Archive for November, 2020

Bartonella, Retinitis & BRAO in 13 Year Old Boy

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32435719/

Branch retinal artery occlusion secondary to Bartonella henselae infection in a 13 year-old

Dala M Eloubeidi 1, David L Kilpatrick 2 3, Jason N Crosson 2 3
Affiliation

Free PMC article

Abstract

Purpose: To summarize the case of a 13 year-old boy diagnosed with a BRAO (branches of retinal vein become blocked) secondary to B. henselae infection.

Observations: The patient presented with a sudden, unilateral, and painless scotoma (interruption in the visual field or blind spot). Fundoscopic findings and multimodal imaging were consistent with a BRAO with associated areas of intraretinal whitening along the involved artery. Upon further questioning, the patient reported having 15 cats at home. Antibodies were positive for B. henselae. The patient was treated with oral doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 2 months with complete resolution of the retinal findings and the scotoma.

Conclusions and importance: B. henselae should be considered as a potential cause of retinitis and BRAO, even in pediatric-aged patients.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/10/multimodal-imaging-of-two-unconventional-cases-of-bartonella-neuroretinitis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/21/bartonella-and-neuroretinitis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/10/bartonella-neuroretinitis-not-atypical/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/08/case-series-bartonella-ocular-manifestations/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/09/07/keep-an-eye-out-for-bartonella/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/28/treatment-strategies-for-neuroretinitis-due-to-bartonella-current-options-emerging-therapies/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/01/understanding-bartonella-symptoms-testing-and-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/03/bartonella-treatment/

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Bartonella, Eye Issues, Treatment

Study Finds 84% Fewer Hospitalizations For Patients Treated With Controversial Drug Hydroxychloroquine

The only reason this treatment is ‘controversial’ is because our ‘public authorities’ have purposely promoted biased and flawed research. They have beat this drum on that flawed and biased research so hard that the results of this study, many others, and the success of doctors globally probably won’t make a bit of difference as the word is out: HCQ is controversial so you best not use it or else!  They want everyone to use their lucrative, expensive, but ineffective anti-viral Remdesivir from Gilead Science.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/study-finds-84-fewer-hospitalizations-for-patients-treated-with-controversial-drug-hydroxychloroquine

Study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations for patients treated with controversial drug hydroxychloroquine

by Andrew Mark Miller, | November 25, 2020

A peer-reviewed study measuring the effectiveness of a controversial drug cocktail that includes hydroxychloroquine concluded that the treatment lowered hospitalizations and mortality rates of coronavirus patients. 

The study, set to be published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in December, determined that “Low-dose hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc and azithromycin was an effective therapeutic approach against COVID-19.” (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Particulars of the study:

  • 141 diagnosed patients were treated with low-dose HCQ, zinc, and azithromycin
  • 377 diagnosed patients were in the control group – not given the treatment
  • odds of hospitalization of the treated group was 84% less than the control group
  • 1 patient in the treated group died compared to 13 in the control group

The findings of the study are in complete alignment of what doctors globally have been trying to say for months but have been effectively censored by mainstream media, which is completely bought out:

The reason for this misinformation campaign against a safe, effective, and cheap treatment is due to the severe conflicts of interests of our public ‘authorities’.  

I written about this maligning treatment phenomenon before with Lyme/MSIDS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/

What they’ve done with the HCQ treatment is quite similar to their maligning of IV antibiotics for Lyme disease – to the point nearly all doctors are scared witless of using it anymore.  Doctors are also afraid to use HCQ now for the same reasons.

They’ve also pumped out biased, flawed research (just like they do with Lyme/MSIDS) that is done to cast a bad light on HCQ:

 
Excerpt:
Dr. Meryl Nass has uncovered a hornet’s nest of government sponsored Hydroxychloroquine experiments that were designed to kill severely ill, Covid-19 hospitalized patients.
 
On June 14th Dr. Nass first identified two Covid-19 experiments in which massive, high toxic doses – four times higher than safe of hydroxychloroquine were being given to severely ill hospitalized patients in intensive care units.

Numerous doctors have given explicit instructions on using HCQ, which should be used early on with COVID, as well as combined with zinc and azithromycin.  The flawed studies used high doses of HCQ on the severest of patients without zinc and azithromycin and later on in the disease.  

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/24/dr-oz-interviews-dr-didier-raoult-on-hydroxychloroquine-study-for-covid-19/

Then there’s Dr. Zelenko, a New York doctor, who’s successfully treated 1,450 COVID-19 patients with a 99% success rate using a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin:  https://techstartups.com/2020/04/21/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-treated-1450-coronavirus-patients-2-deaths-using-hydroxychloroquine-99-99-success-rate-latest-video-interview/  Video with Zelenko in link.

