© by Donald W. Scott, MA, MSc © 2001
President
The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation
190 Mountain Street, Suite 405
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3B 4G2
Tel/fax: +1 (705) 670 0180

I - PATHOGENIC MYCOPLASMA
A Common Disease Agent Weaponised....
There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Most are innocuous and do no harm; only four or five are
pathogenic. Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the
Brucella bacterium. This disease agent is not a bacterium and not a virus; it is a mutated form of
the Brucella bacterium, combined with a visna virus, from which the mycoplasma is extracted.
The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be innocuous, but biological warfare research conducted
between 1942 and the present time has resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious
forms of Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella bacterium and
actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form. They "weaponised" it and tested it on an
unsuspecting public in North America.
 

Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme,
stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most
people throughout the world.  Despite reporting flaws, there has clearly been an increased
incidence of all the neuro/systemic degenerative diseases since World War II and especially since
the 1970s with the arrival of previously unheard-of diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and
AIDS.  According to Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology and one of America's top mycoplasma researchers, this disease agent causes many
illnesses including AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's colitis, Type I diabetes,
multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Wegener's disease and collagen-vascular diseases such
as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's.  Dr Charles Engel, who is with the US National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, stated the following at an NIH meeting on February 7, 2000: "I am
now of the view that the probable cause of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia is the
mycoplasma..."  I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the disease agent
in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other
illnesses. Of these, 80% are US or Canadian official government documents, and 20% are articles
from peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, New
England Journal of Medicine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The journal
articles and government documents complement each other.
 

How the Mycoplasma Works
The mycoplasma acts by entering into the individual cells of the body, depending upon your
genetic predisposition. You may develop neurological diseases if the pathogen destroys certain
cells in your brain, or you may develop Crohn's colitis if the pathogen invades and destroys cells
in the lower bowel. Once the mycoplasma gets into the cell, it can lie there doing nothing
sometimes for 10, 20 or 30 years, but if a trauma occurs like an accident or a vaccination that
doesn't take, the mycoplasma can become triggered. Because it is only the DNA particle of the
bacterium, it doesn't have any organelles to process its own nutrients, so it grows by uptaking
pre-formed sterols from its host cell and it literally kills the cell; the cell ruptures and what is left
gets dumped into the bloodstream.
 

II – CREATION OF THE MYCOPLASMA
A Laboratory-Made Disease Agent....
Many doctors don't know about this mycoplasma disease agent because it was developed by the
US military in biological warfare experimentation and it was not made public. This pathogen was
patented by the United States military and Dr Shyh-Ching Lo. I have a copy of the documented
patent from the US Patent Office.1  All the countries at war were experimenting with biological
weapons. In 1942, the governments of the United States, Canada and Britain entered into a secret
agreement to create two types of biological weapons (one that would kill, and one that was
disabling) for use in the war against Germany and Japan, who were also developing biological
weapons. While they researched a number of disease pathogens, they primarily focused on the
Brucella bacterium and began to weaponise it.  From its inception, the biowarfare program was
characterised by continuing in-depth review and participation by the most eminent scientists,
medical consultants, industrial experts and government officials, and it was classified Top Secret.
The US Public Health Service also closely followed the progress of biological warfare research
and development from the very start of the program, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States were working with the military in
weaponising these diseases. These are diseases that have existed for thousands of years, but they
have been weaponised--which means they've been made more contagious and more effective. And
they are spreading. The Special Virus Cancer Program, created by the CIA and NIH to develop a
deadly pathogen for which humanity had no natural immunity (AIDS), was disguised as a war on
cancer but was actually part of MKNAOMI.2 Many members of the Senate and House of
Representatives do not know what has been going on. For example, the US Senate Committee on
Government Reform had searched the archives in Washington and other places for the document
titled "The Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", and couldn't find it. Somehow
they heard I had it, called me and asked me to mail it to them. Imagine: a retired schoolteacher
being called by the United States Senate and asked for one of their secret documents! The US
Senate, through the Government Reform Committee, is trying to stop this type of government
research.
 

