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Boy Gets Powassan Encephalitis After Camping Trip

https://danielcameronmd.com/powassan-encephalitis-camping-trip/

Young boy develops Powassan encephalitis after camping trip

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Although the Powassan virus is considered to be a rare tick-borne illness, the number of cases is rising, and at an alarming rate. A recent survey found, a 4-fold rise in the number of Powassan virus cases in the US from 2014 to 2023 (compared with 2004 to 2013). [3]

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This summer, a 9-year-old boy in Canada developed Powassan virus encephalitis, a life-threatening condition. In Pennsylvania, another young child was hospitalized with the virus. And, in April, an older man from Massachusetts was infected. Meanwhile, last year, a Maryland resident died from Powassan encephalitis after contracting it in Canada.

Powassan virus – transmitted in 15 minutes

The Powassan virus, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, can be deadly. And, most concerning, as cases are rising, the infection can be contracted within 15 minutes of a tick attachment.

The virus can cause fever, headache, vomiting, loss of coordination and memory and speech problems. It can also cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis (inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.)

However, it often does not present with any symptoms, according to the CDC.

POWV encephalitis can be deadly

From 2004 to 2022, the US reported 288 cases of Powassan virus infection. Of these cases, 72 (25%) occurred in children, 264 patients (92%) required hospitalization, and 36 patients (13%) died.1

Patients infected with the virus have a “10% risk of developing fatal encephalitis and up to 50% of infected patients have long-term neurologic damage.”2

Up to 50% of patients have long-term neurologic complications.

The prognosis for individuals with Powassan virus neuroinvasive disease is poor. The case fatality rate is 10%–15%, and survivors have about a 50% probability of persistent neurologic deficits, including headaches, altered mental status, and cognitive difficulties.1

There is no treatment for the Powassan virus.

Case Report: 9-year-old boy

In July, a 9-year-old boy, residing in Canada, was hospitalized with Powassan encephalitis, after returning from a camping trip in northern Ontario.

Blatman and colleagues describe the case in their article, “Powassan virus encephalitis in a 9-year-old.”1

The young boy was admitted to the hospital with a fever, neck stiffness and headache, which began 1 week after returning from his camping trip.

Initially, he was treated with ceftriaxone and vancomycin for suspected meningitis.

PCR testing of the CSF for viral causes of meningitis or encephalitis, however, was negative. Bacterial culture and Gram stain of the CSF sample was also negative. And, an MRI of the brain was unremarkable.

The patient had no known tick bites or rashes.

“Over the next 48 hours, blood cultures showed no growth,” the authors state. However, “The patient remained persistently febrile with ongoing severe headache.”

After 3 days in the hospital, the boy’s condition worsened and he was transferred to the ICU. At this point, he was nonverbal and nonresponsive to commands, according to the authors.

Testing for Lyme disease was negative.

“Tick-borne Powassan virus encephalitis is associated with high mortality and a risk of long-term neurologic sequelae in survivors.”

Repeat EEG showed generalized slowing of brain activity. Meanwhile, a repeat MRI of the patient’s brain and full spine showed subtle bilateral basal ganglia and substantia nigra.

However, CFS testing was negative for autoimmune encephalitis.

“Given concern for potential autoimmune encephalitis, the patient received intravenous immunoglobulin at a dosage of 1 g/ kg for 2 days, with notable improvement in his level of consciousness within 24–48 hour,” the authors state.

Within 2 months, the boy had made a complete recovery.

New research indicates that the Powassan virus may be more deadly in older patients. “… only minimal infectious doses of the virus were highly lethal in older mice and that lethality increased >10-fold with age,” states Mackow.2

“Increased awareness of Powassan virus among clinicians in Canada will likely lead to increased identification of Powassan virus and other arthropod-borne infections, which should always be reported,” the authors state.

