Of course you're right.

But if an infectious agent can be found then it can probably be treated. My docs mostly think it's ludicrous that it might be a microrganism because they believe it would have been isolated by this time. But I wonder if it might actually be a couple operating in tandem. It's curious that amputation used to be common and be fully successfull in about 10% of cases. In the other 90% it made the disease far worse. This alone seems to imply that the procedure might be interupting the life cycle of something. The fact that the disease spreads is quite curious as well. It certainly seems absurd that an injury might spread to other parts of the body.

Antibiotics seem to suppress symptoms.

I keep thinking that the finger or toenails are involved in most cases.