Archive for July, 2022

WHO Update

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WHO Update

Working treaty draft and next steps

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been pushing forward with preparations for an agreement to create a global health governance. Although it has been referred to as a “pandemic treaty,” it’s been openly discussed that the agreement should cover much more. A summary of “key messages” from organizations interested in such a governance stressed the new agreement “should be linked with the global response to noncommunicable diseases,” and even included a suggestion that the agreement should happen at the United Nations (WHO’s parent organization), “in recognition of the fact that a pandemic response was larger than the health sector.”[i]

Nowhere has this been described as an agreement that would only be in effect in case of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), but it would instead set up standing surveillance methods in attempts to prevent another pandemic.

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), a group designed to create and present the proposed agreement to voting members of the WHO at the World Health Assembly in 2024, has been meeting and collecting input from Member States and private or organizational stakeholders since February 2021. On July 13, 2022, the WHO Secretariat released a working draft of the document for consideration at the next meeting of the INB on July 18-20, 2022.[ii]

As a working draft, the document is incomplete, with suggested language and objectives. It relies heavily upon input from Member States and other stakeholders who were invited to use an online portal to respond to pre-written suggested focus areas and language, as well as contribute their own open-ended suggestions for the agreement.

The agreement is shaping up to include “four cross-cutting strategic themes of equity, governance and leadership, systems and tools, and financing,” as well as “five subthemes: access; transfer of technology and know-how; coordination, collaboration and cooperation; multisectoral actions; and capacities and systems strengthening.”

Here are some highlights of the working draft:

  • Governance mechanisms “could include” enabling “collaboration and cooperation across the United Nations system and other international and regional intergovernmental organizations and non-State actors and bodies as a means of strengthening the implementation” of the agreement.
  • Universal health coverage is mentioned 11 times in the document, as a goal to combat and respond to pandemics.
  • Data sharing across government and industries is a foundation of the governance plan and is being referred to as “transparency.”
  • Another principle in the document is “solidarity,” explained as, “[i]ntensified international cooperation, based on a set of specific obligations for Parties (especially, but not limited to, obligations from developed to developing countries) is required to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from pandemics.”
  • There will be international efforts to curtail free speech by addressing “infodemic management, public information and risk communication” especially through use of social media.

How is the WHO considering national sovereignty?

The definition of sovereignty is not limited to self-determination, but also includes “the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to other States and their peoples.” It is reasonable that the freedom of one country should not infringe upon another, but when it comes to a germ, can any state truly be sovereign under this definition?

The first public meeting of the INB was held April 12-13, 2022. There were 36,294 written comments submitted. The WHO Secretariat summarized that “[a] number of submissions referred to respect for national autonomy and sovereignty, noting that subnational and cultural bodies, and local health entities were better placed to make health decisions at the national level. Such a focus on sovereignty was justified by the differences in national health systems” (emphasis added). Let’s never forget that those working for the World Health Organization think sovereignty needs to be justified in order to be claimed.

The Secretariat admitted, “The majority of written contributions proposed that no international instrument should be established.”[iii]

There’s no opportunity for public input at the upcoming INB meeting. The next chance the public may have to comment is the end of September, 2022. [iv] We do not yet know what the stipulations will be for oral or written comment, but Stand for Health Freedom will alert our Advocates when it is time to make our voices heard.

What does this mean for Americans?

We must be vigilant to protect local authority. Once power is handed over, it is not given back. We can see evidence of this right now in the perpetual state of emergency declared by both our president and the secretary of Health and Human Services. The law was written to give authority to widen the reach of federal authority in a declared emergency, but there was no sunset on that power, nor any true guidance on what an emergency looks like, or when it ends.

Health advocates in the state of Georgia were able to remove World Health Organization International Classifications of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) definitions of illness being included in a recently passed state law. [v]They recognized the danger of linking state power over health care with a global definition — if the rights of a citizen in a state are linked to decisions made by a global body that is unaccountable to American voters, then the decisions made by that global body affect people in their communities, and people have no say in the matter once the link is made.

Steps You Can Take

Step One: We can learn from the Georgia example and watch our state bills for links to the World Health Organization. Get involved with your local health freedom groups. For a list of state actions by organizations already partnered with Stand for Health Freedom, click the button below. If your state does not yet have a group, help build the health freedom movement by finding or mobilizing local advocates and contacting SHF.

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Step Two: Stay up to date with state, federal, and global events and happenings by joining SHF to receive health policy analysis and legislative alerts right to your inbox.

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Step Three: Sign our petition to let the White House know Americans will not allow health sovereignty to be taken away by a global governance.

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Step Four: Spread the word by sharing this post on social media, or with your friends and loved ones.