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References:
  1. CMAJ 2024 August 26;196:E973-6. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.240227
  2. Megan C. Mladinich et al, Age-dependent Powassan virus lethality is linked to glial cell activation and divergent neuroinflammatory cytokine responses in a murine model, Journal of Virology (2024). DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00560-24
  3. Passive surveillance of Powassan virus in human-biting ticks and health outcomes of associated bite victims. Siegel, Eric et al. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 30, Issue 10, 1332 – 1334

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**Comment**

But like all things Lyme/MSIDS, Powassan can persist in humans as well as mice.

Powassan is NOT rare:

http://www.coppelabs.com/blog/why-is-powassan-virus-infection-still-described-as-rare-and-mysterious/  Excerpt:  

For the last two years, Coppe Laboratories has dedicated a significant amount of time and resources to dispelling the myth that infection with Powassan virus, a virus transmitted by tick bite, is rare. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) reports only 100 cases of Powassan virus infection in the United States in the last 10 years. Indeed, that statistic gives the illusion that Powassan infection is rare. However, did you know that the only infections reported to CDC are those that are life-threatening, particularly cases causing severe inflammation of the brain like the case reported in LiveScience?

Coppe has published three new papers in the last year that clearly show Powassan virus infection is not rare are at all, and until testing for this virus is included as part of tick-borne disease screening panels infections will continue to be underreported. Coppe’s Powassan Guide, which can be downloaded from the website, summarizes the findings from both tick and human Powassan prevalence studies, as well as defining the patient populations that would benefit most from Powassan testing.

Coppe Labs, a specialized CLIA-certified lab, right in Waukesha, Wisconsin tests for Powassan, West Nile, Anaplasma, Babesia, Human Herpes Viruses 6 & 7, COVID, and Lyme disease.

Wisconsin is a hot-spot for Powassan.

For more:

Regarding IVIG, it has been used successfully in many Lyme/MSIDS patients including this young autistic boy infected with borrelia, babesia, and bartonella.  After a rough week of treatment suddenly this boy could remember things, he became happy, social, and agreeable with fewer tics.  Disulfiram also played a key role as well as targeting bartonella.  IVIG has also been used in PANS and PANDAS with some success.

Susannah Cahalan, who wrote the book Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, was given steroids, plasmapherisis, and IVIG for autoimmune encephalitis.

Dr. Frid uses IVIG for treating infections induced autoimmune encephalitis.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/01/panspandas-steroids-autoimmune-disease-lymemsids-the-need-for-medical-collaboration/   Boy’s Lyme Disease Morphs into Autoimmune encephalopathy. It took 10 years and 20 doctors to find out 12-year-old Patrik had Lyme disease. Just 4 months later the doctors discovered he also has a condition where his immune system attacks his brain.

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Globalists and Mainstream Media Just Can’t Let Go of Bad COVID Policies & Scientific Establishment Turns ‘Science’ Into Dogmatic Tool of Oppression

Disregarding reality, mounting data, and even admissions, corrupt globalists and governments working with tech companies who think they know better than you do, continue to push the faulty COVID narrative and that we need AI-based real-time censorship for ‘misinformation.’

Part and parcel of this push is the need to eliminate meat and traditional farming  due to supposed ‘greenhouse gas emissions’. Arbitrarily made-up facts are given for this need to ‘shift’ to a diet of plants and bugs.  Seems facts never get in the way of a good story.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mainstream-media-cant-let-go-bad-covid-policies/?

Mainstream Media Just Can’t Let Go of Bad COVID Policies

The COVID-19 pandemic policies enacted by global governments were a catastrophic failure. Yet, four-and-a-half years later, mainstream media is calling for a return to mask mandates, social distancing guidelines and restrictions on large gatherings.

by Brownstone Institute
September 10, 2024This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.
woman in mask with covid-19 words in background

By Ian Miller 

They’re never going to stop.

We’re a few months away from the end of 2024, four-and-a-half years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s a truth that should clearly be universally acknowledged by now, that the pandemic policies enacted by global governments were a catastrophic failure.

Mask mandates were pointless, harmful and completely ineffective. School closures were one of history’s biggest mistakes, causing learning loss among young people that will set them back an entire generation.