Crystalline Brucella....
The title page of a genuine US Senate Study, declassified on February 24, 1977, shows that
George Merck, of the pharmaceutical company, Merck Sharp & Dohme (which now makes cures
for diseases that at one time it created), reported in 1946 to the US Secretary of War that his
researchers had managed "for the first time" to "isolate the disease agent in crystalline form".3
They had produced a crystalline bacterial toxin extracted from the Brucella bacterium. The
bacterial toxin could be removed in crystalline form and stored, transported and deployed without
deteriorating. It could be delivered by other vectors such as insects, aerosol or the food chain
(in nature it is delivered within the bacterium). But the factor that is working in the Brucella is
the mycoplasma. Brucella is a disease agent that doesn't kill people; it disables them. But, according
to Dr Donald MacArthur of the Pentagon, appearing before a congressional committee in 1969,4
researchers found that if they had mycoplasma at a certain strength--actually, 10 to the 10th
power (1010)--it would develop into AIDS, and the person would die from it within a reasonable
period of time because it could bypass the natural human defences. If the strength was 108, the
person would manifest with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. If it was 107, they would
present as wasting; they wouldn't die and they wouldn't be disabled, but they would not be very
interested in life; they would waste away. Most of us have never heard of the disease brucellosis
because it largely disappeared when they began pasteurising milk, which was the carrier. One
salt shaker of the pure disease agent in a crystalline form could sicken the entire population of
Canada. It is absolutely deadly, not so much in terms of killing the body but disabling it. Because
the crystalline disease agent goes into solution in the blood, ordinary blood and tissue tests will
not reveal its presence. The mycoplasma will only crystallise at 8.1 pH, and the blood has a pH of
7.4 pH. So the doctor thinks your complaint is "all in your head".
 

Crystalline Brucella and Multiple Sclerosis
In 1998 in Rochester, New York, I met a former military man, PFC Donald Bentley, who gave me
a document and told me: "I was in the US Army, and I was trained in bacteriological warfare. We
were handling a bomb filled with brucellosis, only it wasn't brucellosis; it was a Brucella toxin in
crystalline form. We were spraying it on the Chinese and North Koreans."  He showed me his
certificate listing his training in chemical, biological and radiological warfare. Then he showed
me 16 pages of documents given to him by the US military when he was discharged from the
service. They linked brucellosis with multiple sclerosis, and stated in one section: "Veterans with
multiple sclerosis, a kind of creeping paralysis developing to a degree of 10% or more disability
within two years after separation from active service, may be presumed to be service-connected
for disability compensation. Compensation is payable to eligible veterans whose disabilities are
due to service." In other words: "If you become ill with multiple sclerosis, it is because you were
handling this Brucella, and we will give you a pension. Don't go raising any fuss about it." In
these documents, the government of the United States revealed evidence of the cause of multiple
sclerosis, but they didn't make it known to the public--or to your doctor.  In a 1949 report, Drs
Kyger and Haden suggested "the possibility that multiple sclerosis might be a central nervous
system manifestation of chronic brucellosis". Testing approximately 113 MS patients, they found
that almost 95% also tested positive for Brucella.5 We have a document from a medical journal,
which concludes that one out of 500 people who had brucellosis would develop what they call
neurobrucellosis; in other words, brucellosis in the brain, where the Brucella settles in the
lateral ventricles--where the disease multiple sclerosis is basically located.6
 

Contamination of Camp Detrick Lab Workers
A 1948 New England Journal of Medicine report titled "Acute Brucellosis Among Laboratory
Workers" shows us how actively dangerous this agent is.7 The laboratory workers were from
Camp Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, where they were developing biological weapons. Even
though these workers had been vaccinated, wore rubberised suits and masks and worked through
holes in the compartment, many of them came down with this awful disease because it is so
absolutely and terrifyingly infectious.  The article was written by Lt Calderone Howell, Marine
Corps, Captain Edward Miller, Marine Corps, Lt Emily Kelly, United States Naval Reserve, and
Captain Henry Bookman. They were all military personnel engaged in making the disease agent
Brucella into a more effective biological weapon.
 

