Archive for November, 2023

Jacksonville Lyme Disease Patients Say They Had To Ask a Dozen Times For a Test

Sadly, getting a Lyme test is not always helpful.  Since testing is so abysmal, it misses a vast majority of cases – which can be worse in the long run because when the test comes back negative doctors tell patients they don’t have Lyme, when they very well could be infected with numerous life-altering infections.  Getting to an experienced Lyme literate doctor is your best bet as they use more sensitive tests AND they diagnose clinically based on symptoms, not a test with arbitrary antibody levels.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/gmj/heres-how-to-prevent-getting-lyme-disease-amid-the-start-of-tick-season

Jacksonville Lyme disease patients say they had to ask a dozen times for a test

Researchers at the University of North Florida say official Lyme disease statistics underestimate the number of people with Lyme disease.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Schools may be out for summer break, but we are now in tick season. As your family spends more time in the fresh air, it’s important to know how to avoid the disease-carrying arachnids.

At the University of North Florida, researchers are working to create a more sensitive test for Lyme disease, a disease that is transmitted through ticks. Needing a more sensitive test and getting doctors to give a Lyme disease test in the first place, are just some of the problems people with Lyme disease say they face.

“It was March 3, 2011,” said Melissa Bell. “He came home from school, I know the exact day because it was a traumatic day, saying, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong, I’m falling down at P.E.’ And then an A+ student started having problems with short term memory, C’s, D’s, F’s, started losing the ability to walk.”

Bell’s son was 11 years old when he started showing symptoms of Lyme disease, but no one knew what it was. Bell, who is now the president of the Florida Lyme Disease Association, says it took nearly a year of advocating for her son to get a diagnosis.

“We probably asked for Lyme testing a dozen times,” Bell said. “It shouldn’t be that hard to have children tested for Lyme disease.”  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Sadly, this is the norm in Lymeland.

Important quote:

“If you get a negative Lyme test, it doesn’t prove that you don’t have the infection,” Clark said.

Category:

Lyme, Testing, Ticks

Novel Therapy Destroys Lyme in Lab

https://projectlyme.org/novel-therapy-destroys-lyme-in-lab/

Novel Therapy Destroys Lyme In Lab

Research Identifies New Investigational Therapy Regimen Capable of Irreversibly Damaging Lyme Bacteria in Laboratory Tests

Inspired by research that targets cancer tumors, these new findings in Lyme could also lead to novel R&D strategies for other diseases. This project was partially funded by Project Lyme, in partnership with the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. Learn more about our funded research here.

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Dr. Neil Spector Research Project

Nov. 1, 2023

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. November 1, 2023 – Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, today announced the development of a potential new drug, HS-291, that targets and destroys Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Chemical Biology, this laboratory study represents a novel paradigm shift for anti-microbial treatment research as it is the first to target and inhibit Borrelia burgdorferi HtpG (high-temperature protein G), a specific type of enzyme within the bacteria that causes Lyme disease— a condition affecting nearly 500,000 new patients annually. The research was conducted at Duke University School of Medicine, with collaboration from the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and Stanford University, and HS-291 is currently in preclinical stage testing at UC Davis.

“As Lyme disease is currently treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and there are no targeted treatments, we are particularly excited about this discovery, and hopeful that our novel Lyme disease therapeutic HS-291 will specifically destroy the Lyme bacterium without off-target effects or antibiotic resistance,” said Timothy Haystead, PhD, professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Bay Area Lyme Foundation grantee, and co-lead author. “This research has been an incredible opportunity to leverage knowledge from oncology to Lyme disease to design an investigational therapeutic that could one day benefit hundreds of thousands of patients with Lyme.”

This discovery has implications beyond Lyme disease as it demonstrates that using the drug HS-291 to deliver cellular toxins to HtpG, a type of non-essential enzyme that assists the folding or unfolding of large and complex proteins, greatly expands what can be considered druggable within any pathogen and opens a whole new area of infectious disease research.

When activated, HS-291, an inhibitor of HtpG tethered to the photoactive cellular toxin verteporfin, causes discrete protein modifications, which wreaks havoc on the Lyme disease bacterium’s DNA. This impacts multiple processes including nucleoid collapse and cell wall disruptions. A single dose of HS-291, when activated by light, irreversibly damages Borrelia proteins in close proximity of Bb HtpG in vitro.

“Antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease do not always work for all patients, which causes many to suffer for years with extreme symptoms including neurocognitive issues, disabling fatigue and sleep disruption,” said Linda Giampa, executive director of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. “Bay Area Lyme concentrates on funding innovative research, including projects where knowledge can be deployed from other areas of medicine. We hope that this discovery will inspire others to join us in investing in impactful, translational research to bring relief to patients.”

This research was made possible by a 2020 Bay Area Lyme Foundation grant of more than $2 million to Duke University School of Medicine in honor of Neil Spector, MD, a renowned oncologist who passed away from complications of Lyme disease that had been misdiagnosed for years. He encouraged scientists to take cancer staging techniques and immunotherapy learnings from oncology and apply them to Lyme research. Dr. Spector was the Sandra Coates associate professor in the Duke University Department of Medicine and also served on Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Haystead and Spector joined forces as Spector sought to leverage his knowledge of oncology to help better understand Lyme disease, and Haystead’s research is focused on the use of chemical biology approaches to define novel drug targets focused on the treatment of hypertension, obesity, cancer, inflammatory and infectious disease.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation also funded University of North Carolina collaborator, Matt Redinbo, PhD’s research on HS-291; his lab’s crystallography work was instrumental in the discovery process.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s research grant program was made possible by the support from the Fairbairn Family, the Younger Family Fund, and Project Lyme.

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Lyme, research, Treatment

COVID Shot Has Killed More Than COVID & New Zealand’s “Crime Scene”

https://twitter.com/remnantman1/status/1719906905730990146  Video Here (Approx. 1 Min)

The COVID Shot has Directly Killed More Americans Than COVID

540,000 Americans (18K VAERS deaths times an underreporting factor of 30) died directly from the COVID-19 gene therapy injections, according to Dr. Peter McCullough.

The number of COVID deaths on the books is 1.2 million; however, this is all based upon faulty tests and the fact they counted every death as caused by COVID if they had a positive test, even if they had NO symptoms. McCullough states that real COVID mortality is about 10% of that or 120,000 Americans.  

“The government encouraged death certificate coding that was so broadly inclusive that even things that were completely unrelated to COVID or COVID pneumonia, if they tested positive, was counted as a COVID death.  And, we now know the COVID test, the PCR test, can remain positive for many months after the initial infection.”  Dr. Peter McCullough

I recently posted that according to independent research conducted by Sin Hang Lee, faulty COVID testing means COVID cases will be overstated by a factor of 72%!

But, true to form, rather than fix obvious errors in the tests (no positive control sample, no data on false positives, faulty cycle thresholds, and refusal to publish Ct values due to it being “proprietary”,) HHS, FDA, and CDC opt for arbitrary and perpetual diagnosis of COVID.  The same is true in Lymeland only in the reverse: hardly anyone tests positive.  They must control testing.

Further, the CDC has been accused of fraud by systematically misclassifying COVID as the Underlying Cause of Death on death certificates which are subjective and unreliable when making public health decisions.

Lastly, it’s important to remember that under the “Cares ACT” hospitals were bribed every time a patient tested positive (which means they tested them constantly until they got a positive), was diagnosed with COVID, was admitted to the hospital, used toxic but lucrative remdesivir, was ventilated, and injected with the gene therapy injection, and labeled it as a COVID death. One study showed that 70% of COVID deaths were due to ventilation.

In short, since the beginning, every single thing has been stacked in favor of high COVID numbers to create a narrative.

https://rumble.com/v3qp8bu-m.o.a.r-update.html  Video Here Approx. 8 Min

New Zealand: a “Crime Scene”

Ms. Liz Gun, former TV broadcaster and attorney describes New Zealand as a “crime scene” after whistleblowers revealed information about specific “vaccine” sites from 2021 and 2022.

“There are tens of thousands of deaths linked to the jabs. And this is just one of the sites recording this type of information in New Zealand…in one example…on one day, 30 people were jabbed on the same day at the same location.  All [of them] are now deceased.  And their deaths are all in close proximity to one another.”

Gunn is calling for a full criminal investigation int all post-injection deaths.

Gunn started an entirely new political party in June called New Zealand Loyal whose mission is to end the country’s participation in the UN, WEF, and WHO, remove fluoride from the water supply, reduce Glyphosate spraying, protect land from being arbitrarily seized, decentralize government, elevate freedom of choice fr personal heath decisions, and promote alternative holistic health modalities.  Go here for more.

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**Comment**

Poor Australia and New Zealand – playground for the globalists.

This article written in May shows that New Zealanders “Desperate to Leave” as Thousands Flee “Controlling and Fearful” Jacina Ardern.  But she just doesn’t care.  She is after all best buds with Bill and Melinda Gates, is the Poster Child for WEB founder Claus Schwab, and became one of the many “Young Global Leaders” in 2014 – even to the point of wearing a creepy identical shirt.