Business shutdowns achieved little except for hurting small business owners at the expense of massive corporations and necessitating a rolling series of money printing leading to rampant inflation.

Then we witnessed the formerly unimaginable emergence of vaccine passports.

Regardless, those policies have generally, and thankfully, come to an end.

Overwhelming evidence, data and scientific studies have confirmed that Dr. Anthony Fauci/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doctrine was based on nothing and accomplished less.

But among the fearless media columnist set, there’s a desperation to return to the glory days of pandemic restrictions.

The latest example comes from an opinion article published over at The Hill, complete with the usual misinformation, poor reasoning and willful ignorance of current realities.

Continuing the trend that Fauci started.

Media personalities can’t let go of bad COVID policies

The column by Aron Solomon presents several absurd arguments, blaming a “recent surge” on “new variants” and saying we “need to take stock of where we are” with the virus.

“The recent surge in COVID-19 cases has disrupted summer travel plans, overwhelmed healthcare facilities in certain areas, and left many Americans dealing with the familiar symptoms of fever, cough and fatigue,” Solomon writes.

“The summer months, typically associated with lower respiratory virus activity, have instead seen a significant uptick in COVID-19 infections.”

This is factually inaccurate.

The summer months have traditionally been associated with higher respiratory virus activity in certain parts of the country. The South and Southwest have consistently seen higher COVID-19 spread in the summer months, corresponding with past flu patterns.

Even the extremist public health agencies such as the one that dictated their edicts to the city of Los Angeles have acknowledged that summer surges have happened every year since 2020.

Sure enough, that’s exactly what the data shows, summer increases in COVID-19 spread, decreasing over time as population immunity grows and testing decreases.

But Solomon’s run of misinformation wasn’t done there.

He then blames the “relaxation of public health measures” for the increased COVID-19 spread this year.

“Second, the widespread relaxation of public health measures has created an environment conducive to transmission,” he writes.

“Mask mandates, social distancing guidelines and restrictions on large gatherings have all but disappeared. This return to normalcy, while massively psychologically and economically beneficial, has provided the virus with ample opportunities to spread.”

The pointless mask mandates disappeared years ago in many parts of the country, which is just as well as they conclusively did not matter.

Comparing regions with and without mandates has consistently shown that areas with mandates have the same COVID-19 rates, if not worse. Even in California.

It just doesn’t matter, because masks don’t work.

Solomon then advocates for the return of pandemic restrictions and a “commitment to public health” to combat the summer 2020 surge.

“While much progress has been made in terms of vaccination and treatment, the current surge is a stark reminder that complacency is not an option. The road ahead will require a renewed commitment to public health, both from government leaders and from individuals.

“We all need to prepare for not only the possibility of continued disruptions but for another new normal that might be a little closer to 2020 than how we’ve recently been living. That means preparing for future waves and the long-term implications of a world in which COVID-19 remains a persistent, if manageable, threat.”

Beyond the absurdity of demanding restrictions that have already failed, Solomon is ignoring that there was effectively no “surge” in summer 2020, in any meaningful metric.

Getting sick, unfortunately, is a part of life. People will have colds, flu, COVID-19 and their resulting symptoms forever. No matter what we do.

But what matters is whether these waves lead to a substantial increase in associated deaths. They conclusively have not. Per the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker, COVID-19-associated mortality is essentially near all-time pandemic lows.

Roughly 1.8% of all registered deaths across the country were even tangentially associated with COVID-19. Those massive peaks though? Those came with the strictest restrictions of the pandemic, the restrictions Solomon wants to return.

Even the massive increase in 2021-2022 came after vaccines and boosters were widely available.

But a combination of immunity across a wide swath of the population effectively ended the pandemic. It had nothing to do with any pandemic policies from governments here or abroad.

The fact that this is even remotely up for debate is a testament to the power of media misinformation and the willingness of people like Solomon to ignore contradictory information.

There is no emergency, there is no need to reinstate restrictions of any kind to deal with COVID-19. Especially because those restrictions are useless anyway.