Step five: Support HR419, No Taxpayer Funding for the WHO.  Call your Senator and Reps.  Talking points:

My name is _________, I live in zip code ___________. I wanted to inform the Senator/Representative that our President, with HHS, is on the verge of joining international agreements that will funnel billions of U.S. tax dollars to the World Health Organization. At the end of May, the WHO will vote on amendments to International Health Regulations that would increase the use of declarations of global health emergencies and the surveillance capabilities of the WHO in countries around the globe. Next year, the WHO is scheduled to vote on a pandemic treaty being drafted right now to create more funding agreements and power centralized at the WHO. I need you to take action to stop the WHO from using fear of disease to destroy our Constitution. Please defund the WHO and check the power of the President to make these international agreements that will put Americans in danger!

References & Sources

[i] https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb1/A_INB1_10-en.pdf

[ii] https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb2/A_INB2_3-en.pdf

[iii] https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb1/A_INB1_10-en.pdf

[iv] https://inb.who.int/home/public-hearings

[v] https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/210977

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According to an article written last year, the U.S. is on course to become a ‘digital dictatorship’ under a proposed biomedical research agency. This agency would merge national security with public health, a perfect formula for a dangerous agenda that would destroy medical freedom as we know it.

This agency would “use both physical and mental health ‘warning signs’ to prevent outbreaks of disease or violence before they occur. Such a system is a recipe for a technocratic ‘pre-crime’ organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as ‘wrongthink.’”

This article proves the political interference at HHS as well as the fact governments are working in lockstep to bring in digital I.D.s & a social credit system.

The CDC already rules both research and the medical profession with an iron fist and medical freedom is increasingly under fire.
All of this sounds like a perfect prelude to global “vaccine” passports.

And all of this would fit perfectly with a global system that would overrule the U.S. constitution.  Do not let the dangling carrot of “Universal Health Care Coverage” fool you.  Remember when they told us we could quit wearing masks if we all got “vaccinated?” 

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Does Unrecognized Lyme in Mothers Lead to Autism Spectrum Disorder?

https://www.lymedisease.org/autism-lyme-disease-in-mothers/

Does unrecognized Lyme in mothers lead to autism spectrum disorder?

July 3, 2022

By Debbie Kimberg

I received many positive responses to my recent blog about my son’s 80% recovery from symptoms that had been diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This was accomplished with long-term antibiotic treatment for congenital tick-borne diseases (TBD).

After reading the article, many parents wrote to me, saying things like, “Thank you for sharing your story. The description of your son sounds just like my child. This gives me hope!” And they went on to ask, “How can I find a doctor to test my child?”

Common symptoms of TBD in parents

Testing the child is only part of what’s needed. When children develop such problems, it’s often because the mother has unknowingly passed along tick-borne diseases during pregnancy. Mothers of children with these problems may not realize that they themselves may have tick-borne diseases—and deserve testing and treatment. And sometimes dads are infected, too.

Here are symptoms that mothers may experience, without knowing that they could be the result of tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and Bartonella1:

  • Psychiatric symptoms: ADHD, anxiety, social anxiety, depression, OCD, temper rages/irritability, mood swings/bipolar, panic attacks, memory issues/brain fog, oppositional, fears, emotional lability, and in severe cases, psychosis, hallucinations, suicidal ideation and violence
  • Autoimmune symptoms: thyroid, arthritis, fatigue, neuropathy/MS, muscle pain/fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease
  • Other: gluten/dairy sensitivity, sleep issues, migraines, urinary issues, eating disorders, day or night sweats, seizures, and some cancers

Symptoms of unrecognized and untreated tick-borne diseases–stealth infections–can slowly worsen over years and decades.

Important clues

Mothers of children with ASD that I corresponded with frequently listed off symptoms they experienced, the doctors they saw, and testing done. Nearly all of these mothers described having psychiatric symptoms, and often had symptoms of one or more autoimmune diseases. These are important clues about a potential TBD transmission during pregnancy2.

Only a few mothers said they were tested for Lyme disease (Borrelia). Of those who were tested, most said they received a negative result on a commonly used lab test, which was potentially a falsely negative result.

One mom had a positive test result for Borrelia, was treated by her doctor with doxycycline for a few weeks and declared cured. However, it is unlikely the mother was cured from this complex disease with just a few weeks of doxycycline, evidenced by her child’s and her own continued symptoms. With the current treatments available, it’s not uncommon for these infections to take years to treat, even with a combination of antibiotics.

Bartonella is known to cause many psychiatric symptoms. That’s the infection that caused 70% of my son’s ASD (and PANS) symptoms. In addition to the many psychiatric issues listed, Bartonella is also known to cause ADHD, memory issues, brain fog, gluten/dairy sensitivity, sleep issues, digestive issues, thyroid, arthritis, neuropathy, muscle pain, inflammatory bowel disease, tumors, and seizures1,3.

If the mother experiences psychiatric or autoimmune issues, this is probably not a coincidence. More likely, it is the smoking gun.

Don’t recall a tick bite?

Most people I’ve heard from say they don’t remember a tick bite. However, it is common for people to be unaware that they were bitten by a tick. Additionally, there’s evidence that these infections can be transmitted sexually5 and during pregnancy6.

Don’t let the lack of a known tick bite deter you from getting screened by a Lyme specialist.