The real goal is New Zealand’s quarantine program which utilizes Digital ID wallets – the ultimate end-game.

Category:

Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Blacklisting and Censorship Violates Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Conscience

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/11/blacklisting-and-censorship-violates-freedom-of-thought-speech-and-conscience-barbara-loe-fisher/  Video Here (Approx. 20 Min)

Blacklisting and Censorship Violates Freedom of Thought, Speech and Conscience

by Barbara Loe Fisher

Nov. 2, 2023

Freedom of thought, speech and conscience are inalienable natural[1] and civil rights recognized in America and in countries where respect for autonomy[2] and protection of bodily integrity [3] [4] [5] places limits on the power of the state. Under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Americans have the legal right to peacefully dissent and “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” [6] The freedom to use our intelligence and follow our conscience [7] [8] [9] is absolute when we make a decision that involves taking a risk of injury or death for ourselves or on behalf of our minor child, [10] and the freedom to speak in the digital public square about what that means should be absolute as well.

This is a commentary about a special report I have researched and written on the systematic abuse of parents with vaccine injured children and the silencing of my voice and information published by the charitable National Vaccine Information Center in the digital public square both before and after the declaration of a coronavirus pandemic in 2020. I have submitted the report to the US House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. [11]

Entitled “The Silencing of Barbara Loe Fisher and the National Vaccine Information Center in the Digital Public Square: A Violation of Freedom of Thought, Speech and Conscience,” the report is anchored with more than 300 live linked references. [12] It  contains information about the collaborative actions taken by government officials, political operatives, corporations, academic and financial institutions, media, philanthropic foundations, and global governmental organizations to target, discredit, discriminate against and censor me and NVIC for our mission since 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education, and to defend the legal right of Americans to make voluntary decisions about vaccination without being coerced or sanctioned for the decision made.[13]    (Go to link for video & article)

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Go here for Fisher’s report.

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Category:

Activism, vaccines

Not Good: Medscape – New Federal Oversight of Lab Developed Tests

The following information about “FDA approved” tests is a perfect example of corrupt government agencies doing what they do best: monopolize and control disease for their own purposes – usually financial.

They have restricted doctor and patient choice, care, and access in a number of ways, but one way they cling to like a survivor on a raft is testing. Lyme testing has been fraudulent from the get-go and their suppression of other tests is something that should be made into a movie.  In so many ways the CDC and FDA are maniacal evil twins – both doing all within their power to monopolize medicine.

Dr. Sin Hang Lee has sued the CDC for suppressing direct detection tests for Lyme disease, and promoting their own newly patented, unproven metabolomics technology for diagnosis of LD. Current and former CDC representatives receive royalties as a result of working on the approval and promotion/CDC endorsement of a Lyme disease serology test.

Lee has been fighting back with equal tenacity and performed independent research on faulty COVID testing which showed COVID cases will be overstated by a factor of 72%!

Instead of fixing the obvious errors (no positive control sample, no data on false positives, faulty cycle thresholds, and refusal to publish Ct values due to it being “proprietary”,) HHS, FDA, and CDC opted for arbitrary and perpetual diagnosis of COVID.

It’s important the CDC and FDA control testing because then they can completely steer the narrative about any disease – even if the numbers are all based on faulty testing.  They’ve been doing this in Lymeland for over 40 years by

“setting arbitrary level of antibodies to diagnose a disease that has not been amenable to Koch’s postulates seems open to question.  By the same token, ignoring antibody results unless they meet arbitrary levels seems suspect.  The vast majority of patients in this series showed some WB antibody exposure, but many did not meet the arbitrary limits set….in our present state of knowledge, the diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is a clinical one.  Many of the patients in this series have suffered serious ‘hurts’ when they have been told that they could not have LD because their WB did not meet arbitrary limits.”  ~ Dr. Burton Waisbren  IDSA founder who disagreed with his colleagues.  RIP

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/  Video within link (Approx. 10 Min)

Medscape: New Federal Oversight of Lab Developed Tests

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

NOV 1, 2023 — 

Please see the following inquiry sent to Dr. Paul Auwaerter regarding his commentary (verbal diarrhea) published on Medscape.  He has yet to respond to my serious question. Why not email Dr. Auwaerter and demand a response?

