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GLA Chief Scientific Officer’s Response to NIH on Tick-borne Disease Strategic Plan

https://globallymealliance.org/request-information-input-nih-tick-borne-diseases-strategic-plan/?

tick-borne diseases

BELOW IS A LETTER FROM GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE’S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER IN RESPONSE TO THE NIH’S REQUEST FOR INFORMATION TO THEIR TICK-BORNE DISEASES STRATEGIC PLAN

As Chief Scientific Officer of GLA, I herewith respond to the solicitation for feedback to the National Institutes of Health Tick-borne Diseases Strategic Plan, which was developed by the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, a Health & Human Services advisory committee established by Congress in its 21st Century Cures Act. While the plan includes important topics on which research efforts should focus, our position is that it neglects several urgent areas that are of equal or higher importance.

Deficiencies in the current Strategic Plan include:

  1. The lack of any mention under the heading “Basic Research” of the need to better understand mechanisms of bacterial persistence both in reservoir species and in the face of exposure to antibiotics and the implications for treatment failure and persistent infection/symptomatology.
  2. The lack of mention under the heading “Diagnosis and Detection” of the need to supplement indirect diagnostic tests, that rely upon the presence of antibodies, with direct tests that detect the presence of pathogen-specific protein antigens or nucleic acid. Additionally, the testing paradigm needs to shift towards multi-pathogen (bacterial, viral, etc.) rather than solely Lyme disease diagnoses.
  3. The lack of mention under the heading “Therapeutics” of the need to develop novel treatment strategies for those suffering from multiple tick-borne and/or opportunistic infections. Additionally, there is a need to explore non-traditional treatment modalities to care for patients continuing to suffer from persistent infection/symptomatology due to initial antibiotic treatment failure.

The list also underemphasizes (1) the ecology and management of ticks; (2) ecological interactions between ticks, hosts, and pathogens; and (3) environmental drivers of tick emergence, spread, and changing risk. Specifically, the plan lacks:

  1. Mention of national surveillance of ticks and tick-borne pathogens that would provide real-world representations of exposure risk in space and time;
  2. Any mention of finding vulnerabilities in the tick/host/pathogen life cycle and of the importance of seeking the means of exploiting such vulnerabilities to control exposure;
  3. A focus on identifying and ameliorating anthropogenic disturbances (land use changes, climate change, habitat degradation, etc.) that exacerbate tick-borne risk;
  4. Recognition of the importance of understanding how both native and non-native ticks (e.g., black-legged ticks, lone star ticks, long-horned ticks, etc.) become invasive, rapidly expand beyond their historic geographic ranges, and potentially share hosts and pathogens; and
  5. A focus on novel and existing methods to reduce tick populations.

It is our institutional view that any set of research priorities on tick-borne diseases in the United States must address these essential issues. We hope that by pointing out these omissions you will be allowed to redress their absence in a final draft of the NIH’s Tick-borne Diseases Strategic Plan.

Respectfully,

Timothy J Sellati

 

Timothy J. Sellati, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Global Lyme Alliance

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**Comment**

It saddens me that still after over 40 years, the basics need to be pointed out to the people running the show.  The issues delineated in this letter are so basic a kindergartner could explain them, yet authorities treat this as a one pathogen illness using testing that’s like throwing sand into the ocean.

My only concern with #3 in the last series is the mention of “climate change” when independent Canadian tick researcher, John Scott, has completely blown that “theory” out of the water showing ticks to be very ecoadaptive and able to survive harsh conditions by merely crawling under leaf litter or snow:   https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/

Nothing has resulted from ANY data on the climate in helping very ill patients.

Recently advocate Carl Tuttle delineated 10 ways on how to maintain the illusion that the Lyme/MSIDS pandemic is under control:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/19/how-to-maintain-the-illusion-the-lyme-misds-pandemic-is-under-control/

See link for references and entire article.  List below developed article:

1. Produce a two tier antibody testing algorithm where first line screening tests (Elisa) fail to detect 60% of infections. Those patients who do test positive will be allowed the second more sensitive test (Western blot) but design the test with strict criteria (Case definition) so as to rule out 90% keeping infection numbers artificially low.