Originally published by Brownstone Institute.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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**Comment**

To my knowledge only a few German media outlets have apologized for fear-driven COVID coverage or admitted that the ‘unvaxxed’ are the winners – demanding the government apologize. Germans were brutalized by police and its domestic spy agency that monitored anti-lockdown protesters claiming they were potentially involved in a plot to subvert the country.  One Danish newspaper also apologized for its COVID coverage and for not questioning government data and narratives.

Yet a majority of the world remains remarkably silent over one of the worst fiascos in history.

Here in the U.S. mostly bland, empty apologies have been given, but mistakes were not made and we must not let them get away with what they have done and continue to do.  Recently, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, finally addressed the pressure he received from the Biden administration and the media to remove COVID-19 & Hunter Biden laptop posts.

Go here for a poignant reminder of how the unvaccinated were treated.

But guilty mainstream media is far from alone.

It appears both parties in the Presidential debate refused to discuss COVID, the atrocious ‘pandemic’ response, ‘vaccine’ injuries, disabilities, and death.

And of course mainstream medicine and research is guilty as well:

https://www.newsweek.com/scientific-establishment-turning-science-dogmatic-tool-oppression-

The Scientific Establishment Is Turning ‘Science’ Into a Dogmatic Tool of Oppression | Opinion

By Jay Bhattacharya & Bryce Nickels

Professor of Health Policy at Stanford Medical School; Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University

The COVID era has been difficult for scientists whose ideas run against the grain of powerful scientific and government bureaucracies. Even for university scientists with unblemished reputations in the before times, the price of speaking up has been vilification by social media companies, the media, and, unfortunately, even scientific journals and our fellow scientists. It is a wonder that any scientists dared to speak out, with only their commitment to the truth as a reason to do so.

In a recent letter to the House, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the Biden-Harris administration “repeatedly pressured” his social media empire to censor speech it didn’t like. His company often acceded to those demands, and “with the benefit of hindsight and new information,” Zuckerberg now admits it was wrong. At the behest of the government, Zuckerberg’s Facebook censored even true speech about dangerous gain-of-function research, school closures, and COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

No scientist wants the information they share on social media to be labeled as “misinformation” or to have their accounts suspended for scientific speech, which Zuckerberg’s under-qualified censors often did. Such labels represent a direct smear on scientists’ reputations—the coin of the realm in science; as a consequence of this censorship regime, many scientists opt to stay silent or watch from the sidelines, not being willing to risk such a label.  (See link for article and video)

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**Comment**

This is serious business because those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Educate those around you who will listen.

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Japan Links COVID Shots to 201 Diseases, US Lawyer States a 1100% Increase in U.S. Military Morbidity and Deaths

There’s massive evidence that the COVID shots cause massive amounts of deaths, disabilities and injuries.  Expert after expert has spoken out against the clot shots and the government and global narrative.  Edward Dowd believes the modern world is a simulacrum where reality has been replaced by false messaging and imagery and just went on record stating:

“I don’t think they can put lipstick on this pig much longer.”

Buried in UK government ONS data on deaths involving COVID-19, deaths not involving Covid, and all-cause deaths by age group in England between January 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022, is disturbing confirmation that the Covid injections have been killing children at an unprecedented rate.

  • The data shows that children who received the shots are 4423% / 45x more likely to die of any cause than unvaccinated children.
  • Vaxxed children are 13,633% / 137x more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who didn’t receive a mRNA injection.
  • Triple-vaccinated children, meanwhile, are 4423% / 45.23x more likely to die of any cause than unvaccinated children.
  • Triple-vaccinated children are 137.3x / 13,633.33% more likely to die of COVID-19 than unvaccinated children.
The data prove “vaccination” is worsening the immune response to the ‘virus’ and increasing the risk of both hospitalization and death.

https://slaynews.com/news/japan-links-covid-shots-201-dangerous-diseases/?

Japan Links Covid Shots to 201 Dangerous Diseases

Frank Bergman

Researchers in Japan have issued a red alert after making a “shocking” discovery, warning the public that Covid mRNA shots are now “affecting every possible aspect of human pathology.”