Auwaerter’s image was found on his Hopkins profile page:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/paul-auwaerter

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “pauwaert@jhmi.edu” <pauwaert@jhmi.edu>, “pgauwaerter@gmail.com” <pgauwaerter@gmail.com>
Cc: “aaguilar@webmd.net” <aaguilar@webmd.net>, “DFlapan@Medscape.net” <DFlapan@Medscape.net>, “lkane@medscape.net” <lkane@medscape.net>, “gamiller@medscape.net” <gamiller@medscape.net>, “dolmos@webmd.net” <dolmos@webmd.net>, “sarah.wright@webmd.net” <sarah.wright@webmd.net>, “editor2@webmd.net” <editor2@webmd.net>
Date: 10/25/2023 9:51 AM EDT
Subject: Medscape: New Federal Oversight of Lab Developed Tests

Medscape COMMENTARY
 
New Federal Oversight of Lab Developed Tests
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/997365

Paul G. Auwaerter, MD

Excerpt:

“I often see patients who are concerned they might have Lyme disease, or they’ve been told by other physicians that they have a tickborne or multiple infections. I’ve had patients who claim to have five or six infections: Lyme disease, Babesia, Bartonella, Mycoplasma, or Epstein-Barr virus. They bring LDT results from outside laboratories, which often have a proviso that these tests are only for research or educational purposes. Yet, they purport finding analytes (antibodies or proteins) that suggest the patient has an active infection. These patients may have been treated but are not improving, so they are referred to me.”

Oct 25, 2023

The IDSA Foundation
1300 Wilson Boulevard Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
Attn:  Paul Auwaerter, vice chair of the IDSA Foundation

Dear Dr. Auwaerter,

As a member of New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s 2020-2021 commission to study diagnostic testing for Lyme disease, I read your commentary with great interest. After a full year of deliberation, study results concluded that the FDA approved two-tier serologic immunoassay for Lyme was not reliable in all stages of disease. (No better than a coin toss)

COMMISSION TO STUDY TESTING FOR LYME AND OTHER TICK-BORNE DISEASES
https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/committees/default.aspx?id=1515

“A commission to study the role of clinical diagnosis and the limitations of serological diagnostic tests in determining the presence or absence of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases”
 
With that conclusion, serology cannot be used to determine who has or does not have Lyme disease.

“FDA approval” (Federal Oversight) has failed miserably in this example.

The CDC has warned the medical community that “surveillance case definitions” (which include the IgM and IgG Western blot serologic bands) are not to be used for making a clinical diagnosis:

From the CDC website:

Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
2022 Case Definition
https://ndc.services.cdc.gov/case-definitions/lyme-disease-2022/

NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.
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Recent announcements:

1. “Standard” Lyme testing once again proves fatal
https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-testing-proves-fatal/

“Lyme disease helped kill our son. A better test might have saved him.”

2. Sensitivity of Two-Tiered Lyme Disease Serology in Children with an Erythema Migrans Lesion 
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piad073

Abstract

In our prospective cohort of 192 children with a physician-diagnosed erythema migrans (EM) lesion, two-tier Lyme disease serology had higher sensitivity in children with multiple EM lesions (76.8% multiple lesions vs. 38.1% single EM; difference 38.7%, 95% CI 24.8 to 50.4%). The diagnosis of cutaneous Lyme disease should be based on careful physical examination rather than laboratory testing.

3. Jury awards $6.5M to Maine family for wrongful death, negligent misdiagnosis
https://fox23maine.com/news/local/jury-awards-65m-to-maine-family-for-wrongful-death-negligent-misdiagnosis-mercy-hospital-dr-john-henson-peter-smith-lyme-disease-lyme-carditis-physicians

Court records show Dr. Henson diagnosed smith with a skin disorder and a virus, writing “no sign of Lyme Disease.” Smith died of Lyme carditis.

(I understand that serology was NEGATIVE in this case)

Question:

Dr. Auwaerter…  I would like to call attention to the following 2009 tick study conducted here in New Hampshire:

Correlation between Tick Density and Pathogen Endemicity, New Hampshire
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671416/

The study found deer ticks were carrying multiple pathogens (co-infections) that could be transmitted in a single bite.

What FDA approved Tick-Borne Disease Panel are you recommending so as not to miss any of these infections?

A response to this inquiry is requested
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: MEDSCAPE EDITORIAL STAFF

Additional reference:

“Seronegativity in Lyme borreliosis and Other Spirochetal Infections” 16 September 2003
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d6m45jzlhhwalu/Seronegativity.pdf?dl=0

“If false results are to be feared, it is the false negative result which holds the greatest peril for the patient.”

Category:

Activism, Lyme, research, Testing