2. Fund only those studies through institutions with researchers that have a bias against persistent infection.

3. Maintain a belief that all stages of infection, acute through late stage are easily cured with a standard two week treatment guideline and turn the disease into a syndrome when patients complain of persistent debilitating symptoms after unsuccessful treatment.

4. If a culture test should be developed which is the gold standard for many bacterial infections do not recognize this test and insist it is not government approved.

5. Create a map depicting limited territories were the infection is present.Use an existing institution with a bias against persistent infection to manage the data.

6. Define the disease exclusively as a zoonotic illness and disregard congenital and gestational transfer cases or transfer between sexually active couples.

7. No need to screen the blood supply for this pathogen.

8. Ignore Primate studies proving persistent infection.

9. Create a foundation to promote the disinformation campaign and staff the foundation with the same researchers with a bias against persistent infection.

10. Create a Working Group to talk about the problem for another decade (submitting reports every two years) without upgrading the threat to Highest Alert even though infection rates may exceed five times the AIDS epidemic or become twice as prevalent as breast cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Activism, Lyme, Uncategorized

A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the Danish Cohort Study on the MMR Vaccine

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/04/a-scientists-rebuttal-to-the-danish-cohort-study/

A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the Danish Cohort Study

by Brian S. Hooker, PhD, PE | Guest Writer
Published April 18, 2019
A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the Danish Cohort Study

 

The MMR vaccine study recently published by Hviid et al. (2019, Annals of Internal Medicine)1 entitled, “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study,” leaves many more serious questions than definitive answers.

The authors claim that their work, “strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination.”

This is an extremely broad claim that unfortunately is not supported by the evidence they present. There are eight fundamental flaws in the research study that lead to questions about the accuracy of the conclusions.

1. Children were notably missing from the study sample

First and foremost is the underascertainment of autism cases within their data sample. The study authors used Denmark population registries of children born in Denmark of Danish-born mothers which should reflect the current reported autism incidence in Denmark at 1.65% (Schendel et al. 2018, JAMA).2However, the autism incidence within the sample of the Hviid et al. paper is 0.98%, meaning that approximately 4,400 autistic children are missing from this study. The authors do not discuss the discrepancy in the number of cases.

2. Many of the children in the sample were too young for an autism diagnosis

The most probable reason for the discrepancy in cases is that the sample in the Hviid et al. paper is too young to completely ascertain autism diagnoses. The average age of sample is 8.64 years with a standard deviation of 3.48 years. Age of autism diagnosis on average is reported as 7.22 years with a standard deviation of 2.86 years. Assuming that the age of diagnosis follows a standard bell curve, this would mean that 31.5% of the sample was too young to get an autism diagnosis. This could account for as many as 3,400 additional cases not included in the analysis, which would bias the outcomes to favor not finding a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism.

3. Failure to eliminate those with autism related to genetic conditions from the sample

In addition, individuals who were diagnosed with genetic comorbidities (known to lead to autism) after age 1 were “censored,” meaning that they were followed until the time of diagnosis, but not removed from the study. Thus, they were counted among the sample with many of them most likely autistic due to a genetic condition.  These should have appropriately been eliminated from the sample.

4. Use of two different MMR vaccines

Also, two different MMR vaccines were used in this study. The GlaxoSmithKline Prolix® formulation was used from 2000 to 2007 and Merck’s MMR®II formulation was used from 2008 to 2013. Prolix® contains the Schwarz measles strain and MMR®II contains the Ender’s Edmonston measles strain. Thus, children using the Merck formulation were much too young to receive an autism diagnosis as the oldest they would be at the time of study is 6 years of age or younger. This is important for comparison to the experience in other countries, especially the U.S. where the Merck formulation was used exclusively for the entire study period.

