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Gender distribution of affected persons?
58% Female   42% Male

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Youngest and oldest affected? Youngest was 1 month, oldest 94 years old

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How long have you been suffering from this infection? Longest for about 35 years (1986)

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Where could you have contracted it?

Ground, foliage, grass, cotton pads, t-shirt made in Asia, sewage treatment plant/sludge, birds, insect bites, fire ants, bird mites, dogs, cats, horses, cattle, chickens, goats, wild hares, new couch, cotton, one-night stand, public phone, Asia trip, hotel room, hospital, beach sand, hay field, fields, fruit growing, wine growing, hiking, partners, family members/relatives, Florida trip, California, Texastrip, motel bed, outdoor festival, shelter, forest/meadows, food, gardening, camping, moldy apartment, shaking hands, house flood

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Do you spend a lot of time in the garden (gardening) and in nature?
68% voted YES

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Did you have direct contact with soil or plants (without gloves)?
69% voted YES

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Do you have a partner at the moment?
34% voted YES

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Is your partner also ill?
38% voted YES

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Are you still sexually active with your partner?
47% voted YES

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Do you have children?
63% voted YES

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Are your children also infected?
41% voted YES

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If so, all children?
28% voted YES

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If not, only one child or a few?
61% voted YES

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Are your pets also infected, if any?
82% voted YES

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Did doctors believe that you are suffering from a new form of bacterial infection (biofilms)?
99% voted NO

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Have you been rather be treated with psychopharmaceuticals due to the misdiagnosis of DOP?
78% voted YES

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Do you think doctors took enough time to diagnose your illness?
96% voted NO

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Could you get any medical treatment (e.g. antibiotics) at all? 
21% voted YES

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Was this medical treatment definitely successful?
94% voted NO

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Could prescribed antibiotics temporarily improve disease symptoms?
87% voted YES

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Does your health insurance still cover the cost of treatments?
31% voted YES

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Did you have enough money to treat yourself?
87% voted NO

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Did any kind of treatment help you?
14% voted YES

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If so, what treatments?
Antibiotics, Anti-histamine, stress-reducing agents, natural cures, hormone treatments, antiseptics, disinfectant sprays, antibacterial creams

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Have you a diagnosed metabolic disease (diabetes, pituitary glands/adrenal insufficiency, etc.) ?
59% voted YES

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Did you end up with a hormone test (sex hormones, histamine, CRH, ACTH, DHEA, cortisol, genetic tests)?
79% voted NO

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Were the hormone levels in a normal range?
93% voted NO

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Do you suffer from thyroid, over-functioning, under-functioning?
46% voted YES

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Do you suffer from autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland, e.g. Hashimoto?
21% voted YES

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Did the autoimmune diseases Hashimoto develop after the biofilm infection?
17% voted YES

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Did you have a traumatic childhood or were you suffering from burn-out/long-term stress?
79% voted YES

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Have you often had often gastrointestinal problems (ulcus, gastritis, reflux, leaky gut syndrome, Chron's disease, etc.)?
83% voted YES

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Do you suffer from histamine intolerance, histaminosis, mast cell hyperactivity syndrome, etc.?
58% voted YES

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Have you had after this infection blood clots or thrombosis in addition to swollen legs/feet?
32% voted YES

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Have you had your illness after a stressful or dramatic experience (trauma)?
63% voted YES

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Do you suffer from diabetes mellitus (I or II)?
27% voted YES

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Do you sweat under stress more than usual?
86% voted YES

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Do you suffer from ADHD (attention deficit + hyperactivity syndrome)?
23% voted YES

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Did you suffer before being infected from an auto-immune disease (Sjogrens, Lupus, Renauld)?
19% voted YES

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Do you suffer now after the infection from an auto-immune disease (Sjogrens, Lupus, Renauld)?
39% voted YES

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Did you suffer from stress-related skin diseases already before contracting this infection?
39% voted YES

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Have you had before this infection already the diagnosis of cancer or sarcoidosis, etc.?

42%  with breast cancer (women)

37% with prostate cancer (men)

33% with cervical cancer (women)

26% with lung cancer (both)

29% pancreatic cancer (both)

12% with white skin cancer (both)

14%  mit Sarkoidosis (both)

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Have you been in direct contact with pesticides in nature or at home? (Lindan, Perimethrin, Roundup)?
23% voted YES

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Have you noticed to attract more insects now than usual ?
61% voted YES

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Which insects or insect-like forms/species, or do they think you are infested with? 