I offer my own history as an example of how these infections can be transmitted within families. As of December 2021, my family has three confirmed generations of TBD.

My mother suffered stealth psychiatric symptoms from Bartonella including OCD, anxiety, social anxiety, emotional lability, night terrors, and night sweats when my sister and I were growing up. My mom has no recollection of a tick bite and no idea when she was infected.

My sister and I first began exhibiting anxiety, fears, oppositional behavior, bedwetting, excessive tantrums, and panic attacks at a young age. It’s likely that we both were infected congenitally, then unsuspectingly passed the infections on to our children during our pregnancies.

Some people mistakenly believe that tick-borne disease is only a problem in the northeastern United States. Wrong! Lyme and other tick-borne diseases have been identified throughout the country.

Why does it matter if you are undiagnosed if the symptoms don’t impact your everyday life?

There are three reasons. First, it matters to our children, our next generation who may be infected during pregnancy and born with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD or psychiatric difficulties8. Second, for your own long-term health, because this is a progressive disease that could affecf any organ in your body over time. And finally, you could transmit the disease to your partner.

Find a knowledgeable doctor

Unfortunately, finding a knowledgeable doctor can be a challenge. The majority of doctors, including infectious disease doctors, are not trained on the latest findings in TBD and rarely consider it at an office visit6. Doctors rarely probe into the full set of psychiatric and physical symptoms of their patients which could indicate TBD.

Additionally, commonly used testing is notoriously inaccurate1 due to the lack of sensitivity of the test. Even with specialty tests, there can be false negative test results as we saw in my family’s testing.

Furthermore, many doctors don’t understand that a person with chronic TBD has a 50% likelihood of having at least two co-infections and a 33% likelihood of having three or more co-infections. If Lyme disease is suspected, the full spectrum of co-infections should be tested for and treated. These factors cause many people to go undiagnosed or improperly diagnosed.

If you do have a positive test, the common practice for doctors is to treat the Borrelia (Lyme) infection with a few weeks of doxycycline10,11. This is insufficient treatment for many. The potentially more impactful co-infections such as Bartonella, Babesia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Ehrlichia, and Anaplasma are generally not tested or treated.

Contributing to the problem, the CDC website does not cover the vast array of symptoms that can develop with these complex, multi-faceted chronic diseases. The CDC’s coverage of Bartonella henselae infection is a prime example of scant information that applies only to patients immediately following a tick bite. The CDC does not address the many psychiatric and physical symptoms that can develop over time.

Could stealth infections in mothers be the cause of skyrocketing rates of ASD?

Why are the rates of autism skyrocketing? It’s a perplexing and frustrating question. Might the multi-generational transmission of these stealth infections–especially Bartonella–be a major contributing factor?

If you are pregnant or want to get pregnant and believe you have symptoms, do not hesitate to get tested6. Find a Lyme specialist at the links below.

Remember, testing, even with specialty tests, frequently show falsely negative results. A good Lyme specialist will be able to offer a clinical diagnosis based on your symptoms, if needed.

Dr. Rosalie Greenberg, a child psychiatrist and Lyme expert, says that she sees families like mine in her practice every day because psychiatric symptoms are so common with TBD. She also made an eye-opening comment in her writing, “I’ve been a child psychiatrist for 40 years. The world of tick-borne illness is nothing like I’ve ever experienced before. It makes one really rethink a lot of medicine.”

You can find a Lyme specialist on LymeDisease.org.

To learn about my son’s story, follow me on Instagram @HijackedBrains or visit my website.

On July 12, Debbie Kimberg will take part in a webinar entitled “Co-morbidity of Lyme disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children,” sponsored by Project Lyme. Click here for details.

References

1. Recovery from Lyme Disease: An Integrative Medicine Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Tick-borne Illness, by Dr. Daniel Kinderlehrer, pages 66-77, 122-124, 131-134, 138

2. It’s Time to Recognize Congenital Lyme by Dr. Rosalie Greenberg

3. Bartonella, The Stealth Pathogen That You Can See without a Microscope by Dr. Rosalie Greenberg

4. Schizophrenia and Bartonella spp. Infection: A Pilot Case Control Study

5. Sexual Transmission of Lyme Borreliosis? The Question That Calls for an Answer

6. Molecular evidence of Perinatal Transmission of Bartonella vinsonii susp. berkhoffii and Bartonella henselae to a Child

7. Lyme Disease Data Tables: Historical Data, CDC

Note: These rates are new infections only. The CDC does not take into account a) the known issue with high rates of false negative testing b) the many people who have no known tick bite and stealth symptoms that do not seek testing c) the unknown number of children believed to have a congenital infection

8. Tick-borne Disorders and Mental Illness in Youth: An Unrecognized Connection by Dr. Rosalie Greenberg

9. Lyme Disease Co-Infections, Lonnie Marcum, LymeDisease.org

10. Guidance for Clinicians, Caring for Patients after a Tick Bite, CDC

11. Tick-borne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Healthcare Providers, CDC
Note: There is no mention of Bartonella, the arguably the most impactful infection in terms of ASD.