III – COVERT TESTING OF MYCOPLASMA
Testing the Dispersal Methods....
Documented evidence proves that the biological weapons they were developing were tested on
the public in various communities without their knowledge or consent. The government knew
that crystalline Brucella would cause disease in humans. Now they needed to determine how it
would spread and the best way to disperse it. They tested dispersal methods for Brucella suis and
Brucella melitensis at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, in June and September 1952. Probably,
100% of us now are infected with Brucella suis and Brucella melitensis.8  Another government
document recommended the genesis of open-air vulnerability tests and covert research and
development programs to be conducted by the Army and supported by the Central Intelligence
Agency.  At that time, the Government of Canada was asked by the US Government to cooperate
in testing weaponised Brucella, and Canada cooperated fully with the United States. The US
Government wanted to determine whether mosquitoes would carry the disease and also if the
air would carry it. A government report stated that "open-air testing of infectious biological agents
is considered essential to an ultimate understanding of biological warfare potentialities because of
the many unknown factors affecting the degradation of micro-organisms in the atmosphere".9
 

Testing via Mosquito Vector in Punta Gorda, Florida....
A report from The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that one of the first outbreaks of
chronic fatigue syndrome was in Punta Gorda, Florida, back in 1957.10 It was a strange coincidence
that a week before these people came down with chronic fatigue syndrome, there was a huge influx
of mosquitoes.  The National Institutes of Health claimed that the mosquitoes came from a forest fire
30 miles away. The truth is that those mosquitoes were infected in Canada by Dr Guilford B. Reed
at Queen's University. They were bred in Belleville, Ontario, and taken down to Punta Gorda and
released there.  Within a week, the first five cases ever of chronic fatigue syndrome were reported
to the local clinic in Punta Gorda. The cases kept coming until finally 450 people were ill with the
disease.
 

Testing Via Mosquito Vector In Ontario....
The Government of Canada had established the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario,
where it raised 100 million mosquitoes a month. These were shipped to Queen's University and
certain other facilities to be infected with this crystalline disease agent. The mosquitoes were then
let loose in certain communities in the middle of the night, so that the researchers could determine
how many people would become ill with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, which was the
first disease to show.  One of the communities they tested it on was the St Lawrence Seaway valley,
all the way from Kingston to Cornwall, in 1984. They let out hundreds of millions of infected
mosquitoes. Over 700 people in the next four or five weeks developed myalgic encephalomyelitis,
or chronic fatigue syndrome.
 

IV – COVERT TESTING OF OTHER DISEASE AGENTS
Mad Cow Disease/Kuru/CJD in the Fore Tribe....
Before and during World War II, at the infamous Camp 731 in Manchuria, the Japanese military
contaminated prisoners of war with certain disease agents. They also established a research camp
in New Guinea in 1942. There they experimented upon the Fore Indian tribe and inoculated them
with a minced-up version of the brains of diseased sheep containing the visna virus which causes
"mad cow disease" or Creutzfeldt&endash;Jakob disease.   About five or six years later, after the
Japanese had been driven out, the poor people of the Fore tribe developed what they called kuru,
which was their word for "wasting", and they began to shake, lose their appetites and die. The
autopsies revealed that their brains had literally turned to mush. They had contracted "mad cow
disease" from the Japanese experiments. When World War II ended, Dr Ishii Shiro--the medical
doctor who was commissioned as a General in the Japanese Army so he could take command of
Japan's biological warfare development, testing and deployment--was captured. He was given the
choice of a job with the United States Army or execution as a war criminal. Not surprisingly,
Dr Ishii Shiro chose to work with the US military to demonstrate how the Japanese had created
mad cow disease in the Fore Indian tribe.  In 1957, when the disease was beginning to blossom in
full among the Fore people, Dr Carleton Gajdusek of the US National Institutes of Health headed to
New Guinea to determine how the minced-up brains of the visna-infected sheep affected them. He
spent a couple of years there, studying the Fore people, and wrote an extensive report. He won the
Nobel Prize for "discovering" kuru disease in the Fore tribe.
 

