Crohn’s disease is on the rise. This often chronic debilitating inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract can lead to complications involving fissures and fistula that must be surgically removed. Patients can become terribly thin and malnourished because of the digestive tract’s inability to absorb calories and protein because of this disease.
Recent scientific study, added to information gathered over the past 80 years, suggests that MAP (Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis) is a primary suspect in the development of Crohn’s. MAP causes Johne’s Disease in animals. Milk from Johne’s Disease infected dairy cattle, even when pasteurized, contains MAP. DNA and RNA probes of Crohn’s patients reveal that MAP is present in those patients. The diarrhea and wasting that occurs in humans also are symptomatic of Johne’s Disease in animals.
Over 500, 000 Americans alone suffer from Crohn’s, and they are most often the very young. When the drug therapy administrated to Johne’s Disease infected cattle is given to Crohn’s sufferers, Crohn’s goes into remission.
Can there be more convincing evidence that more conclusive studies of MAP and its possible cause of Crohn’s need to be conducted?
