Massachusetts Officials Approve Curfew Due to EEE & Fauci Recovering from West Nile Virus

OXFORD, Mass. — Health officials in one of four Massachusetts communities facing a critical risk for Eastern Equine Encephalitis met Wednesday night at a special meeting to discuss measures to keep residents safe, ultimately approving a townwide curfew.

As of Wednesday, the towns of Oxford, Douglas, Sutton, and Webster were considered at critical risk for EEE, according to the latest Massachusetts arbovirus risk map.

The towns were elevated to the high-risk level after a man in his 80s recently tested positive for EEE last week. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The curfew set at 6pm will shift to 5pm starting Oct 1 and will last through the first frost.

Please note all of this due to one 80 year old man testing positive.

Please note that EEE is a nationally notifiable condition. This means they are counting cases and keeping track of it. Bartonella, on the other hand, isn’t, yet can make you miserable or kill you just the same.

The CDC webpages state:

Eastern equine encephalitis virus IgM testing is available commercially, at some state health departments, and at CDC.
A positive eastern equine encephalitis virus IgM test result should be confirmed by neutralizing antibody testing at a state public health laboratory or CDC.
Some patients who are severely immunocompromised might require molecular (e.g., RT-PCR) testing for diagnosis.
Most persons infected with eastern equine encephalitis virus have no apparent illness. Symptomatic persons typically develop a systemic febrile illness that can progress in <5% of individuals to meningitis or encephalitis. The incubation period for eastern equine encephalitis ranges from 4 to 10 days but can be several weeks in patients who are immunocompromised.
Signs and symptoms in patients with neuroinvasive disease can include headache, meningismus, confusion, focal neurologic deficits, seizures, and coma.
Eastern equine encephalitis should be considered in any person with an acute febrile or neurologic illness who has had recent exposure to mosquitoes, especially during the summer months in areas where virus activity has been reported.
EEE has a fatality rate of 30%. Of those that recover, more than half are left with physical or neurologic sequelae.

The article doesn’t state how this elderly man was tested but I’ll bet my hat it was PCR, which inventor Kary Mullis states should never be used to diagnose anybody.

The article also doesn’t state whether this man even has symptoms or how severe they symptoms are.

Does all of this look and feel like deja vu?

It should.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/24/anthony-fauci-west-nile-virus

Anthony Fauci recovering at home after hospitalization for West Nile virus

Former head of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease is expected to make a full recovery

Anthony Fauci is recovering at home from a West Nile virus infection, a spokesperson told news outlets on Saturday.

The former head of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was hospitalized for six days with the virus. Fauci, 83, is expected to make a full recovery.

“Tony Fauci has been hospitalized with a case of West Nile virus. He is now home and is recovering. A full recovery is expected,” a spokesperson told multiple outlets.

Fauci retired from his role at the NIH in 2022 after achieving widespread recognition for his role in public health communication during the Covid-19 pandemic. He now serves as a distinguished professor at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

CDC webpages state:

West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the U.S.
Most people with West Nile do not feel sick. (About 1 in 5 have fever and symptoms)
Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash.
There are no vaccines to prevent or medicines to treat West Nile virus disease (West Nile) in people.

For more:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2024/06/19/plum-island-history/ The book Lab 257 shows virus outbreaks, infected workers, flushing of contaminated raw sewage into area waters and the insidious connections between the island and Lyme disease and West Nile Virus.
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/12/06/assessing-the-landscape-of-eastern-equine-encephalitis-prevention-treatment/

Please note that all sorts of shenanigans have been done for decades against mosquitoes and nobody knows the effects of these interventions. As in the case of ‘vaccines,’ man-made interventions to kill bugs often have deleterious effects on biological health, which few are tracking.

Madison Area Lyme Support Group