Additional Resources

MothersAgainstLyme.org

Breitschwerdt explains what’s known and unknown about Bartonella, April 3, 2019

DISCLAIMER: The author is not a doctor. This writing is an opinion held by the author and is not intended to dispense medical advice. If you have medical questions, please seek the care of a Lyme specialist.

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Autism, Bartonella, Lyme

How Prevalent is Bartonella?

https://www.lymedisease.org/bartonella-prevalent-lyme-disease/

How prevalent is Bartonella in people who have Lyme disease?

July 15, 2022

By Lonnie Marcum

At a meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on March 1, Ben Beard, PhD of the CDC made a highly significant statement that passed without remark at the time.

Beard’s statement was in reply to a comment by Monica Embers, PhD, also a member of the working group. Embers noted that several slides from Beard’s Clinical Presentation and Pathogenesis subcommittee mentioned neuropsychiatric illness and neuropathic manifestations of Lyme disease.

“We’re seeing a lot more neuropsychiatric disease associated with Bartonella,” said Embers. “I’m wanting to hear more about your thought process and your recommendation with respect to bartonellosis?”

Bartonella’s “significant impact”

Beard replied:

“In my view Bartonella is ubiquitous. There are multiple different Bartonella species. A lot of people are exposed to cats and fleas, and Bartonella henselae–or cat scratch disease–is pretty common. Our group looked at it as an illness that is associated with people with other tick-borne illnesses. Not necessarily agreeing that it’s tick-borne—for me the jury is still out for that—but I’m perfectly convinced that it is very common, and that it may be confounding the diagnosis, and that it is an important co-infection. We need not get side-tracked on whether or not it’s tick-borne. We need to agree that it’s a common infection, commonly seen in patients with other illnesses, and it can have a significant impact on clinical outcome and presentation.”

This is actually a showstopper of a comment.
The CDC has long declined to categorize bartonellosis as tick-borne and has not considered it a co-infection of Lyme.

Even today, the CDC website states: “Ticks may carry some species of Bartonella bacteria, but there is currently no causal evidence that ticks can transmit Bartonella infection to people through their bites.”

Yet, as Beard observed, Bartonella is very common in people with Lyme disease.

What the data says

In MyLymeData, LymeDisease.org’s patient-led research project, 60% of patients with chronic symptoms of Lyme disease report co-infections. A previously published LymeDisease.org survey of over 3,000 patients found that over 50% had co-infections, with 30% of patients reporting two or more. Bartonella (28%) was the second most commonly reported co-infection associated with chronic Lyme disease. (Johnson, L., et al., 2014)

Bartonella does not respond to standard treatment for Lyme disease, and it is notoriously difficult to detect through standard tests. Moreover, Bartonella is not included in standard surveillance testing for ticks, and cases of the disease are not tracked by the CDC

Which leads me to the elephant in the room: nobody knows how many cases of bartonellosis there are in the US—or anywhere else for that matter.

What is bartonellosis?

Bartonellosis is caused by one of many species of the bacterium Bartonella. It is harbored in wild and domestic animals, and can be transmitted to humans through a number of different pathways including fleas, flies, lice, animal bites, animal scratches, ticks, bedbugs, and possibly through maternal fetal transmission. (Maggi RG, et al., 2015; Reis C, et al., 2011)

First identified in 1990, Bartonella henselae bacteria is the most common cause of bartonellosis in humans. Bartonella henselae infection, also called cat scratch disease, is frequently caused by flea bites or the scratch of an infected cat. The primary reservoirs for B. henselae across the world are domestic and stray cats, and the primary vector is the cat flea (ctenophalides felis). (Breitschwerdt, E.B., 2017)

Prior to 1990, there were only two diseases known to be caused by Bartonella bacteria. One was “Carrion’s disease,” endemic to parts of South America, caused by Bartonella bacilliformis. The other was “trench fever,” which infected many soldiers during World War I, caused by Bartonella quintana.  Though the illness was first described in 1915, Bartonella quintana was not  molecularly identified as its cause until 1961. (Breitschwerdt, E.B., 2017)

We now know that these bacteria have been infecting humans for thousands of years. Researchers discovered Bartonella quintana in a 4,000-year-old human tooth in France. (Drancourt M., et al., 2005)

Today, at least 40 different species of Bartonella have been identified.  About half of them are known to cause symptoms in humans or animals.

Bartonella is a stealth pathogen

At a recent conference, Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, DVM, a leading expert in the field,  explained how Bartonella can invade and “literally affect every system in the body.” This includes the: cutaneous, muscular, skeletal, endocrine, cardiovascular and nervous systems.

He reviewed several recent studies implicating Bartonella infection in the brain in relation to several neuropsychiatric and autoimmune manifestations.

According to Breitschwerdt, these bacteria are extremely difficult to find in humans because they are slow growing and can hide within cells.