5. Failure to control for the “dosage effect”

In addition, the age at which Danish children in the sample received their second dose of MMR vaccine was dropped from 12 years to 4 years in 2008. This means that children born after 2004 would get two MMR vaccines prior to the average age of an autism diagnosis, whereas children born prior to 2004 would have received only one MMR vaccine. If indeed there is a “dosage effect” of the MMR (i.e., where both doses were causally related to autism), this could not be elucidated in the sample and again, this would bias the results erroneously to not find a relationship.

6. Statistical method failed to capture those children with a delayed diagnosis of autism

The authors also used a non-transparent statistical method where “person-years” were considered following the MMR vaccine to an autism diagnosis where children who received a diagnosis soon after receiving their first MMR vaccine would be weighted more heavily than children with a delay in diagnosis. This makes no sense given that the age of autism diagnoses varies widely among populations based on access to services and severity of the autism case, among other factors.  This type of method is “borrowed” from infectious disease epidemiology where an exposure directly leads to a disease state rather quickly, for example, chicken pox. However, the method has no place in evaluating chronic sequelae to vaccination which may take a period of years to receive an accurate diagnosis.

7. Vaccinated male siblings of children with autism show more autism diagnoses

It is interesting to note the increased incidence of autism in boys with autistic siblings in the vaccinated group shown in Figure 2 of the article’s supplement.1The increase towards the end of the “survival curve” shows that more boys vaccinated with MMR (with autistic siblings) are diagnosed with autism than unvaccinated boys. The difference is not statistically significant but this may be an artifact of the very small subset of boys considered in this analysis.

The study authors also cite the CDC’s Destefano et al. 2004 study which actually shows a statistically significant relationship between MMR timing and autism incidence. This is discussed further in a reanalysis of CDC’s data in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Hooker, 2018).3

8. Conflict of interest of the study authors

It should be noted that three of the study authors are currently employed at the Statens Serum Institut which is a for-profit vaccine manufacturer in Denmark. In addition, this work was funded by a grant from the Novo Nordisk foundation. Novo Nordisk is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer.

These are two serious conflicts of interest.

The lead author, Anders Hviid was the second author on the New England Journal of Medicine MMR autism paper from 2002 (Madsen et al. 2002).4 This research was completed despite the fact that the study authors had never received proper ethics approval to complete the study. A detailed analysis of this is featured by Children’s Health Defense.5

With these issues, this paper cannot be relied upon as evidence that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism.

References:

1 Hviid A, Vinsløv Hansen J, Frisch M, Melbye M. Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Annals of Internal Medicine Apr. 16, 2019.
2 Schendel DE, Thorsteinsson E. Cumulative Incidence of Autism Into Adulthood for Birth Cohorts in Denmark, 1980-2012. JAMA Nov. 6, 2018l; 320(17): 1811-1813.
3 Hooker BS. Reanalysis of CDC Data on Autism Incidence and Time of First MMR Vaccination. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Winter 2018; 23(4): 105-109.
4 Madsen KM, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, Schendel D, Wohlfahrt J, Thorsen P, Olsen J, Melbye M. A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism. N Engl J MedNov. 7, 2002; 347(19): 1477-82.
5 The World Mercury Project. Poul Thorsen Fugitive Researcher. Children’s Health Defense August 2017.

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For more:  

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/15/medical-doctor-of-50-years-current-measles-hysteria-not-based-on-science-but-scientism-a-quasi-religious-faith-in-vaccines/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/06/genetic-sequencing-science-breakthrough-just-proved-that-measles-outbreaks-are-caused-by-the-measles-vaccine/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/27/measles-transmitted-by-the-vaccinated-gov-researchers-confirm/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/03/sierra-avenue-school-exposed-to-measles-after-vaccinated-teacher-contracts-illness/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/01/cnn-forced-to-correct-piece-on-measles/ https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/15/us-warship-quarantined-at-sea-due-to-virus-outbreak/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/17/for-health-officials-school-boards-asymptomatic-measles-infection-is-real/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/13/vaccine-injury-is-free-as-long-as-we-deny-it/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/21/measles-propaganda-can-have-dire-public-health-ramifications/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/22/vaccines-best-video-yet/

The outcome of the Vaccine Culture War will determine what it means to be free. 101 Because if the State can tag, track down and force individuals against their will to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.

