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UK woman, Sophie Ward, has learned to cope with the unpredictable effects of Lyme disease.
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https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/arpa-h-to-be-within-nih-but-independently-managed-by-hhs
Apr 1, 2022
Following a lengthy deliberation process, US health secretary Xavier Becerra determined on Wednesday (March 30) that a new high-risk, high-reward biomedical research agency known as ARPA-H will be part of the National Institutes of Health, STAT reports.
In early March, Congress passed the 2022 US spending bill, which included $1 billion of funds for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency intended to accelerate the pace of biomedical research. The bill gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of which the NIH is a part, the power to decide whether the new agency would be independent or part of the existing institution. This led to a lobbying campaign by several policymakers and researchers to separate the agency from the NIH, which they say is bureaucratic and slow-moving, STAT reported earlier this week. (See link for article)
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Last year, President Joe Biden called for the creation of the ARPA-H as a biomedical research version of the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is known for risky projects and “blue-sky” thinking.
Biden intends to appoint Dr. Reenee Wegrzyn, a former scientist with DARPA, as the inaugural director of ARPA-H. Her specialties are synthetic biology, genetic engineering and data collection through biosurveillance. ARPA-H will be a swarming hive for Transhumanist scientists and projects. It will also likely heavily fund and promote mRNA “vaccines”- particularly for cancer.
The direct DARPA connection to HARPA underscores that the agenda behind this coming agency dates back to the failed Bio-Surveillance project of DARPA’s Total Information Awareness program (TIA), which was launched after the events of September 11, 2001. It’s all under the auspice of detecting “normal” disease outbreaks, and harvesting data through the mass use of wearable or handheld technology, which is currently being used by the military for “returning to work safely,” from COVID. These Darpa programs were shut down due to controversy that they’d be used to profile domestic dissidents and eliminate privacy, something the WEF also states we will no longer have, but we’ll be happy about.
“Darpa’s past total surveillance dragnet is coming back to life under a supposedly separate health-focused agency…” Source
To make this all more palatable to the public, they’ve merely distanced themselves from the Department of Defense (DOD), and have become privatized, however the military is still heavily involved behind the scenes. Go here for how FB, Google, Silicon Valley, Amazon, Palantir, and politics are all involved.
The CDC, HHS, and FDA, all of which are government health agencies, are all a disgrace and have been caught red-handed withholding and skewing data, abandoning science, lying, paying the media, and have finally been exposed for the corrupt, captured agencies they have always been. And while the CDC has announced plans to revamp the agency, this move is for all the wrong reasons. According to an article the U.S. is on course to become a ‘digital dictatorship’ under a proposed biomedical research agency.
The signs have been on the wall for some time regarding this new agency. The mishandling of the COVID debacle is being used to further a deeper, darker agenda which includes merging national health security with public health, a frightening concept that spells doom for medical freedom. Taking a research agency and modeling it after a military agency should send shivers down all of our spines.
Some state NIH is too “conservative” to support the initiative, and that ARPA-H will likely hire program managers on short-term contracts who will solicit research ideas and fund fast-paced, high-risk projects meant to accelerate the development of medical treatments almost immediately.
As it is, medical treatments have already been approved without proper oversight, with severe conflicts of interest, and far too quickly – bypassing testing that would have revealed glaring problems with efficacy and safety, among other issues.
US Health Secretary Zavier Becerra states ARPA-H will be physically separate. “We need to make sure it’s not anchored or tethered to doing things an older way,” Becerra said.
While Congress gave $1 BILLION this year to ARPA-H, Biden is asking for $5 billion for ARPA-H in 2023. Biden has also requested $62.5 BILLION to prepare the US for future pandemics and biological threats.
And speaking of Federal funding, we learn that $450 BILLION has been stolen from the U.S. COVID Economic Relief Program, and as outrageous as this fact is, more than three TRILLION has disappeared between March 2021 and Jan. 2022. Together, the Trump and Biden Administrations approved a minimum of $4,100,000,000,000 in COVID-19 relief funding, of which $3.21 trillion has already been spent and is not retrievable. Please see the link for a breakdown of where your tax dollars actually went. You will be surprised. 15,000 contracts received millions including Pfizer and Merck – COVID injection manufacturers.
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Clearly, the mind-boggling amount of taxpayer dollars, and the numbers of federal agencies and millions of awards and recipients involved, accounts for the government’s unlimited ability to propagandize and saturate every segment of American society with the ongoing “official” COVID-19 narrative, every hour of every day, week, month, and year.
