Re: True Confession

You can review some of the old posts on this and other forums to see what has been posted.

I do not currently make any claims of zappers killing any kind of parasite in the human body or in animals. The FDA has already spend a tremendous amount of time and money trying to imprison me.

Also, I do not claim feed. In the case of many filaria, Wolbachia, actually controls growth, development of the larvae, and parts of the reproduction process.

The claim that I make is that zappers kill some bacteria in water and that ParaZapper CC2, ParaZapper UZI-3, and ParaZapper MY kill more bacteria than other zappers do.

One note for those interested: Wolbachia is closely related to Bartonella sp.

Here are a few articles picked up from Google:

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The α-proteobacterium Wolbachia is probably the most prevalent, vertically transmitted symbiont on Earth. In contrast with its wide distribution in arthropods, Wolbachia is restricted to one family of animal-parasitic nematodes, the Onchocercidae. ( we now know that this is not true, see articles below ) This includes filarial pathogens such as Onchocerca volvulus, the cause of human onchocerciasis, or river blindness. The symbiosis between filariae and Wolbachia is obligate,

From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22919073

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the association between Wolbachia and the filarial nematode Dirofilaria immitis, better known as heartworm. Wolbachia are Gram-negative bacteria that live inside the cells of many filarial nematodes, including heartworms.

From: http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/FDAVeterinarianNewsletter/ucm2...

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In 2003 it was suggested that the common Antibiotic doxycycline might be effective in treating lymphatic filariasis.[15] The parasites responsible for elephantiasis have a population of symbiotic bacteria, Wolbachia, that live inside the worm. When the symbiotic bacteria are killed by the antibiotic, the worms themselves also die.

Doxycycline treatment almost completely eliminated microfilaraemia at 8—14 months' follow-up (for all timepoints p<0·001). Ultrasonography detected adult worms in only six (22%) of 27 individuals treated with doxycycline compared with 24 (88%) of 27 with placebo at 14 months after the start of treatment (p<0·0001)

From: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2805%2966591-9...

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Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by the mosquitoborne helminths Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia species. More than 120 million people have LF, mainly in Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and parts of Latin America. Adult worms reside in lymphatics and release microfilariae, which circulate nocturnally in the blood. These parasites harbor rickettsia-like Wolbachia endosymbionts, which female worms require to reproduce.

From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104918/

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A Cell-Based Screen Reveals that the Albendazole Metabolite, Albendazole Sulfone, Targets Wolbachia

From: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1002922

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This is an indication that parasites affected by Albendazole may be dependent on Wolbachia or a related microbe. PZ
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There are many others but I did not have lime for all of them. As this is basically a fairly recent discovery, there are likely many still yet to be discovered bacterial symbionts for many other helminths.