He explained how Bartonella, which are intracellular bacteria, have the ability to:

  • invade red blood cells, wall themselves off, and hide from the immune system (immune evasion)
  • migrate into the nervous system via macrophages (Trojan horse)
  • penetrate the blood brain barrier via endothelial cells and pericytes
  • persist within the brain via microglial cells.

Considering the number of different species and different methods of contracting Bartonella, Dr. Breitschwerdt ponders, “Is Bartonellosis a modern-day hidden epidemic?” (Breitschwerdt E.B., 2014)

Symptoms of bartonellosis

The symptoms of bartonellosis can range from mild to life-threatening, depending on the Bartonella species and the health of those infected. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence links Bartonella to neuropsychological symptoms.

The most commonly reported neurological symptoms include sleep disorders, mental confusion, memory loss, brain fog, irritability, rage, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, migraines, tremors, hallucinations, psychosis and postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS).

Additional symptoms common to bartonellosis are swollen lymph nodes (especially around the head, neck and arm pits), bone pain (especially shins), pain in the soles of the feet, low grade fever in the morning, night sweats, tender nodules along the extremities, gastrointestinal pain, and skin markings (striae) that resemble stretch marks.

The table below lists the known species of Bartonella associated with human disease, the most common symptoms as well as the reservoir host and vector.

bartonella symptoms

How a stealth pathogen may prolong your chronic illness

In individuals with strong immune systems, Bartonella infection is often mild or asymptomatic. However, in those with an impaired immune system, Bartonella can wreak havoc on the body.

In fact, Bartonella henselae was discovered in the 1990s during the AIDS epidemic. Because  the HIV virus causes an acquired immune deficiency, these patients were extremely susceptible to new infections and reactivation of latent infections. In this patient population, Bartonella caused a distinctive skin lesion called bacillary angiomatosis (BA), and a type of liver disease called peliosis hepatis. (Breitschwerdt, E.B., 2017)

Advanced, disseminated disease is more likely to occur in immunocompromised patients or those taking immunosuppressive drugs. Without proper treatment, the infection can spread systemically throughout the body. The result is sometimes fatal.

When the co-infection becomes the main infection

Data from multiple animal studies shows that Borrelia burgdorferi suppresses the immune system. (Buffen K, et al., 2016; Tracy KE, Baumgarth N., 2017)

This makes me wonder. How many people with chronic Lyme disease had a latent Bartonella infection that was re-activated when their immune system became impaired?

I believe this was the case with my daughter. We live on a farm with lots of animals, including cats. Veterinarians, cat owners, and people who live or work on farms are at increased risk for Bartonella.

It wasn’t until my child became deathly ill after contracting Ehrlichia chaffeensis that her Bartonella symptoms began.

The symptoms that stood out were the constant migraine/headache, memory loss, bone pain, painful soles of feet, relapsing fever, insomnia, nighttime hallucinations that made everything look like Whoville, POTS, skin marks (striae) that resembled stretch marks, swollen lymph nodes, and an immune system so impaired it led to a temporary misdiagnosis of HIV. What a horrific experience for all of us!

Diagnosis & Treatment

Because  Bartonella may hide inside of cells and only emerge periodically, you may need to test multiple times to find a confirmatory diagnosis. And in patients who are immunocompromised, the test may not turn positive until after treatment has begun.

Research led by Ricardo Maggi, Ed Breitschwerdt and colleagues has led to the development of a new digital PCR that is much more sensitive to Bartonella. Even still, Dr. Maggi recommends running multiple types of tests (IFA serology, PCR, culture, and microscopy).

According to Dr. Joseph Burrascano, one should consider bartonellosis when symptoms persist after treatment for Lyme disease. Especially when the neurological symptoms are out of proportion to the common symptoms of disseminated Lyme disease.

Just as with Lyme disease, the longer Bartonella goes untreated, the more difficult it is to treat.  Furthermore, the standard treatment for Lyme (doxycycline) is ineffective against Bart. As Dr. Breitschwerdt famously said, “You cannot float humans or horses in enough doxycycline to kill this bacteria.”

According to the CDC: “A number of antibiotics are effective against Bartonella infections, including azithromycin, penicillins, tetracyclines, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, and macrolides. More than one antibiotic is often used. Consult with an expert in infectious diseases regarding treatment options.”

Dr. Burrascano says, treating Bartonella-like organisms “can be difficult, as drug resistance can rapidly develop to macrolides and fluoroquinolones when used as a single agent and solo courses of tetracyclines are ineffective.”

Moving forward with Bartonella research

In 2021, a new Bartonella Research Consortium was formed with a $4.8 million grant from The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

The consortium includes Ed Breitschwerdt and Ricardo Maggi of North Carolina State University, Monica Embers of Tulane University, and Timothy Haystead of Duke University, who is continuing the work of the late Dr. Neal Spector.

The team is actively working towards creating a targeted treatment for bartonellosis and quickly getting the drug to the marketplace for use in both animals and humans.