It is now known that the federal government made secret direct payments and loans to nearly all major corporate media outlets at a cost of $1 billion to the taxpayer. In return, these media outlets pushed only the government narrative that the COVID-19 vaccine was “safe and effective,” while censoring any negative narratives on the dangers and ineffectiveness of the vaccine.
We also know today that physicians in the United States have received financial “incentives” from the federal government if they are willing to give the COVID-19 “vaccine” and booster shots. Forty-dollars is given to a compliant physician for every COVID-19 jab and booster he administers.[9] This means $120 for every patient that receives three injections.
Another contentious point about the creation of a “physically” separate government agency in charge of “risky” research is the fact the NIH already keeps taxpayers in the dark regarding how their money is being spent. Only through FOIA requests have we learned that Fauci is the highest paid U.S. government employee. The agency is not complying with open records law and most of the information they give is highly redacted. And now – they are adding an even more secretive agency.
It appears that millions are being made not only directly from the Federal government, but from other shady foreign business dealings involving none other than Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, through Metabiota (also working with CIA-front In-Q-Tel, funded by the DOD, NIH, Gates Foundation, Google, and National Geographic Society), Peter Dansak’s EcoHealth Alliance, (the group Fauci used to funnel money to the Wuhan Lab – circumventing a moratorium on “gain of function” research), and the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology. This triad was performing research on infectious diseases derived from Chinese bats. It recently came out that the U.S. has funded biolabs in the Ukraine and all the dots are finally making sense, but is of course explicitly denied by corrupt government officials.
It’s not shocking to discover that the new FDA chief, who has made millions as a Big Pharma consultant, has made fighting “misinformation” his top priority, or that the Feds have given tech companies until May 2, 2022 to “turn over COVID misinformation.” Biden first revealed details of the plan during his State of the Union address:
“In addition to demanding misinformation data from the tech platforms, the surgeon general called on healthcare providers and the public to submit information about how COVID-19 misinformation has negatively influenced patients and communities.
“‘We’re asking anyone with relevant insights — from original research and data sets to personal stories that speak to the role of misinformation in public health — to share them with us,’” Murthy said.”
The government is already telling privately owned companies what to do – particularly with regard to what they call ‘misinformation’, defined as ‘information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence.’
Our own government is guilty of ‘misinformation’ but has gotten away with it because they hold the power. They have lied about the origins of COVID, the effectiveness of masks, testing, actual case counts of COVID, that there are cheap, effective treatments, the true cause of COVID death, and on the effectiveness and safety of the COVID injection, which they own half the patent on.
While the U.S. General states that, “health misinformation is an urgent threat to public health. It can cause confusion, sow mistrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing work to end the COVID-19 pandemic,” they in fact are the ones repeatedly sowing misinformation and by keeping life-saving treatment from sick people so they can push their own lucrative treatments and injections.
**UPDATE April, 6, 2022**
According to a FOIA request, the CDC can not provide a single confirmed COVID death in a child younger than 16. Injecting children with this experimental gene therapy, who rarely get COVID or transmit it, have more than a 99.9% chance of surviving, and rarely get reinfected is the height of insanity.
Some of the tragic stories of children’s lives destroyed following COVID-19 vaccines that we have covered here on Health Impact News.
April 2, 2022
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The number of injuries and deaths recorded in the U.S. Government’s database of Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID-19 vaccines has now reached 1.2 million cases as of the last update on Friday, April 1st. (Source.)
By way of contrast, there are 930,952 cases of injuries and deaths following all other vaccines for the previous 30+ years before the COVID-19 vaccines were issued emergency use authorizations in December of 2020. (Source.)
When you take the monthly average of cases filed in VAERS following all vaccines for the previous 30 years (360 months – 2,586 cases per month), and compare that to the monthly average of cases recorded after COVID-19 vaccines for the past 15 months (80,384 cases per month), that is an increase of 3,008%.
The CDC admits that the COVID-19 vaccines are causing heart disease in young people, but they claim these cases are “rare” and so they continue to recommend the vaccines for children, as vaccine manufacturers are now petitioning the FDA to give emergency use authorizations to start injecting children below the age of 5 with COVID-19 vaccines.
Myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination are rare. Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis is inflammation of the outer lining of the heart. Most patients with myocarditis or pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination responded well to medicine and rest and felt better quickly. As of March 24, 2022, VAERS has received 2,323 preliminary reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among people ages 30 years and younger who received COVID-19 vaccines.
Most cases have been reported after receiving Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, (mRNA COVID-19 vaccines) particularly in male adolescents and young adults. (Source.)
So let’s “fact check” the CDC’s claims that these cases of heart disease in young people are “rare” by using their own data.
First of all, the CDC only reports on 2 types of heart disease: myocarditis and pericarditis.
We are going to search for ALL cases of “*carditis,” and since they want to start injecting babies with these shots, we are only going to include children under the age of 18 in our search of VAERS.
That search produces 1,261 cases of heart disease in children under the age of 18 in the past 15 months since the COVID-19 vaccines were given emergency use authorization. (Source
By way of contrast, when we conduct the exact same search for all non-COVID vaccines for this same age group for the previous 30+ years, we get a result of 172 cases. (Source.)
When you look at the monthly averages then for cases of carditis following vaccines, we see a 17,495% increase of reported cases of heart disease in children following the COVID-19 shots.
And as horrible as these statistics are, the current situation for children is actually even worse than this, because the vast majority of vaccines administered in the U.S. the previous 30+ years were primarily to children, beginning at birth with the Hep. B vaccine, while the original EUAs issued for the COVID-19 vaccines were only for people above the age of 16.
Pfizer was issued an EUA for children between the ages of 5 and 11 several months later, and Moderna is still waiting for approval to use their COVID-19 vaccines in children between the ages of 5 and 11, and both companies are still waiting for approval to start injecting infants and toddlers under the age of 5.
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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/heart-damage-teens-after-second-pfizer-shot/
A new peer-reviewed study shows more than two-thirds of adolescents with COVID-19 vaccine-related myopericarditis had persistent heart abnormalities months after their initial diagnosis, raising concerns for potential long-term effects.
The findings, published March 25 in the Journal of Pediatrics, challenge the position of U.S. health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which claim heart inflammation associated with the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines is “mild.”
Researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital reviewed cases of patients younger than 18 years old who presented to the hospital with chest pain and an elevated serum troponin level between April 1, 2021, and Jan. 7, 2022, within one week of receiving a second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
While 35 patients fit the criteria, 19 were excluded for various reasons. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the remaining 16 patients was performed three to eight months after they were first examined. The MRIs showed 11 had persistent late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), although levels were lower than in previous months.
According to the study, “The presence of LGE is an indicator of cardiac injury and fibrosis and has been strongly associated with worse prognosis in patients with classical acute myocarditis.”
In a meta-analysis of eight studies, LGE was found to be a predictor of all-cause death, cardiovascular death, cardiac transplant, rehospitalization, recurrent acute myocarditis and requirement for mechanical circulatory support.
Similarly, an 11-study meta-analysis found the “presence and extent of LGE to be a significant predictor of adverse cardiac outcomes.”
Researchers said that while symptoms “were transient and most patients appeared to respond to treatment,” the analysis showed a “persistence of abnormal findings.”
The results “rais[e] concerns for potential longer-term effects,” researchers wrote, adding that they plan to repeat imaging at one year after the vaccine to assess whether abnormalities have resolved.
“The paper provides more evidence that myocarditis in adolescents that result from COVID-19 vaccines is very serious,” said Dr. Madhava Setty, senior science editor for The Defender.
“All patients had significantly elevated serum troponin levels indicative of heart damage. And LGE, which is indicative of poor outcome, was present in more than two-thirds of the kids.”
The study stated, “All patients had elevated serum troponin levels (median 9.15 ng/mL, range 0.65-18.5, normal < 0.05 ng/mL).”
“These young patients had a median troponin level of 9.15 — more than 20 times greater than the levels found in people suffering heart attacks,” Setty said.
Commenting on the study, Dr. Marty Makary, surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University, tweeted “CDC has a civic duty to rigorously study the long-term effects of vaccine-induced myocarditis.”
CDC has a civic duty to do rigorously study the long-term effects of vaccine-induced myocarditis. New follow-up study 3-8 months after myocarditis shows the MRI heart abnormality of late gadolinium enhancement seen in 63% of children. Merits further study. https://t.co/klPVsnqrkc
— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) March 27, 2022
Dr. Anish Koka, a cardiologist, told The Epoch Times the study suggests 60% to 70% of teenagers who get myocarditis from a COVID vaccine may be left with a scar on their heart.