Testing Carcinogens Over Winnipeg, Manitoba....
In 1953, the US Government asked the Canadian Government if it could test a chemical over the
city of Winnipeg. It was a big city with 500,000 people, miles from anywhere. The American military
sprayed this carcinogenic chemical in a 1,000%-attenuated form, which they said would be so
watered down that nobody would get very sick; however, if people came to clinics with a sniffle, a
sore throat or ringing in their ears, the researchers would be able to determine what percentage
would have developed cancer if the chemical had been used at full strength.  We located evidence
that the Americans had indeed tested this carcinogenic chemical--zinc cadmium sulphide--over
Winnipeg in 1953. We wrote to the Government of Canada, explaining that we had solid evidence
of the spraying and asking that we be informed as to how high up in the government the request
for permission to spray had gone. We did not receive a reply.   Shortly after, the Pentagon held a
press conference on May 14, 1997, where they admitted what they had done. Robert Russo,
writing for the Toronto Star11 from Washington, DC, reported the Pentagon's admission that in
1953 it had obtained permission from the Canadian Government to fly over the city of Winnipeg
and spray out this chemical--which sifted down on kids going to school, housewives hanging out
their laundry and people going to work. US Army planes and trucks released the chemical 36 times
between July and August 1953. The Pentagon got its statistics, which indicated that if the chemical
released had been full strength, approximately a third of the population of Winnipeg would have
developed cancers over the next five years.  One professor, Dr Hugh Fudenberg, MD, twice
nominated for the Nobel Prize, wrote a magazine article stating that the Pentagon came clean on
this because two researchers in Sudbury, Ontario--Don Scott and his son, Bill Scott--had been
revealing this to the public. However, the legwork was done by other researchers!   The US Army
actually conducted a series of simulated germ warfare tests over Winnipeg. The Pentagon lied
about the tests to the mayor, saying that they were testing a chemical fog over the city, which
would protect Winnipeg in the event of a nuclear attack.  A report commissioned by US
Congress, chaired by Dr Rogene Henderson, lists 32 American towns and cities used as test
sites as well.
 

V – BRUCELLA MYCOPLASMA AND DISEASE
AIDS
The AIDS pathogen was created out of a Brucella bacterium mutated with a visna virus; then
the toxin was removed as a DNA particle called a mycoplasma. They used the same mycoplasma
to develop disabling diseases like MS, Crohn's colitis, Lyme disease, etc.  In the previously
mentioned US congressional document of a meeting held on June 9, 1969,12 the Pentagon
delivered a report to Congress about biological weapons. The Pentagon stated: "We are continuing
to develop disabling weapons." Dr MacArthur, who was in charge of the research, said: "We are
developing a new lethal weapon, a synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist, and
for which no natural immunity could have been acquired."  Think about it. If you have a
deficiency of acquired immunity, you have an acquired immunity deficiency. Plain as that. AIDS.
In laboratories throughout the United States and in a certain number in Canada including at the
University of Alberta, the US Government provided the leadership for the development of AIDS
r the purpose of population control. After the scientists had perfected it, the government sent
medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control--under the direction of Dr Donald A.
Henderson, their investigator into the 1957 chronic fatigue epidemic in Punta Gorda--during 1969
to 1971 to Africa and some countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan where they thought the
population was becoming too large.13 They gave them all a free vaccination against smallpox;
but five years after receiving this vaccination, 60% of those inoculated were suffering from AIDS.
They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense. A professor at the University of Arkansas
made the claim that while studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee she found traces of HIV.
The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23 years earlier. It had lived its
entire life in a US military laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal in the
development of these diseases. When it died, its body was shipped to a storage place where it was
deep-frozen and stored in case they wanted to analyse it later. Then they decided that they didn't
have enough space for it, so they said, "Anybody want this dead chimpanzee?" and this researcher
from Arkansas said: "Yes. Send it down to the University of Arkansas. We are happy to get
anything that we can get." They shipped it down and she found HIV in it. That virus was acquired
by that chimpanzee in the laboratories where it was tested.14
 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Chronic fatigue syndrome is more accurately called myalgic encephalomyelitis. The chronic
fatigue syndrome nomenclature was given by the US National Institutes of Health because it
wanted to downgrade and belittle the disease. An MRI scan of the brain of a teenage girl with
chronic fatigue syndrome displayed a great many scars or punctate lesions in the left frontal lobe
area where portions of the brain had literally dissolved and been replaced by scar tissue. This
caused cognitive impairment, memory impairment, etc. And what was the cause of the scarring?
The mycoplasma. So there is very concrete physical evidence of these tragic diseases, even
though doctors continue to say they don't know where it comes from or what they can do about it.
Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalo-myelitis and fibromyalgia who
apply to the Canada Pensions Plan Review Tribunal will be turned down because they cannot prove
that they are ill. During 1999 I conducted several appeals to Canada Pensions and the Workers
Compensation Board (WCB, now the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) on behalf of people
who have been turned down. I provided documented evidence of these illnesses, and these
people were all granted their pensions on the basis of the evidence that I provided. In March 1999,
for example, I appealed to the WCB on behalf of a lady with fibromyalgia who had been denied
her pension back in 1993. The vice-chairman of the board came to Sudbury to hear the appeal,
and I showed him a number of documents which proved that this lady was physically ill with
fibromyalgia. It was a disease that caused physical damage, and the disease agent was a
mycoplasma. The guy listened for three hours, and then he said to me: "Mr Scott, how is it I have
never heard of any of this before? I said: "We brought a top authority in this area into Sudbury to
speak on this subject and not a single solitary doctor came to that presentation."
 