It’s time medicine moves beyond the one-pathogen-one-disease model. Let’s face it, ticks are full of toxic soup. Because each pathogen interacts with the host in unique ways, extensive research is needed to understand all factors surrounding co-infections and Lyme disease. (Moutailler S, et al., 2016)

Understanding the complex nature of these pathogens, how they impact the immune system, and how other bacterial and viral factors shape illness, will be key in improving public health. (Cheslock, M. A., & Embers, M. E., 2019)

It’s time for the CDC, NIH, HHS, the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group and other researchers to start looking deeper into the prevalence of Bartonella infections–not just in patients with Lyme disease but in all patients with poorly-defined chronic illnesses.

Resources

More information about testing/diagnosis of Bartonellosis see:

Free Bartonella CME Course:

LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a Licensed Physical Therapist and mother of a daughter with Lyme. She has served two terms on a subcommittee of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Follow her on Twitter: @LonnieRhea  Email her at: lmarcum@lymedisease.org.

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Excellently written.  Bartonella is a real problem out here, but the CDC is just sipping on margaritas.

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Millions Will Die From COVID “Vax” by 2028: Dr. David Martin

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/07/16/death-from-covid-vaccine

Will 100 Million Die From the COVID Vax by 2028?

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked

July 16, 2022

Story at-a-glance

  • David Martin, Ph.D., presents evidence that COVID-19 injections are not vaccines, but bioweapons that are being used as a form of genocide across the global population
  • The spike protein that the COVID-19 shots manufacture is a known biologic agent of concern
  • Martin believes the number that may die may have been revealed back in 2011, when the World Health Organization announced their “decade of vaccination”
  • The objective for the decade of vaccination was a population reduction of 15% globally, which would be about 700 million people dead; in the U.S., this may amount to between 75 million and 100 million people dying from COVID-19 shots
  • When asked what timeframe these people may die in, Martin suggested “there’s a lot of economic reasons why people hope that it’s between now and 2028”
  • The projected illiquidity of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs by 2028 suggests the “fewer people who are recipients of these programs, the better;” Martin believes this may be why people 65 and over were targeted with COVID-19 shots first

In this revealing interview with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com, David Martin, Ph.D., presents evidence that COVID-19 injections are not vaccines but bioweapons that are being used as a form of genocide across the global population.1

In March 2022, Martin filed a federal lawsuit against President Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alleging that COVID-19 shots turn the body into a biological weapons factory, manufacturing spike protein. Not only is the term “vaccination” misleading when referring to COVID-19 shots, it’s inaccurate since they are actually a form of gene therapy.2

“And we are not only not going to be sued for, you know, any libel or misinformation, we are actually holding people criminally accountable for their domestic terrorism, their crimes against humanity and the story of the coronavirus weaponization that goes back to 1998,” Martin says.3

SARS-CoV-2 Has Been in the Works for Decades

Martin has been in the business of tracking patent applications and approvals since 1998. His company, M-Cam International Innovation Risk Management, is the world’s largest underwriter of intangible assets used in finance in 168 countries. M-Cam has also monitored biological and chemical weapons treaty violations on behalf of the U.S. government, following the anthrax scare in September 2001.4

According to Martin, there are more than 4,000 patents relating to the SARS coronavirus. His company has also done a comprehensive review of the financing of research involving the manipulation of coronaviruses that gave rise to SARS as a subclade of the beta coronavirus family.

Much of the research was funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci.5 Martin explained:6

“I think it’s important for your listeners and viewers to remember that it was 1999 when Anthony Fauci and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill decided to start weaponizing coronavirus they patented in 2002 — and you heard that date correctly, that’s a year before the SARS outbreak in China.

The first time they patented what they called an ‘infectious replication defective chimera’ of coronavirus. And let’s unpack what that means.

Infectious means that it actually is more lethal to the target. Replication defective means its damage is primarily to the target and not to the target’s family or friends or community or anything else. And in 2002, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill patented the replication defective infectious coronavirus chimera, which then became the first instance of SARS.

And it was perfected in 2013 to 2016 during the gain of function moratorium, where the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was given an exemption from the gain of function moratorium so they could continue to weaponize the virus to the point where in 2016, Ralph Baric published a paper in which he said the Wuhan Institute of Virology virus one, coronavirus, was ‘poised for human emergence,’ so they knew this all along.

You know, they knew it was a bioweapon since 2005. They knew it was effective at taking out populations, harming populations, intimidating and coercing populations. And they did that all very intentionally for the purpose of destroying humanity.”

COVID-19 Shots Are an ‘Act of Bioterrorism’

According to Martin, the spike protein that the COVID-19 shots manufacture is a computer simulation of a chimera of the spike protein of coronavirus. “It is, in fact, not a coronavirus vaccine. It is a spike protein instruction to make the human body produce a toxin, and that toxin has been scheduled as a known biologic agent of concern with respect to biological weapons for the last now decade and a half,” he said.7

Rather than being a public health measure as they were widely campaigned to be, COVID-19 shots are an act of bioweapons and bioterrorism. Martin shared that in 2015, Dr. Peter Daszak, head of the EcoHealth Alliance that funneled research dollars from the NIAID to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for coronavirus research, stated:8

“We need to increase public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage, to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process.”

