re lymphedema and cysts: Suggest studying the many types of cyst-forming filariases. Filarial infestation can also clog lymphatic channels and vessels when well-established. Vector is any number of tiny parasitic wasps (look like fruit flies when flying, but they're not) and mosquitos. Filaria (many,many more types out there besides those which cause African elephantiasis) are, on visual inspection, are just a bunch of "fibroblasts" that your own body makes, right? Sorry--WRONG. They are very likely the pathogenic organism causing most of the "auto-immune" chronic inflammatory diseases we see today.
As an aside, it took 20 years of study to find the causative organism in Lyme Disease, a chronic inflammatory disease which almost always progresses to
an auto-immune condition called rheumatoid arthritis. that causative organism is borrellia bergdorfii, a rickettsia-like bacterium. Another rickettsia-like bacterium just happens to be carried by many of the most popular disease-causing filaria--its name is WOLBACHIA.
It then seems to me that after 20 years of research of Lyme Disease,they found the rickettsia, but THEY MISSED
THE FILARIA IN THAT ONR PATIENT's lymph node. The rickettsia can dump out of the filaria if the patient is on certain antibiotics which kill the filaria. Since this bacteria is an endosymbiont carried within the filaria's GI tract,if the antibiotic kills the filaria,
the GI tract empties out and the lymph node biopasy needle picks up the bacterium.
Check out all the chronic inflammatory disease like RA, Lupus, Raynaud's, Sjogren's Syndrome,
chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and most of all,
current pathology studies of "white cloth pannus" found
over the knee in RA knee-replacement surgery patients.
I am fairly convinced that the fibroblasts (so-called) which form that substance are filaria and the shed skins of filaria. So be on the lookoput for the word Fiibrosis. Affects the eyes also (ophthalmic filariasis). The entomologists do not communicate with the doctors (and vice-versa),so don't expect them to know a thing. They simply are not taught it in medical school. Big article in January 2010 Scientific American magazine, titled "Neglected Tropical Diseases . . ." (can't remember the full title at this writing).
Ann from Michigan