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research, Treatment, Viruses

Lyme Disease: The Other Epidemic No One Is Talking About

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/04/15/lyme-disease-the-other-epidemic-no-one-is-talking-about/

Lyme disease: The other epidemic no one is talking about

Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread by infected ticks [Getty Images]
Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is spread by infected ticks [Getty Images]
By  Sarah Katz
15 Apr 2020
Excerpts from article below.  (See link for article)

“I can’t move this side of my face,” she slurred, pointing to her right side…. Half of her flushed face was mysteriously paralysed.

Her experience of Bell’s palsy was just a new bullet point in an elongating list of symptoms of a then-undiagnosed condition that my typically healthy 41-year-old mother endured that year. After months of malaise, shooting pains throughout her body, dizziness, vomiting, leg paralysis, and inaccurate speculations by doctors about whether she had kidney disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, thyroid disease, or a mental illness, an infectious disease doctor finally diagnosed her with neurological Lyme disease, which is caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi and spread by deer ticks.

Almost as soon as my mother recovered, my father also contracted Lyme disease. He woke up one day with numbness in his arms, excruciating nerve pain throughout his body, and puzzling neurological symptoms including confusion, memory issues, and distorted vision.  His symptoms did not abate until a decade later.

My three siblings were next.

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**Comment**

Unfortunately, the author of the article succumbed next with fevers, aches, chronic daily headaches, rashes, and fatigue.  She points out one sibling had serious memory issues and joint pain – common symptoms of Lyme/MSIDS.

The author goes onto compare COVID-19 with Lyme and I’d like to make a few points:

  • While COVID-19 is transmissible from person to person, it has not proven to be highly deadly but has shown a mortality rate nearly identical to seasonal flu.  

I agree completely with the author’s statement that the CDC has bungled testing for both diseases, but there’s an explanation for this.  They own the patents on the organisms as well as tests & treatments.  This way they can control the entire narrative, and monopolize the market: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/19/yes-fauci-and-gates-do-have-ties-to-covid-19-vaccine-maker/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/01/gilead-big-pharma-and-the-who-an-unholy-trifecta-of-corruption-and-bioterrorism/

The author incorrectly states there are no treatments for COVID.  Here is the long list of things that have been proven:

Unfortunately, the ‘powers that be’ do not want people to recover from COVID as it would dampen their fear-mongering campaign so that everyone agrees to get their experimental, fast-tracked mRNA vaccine which will monitor you utilizing WiFi (hence the push for 5G), change your DNA, cause sterility (as reported by a GSK whistleblower) and give them a hefty pay-check:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/inovio-covid-19-vaccine-uses-electricity-to-drive-dna-into-body-cells/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/22/a-darpa-funded-implantable-covid-19-detecting-biochip-to-use-5g/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-vaccine-explained/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/24/gsk-whistleblower-covid-vaccine-caused-sterility-in-97-of-women/

They’ve already created a new court for vaccine injuries which will make it even harder to collect if you are injured:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/24/new-court-created-for-covid-vaccine-injuries/

They’ve already tipped their hand that they expect many adverse reactions due to a request for a vaccine specific AI tool to “handle the volume of ADRs generated by a COVID-19 vaccine”: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/14/pfizer-covid-vaccine-frenzy-high-volume-of-adverse-reactions-expected/

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment, vaccines

Study Shows 35% of Atypical Pneumonia in Chile Caused by Q Fever & Rickettsia

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32545152/

Evidence of Q Fever and Rickettsial Disease in Chile

Teresa Tapia 1, John Stenos 2, Roberto Flores 1, Oscar Duery 1, Rodrigo Iglesias 1, Maria Fernanda Olivares 3, Doris Gallegos 3, Cristian Rosas 4, Heidi Wood 5, Johanna Acevedo 3, Pamela Araya 1, Stephen R Graves 2, Juan Carlos Hormazabal 1
Affiliation

Free PMC article

Abstract

Q fever and rickettsial diseases occur throughout the world and appear to be emergent zoonoses in Chile. The diagnosis of these diseases is currently uncommon in Chile, as their clinical presentations are non-specific and appropriate diagnostic laboratory assays are of limited availability. During a recent outbreak of undiagnosed human atypical pneumonia, we serologically investigated a series of 357 cases from three regions of southern Chile. The aim was to identify those caused by Coxiella burnetii and/or Rickettsia spp. Serological analysis was performed by ELISA and an immunofluorescence assay (IFA) for acute and convalescence sera of patients. Our results, including data from two international reference laboratories, demonstrate that

  • 71 (20%) of the cases were Q fever
  • 44 (15%) were a likely rickettsial infection, although the rickettsial species could not be confirmed by serology
This study is the first report of endemic Q fever and rickettsial disease affecting humans in Chile.

