Dear PANDAS Network Subscribers,
First a wish for your strong good health and well being during this difficult time for our world.
P/P/AE research will continue and we want you to know your efforts, donations, and voice have made a difference. Please consider saving this newsletter if you don't have the energy to read it now.
Below are three posts:
1)
An interview with Dr. Kenneth Bock
, Integrative Medical Practitioner, New York, and well known author), on the impact of COVID-19 on P/P/AE children.
2)
IMPORTANT RESEARCH PAPER AND VIDEO of Basic Science
by Columbia Univ. Agalliu Lab proving Strep Bacteria can cause brain inflammation (aka PANDAS or Basal Ganglia Encephalitis). We have hired a Medical Animation company to make this research readily understandable and narrated for a broad audience of doctors and families. This study helps to justify treatment for our children. It will be available in May 2020.
3)
Link to February Newsletter $100K in research & 3 Special Fundraisers
. Many people hadn't received this newsletter and we want you to know work will continue on -- TONSIL, IMMUNE, Gut Microbiome research once the trials of Covid have passed.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A COMMUNITY OF LOVE AND SUPPORT TO ONE ANOTHER. Please stay safe at home and we will continue to stay in touch.........The PANDAS Network Board of Directors