. Johne was the first to describe the disease in cattle.

ASM NEWS:

Microbes and Emerging Infections: the Compulsion To Become Something New Microbiologists
are advised to respect Koch's postulates while surveying for emerging and reemerging agents of
infectious disease Richard M. Krause

UK Essays: Crohn's Disease Inflammatory Intestine Crohn's Disease is a chronic inflammatory disease. In 1913 Dr. Kennedy Dalziel dealt with several patients with a disease called chronic intestinal enteritis. Chronic intestinal enteritis is found to be very similar to intestinal tuberculosis and was also believed to be a “new” disorder. Dr. Dalziel drew his attention to a recently described disease in cattle called pseudotuberculosis. Dalziel states, “the histological characters and naked-eye appearances are as similar as may be to those we have found in man. In many cases the absence of acid-fast bacilli would suggest a clear distinction, but the histological characters are so similar as to justify a proposition that the disease may be the same.”

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