Daszak, who Martin refers to as “the money launderer in chief,” “actually stated that this entire exercise was a campaign of domestic terror to get the public to accept the universal vaccine platform using a known biological weapon. And that is their own words, not my interpretation,” Martin said.9

Martin: 100 Million May Die Due to COVID Shots

Both Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 shots contain nucleic acid sequences that are not part of nature and have not been previously introduced to the human body. This amounts to a genetic engineering experiment that did not go through animal studies or clinical trials.

However, already people are dying from the shots and, Martin states, “many more will” due to issues such as blood clots, damage to the cardiovascular system and problems with liver, kidney and pulmonary function.10

An onslaught of reproductive and cancer cases related to the shots are also anticipated. “The fact of the matter is an enormous number of people who are injected are already carrying the seeds of their own demise,” Martin said.11 As for how many may die, Martin believes the numbers may have been revealed back in 2011, when the World Health Organization announced their “decade of vaccination”:12

“Based on their own 2011 estimate, and … this is a chilling estimate, but we just have to put it out there … When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chinese CDC, the Jeremy Farrar Wellcome Trust and others published The Decade of Vaccination for the World Health Organization back in 2011 their stated objective was a population reduction of 15% of the world’s population.

Put that in perspective, that’s about 700 million people dead … and that would put the U.S. participation in that certainly as a pro rata of injected population somewhere between 75 and 100 million people.”

When asked what timeframe these people may die in, Martin suggested “there’s a lot of economic reasons why people hope that it’s between now and 2028.”13 This is because of “a tiny little glitch on the horizon” — the projected illiquidity of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs by 2028.

“So the fewer people who are recipients of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the better,” Martin said. “Not surprisingly, it’s probably one of the motivations that led to the recommendation that people over the age of 65 were the first ones getting injected.”14 Other populations at risk are caregivers, including health care providers, and others in the workforce who were forced to be injected, such as pilots.

“Why is it that we’re suddenly having 700 flights a day being canceled because, allegedly, airlines don’t have pilots? … the dirty secret … is there a lot of pilots who are having microvascular problems and clotting problems, and that keeps them out of the cockpit, which is a good place to not have them if they’re going to throw a clot for a stroke or a heart attack,” Martin said.

“But the problem is we’re going to start seeing that exact same phenomenon in the health care industry and at a much larger scale, which means we now have, in addition to the problem of the actual morbidity and mortality, meaning people getting sick and people dying.

We actually have that targeting the health care industry writ large, which means we are going to have doctors and nurses who are going to be among the sick and the dead. And that means that the sick and the dying also do not get care.”15

Why COVID Shots May Change Your DNA

It’s been stressed by the media and public health officials that COVID-19 shots do not alter DNA. However, Martin brings attention to a little-known grant from the National Science Foundation, known as Darwinian chemical systems,16 which involved research to incorporate mRNA into targeted genomes. According to Martin:17

“Moderna was started … on the back of a 10-year National Science Foundation grant. And that grant was called Darwinian chemical systems … the project that gave rise to the Moderna company itself was a project where they were specifically figuring out how to get mRNA to write itself into the genome of whatever target they were going after.

That could be a single-celled organism, it could be a multi-celled organism or it could be a human. And the fact of the matter is Moderna was started on the back of having proven that mRNA can be transfected and write itself into the human genome.”

It is completely unknown what the short- or long-term effects of the spike protein analog that’s inside people who received COVID-19 injections will be. But with respect to alteration of the genome, Martin states that data show mRNA has the capacity to write into the DNA of humans, and “as such, the long-term effects are not going to merely be symptomatic. The long-term effects are going to be the human genome of injected individuals is going to be altered.”18

Fraud Removes Big Pharma’s Liability Shield

The 2001 anthrax attack, which came out of medical and defense research, led to the passage of the PREP Act, which removed liability for manufacturers of emergency medical countermeasures.

This means that as long as the U.S. is under a state of emergency, things like COVID-19 “vaccines” are allowed under emergency use authorization. And as long as the emergency use authorization is in effect, the makers of these experimental gene therapies are not financially liable for any harm that comes from their use.

That is, provided they’re “vaccines.” If these injections are NOT vaccines, then the liability shield falls away, because there is no liability shield for a medical emergency countermeasure that is gene therapy. Further, lawsuits that can prove the companies engaged in fraud will also negate the liability shield. Martin states:19

“One of the convenient things about the PREP Act is the immunity shield from liability actually is only as good as the absence of fraud. Because if there was fraud in the promulgation of the events, leading to an emergency use authorization, then all of the immunity shield gets wiped out.