“Certainly, children who had chest pain severe enough to merit seeking medical attention need to at least make sure they get a follow-up MRI,” Koka said, adding that the findings “should have clear implications for the discussion around vaccines, especially for high-risk male teenagers … and definitely for vaccine mandates.”
Both Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines have been linked to several forms of heart inflammation, including myocarditis and pericarditis.
Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, is a severe and life-shortening disease. It was virtually unknown in young people until it became a recognized side effect of mRNA COVID vaccines, especially in boys and young men.
Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium, a sac-like structure with two layers of tissue that surrounds the heart to hold it in place and help it work.
According to the CDC, the most at-risk group is 16- and 17-year-old males, who have reported rates of 69 per million after the second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, although that number is likely underreported.
The CDC presentation also reported that in three-month follow-up evaluations, less than one-third of adolescents 12 to 17 who suffered vaccine-induced myocarditis (reported in Vaccine Safety DataLink) had fully recovered.
The 69-per-million rate the CDC uses to determine the incidence of myocarditis in 16- and 17-year-olds came from the agency’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) — a U.S. government-run database that receives reports of vaccine adverse events.
One of the biggest limitations of passive surveillance systems, like VAERS, is that the system “receives reports for only a small fraction of adverse events,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services website.
A recent study from Hong Kong suggests the incidence of myo/pericarditis after two doses of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine was 37 in 100,000 (370 per million).
This incidence matches nearly exactly with findings from a study that used the Vaccine Safety DataLink system, which showed 37.7 12- to 17-year-olds per 100,000 suffered myo/pericarditis after their second vaccine dose.
In a preprint study from Kaiser Permanente, the incidence of myocarditis in 18- to 24-year-old males post-vaccination was even higher — at 537 per million, or 7.7 times higher than the statistics reported by the CDC.
No such thing as ‘mild’ heart damage
A paper published Jan. 14 in Circulation summarized the clinical course of 139 young patients between the ages of 12 and 20 who were hospitalized for myocarditis following COVID vaccination.
Of those patients, 19% were taken into intensive care, two required infusions of potent intravenous drugs used to raise critically low blood pressure and every patient had an elevated troponin level.
Troponin is an enzyme specific to cardiac myocytes. Levels above 0.4 ng/ml are strongly suggestive of heart damage.
The paper concluded, “Most cases of suspected COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis occurring in persons <21 years have a mild clinical course with rapid resolution of symptoms.”
“We suppose [a ‘mild clinical course] refers to the 81% who did not go to the ICU or the fact that none died or required ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a desperate means to keep the body oxygenated when a patient’s heart or lungs have completely failed),” wrote Setty and Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D., a theoretical physicist, in an article critiquing the Circulation paper.
“When does a ‘mild clinical course’ require hospitalization for a two-day median length of stay?” they asked. “How does anyone know if symptoms rapidly resolve?”
“We don’t know what it will do to young boys in the long term, especially since every patient had some damage to their heart as evidenced by significantly abnormal troponin levels,” Setty and Mitteldorf wrote. “And we don’t fully understand the mechanism by which the vaccines cause myocarditis.”
https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news-woman-in-uk-diagnosed-with-rare-ebola-like-disease
Published
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed a woman in the UK has been diagnosed with a rare Ebola-like disease called Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF).
The news was announced today, 25 March, after the patient was diagnosed at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
CCHF is a viral disease that is usually transmitted by ticks and livestock in countries where the disease is endemic, such as in all of Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Asia. The principal carriers are Hyalomma ticks, which are not established in the UK.
The virus has never been detected in a tick here in the UK, the UKHSA explains. (See link for article)
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Please see this article showing that a 2016 “trilateral meeting,” between the Ukraine, the U.S., and Poland focused on ongoing cooperative projects in research, surveillance, and diagnostics with Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), among other zoonotic diseases.
https://rumble.com/vx9h00-there-are-25-us-funded-biolabs-in-ukraine.html There are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, which if breached, would release & spread deadly pathogens to US/world. We must take action now to prevent disaster. US/Russia/Ukraine/NATO/UN/EU must implement a ceasefire now around these labs until they’re secured & pathogens destroyed.
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https://www.lymedisease.org/ixodes-pacificus-review/
March 21, 2022
By Lonnie Marcum
In most of the United States, a tick called Ixodes scapularis carries Lyme disease. However, in the Western states, there’s a different culprit—Ixodes pacificus—also known as the Western blacklegged tick.