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Activism, research, vaccines

Not Autism

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/another-april-michael-goldberg-md/

ANOTHER APRIL

As we are entering another April, you hardly hear much about Autism Awareness (guess everyone that counts IS aware of this terrifying pandemic), and you certainly do not hear about any better answers (medical or otherwise) for parents now, than when Autism Speaks (Feb. 2005) and so many parent groups sprang up to “help “

Why has there been no real help, no real changes in 24++ years?

Sadly, it’s getting easier and easier to explain why. Over all theses year, neither those in charge of our present medical system (impossible to be innocently misdirected at this time) or these groups have wanted to admit the truth; A terrible mistake was made (and still being perpetuated), these children must have a medical disease, because most have organic (medical – motor) issues, and for the reason below do not fit or qualify for what IS being called “autism.” 

IF multiple times over in the 40s, 50s, 60s, Dr. Kanner and other worldwide prominent psychiatrists argued, stood up, and fought for the idea this new idea of “autism” was unique from other childhood schizophrenias; AND unless a child met the strict criteria set up, a child did not have “autism”!!!

As discussed, many times, those strict criteria included:

  1. a child was never affectionate(never in our world to be affectionate)
  2. a child was never normal (part of never being in our world, connected, etc.) and critically
  3. if there was an organic finding (i.e. motor issues) one could not be given a psychiatric, DSM label.

IF the system won’t change, the organized groups won’t change, how many of you as parents are ready to finally change, ready to come together in the one fight NEVER done over ALL these years. Your children are ill, they do not have a DSM, psychiatric, developmental label called autism and you want immediate medical help for your children, a medical crisis that has been completely ignored for well over 24++ years. 

If enough of you can come together, create a new organization focused on the right solution (starts with this is NOT autism), this April could be the start of real hope for all of you and your families. IF not, sadly safe to say, nothing is going to change . . . hope that statement is finally unacceptable to many more of you. You and your children deserve a lot more, and a real change for a better future . . . not same old, same old.

Michael Goldberg, MD

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**Comment**

Dr. Goldberg makes very important and valid points.  Without the correct definition, patients can not get appropriate treatment.

This is true in the Lyme/MSIDS world as well.  Mainstream medicine is calling this complex illness “Lyme Disease,” when it typically is so much more than that.

Research has proven this is typically a polymicrobial illness causing a wide range of symptoms – each necessitating different treatment:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/

Mainstream medicine also hasn’t admitted that borrelia alone is a formidable foe that is pleomorphic requiring different medications for each form:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/05/ability-of-stationary-phase-persister-biofilm-microcolonies-of-borrelia-burgdorferi-to-cause-more-severe-disease/

They also push the “classic EM rash” criteria, when far fewer get it than is being touted: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/22/why-mainstream-lyme-msids-research-remains-in-the-dark-ages/  Nearly ALL research being done uses the EM criteria as a starting point, leaving out thousands of patients.

Mainstream research on Lyme/MSIDS has used abysmal blood serology testing for decades, suppressing direct detection methods:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/direct-diagnostic-tests-for-lyme-the-closest-thing-to-an-apology-you-are-ever-going-to-get/  Again, this leaves out thousands of patients in research.

