Hi! Connie:
My mother had TB before she was married and never had any other health
problems till she dies at the age of 88.
My wife has a spot in her ljungs once infected by TB and she so far had
not developed PD; she is 64 now.
I tested positive for TB but never had TB; but am deveoping PD on top of
ET.
If you screen the 800 and odd million people in India, I am sure they
most if not all would be positive for TB test; that does not mean they have
TB or they would develop PD.
So this observation yoou are reporting could be just a coincidence or
the environmental conditions in North Aamerica are different from India
raising the possibilit y of some sort of relationship between TB and PD.
Raj
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From: "Connie" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Link between PD and TB?
> I found out last week that one of the execs at my company is the Chair of
the Pacific Parkinson's
> Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. We sat down and
chatted for a while last
> Thursday about his involvement and my recent diagnosis.
>
> One of the interesting things which came out of that meeting was the
discovery that his mother had
> TB before she ended up with Parkinson's. Why is that interesting? Well, my
uncle was hospitalized
> with TB several years prior to the onset of his PD. My dad had a TB spot
on his lung and he also
> had a mild case of PD. And me, well I had to be treated for TB after
having a positive test (due
> to contracting it from one of my patients).
>
> The exec says he is going to approach Donald Calne about doing a study
regarding a possible
> correlation between PD and TB. I'm curious to know if any of you have had
TB and/or have been
> treated with anti-TB medications in the past.
>
>
> Connie
>
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