Madison Area Lyme Support Group

A new tick-borne virus that can trigger deadly brain infections has been discovered in humans for the first time.

Officials believe the unidentified man, from China, got infected after he was bitten by ticks when visiting a park in Mongolia.

Dubbed wetland virus (WELV), tests have since shown it has now infected nearly two dozen people.

Spread by ticks and farm animals, the potentially fatal infection joins a long roster of diseases passed by tiny parasites, like Lyme disease and malaria.

It was first detected in the 61-year-old hospital patient while being treated in Jinzhou in 2019. But medics have only released the report this month. (See link for article)

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Highlights:

Symptoms included: fever, headache, vomiting, poor appetite, and infected lymph nodes that failed to subside after antibiotics.  Others infected with WELV most commonly suffered dizziness, headaches, back pain, nausea and diarrhea. Tests showed the virus could even cause tissue damage and blood clotting issues. All patients recovered after treatment and were discharged within four to 15 days.

Blood tests identified a previously unknown orthonairovirus, a group of related viruses one of which causes Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), and many of which are transmitted by ticks.  Transmission can also occur via contact with infected blood or tissue and spread between humans through bodily fluids or if medical equipment isn’t properly sterilized.

Chinese researchers have found that 5 different tick species could carry the virus but the Haemaphysalis concinna tick (common rodent tick species) was the most likely perp.  Research shows this tick can carry at least 40 human pathogens including six species in the Anaplasmataceae family, five species of Babesia, four genospecies in the complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, ten species of spotted fever group rickettsiae, ten species of viruses, as well as Francisella, Coxiella, and other bacteria.

**Comment**

This article is interesting for numerous reasons:

1. The timing.  First ‘detected’ in 2019, they only released the report THIS month?  That seems highly dubious.
2. Symptoms are very general and common with many tick-borne illnesses as well as other illnesses.
3. Many Lyme/MSIDS treated patients suffer with unresolved symptoms.  That doesn’t automatically mean it’s suddenly a virus.  
4. Blood tests identified an orthonairovirus.  Blood tests for all tick-borne infections are abysmal at best and are certainly nothing to bank on.
5. Researchers collected and tested ticks and found 5 species of tick could carry the virus. Carrying a virus doesn’t mean necessarily it can be transmitted.  Only transmission studies can prove this.  Why aren’t researchers doing this important work?  (Hint: there’s no money in it)
6. They then tested other patients who had a fever with the same lousy test and found 20 more were positive.  This website has posted in depth articles on how PCR testing has been and continues to be used to create a ‘casedemic.’  Again, testing positive means squat regarding COVID and/or tick-borne infections.
7. More abysmal testing showed the ‘virus’ can cause tissue damage and blood clotting issues.  This too is PERFECT timing as the COVID clot shots also damage tissue and cause clotting.  Now they have a scapegoat.  It’s Wetland Virus!
8. The article paints a very frightening mortality picture yet please note that ALL the patients recovered and were discharged within 4-15 days from whatever ailment they had!  Typically no ‘treatment’ for viruses is given besides supportive measures.

I’ve become even more skeptical after the COVID plandemic.  I question much about this article.