Ketan Shah

Millions of chronically ill patients have been living for decades with persistent infections that no one is looking for. Chronic fatigue. Unexplained pain and stiffness. Brain fog. Shortness of breath. Palpitations. Disability. The official position remains stuck on a simplistic formula: 👉 “acute infection + short course of antibiotics = cure.” But the biological evidence shows a different reality: 🔬 Active DNA and RNA in tissues 🔬 Biofilms that protect the microbes 🔬 Persistent forms of Bartonella, Babesia and Borrelia (the “3 Bs”) and other co-infections …that do not respond to short-course monotherapy. Studies that repeatedly investigate symptoms and other consequences in the body are preferentially funded, while research aimed at eradicating the root cause is blocked. The result: patients who remain ill for decades without an etiological diagnosis, labeled as “somatization,” chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, stiff-person syndrome, or psychiatric disorders… while combination protocols already used in clinical practice (such as those of Dr. Horowitz and other leading physicians) wait for a formal evaluation that never arrives. In Australia the situation has reached extremes. To the denial of persistent infections has been added the defunding of etiological research and a deterrent effect on physicians, so that many have chosen to avoid diagnosing these infections or to treat them in silence. The price: thousands of patients without access to treatments directed at the cause. This is no longer just a scientific debate. It is a bioethical failure that prolongs the suffering of millions. We have published several papers on this topic: 🔗 researchgate.net/publication… researchgate.net/publication… researchgate.net/publication… researchgate.net/publication… researchgate.net/publication…