A recent review article provides new insight into the pathogens carried by and diseases caused by Ixodes pacificus. The behavior, habitat and pathogens transmitted by the Western blacklegged tick differ from its Eastern cousin.
Notably, the authors state, ”I. pacificus carry several pathogens of human significance, such as Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella, and Rickettsiales.” (McVicar et al, 2022)
The authors, from the University of Nevada, published their report in a special issue of journal Pathogens. The article is entitled “Current Research on Hard Tick-Borne Diseases.”
The reviewers do a fantastic job of describing the ecological diversity and complex nature of ticks found in the Western US.
In fact, there are up to 20 different species of Ixodes (hard bodied) ticks reported in California alone. However, Ixodes pacificus is the only known vector for Lyme disease along the West Coast.
The additional hard tick species endemic to the West include Ixodes spinipalpis, I. angustus, I. neotomae, and I. jellisoni. Although these ticks prefer to feed on rodents, both I. spinipalpis and I. agustus occasionally bite humans.
As pictured below, the Western blacklegged tick is well established throughout most of California, the coastal regions of Oregon and Washington, and parts of southern Nevada, northern Arizona and western Utah.
Note: Counties classified as “established” are those where six or more I. pacificus of a single life stage or more than one life stage of the tick were collected in the county within any 12-month period.
The ideal habitat for I. pacificus is one that is sheltered from hot, dry summers. Research has shown nymphal I. pacificus numbers start to decline when temperatures exceed 73º F (23º C), and average daily humidity drops below 83 – 85%. Excessive heat between 90º – 104º F (32º – 40º C) begins to kill off ticks.
The preferred microclimate includes moist, shady areas provided by trees, shrubs, leaf litter or undergrowth. I. pacificus are often found amongst dense oak woodlands, but they can also be found near beaches, and on rocks and picnic tables.
The full range of the Western blacklegged tick extends from Baja California, Mexico, to British Columbia, Canada, but not all of those areas have been thoroughly studied. The process of “active tick surveillance” is quite labor-intensive, and requires funding often not provided to vector-control districts.
Another method of tracking ticks can be done by citizens finding and reporting ticks themselves. This “passive surveillance” technique, as the authors point out, can sometimes give a broader picture from counties that do not conduct active surveillance.
For example, a Northern Arizona University study funded by Bay Area Lyme Disease Foundation received over16,000 ticks from 49 states between 2016-2017. In that study, blacklegged ticks were found in 83 counties (in 24 states) where they had not previously been recorded. (Nieto et al, 2018)
Another recent study looked at crowdsourced images submitted to “TickSpotters” between 2014-2019. The tick image submissions identified potentially nine new counties of occurrence for I. pacificus across five states including: Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. (Kopsco et al, 2021)
The lifecycle of Ixodes pacificus ticks generally lasts three years, compared to the I. scapularis which has a two-year life span. During this time, they go through four life stages: egg, larva, nymph, and adult.
After the eggs hatch, the ticks must have a blood meal at every stage to survive.
Blacklegged ticks can feed on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The ticks need a new host at each stage of their life. If the host is infected with a pathogen, any tick feeding on that animal will become infected as well.
Although rare, larval ticks may be infectious from birth as some tick-borne pathogens may be transmitted from the female tick to her eggs. This is called transovarial transmission.
The paper lists the pathogens and reservoir hosts associated with I. pacificus, accompanied by countless references. For those interested in full details, I recommend reading the review. This table recaps the authors’ second table, followed by a short recap of their findings. (McVicar et al, 2022)
Anaplasmosis, also known as human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), is caused by the Anaplasma phagocytophilum bacterium (previously known as Ehrlichia phagocytophila or Ehrlichia equi).
It belongs to a larger group of bacteria known as Rickettsia, which infect white blood cells. I. pacificus is a vector for anaplasmosis in the western US. The infection rate of nymphal and adult I. pacificus ticks is 1% and 10% respectively.
Babesiosis is a disease caused by a malaria-like parasite called Babesia, which infects red blood cells.
As I recently wrote, North America is “ground zero” for Babesiosis, a disease that can be passed from mother to unborn child and through blood transfusions.
On the East Coast, I. scapularis is the vector for babesiosis. On the West Coast, I. pacificus is the predicted vector for babesiosis, but researchers have been unable to confirm this.