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For more on Q Fever:  

For more on Rickettsia:  

Category:

Q Fever, research, Rickettsia, Ticks

New Study: COVID Was Already Here in 2019 & Getting COVID Protects You For Years

https://thehighwire.com/videos/new-study-covid-was-already-here/  10 Min Video here

NEW STUDY: COVID WAS ALREADY HERE

A new study is raising serious questions about the #Covid19 timeline. Antibodies of the virus in asymptomatic participants may go back even further than we initially thought. Find out how far back, and why this may change everything we think we know about the Coronavirus.

Study here:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755

Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy

Giovanni Apolone*, Emanuele Montomoli*, Alessandro Manenti, …

First Published November 11, 2020 Research Article Find in PubMed

https://doi.org/10.1177/0300891620974755

There are no robust data on the real onset of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and spread in the prepandemic period worldwide. We investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD)–specific antibodies in blood samples of 959 asymptomatic individuals enrolled in a prospective lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 to track the date of onset, frequency, and temporal and geographic variations across the Italian regions. SARS-CoV-2 RBD-specific antibodies were detected in 111 of 959 (11.6%) individuals, starting from September 2019 (14%), with a cluster of positive cases (>30%) in the second week of February 2020 and the highest number (53.2%) in Lombardy.

This study shows an unexpected very early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic individuals in Italy several months before the first patient was identified, and clarifies the onset and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Finding SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in asymptomatic people before the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy may reshape the history of pandemic.

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**Comment**

If 11% had COVID-19 antibodies as far back as September 2019, we know it was here before then. We should also be testing blood banks in the U.S. so the public understands this.  This should change everything.  

But the mainstream media is still only reporting fear and fake numbers.

Food for thought:  Madison, Wisconsin is home to research facilities where researchers from all over the globe, travel all over the world.  Students and researchers from other countries are in and out, and in again.  How likely is it that COVID was here much sooner than we are being told as people were freely moving about?  I suspect highly likely and might explain the strange virus my entire family experienced that had us flat on our backs in January – way before any mask mandates or lockdowns.

I posted on this before, but please read:  https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/did-this-virus-come-from-a-lab-maybe-not–but-it-exposes-the-threat-of-a-biowarfare-arms-race/   Excerpt

In that same year, 2012, a similar study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin was published in Nature:

Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza A viruses occasionally infect humans, but currently do not transmit efficiently among humans. … Here we assess the molecular changes … that would allow a virus … to be transmissible among mammals. We identified a … virus … with four mutations and the remaining seven gene segments from a 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus — that was capable of droplet transmission in a ferret model. 

They’ve been doing viral research in Madison forever.  While Madison is home to a BSL-3 facility, there are plenty of BSL-4 facilities in the U.S. working on viruses and other toxic agents.
 
According to CDC and WHO guidelines, 
“Biosafety Level 3 is applicable to laboratories where work with indigenous or exotic agents may cause serious disease because of exposure by inhalation route. Laboratory personnel require specific training for handling such agents, and are supervised by competent scientists who are experienced in working with these agents.” 
 
My point is that there was plenty of opportunity for many, many people in the U.S. to be exposed to COVID-19 way before the first outbreak in Wuhan in November, 2019.  Historically, people are weaker and more susceptible to flu-like illnesses in the winter so we probably didn’t visually see much until November, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t circulating in the population.  
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I posted this before, but it deserves repeating:  
 

GETTING COVID PROTECTS YOU FOR YEARS

Recent data from scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research suggests those who have had COVID-19 may be immune for years. Del & Jeffery Jaxen breakdown the science and show why herd immunity may be an effective tool to end the pandemic.

 

These findings should alleviate fears and end draconian measures.

For more:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/05/robust-sars-cov-2-specific-t-cell-immunity-is-maintained-at-6-months-following-primary-infection/

lymphocytes from 20–50% of unexposed donors display significant reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 antigen peptide pools1,2,3,4.

In conclusion, it is now established that SARS-CoV-2 pre-existing immune reactivity exists to some degree in the general population.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong/  Excerpt:

  1. Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel.
  2. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus.
  3. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/18/dr-sunetra-gupta-takes-on-herd-immunity-nay-sayers/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/31/top-expert-most-of-u-s-already-has-herd-immunity/  Posted back in July!

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research, Transmission, Viruses