Fruit flies, mites, moths, thrips, hookworms, bird mites, beetle-like forms, fleas, springtails, tiny beetles, small flies, fly-mads, filaria, foride flies, worm-like forms

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Do you rather drink more wine or beer? (e.g. histamine intolerance can cause headache or migraine) 

72% were more likely to drink wine and 28% beer
61% drank no alcohol

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Are you more likely to be an anxious/discouraged person?
39% voted YES

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Do you have eye flickers now and see light-flashes in your eyes?
72% voted YES

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Do you suffer from tinnitus now or do you hear higher frequencies?
69% voted YES

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Are you generally more angry now?
73% voted YES

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Are you now overweight and have you gained weight extremely quickly after the disease (stress-related)?
67% voted YES

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Are you very intuitive/sensitive now?
75% voted YES

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Have you noticed that you have now become more introverted after the disease?
64% voted YES

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Do you still have a social environment/contacts?
87% voted NO

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Have you developed an autistic behavior (introverted)?
33% voted YES

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Have you developed a psychotic behavior? 
37% voted YES

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Do you have skin sensation now when using a computer/phone?
91% voted YES

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Have you had the usual standard vaccination carried out?
76% voted YES

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What blood group do you have? 

All blood groups were present.
Almost equal ratio Rhesus factor

negative/positive 49% O, 23% A, 21% B, 7% A-B

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Do you have a healthy diet?
68% voted YES

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Do you suffer mainly from these symptoms below?
87% voted YES

swollen hands/feet/legs, joint pain, back pain, hot knee, loss of gums, dental problems, neurological discomfort, convulsions on hands and feet, intestinal discomfort, frequent headaches, increased dandruff/dry skin areas, increased sweating, hair loss, endocrine disorders, numbness, carpal tunnel syndrome, heart piercing, white or dark skin spots, small or bigger bruises, heart stings, tinnitus, fatigue syndrome, fatigue syndrome, panic attacks, depression, chronic cough, COPD, emphysema, blood clots, thrombosis, ditches - grooves in fingernails, poorer/blurred vision/stereo vision, flashes of light, pustules, skin strokes, blisters, skin nodules, open wounds, skin tingling, dermatitis, cellulitis, thinner skin areas, increased gray hair, faster hair growth beard/lobes, collagen/tissue loss, hanging skin

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Have you ever done a Lyme disease test?
46% voted YES

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Was your Borrelia test positive?
12% voted YES

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Which Lyme disease test was performed, possibly which Borrelia variant was found?
Western Blot, IgG/IgM, CD-57, ELISA, LTT-MELISA, T-Cell spot (Elispot), PCR.
B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii, B. garinii, B. valaisiana

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Have you been diagnosed  with an iron deficiency?
67% voted YES

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Have you been diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency? 
59% voted YES

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Have you also been tested for other pathogens (bacteria, protozoa, etc.)?
34% voted YES

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If yes, what pathogens were found?

Agrobacterium group, Rhizobium radiobacter, B. megaterium, Bazillus cereus group, B. subtilis, B. pumilus, B. israelis, Chlamydia pneu., Bartonella, Babesia, MRSA, Mycoplasma, Staph-Aureus, Streptococcus, Eikenella corrodens, Endolimax nana, Borrelia, E. coli, Klebsiella Oxytoca, Giardia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Actinomycetes israelis, Blastocystis hominis

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Have you been tested also for viruses?
23% voted YES

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If yes, which viruses were positive? 
EBV, CMV, Herpes simplex, Coxackie, Papilloma, Simian, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, B, C

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Is your home contaminated with molds?
21% voted YES

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Have you been tested for mold infections?
32% voted YES

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Which fungal infections have been detected?
Aspergillus species, general moulds, Stachybotrys Chartum, Chrysosporium, Candida, general yeast fungi, dermatophytes, etc.

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Have you always been more melancholic/stressed/depressed than others?
41% voted YES

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Do you think about suicide more recently?
61% voted YES

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Do you think that you can ever be cured?

56% voted YES after 5 Years of illness
11% voted YES after 10 Years of illness

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