VI – TESTING FOR MYCOPLASMA IN YOUR BODY
Polymerase Chain Reaction Test
Information is not generally available about this agent because, first of all, the mycoplasma is
such a minutely small disease agent. A hundred years ago certain medical theoreticians conceived
that there must be a form of disease agent smaller than bacteria and viruses. This pathogenic
organism, the mycoplasma, is so minute that normal blood and tissue tests will not reveal its
presence as the source of the disease.  Your doctor may diagnose you with Alzheimer's disease,
and he will say: "Golly, we don't know where Alzheimer's comes from. All we know is that your
brain begins to deteriorate, cells rupture, the myelin sheath around the nerves dissolves, and so
on." Or if you have chronic fatigue syndrome, the doctor will not be able to find any cause for
your illness with ordinary blood and tissue tests. This mycoplasma couldn't be detected until
about 30 years ago when the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was developed, in which a
sample of your blood is examined and damaged particles are removed and subjected to a
polymerase chain reaction. This causes the DNA in the particles to break down. The particles are
then placed in a nutrient, which causes the DNA to grow back into its original form. If enough of
the substance is produced, the form can be recognised, so it can be determined whether Brucella
or another kind of agent is behind that particular mycoplasma.
 

Blood Test
If you or anybody in your family has myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis
or Alzheimer's, you can send a blood sample to Dr Les Simpson in New Zealand for testing.
If you are ill with these diseases, your red blood cells will not be normal doughnut-shaped blood
cells capable of being compressed and squeezed through the capillaries, but will swell up like
cherry-filled doughnuts which cannot be compressed. The blood cells become enlarged and
distended because the only way the mycoplasma can exist is by uptaking pre-formed sterols from
the host cell. One of the best sources of pre-formed sterols is cholesterol, and cholesterol is what
gives your blood cells flexibility. If the cholesterol is taken out by the mycoplasma, the red blood
cell swells up and doesn't go through, and the person begins to feel all the aches and pains and
all the damage it causes to the brain, the heart, the stomach, the feet and the whole body because
blood and oxygen are cut off.  And that is why people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
syndrome have such a terrible time. When the blood is cut off from the brain, punctate lesions
appear because those parts of the brain die. The mycoplasma will get into portions of the heart
muscle, especially the left ventricle, and those cells will die. Certain people have cells in the lateral
ventricles of the brain that have a genetic predisposition to admit the mycoplasma, and this causes
the lateral ventricles to deteriorate and die. This leads to multiple sclerosis, which will progress
until these people are totally disabled; frequently, they die prematurely. The mycoplasma will get
into the lower bowel, parts of which will die, thus causing colitis. All of these diseases are caused
by the degenerating properties of the mycoplasma. In early 2000, a gentleman in Sudbury phoned
me and told me he had fibromyalgia. He applied for a pension and was turned down because his
doctor said it was all in his head and there was no external evidence. I gave him the proper form
and a vial, and he sent his blood to Dr Simpson to be tested. He did this with his family doctor's
approval, and the results from Dr Simpson showed that only 4% of his red blood cells were
functioning normally and carrying the appropriate amount of oxygen to his poor body, whereas
83% were distended, enlarged and hardened, and wouldn't go through the capillaries without an
awful lot of pressure and trouble. This is the physical evidence of the damage that is done.
 