So the reason why it is so important for conversations like the one we’re having to actually be promoted and be advanced is because the pharmaceutical companies — and this includes Pfizer and Moderna and J&J — know they are perpetuating a fraud. The great thing about this is when that fraud is established, 100% of the liability flows back to them.

… when a fraud was the basis for a fraud, then we actually have a number of other legal remedies that allow you to pierce that veil. So in the end, there’s no question … and it’s quite evident based on the current mortality and morbidity data that given the fact that when it comes to biological weapons and bioterror each count comes with $100 million penalty. That’s what the federal statute gives us.

The penalty for corporate domestic terrorism, when you have per count $100 million a pop liabilities — that is an existential threat that takes a company like Pfizer or takes a company like Moderna out of existence. And that is what we’re working for every day.”

If you’d like to follow the progress of the ongoing legal cases seeking to expose the truth — that a criminal organization is seeking to obtain control over the global population via the creation of patented bioweapons marketed as novel viruses and injections — you can find all the details at ProsecuteNow.io, a website compiled by Martin and colleagues.20

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Conflicted Much? WEF ‘Anti-Corruption’ Champion Also Happens to Be Pfizer Director & Reuters CEO. Who Benefits?

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/08/wef-anti-corruption-czat-is-pfizer-director/

CONFLICTED MUCH? – World Economic Forum ‘Anti-Corruption’ Champion Is Pfizer Director AND Reuters CEO.

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Jim Smith – whose concurrent roles as a Pfizer board member and Reuters CEO appear to pose a conflict of interest – serves as a board member of the World Economic Forum’s anti-corruption initiative.

Smith’s leading role with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Partnering Against Corruption Initiative follows controversy over his position at the pharmaceutical giant and mainstream media outlet, which frequently reports on Pfizer. Reuters has published tens of thousands of articles covering or mentioning Pfizer, though the articles never disclose Smith’s affiliation with either entity.

Smith serves on the board of the WEF’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, dubbed the “leading business voice on anti-corruption and transparency.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Another perfect example of why we are in this very ugly place in history. 

People are allowed to have severe conflicts of interest and yet set international agendas.

Here we have a person, supposedly addressing corruption, who is lamenting public perception that institutions are not acting in the interest of the public.  He also just happens to be CEO of a large media outlet (Reuters) and also a board member in a “vaccine” manufacturing company as well as the extremely controversial WEF who essentially wants to take over the world.  Nice.

This person laments that public confidence has been corroded by “near-term priorities,” “payoffs propelled by election-cycle politics” and “quarterly results,” yet is guilty of partaking in all three as the WEF has shamelessly exploited COVID to advance its “Great Reset” to abolish private property ownership.

You can read more about the World Economic Forum at www.TakeDownTheWEF.com

Please also see this very informative video about Klaus Schwab, founder of WEF & evil mastermind of “The Great Reset.” And this article does a great job explaining WEF plans.

http://  Approx. 10 Min

0:00 – Who is Klaus Schwab?

0:46 – A quick refresher on the World Economic Forum

1:51 – Who can join the WEF?

3:05 – The WEF’s financial activities

4:18 – How Schwab is getting richer

5:38 – FTX insert 6:42 – Klaus’ controversial actions

9:41 – Some final thoughts

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http://  Approx. 20 Min

This May Have Been the Greatest Crime in History

July 8, 2022

News host Tucker Carlson argues no one benefited more from the COVID pandemic than China.
  • 22 million Americans lost their jobs in the first two months of the lockdowns. Five million never went back to work.  National debt rose by nearly 10 trillion dollars, including our debt to China. Tech companies thrived while middle class America suffered.  It changed the balance of power in the world forever, putting China on top.
  • Drug overdoses, suicide, obesity, anxiety, alcoholism, illiteracy, crime, etc. skyrocketed. Marriages and birthrates dropped.
  • Health officials have lied so consistently about the true death counts from COVID, we will never probably know the truth.
  • Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance received millions in grants from Fauci & boasted about manipulating coronaviruses in a lab right before the outbreak.
  • Apparently, mainstream media is getting their marching orders from China. China pays American media a lot of money – tens of millions of dollars in advertising.  Instead of investigating where COVID originated, the NY Times COVID reporter decided to play the race card. The racist talking point became prevalent in March, 2020 – exactly when Chinese owned state media tweeted that terms like Wuhan & coronavirus were racist.  Before this, (Feb. 2020) American media continuously called it the Wuhan corona, or Chinese virus, etc., showing clearly they are bought out by China.
  • Our leaders appear to not care where COVID came from.
  • When a reporter asked Biden why he hasn’t asked China to be transparent on COVID origins, Biden just smiled and walked away.  Seriously
  • The same Wuhan lab is now working on Monkeypox.

Conflicts of interest have crept into every area of life:

The AMA, AphA, ASHP, in lock-step with the FDA, continues to promise to fight ‘misinformation’ – an overused & highly politicized term that simply means anything that defies the accepted narrative created by conflict-riddled public health ‘authorities’ that have patents on virtually every aspect of COVID.

If you are unaware, we are in a war for truth.

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