And, importantly, there’s far more at play than the vilified black legged tick:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/02/transmission-of-lyme-disease-lida-mattman-phd/

Excerpt:

Mattman isolated living Borrelia spirochetes in mosquitoes, fleas, mites, semen, urine, blood, plasma and Cerebral Spinal Fluid. She discovered that this bacteria is dangerous because it can survive and spread without cell wall (L shape). Because L-forms do not possess cell wall, they are resistant to antibiotics that act upon the cell wall.

Others have found various ways Bb is transmitted as well:

THE CDC/IDSA/NIH STILL HAVEN’T RECEIVED THE MEMO or are ignoring it

 

 

 

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Activism, Autism

NYC Mayor Tells Citizens: We Own Your Bodies & We Can Force You to be Injected With Anything We Want

https://healthfreedom.news/2019-04-12-nyc-mayor-de-blasio-tells-citizens-we-own-your-bodies.html

NYC Mayor De Blasio tells citizens: We own your bodies, and we can force you to be injected with anything we want

04/12/2019 / By

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that residents do not own their own bodies. The city of New York can demand that all citizens be injected with literally anything the government declares to be a “vaccine,” even when those vaccines contain aborted human fetal tissue cells, toxic aluminum metals, inflammatory adjuvants and other dangerous, deadly chemicals.

This is the latest attempt by authorities in New York to obliterate human rights and roll out a medical dictatorship where citizens have zero rights to defend their own bodies against risky medial interventions that are demanded at gunpoint.

PJ Media, which has emerged as one of the best independent media websites covering liberty and individual rights, has published an especially noteworthy article on this issue. Authored by Megan Fox, the story is entitled, “Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Mandatory Measles Vaccination Order Faces Legal Challenges.”

We are republishing it here with full credit to the original author and PJ Media website. This in important read. Share everywhere.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Mandatory Measles Vaccination Order Faces Legal Challenges

by Megan Fox, PJMedia.com

In an unusual and extreme move, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak in the Orthodox Jewish community and is demanding forced vaccinations of everyone within four zip codes of the affected areas. Violators face fines up to $1000. This includes babies six months of age, even though the MMR is not recommended for anyone under twelve months of age.

The Children’s Health Defense will be filing a legal challenge to the order, which comes on the heels of a New York Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Rockland County ban on unvaccinated children in public spaces.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is supporting a legal challenge to this dangerous, unprecedented overreach. While the City has unquestionable authority to control disease outbreaks, it may not violate the bedrock principle of prior, free and informed consent to all medical interventions, including vaccines. This is a fundamental human right. The City may quarantine, isolate, trace contacts and strongly urge vaccination, but it may not impose such a draconian mandate without demonstrating necessity, reasonableness, proportionality, harm avoidance, non-discrimination, due process and equal protection. The Commissioner has failed to do this; the City’s actions violate New York State law.

CHD board member Mary Holland commented, “I am shocked that Mayor de Blasio would resort to such police state techniques to control an outbreak of measles. I don’t believe the City’s actions will withstand legal scrutiny.” CHD Chairman Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confident their legal challenge will prevail.

This case goes beyond a dispute over religious freedom. Thanks to the Merck federal whistleblower litigation, we now know that Merck’s MMR should have never been approved, much less mandated. To get its license Merck allegedly ordered its scientists to falsify efficacy data to fraudulently conceal the fact that the mumps component quickly wanes, triggering dangerous outbreaks in older populations where it can cause sterility in men and women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 150 outbreaksresulting in 9,200 cases of mumps in fully vaccinated adults, dwarfing the recent measles outbreaks. We are confident that no American court will allow government bureaucrats to force American citizens to take risky pharmaceutical products against their will.

Merck is currently defending itself against claims of falsifying data brought by two former employees.

Medical corporation Merck & Co. will decidedly face the music in the ongoing class action and related anti-trust lawsuit involving its mumps vaccine – a product routinely given to babies and children for generations. The issue, which involves allegations of false compliance with FDA standards for vaccines, prompted a False Claims Act lawsuit: United States v. Merck & Co. This case was commenced by two virologists once employed with Merck, alleges a systematic and long-standing commitment by the company to lying about the efficacy of its mumps vaccination, thereby prompting possible exposure to liability under the federal False Claims Act.