ECG Test
You can also ask your doctor to give you a 24-hour Holter ECG. You know, of course, that an
electrocardiogram is a measure of your heartbeat and shows what is going on in the right ventricle,
the left ventricle and so on. Tests show that 100% of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and
fibromyalgia have an irregular heartbeat. At various periods during the 24 hours, the heart, instead
of working happily away going  "bump-BUMP,  bump-BUMP",  every now and again goes
"buhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuhbuh". The T-wave (the waves are called P, Q, R, S and T) is normally
a peak, and then the wave levels off and starts with the P-wave again. In chronic fatigue and
fibromyalgia patients, the T-wave flattens off, or actually inverts. That means the blood in the left
ventricle is not being squeezed up through the aorta and around through the body. My client from
Sudbury had this test done and, lo and behold, the results stated: "The shape of T and S-T suggests
left ventricle strain pattern, although voltage and so on is normal." The doctor had no clue as to
why the T-wave was not working properly. I analysed the report of this patient who had been turned
down by Canada Pensions and sent it back to them. They wrote back, saying: "It looks like we may
have made a mistake. We are going to give you a hearing and you can explain this to us in more
detail."  So it is not all in your imagination. There is actual physical damage to the heart. The left
ventricle muscles do show scarring. That is why many people are diagnosed with a heart condition
when they first develop fibromyalgia, but it's only one of several problems because the mycoplasma
can do all kinds of damage.
 

Blood Volume Test
You can also ask your doctor for a blood volume test. Every human being requires a certain amount
of blood per pound of body weight, and it has been observed that people with fibromyalgia, chronic
fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses do not have the normal blood volume their
body needs to function properly. Doctors aren't normally aware of this.  This test measures the
amount of blood in the human body by taking out 5 cc, putting a tracer in it and then putting it
back into the body. One hour later, take out 5 cc again and look for the tracer. The thicker the blood
and the lower the blood volume, the more tracer you will find.  The analysis of one of my clients
stated: "This patient was referred for red cell mass study. The red cell volume is 16.9 ml per kg of
body weight. The normal range is 25 to 35 ml per kg. This guy has 36% less blood in his body than
the body needs to function." And the doctor hadn't even known the test existed.  If you lost 36% of
your blood in an accident, do you think your doctor would tell you that you are alright and should
just take up line dancing and get over it? They would rush you to the nearest hospital and start
transfusing you with blood. These tragic people with these awful diseases are functioning with
anywhere from 7% to 50% less blood than their body needs to function.
 

VII – UNDOING THE DAMAGE
The body undoes the damage itself. The scarring in the brain of people with chronic fatigue and
fibromyalgia will be repaired. There is cellular repair going on all the time. But the mycoplasma
has moved on to the next cell.  In the early stages of a disease, doxycycline may reverse that
disease process. It is one of the tetracycline antibiotics, but it is not bactericidal; it is bacteriostatic--
it stops the growth of the mycoplasma. And if the mycoplasma growth can be stopped for long
enough, then the immune system takes over.  Doxycycline treatment is discussed in a paper by
mycoplasma expert Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, of the Institute for Molecular Medicine.15
Dr Nicholson is involved in a US$8-million mycoplasma research program funded by the US
military and headed by Dr Charles Engel of the NIH. The program is studying Gulf War veterans,
450 of them, because there is evidence to suggest that Gulf War syndrome is another illness (or
set of illnesses) caused by mycoplasma.

END.

