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The Future of Vaccines

http://  Approx. 41 Min.

Dec. 23, 2020

TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/futurev… If the Gateses and the Faucis and the representatives of the international medical establishment get their way, life will not return to normal until the entire planet is vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. What many do not yet understand, however, is that the vaccines that are being developed for SARS-Cov-2 are unlike any vaccines that have ever been used on the human population before. And, as radically different as these vaccines appear, they represent only the very beginning of a complete transformation of vaccine technology that is currently taking place in research labs across the planet. This is a study of The Future of Vaccines.

For a great read on the difference between vaccination vs immunization:  https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/dr-kurt-why-i-will-never-choose-to-vaccinate-my-own-son-and-any-future-kids-my-wife-and-i-have/

 

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Antiviral Defense From the Gut

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/antiviral-defense-gut

Antiviral Defense from the Gut

Study looks at gut bacteria role in resistance to viral infections
By EKATERINA PESHEVA Research
digital xray image of the gut

Image: ChrisChrisW/iStock/Getty Images Plus

The role of the gut microbiome in disease and health has been well established. Yet, how the bacteria residing in our guts protect us from viral infections is not well understood.

Now, for the first time, Harvard Medical School researchers have described how this happens in mice and have identified the specific population of gut microbes that modulates both localized and systemic immune response to ward off viral invaders.

The work, published Nov. 18 in Cell, pinpoints a group of gut microbes, and a specific species within it, that causes immune cells to release virus-repelling chemicals known as type 1 interferons.

The researchers further identified the precise molecule—shared by many gut bacteria within that group—that unlocks the immune-protective cascade. That molecule, the researchers noted, is not difficult to isolate and could become the basis for drugs that boost antiviral immunity in humans. (See link for article)

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Activism, Gut Health, research, Viruses

Diagnosing and Treating Lyme: Podcast

https://canlyme.com/2020/09/02/new-podcast-dr-ralph-hawkins-shares-his-medical-expertise-and-hands-on-experience-diagnosing-and-treating-lyme-disease/

New Podcast: Dr. Ralph Hawkins shares his medical expertise and hands on experience diagnosing and treating Lyme disease

https://www.lookingatlyme.ca/2020/09/dr-ralph-hawkins-explains-the-challenges-of-detecting-lyme-disease-through-testing/  Podcast here

September 1st, 2020

In this episode of Looking at Lyme, Sarah speaks with Internal Medicine Specialist and Canadian Lyme expert, Dr. Ralph Hawkins. Dr. Hawkins has been treating Lyme patients in Canada for many years, gaining a wealth of knowledge about the disease. He recounts his introduction to the shortcomings of Lyme disease testing in Canada while treating a patient with a history of multiple previous tick bites, many common symptoms of Lyme disease, but a negative Canadian Lyme test. Dr. Hawkins had the patient’s blood tested at a University Lab in New York, revealing test band patterns consistent with Lyme disease. He referred this patient to Infectious Diseases colleagues for treatment, but quickly found out that the diagnosis of late stage Lyme disease is not generally recognized by the Infectious Diseases community. He was advised to not only drop this case, but to avoid other similar cases. The recommendation to avoid such patients sparked Dr. Hawkins’ curiosity and interest, inspiring him to dive deeply into the research and history of Lyme disease.

Dr. Hawkins walks us through the current testing protocols for Lyme disease in Canada, explaining why some patients with Lyme disease receive a negative test result. He explains the difference between current testing in Canada and tests done in other parts of the world, highlighting a test done in Germany that he often relies on when diagnosing patients, and touching on the approval process for such tests by Health Canada. Without better testing, Canadians with Lyme disease continue to fall through the cracks of the healthcare system. Dr. Hawkins refers to a recent analysis of Lyme diagnosis in Canada in which researchers speculate that in some areas, two thirds of Lyme cases go unreported. With this in mind he points out that, in light of the severity of untreated Lyme disease, a trial period of treatment for Lyme disease would be valid for certain patients with negative Canadian serology. Thank you Dr. Hawkins for walking with us down the bumpy road of Lyme disease testing and treatment in Canada!

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, Treatment

Putting Lyme Disease on the Map

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/08/31/Putting-Lyme-Disease-Map/

Putting Lyme Disease on the Map

BC says the debilitating disease isn’t a risk in much of the province. Advocates say that’s a myth and it’s putting people at risk.
Amanda Follett Hosgood 31 Aug 2020 | TheTyee.ca
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The western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) carries Lyme disease across western North America. Photo from US Centers for Disease Control.

On the BC Centre for Disease Control’s website, a map shows where Lyme disease exists in the province. It highlights isolated areas in the south, mostly focused around Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, extending as far north as Clearwater. In the north, there are pockets of “potential” around Williams Lake and in coastal areas.*

But the map, dated 2019, leaves vast swaths unmarked and the impression that Lyme disease is not a risk from tick bites in most of the province.** As a result, it can be hard to get your doctor to listen if you have Lyme symptoms and even harder to get a conclusive diagnosis.

Officially, Lyme, spread by bites from infected ticks, has only been positively diagnosed a handful of times in the northern three-quarters of the province.*** But some experts say that’s because its myriad symptoms — everything from joint pain to facial paralysis — are often misdiagnosed as illnesses like chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and early dementia. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Great article highlighting how tick maps have only served to hurt patients for over 40 years.  It is high time researchers and doctors understand the limitations of these maps and while interesting, should NEVER be used to diagnose patients.  

But Muhammad Morshed, a clinical microbiologist with the BCCDC, says private labs are notorious for inaccurate results, with false positives reported up to 50 per cent of the time.

This belief is a HUGE problem.  The CDC used to have a blurb right on their website calling CLIA-certified labs “home-brewed.”  From the top down, our public health ‘authorities’, which by the way own patients on Lyme tests, are educating doctors that these smaller specialty labs, which have to jump through the toughest lab standards on the planet to be certified, are substandard.  Please see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/28/who-owns-the-elisa-patents/

As to ticks – the idea they only exist in certain areas needs to die.  Perhaps that used to be the case, but migrating birds and rodents are taking them everywhere.  Not to mention :  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/07/ticks-on-the-move-due-to-migrating-birds-and-photoperiod-not-climate-change/

Not to mention ticks have been dropped from airplanes:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/31/tick-expert-admits-to-working-on-ticks-dropping-them-out-of-airplanes/

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Activism, Testing, Ticks