One study that collected ticks from multiple sites in California found 3% of I. pacificus ticks were infected with Babesia odocoilei. This is an emerging pathogen not listed on the CDC website as a cause of babesiosis.
The authors state, “Although there is substantive evidence that ixodid ticks on the west coast (i.e., Ixodes angustus, Ixodes pacificus, and Ixodes spinipalpis) are vectors of B. duncani, this has not been yet experimentally confirmed.” (McVicar et al, 2022)
Bartonella is a bacterium carried by many types of human-biting arthropods including fleas, flies, lice, ticks, and chiggers. In one California study, 19% of ticks tested positive for Bartonella.
“Molecular analysis showed a variety of Bartonella strains, which were closely related to cattle Bartonella and several known human-pathogenic Bartonella species and subspecies: B. henselae, B. quintana, B. washoensis, and B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, suggesting that I. pacificus adults could be a source for Bartonella infections in humans,” as stated by the authors. (McVicar et al, 2022)
Ehrlichiosis is a term that describes several different bacterial diseases caused by a group of intracellular bacteria called Ehrlichia. These pathogens cause two groups of human infections, called human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE.)
While the pathogens that cause HME and HGE are different, the symptoms of the disease are similar. Left untreated, both HME and HGE can be life-threatening.
I. pacificus ticks can carry both diseases. The average infection rate of HME and HGE in California’s I. pacificus ticks is 3.4% and 2.0% respectively.
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.), a spirochete, causes Lyme disease in North America. The CDC estimates that 476,000 people contract Lyme every year in the US. That’s nearly 5 million cases in the past 10 years, making it the most important vector-borne disease in the nation.
There has been a great deal of research on Lyme disease in California, beginning with the pioneering work of Willy Burgdorfer, Bob Lane and Alan Barbour in the early 1980s.
On the west coast, in addition to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.), there are four additional Borrelia species within the B. burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex. These include B. americana, B. bissettiae, B. californensis, and B. lanei—the latter named after Bob Lane for his discovery. However, B. burgdorferi s.s. is currently the only one of these recognized as causing Lyme disease.
Compare this to the eastern half of the country, with B. burgdorferi s.s. also causing Lyme disease, and only three additional species in the B. burgdorferi s.l complex: B. andersonii, B. kurtenbachii, and B. mayonii. (B. mayonii is also recognized as causing Lyme disease.)
Hard ticks can also carry one species of relapsing fever Borrelia—Borrelia miyamotoi. All other species of relapsing fever borreliosis are believed to be carried by soft ticks.
Several studies in and around the San Francisco Bay Area have shown that the average infection rate of B. miyamotoi (5.1%) in I. pacificus ticks is higher than the rate of B. burgdorferi (1.3%). Although, depending on the location, infection rates for B. miyamotoi and B. burgdorferi can be as high as 17% and 6% respectively.
Co-infection with multiple pathogens is possible in animal hosts and ticks. Thus, a single tick bite can infect a human with more than one pathogen.
One study found that 14% of grey squirrels, a common host to I. pacificus ticks, were co-infected with B. burgdorferi and Anaplasma. Another study from Washington state found I. pacificus ticks co-infected with B. burgdorferi, B. miyamotoi. and Anaplasma.
In a more recent study, researchers tested ticks for up to five pathogens. In one area of California, infection rates were as high as 31%. (Salkeld et al, 2021)
While Lyme disease accounts for over 80% of all tick-borne cases in the U.S., spotted fever rickettsiosis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis have also seen an increase over the past four decades.
It’s important for researchers and clinicians to know which pathogens co-exist in all regions of the U.S., including the West coast.
As climate changes, tick ecology changes. The authors recommend, “To fully understand these systems, interdisciplinary teams with expertise in tick biology, tick genetics and genomics, computational biology, geography, meteorology, veterinary and human health, as well as vector-control districts and public health, need to work together.” (McVicar et al, 2022)
A great deal of work has been carried out on ticks in California. However, surveillance and ecological research is lacking in the other Western states.
LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a Licensed Physical Therapist and mother of a daughter with Lyme. She serves on a subcommittee of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Follow her on Twitter: @LonnieRhea Email her at: lmarcum@lymedisease.org.
Reference
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McVicar M, Rivera I, Reyes JB, Gulia-Nuss M. (2022) Ecology of Ixodes pacificus Ticks and Associated Pathogens in the Western United States. Pathogens. 2022 Jan 13;11(1):89. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11010089. PMID: 35056037; PMCID: PMC8780575.
