A Cure for Crohn's: The untold cause and emerging treatment for Crohn's disease

A Cure for Crohns is a true-life medical mystery of how the cause of a disease that affects 1.5 million Americans mostly adolescents has been kept undercover from the public.A Cure for Crohns examines an extremely complex and controversial topic. It explains the radical rethinking of Crohns disease from an idiopathic disease (unknown cause) to a proven zoonotic disease (transmitted from birds to animals to man) caused by the bacterium mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis or MAP. Flocks of migrating starling (the vectors) contaminate pasturelands with MAP causing Johnes disease in dairy cattle (the reservoirs of disease). Finally MAP is transmitted to susceptible individuals as Crohns disease via contaminated dairy products or runoff water supplies. Whenever wherever and however MAP is introduced Johnes disease emerges and eventually Crohns disease surges. Supposedly to avert a public panic the link between Johnes disease Crohns disease and milk has been dismissed by government agencies. Originally MAP could not be identified in Crohns disease specimens and the theory was dismissed as fearmongering. However with more modern DNA analysis MAPs genetic fingerprints have been identified in practically every Crohns disease specimen examined. There are numerous unexplained Crohns coincidences throughout the world hotspots and clusters which defy conventional medical logic. Why did twelve children in a single street in Winnipeg develop Crohns disease out of the blue? Why is Crohns disease in Australian children escalating when the disease was previously unknown? Why in the 1990s did the rate of Crohns disease in Iceland increase by a factor of twenty from a standing start? Why did Crohns disease become a mini epidemic in Czechoslovakia thirty years after independence from the USSR? Why did twelve children in a French village all develop Crohns disease within a few years of each other? Why did seven unrelated pupils at the Mankato MN Class of 1980 simultaneously develop Crohns disease? Finally after decades of denial by regulatory authorities disappointment for researchers and despair from Crohns disease patients we have a proven perpetrator- MAP. The mold has been broken: Crohns disease is a zoonotic disease caused by a bacterium and can be successfully treated by an antibiotic combination - RedHill Biopharmas RHB-104 the first step toward - A Cure for Crohns.BioDr. David Armstrong is a colorectal surgeon in Atlanta GA and has extensive experience in treating patients with Crohns disease. Born on a small dairy farm in North Yorkshire England he saw cattle die from Johnes disease. Migrating to the US as a surgeon at Yale University Mayo Clinic and Atlanta GA he saw the same wasting disease in his patients but now the name changes to Crohns disease. Dr. Armstrong has published extensively on Crohns disease has developed multiple innovative surgical devices and even developed medication for Crohns disease. He established the first Colorectal Surgical Fellowship teaching program in the Southeastern United States. Dr. Armstrong is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two sons.