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Endnotes:
1. "Pathogenic Mycoplasma", US Patent No. 5,242,820, issued September 7, 1993. Dr Lo is
listed as the "Inventor" and the American Registry of Pathology, Washington, DC, is listed as the
"Assignee".
2. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", prepared by the National Cancer
Institute, Viral Oncology, Etiology Area, July 1971, submitted to NIH Annual Report in May 1971
and updated July 1971.
3. US Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific
Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by
the Department of Defense, 1977; released as US Army Activities in the US Biological Warfare
Programs, Volumes One and Two, 24 February 1977.
4. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, Hearings
before Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-First
Congress, First Session, Monday June 9, 1969, pp 105&endash;144, esp. pp. 114, 129.
5. Kyger, E. R. and Russell L. Haden, "Brucellosis and Multiple Sclerosis", The American Journal
of Medical Sciences 1949:689-693.
6. Colmonero et al., "Complications Associated with Brucella melitensis Infection: A Study
of 530 Cases", Medicine 1996;75(4).
7. Howell, Miller, Kelly and Bookman, "Acute Brucellosis Among Laboratory Workers", New
England Journal of Medicine 1948;236:741.
8. "Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No. 8", ibid., table 4, p. 135.
9. US Senate, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the
Committee on Human Resources, March 8 and May 23, 1977, ibid.
10. New England Journal of Medicine, August 22, 1957, p. 362.
11. Toronto Star, May 15, 1997.
12. Dr Donald MacArthur, Pentagon, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, Hearings,
Monday June 9, 1969, ibid., p. 129.
13. Henderson, Donald A., "Smallpox: Epitaph for a Killer", National Geographic, December
1978, p. 804.
14. Blum, Deborah, The Monkey Wars, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.
15. Nicholson, G. L., "Doxycycline treatment and Desert Storm", JAMA 1995;273:618-619.
 

Recommended Reading:
¥ Horowitz, Leonard, Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola, Tetrahedron Publishing, USA, 1996.
¥ Johnson, Hillary, Osler's Web, Crown Publishers, New York, 1996.
¥ Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Brucellosis Triangle, The Chelmsford Publishers
(Box 133, Stat. B., Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4N5), Canada, 1998 (US$21.95 + $3 s&h in US).
¥ Scott, Donald W. and William L. C. Scott, The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident,
The Chelmsford Publishers, Canada, 1996 (revised, extended edition available from mid-September
2001; US$16.00 pre-pub. price + US$3 s&h in US).
¥ The Journal of Degenerative Diseases (Donald W. Scott, Editor), The Common Cause Medical
Research Foundation (Box 133, Stat B., Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 4N5), Canada (quarterly journal; a
nnual subscription: US$25.00 in USA, $30 foreign).
 

Additional Contacts:
¥ Ms Jennie Burke, Australian Biologics, Level 6, 383 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000,
Australia tel +61 (0)2 9283 0807, fax +61 (0)2 9283 0910. Australian Biologics does tests for
mycoplasma.
¥ Consumer Health Organization of Canada, 1220 Sheppard Avenue East #412, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada M2K 2S5, tel +1 (416) 490 0986, website www.consumerhealth.org/.
¥ Professor Garth Nicholson, PhD, Institute for Molecular Medicine, 15162 Triton Lane,
Huntington Beach, CA, 92649-1401, USA, tel +1 (714) 903 2900.
¥ Dr Les Simpson, Red Blood Cell Research Ltd, 31 Bath Street, Dunedin, 9001, New Zealand,
tel +64 (0)3 471 8540, email rbc.research.limited@xtra.co.nz. (Note: Dr Simpson directs his study
to red cell shape analysis, not the mycoplasma hypothesis.)
¥ The Mycoplasma Registry for Gulf War Illness, S. & L. Dudley, 303 47th St, J-10 San Diego,
CA 92102-5961, tel/fax +1 (619) 266 1116, fax (619) 266 1116, email mycoreg@juno.com.
 

About the Author:
Donald Scott, MA, MSc, is a retired high school teacher and university professor. He is also a
veteran of WWII and was awarded the North Atlantic Star, the Burma Star with Clasp, the
1939–1945 Volunteer Service Medal and the Victory Medal. He is currently President of The
Common Cause Medical Research Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to research
into neurosystemic degenerative diseases. He is also Adjunct Professor with the Institute for
Molecular Medicine and he produces and edits the Journal of Degenerative Diseases. He has
extensively researched neurosystemic degenerative diseases over the past five years and has
authored many documents on the relationship between degenerative diseases and a pathogenic
mycoplasma called Mycoplasma fermentans. His research is based upon solid government
evidence.