Nieto NC, Porter WT, Wachara JC, Lowrey TJ, Martin L, Motyka PJ, et al. (2018) Using citizen science to describe the prevalence and distribution of tick bite and exposure to tick-borne diseases in the United States. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199644. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199644
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There’s an important link with the accepted narrative about”climate change” and the current COVID debacle. If you are unaware of this connection, please take the time to go down a dark rabbit-hole that connects the dots. This news story reports on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) ESG score, (environment, social, and corporate governance) which is similar to a credit score and is centered around sustainability & ethics. Currently given only to corporations, it isn’t a stretch to imagine this extended to individuals. Like everything else, the system is subjective to whomever decides what “ethical, diverse, and sustainable” is. The scores can change on a whim. Companies are changing slogans, censoring content, firing controversial people, and modifying behavior to ingratiate themselves to those in power. This system is already being used in China.
In this recent article, we learn about the WHO’s “pandemic treaty” which would yet further erode individual and medical freedom under the guise of pandemic preparedness and control. Keep in mind the WHO already changed the definition of what a pandemic is that essentially allows them to proclaim any disease they deem a threat a ‘pandemic,’ despite the fact it doesn’t cause mass casualties.
While the world was distracted by Will Smith, the internal elite met at the World Government Summit (WGS) in Dubai where World Economic Forum (WEF) head Klaus Schwab and ilk spoke of a “longer-term narrative” to make the world “more resilient, more inclusive, and more sustainable.”
The WGS spent considerable time discussing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which form the core of the Agenda 2030, (formerly Agenda 21) itself part of The Great Reset agenda, as well as topics like Blockchain, AI, 6G, and Human Meta-Cities, a rebranding of the so-called Smart Cities.
Within the video you learn that Agenda 2030 is about inventory & control of all resources of the world:
food, water, energy, land, production, education, construction, yes, even people. The plan will clear out rural areas and relocate people to large cities where people will be tightly controlled, monitored, and managed with intrusive technology. It will enforce Communitarianism – ruled by governments and companies: where the needs of the community trump individual rights and freedoms (which we are already seeing with COVID). Dissidents will be outcasts – which we’ve also already experienced with COVID injection apartheid.
Schwab’s “the 4th Industrial Revolution,” is the “digital panopticon of the future, where digital surveillance is omnipresent and humanity uses digital technology to alter our lives. Often associated with terms like the Internet of Things, the Internet of Bodies, the Internet of Humans, and the Internet of Senses, this world will be powered by 5G and 6G technology.” (Please note many believe this technology is dangerous to the human body and remains untested for adverse effects)
The truly frightening discussion was titled: The Invisible Government: Eliminating Bureaucracy Through Technology: “What goes unsaid in the panel description is that making the government “invisible” will actually lead to a world of no accountability for government and politicians. In reality, the Technocrats imagine a world where the tyrannical technological systems are invisible and the average person has zero recourse for preventing exclusion or punishment based on their social credit score.”
While few argue that the climate changes, as it always has since the beginning of time, many climate experts defy the accepted narrative and state political games are being played to create policy. Further, according to Pat Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, it has warmed up around 1 degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy has doubled. Climatologists have also debunked that “global warming” is making storms worse and that carbon dioxide is harmful.
What is very real; however, is the concerted effort to engineer the earth’s climate. Dane Wigington states “geoengineering must be considered weather and biological warfare due to the endless list of catastrophic downstream impacts and effects.” He also states: “That massive covert government programs have been playing “God” with the biosphere for well over 60 years, perhaps even longer. In recent years the scope and scale of these devastating weather modification programs has been ramped up so much that the entire climate system and biosphere is now hanging in the balance.”
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Polymer nanofibers are a component of these operations. The science community has now confirmed that microplastics have been found in human blood and farm animals. These puzzle pieces are not hard to connect for any that conduct objective investigation. New studies now also confirm that plastic pollution could “make much of humanity infertile”. How well would this serve the objectives of those in power? Engineered winter weather and temperature whiplash scenarios are continuing wherever and whenever the climate engineers have compatible conditions for carrying out the highly toxic chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding operations. In the meantime the weather makers are relentlessly cutting off the flow of rain from the Western US. Crop production is being crushed while the stage is being set for yet another summer of record wildfires. What will it take for a greater percentage of the population to look up and connect the dots?” source
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