Governor Cuomo voiced concerns about the legality of de Blasio’s emergency order to forcibly vaccinate conscientious objectors.

“Look, it’s a serious public health concern, but it’s also a serious First Amendment issue and it is going to be a constitutional, legal question,” Cuomo said in a radio interview on WAMC. “Do we have the right — does society, government have the right to say ‘you must vaccinate your child because I’m afraid your child is going to infect my child, even if you don’t want it done and even if it violates your religious beliefs?”

Some have asked how de Blasio is planning to determine who is or isn’t vaccinated to enforce his order. According to the mayor, they will be using “disease detectives.” de Blasio explained, “It parallels what a police detective does. If someone has symptoms, they will literally interview them to figure out everywhere they’ve been, everyone they might have come in contact with, and then they go reach out to that whole network to make sure people are vaccinated.” It’s unclear whether “make sure people are vaccinated” means “hold them down and inject them against their will.”

Read more stories on liberty and individual rights at PJmedia.com. Stay informed about vaccine dangers and vaccine industry propaganda by reading Vaccines.news.

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For an interesting read on de Blasio:  https://nypost.com/2019/04/18/de-blasio-more-corrupt-than-any-mayor-since-jimmy-walker/

Excerpt:

Blas has been in ethics trouble virtually since Day One, when he dropped a multibillion-dollar contract on the teachers union and then swept $350,000 in teacher money into the accounts of a now-defunct PAC, the Campaign for One New York. Or maybe it was the other way around; it’s hard to keep his conflicts straight.

News of Blas’ latest scandal arrives via The City, a local-news-oriented internet startup that Wednesday revealed a heavily redacted city Department of Investigation report alleging woeful wrongdoing. To wit, that the mayor has heavily pressured folks doing business with the city to contribute to his various political schemes. And he did so despite repeated official warnings that he was acting improperly.

This new, sure-to-build, scandal followed news that the city had bought 21 shabby apartment buildings in Brooklyn and the Bronx from two infamous but politically well-wired slumlords for three-plus times their listed value: $173 million versus $50 million. The mayor says he’s well pleased with the deal — hardly a surprise; the slumlords’ lawyer has been a mayoral fundraiser…

It’s especially good to be the king — of a corruptocracy.

Regarding the measles:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/15/medical-doctor-of-50-years-current-measles-hysteria-not-based-on-science-but-scientism-a-quasi-religious-faith-in-vaccines/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/21/measles-propaganda-can-have-dire-public-health-ramifications/

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Activism, vaccines

How to Maintain the Illusion the Lyme/MISDS Pandemic is Under Control

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/24443341?cs_tk=AroD2-

New! “Tutorial update for 2019”

APR 18, 2019 — 

Please see the latest email to the TBDWG

Lyme Bumper Stickers (Public Service Announcement)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/123659578861

WAKE UP AMERICA!

——— Original Message ———-

From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: brett.giroir@hhs.gov, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov
Cc: (98 Undisclosed recipients)
Date: April 18, 2019 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: New! “Tutorial update for 2019”
To the Tick Borne Disease Working Group;

The following nine step tutorial originally sent to Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius in 2012 is in need of an update.
There are now ten steps designed to maintain the belief that health authorities have everything under control. Note: Additional steps may be necessary to maintain this illusion.

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

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Feb 11, 2012

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Attn: Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius

Dear Secretary Sebelius,

Please take a moment to read the following document presented to the New Hampshire Department of Health.

Nine Steps to Deny an Epidemic on a National Level 101

The following fictional tutorial was created to assist those in position of authority acting as an autonomous group where its authority is absolute, cannot be challenged and answer only to themselves.

This easily reproduced nine step program is designed to maintain the belief that health authorities have everything under control. This program can be used for any infectious disease when denial is necessary.