The nation’s leading scientists are raising the alarm after linking Covid mRNA injections to surges in 201 dangerous and deadly diseases.

The findings were laid out in a 93-minute press conference, during which, some of Japan’s leading researchers revealed that Covid “vaccines” have now been linked to thousands of side effects.

During the press briefing, the Vaccine Issues Study Group, a panel of esteemed medical experts, detailed the findings from a “shocking” systematic review of research papers.

The findings followed six months of investigations into the side effects of the Covid mRNA shots that were pushed onto the public to supposedly tackle COVID-19.

Professor Emeritus Masanori Fukushima of Kyoto University warns that the breadth of the harms is “unprecedented” for medical treatments.

“A systematic review of the literature has unveiled some shocking information,” Fukushima told reporters.

“Thousands of papers have reported side effects after vaccination, affecting every possible aspect of human pathology, from ophthalmology to psychiatry,” he said.  (See link for article)

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https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/1100-increase-in-us-military-morbidity?

1100% Increase in U.S. Military Morbidity and Deaths – US Lawyer Speaks Out

“…This is Genocide…”

A team of researchers is developing a tool to track reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), so vaccine-injured people can follow what happens to the reports they submit.

As part of a broader effort to hold public health agencies accountable, the tool will also make it possible to audit the VAERS system by identifying what types of reports are deleted, insufficiently updated or contain errors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which jointly oversee VAERS, have refused to do this work despite multiple appeals by advocates for the vaccine-injured, according to React19, the group leading the initiative.

React19, founded by a small group of medical professionals injured by COVID-19 vaccines, works with institutions and providers to increase understanding and awareness of patients experiencing lasting effects following COVID-19 and/or COVID-19 vaccines.

The group is teaming up with computer programmer Liz Wilner, founder of OpenVAERS — a website that provides tools for more easily accessing and searching VAERS data — and Children’s Health Defense (CHD) to develop the tool.  (See link for article)

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First Case of Tick-borne Wetland Virus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13830053/Man-61-deadly-tick-borne-infection-brain-doctors-report-case

Doctors detect first EVER case of new deadly tick-borne virus that ‘buries itself in the brain’

By Emily Stearn, Health Reporter For Mailonline and Cassidy Morrison For Dailymail.Com

Published

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.

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IGeneX Lyme ImmunoBlot Test Receives FDA Clearance

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-immunoblot-fda-clearance/

IGeneX Lyme ImmunoBlot test receives FDA clearance

The Lyme ImmunoBlot test first introduced by IGeneX in 2017 has now been converted to a test kit–and has received FDA clearance.

The name of the test is iDart™ Lyme IgG ImmunoBlot Kit.

It’s a stand-alone test for the detection of IgG antibodies against Borrelia-causing Lyme disease.

The iDart ImmunoBlot Kit features 31 Lyme antigen bands, which are more antigen bands than any other Lyme immunoblot test on the market.

Moreover, it is the only immunoblot that includes Osp A (P31) and Osp B (P34). (Note: those are the two bands removed from other Lyme tests in the 1990s because of their use in the development of Lyme vaccines.)

The inclusion of 31 antigens improves the sensitivity of the detection of Lyme-specific IgG antibodies, which in turn will improve the sensitivity of the diagnosis of Lyme disease in suspected patients without sacrificing specificity.

“We are delighted to have received FDA clearance for our Lyme ImmunoBlot Kit,” said Dr. Jyotsna Shah, Ph.D., President and Director of IGeneX Labs.

These kits are not available for sale to consumers, but only to labs who perform Lyme diagnostic testing.

Key features of the iDart Lyme IgG ImmunoBlot kit

  • Results interpretation is based upon new criteria and not CDC criteria.
  • The bands are grouped according to their antigen groups. The test is considered positive if the Lyme Screen Antigen (LSA) band and one or more bands from at least two other groups are present on the ImmunoBlot.
  • Bands 31 and 34 are included, making this the only FDA-cleared Lyme serological test that includes these bands.

SOURCE: IGeneX, Inc.

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