1. Produce a two tier antibody testing algorithm where first line screening tests (Elisa) fail to detect 60% of infections. Those patients who do test positive will be allowed the second more sensitive test (Western blot) but design the test with strict criteria (Case definition) so as to rule out 90% keeping infection numbers artificially low.

Strict criteria:https://www.dropbox.com/s/ppus0unm0j2oiff/Western Blot.pdf?dl=0

Note: Do not consider a false negative Elisa as they do not exist and remember; Western blot tests are only ordered after a positive Elisa. Disregard any (outside) studies proving poor testing reliability and certainly do not listen to any patient complaints.

Poor testing reliability:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1248466/

Patient complaints:https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6kwab49zeqyp2p/PatientComplaints.docx?dl=0

2. Fund only those studies through institutions with researchers that have a bias against persistent infection. It is imperative that these researchers are retained exclusively to continue the pier review process and publishing of each other’s studies. There must be no acceptance of outside studies.

Publishing: http://lyme.kaiserpapers.org/idsa-affiliations-with-editorial-boards.html

3. Maintain a belief that all stages of infection, acute through late stage are easily cured with a standard two week treatment guideline and turn the disease into a syndrome when patients complain of persistent debilitating symptoms after unsuccessful treatment. Insist that persistent infection cannot exist even though antibody tests can only identify at best a past infection.

Treatment guideline: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21220656

Persistent debilitating symptoms: http://www.change.org/petitions/subjective-symptoms-after-treatment-of-lyme-disease

Unsuccessful treatment: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22294245

4. If a culture test should be developed which is the gold standard for many bacterial infections do not recognize this test and insist it is not government approved.

Culture test: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0kgw84wyezzjb2a/Aug1 Advance Lab Press Release.pdf?dl=0

Not government approved: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/diagnosistesting/LabTest/OtherLab/index.html

5. Create a map depicting limited territories were the infection is present. Use an existing institution with a bias against persistent infection to manage the data. Employ the services of a well known public relations firm to announce the map so as to maintain the belief that mainstream healthcare has “got everything under control.”

Existing institution: http://news.yale.edu/2004/06/23/29-million-cdc-grant-yale-study-lyme-disease-transmission-humans

Announce the map:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/bc-nmp012712.php

6. Define the disease exclusively as a zoonotic illness and disregard congenital and gestational transfer cases or transfer between sexually active couples.

Sexually active couples: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1wpuozw2czhvyi/LymeDiseasepandemic.pdf?dl=0

7. No need to screen the blood supply for this pathogen.

8. Primate studies proving persistent infection after standard treatment will be ignored.

Primate studies:http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=16759

9. Create a foundation to promote the disinformation campaign and staff the foundation with the same researchers with a bias against persistent infection.

Foundation: https://www.aldf.com/about-us/

NEW STEP:

10. Create a Working Group to talk about the problem for another decade (submitting reports every two years) without upgrading the threat to Highest Alert even though infection rates may exceed five times the AIDS epidemic or become twice as prevalent as breast cancer. Use a public health official i.e. Assistant Secretary of Health to applaud the Working Group while avoiding any and all inquiries that might identify the mishandling of the epidemic no matter how many scientific references are presented.

Working Group: https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/index.html

The nine (now ten) steps provided should prove useful when the need arises to obscure the truth attributable to any mistakes that may have created the outbreak while eliminating any ownership of the problem.

Caution: There is a real risk however that those who follow the program will be indicted for fraud against humanity. [Racketeering lawsuit] New!

Fraud against humanity:https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lymecryme

Racketeering lawsuit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/18uyrli878ug51m/LymeDisease RICO Lawsuit.pdf?dl=0

Again, this is a fictional tutorial as nothing like this could take place in the United States.

United States: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWgS0XLVqw&feature=channel_page
Sincerely,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

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And, Tuttle drops the mic….  KABOOM!    

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