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Lyme & Autism: Dr. Jodie Dashore

https://lymediseaseassociation.org/blogs/lda-guest-blogs/jodie-a-dashore-may-awareness-guest-blog-borrelia-miyamotoi/

County-Level Tick-Borne Disease Data in the U.S.: A Comprehensive Guidebook

https://lymediseaseassociation.org/blogs/lda-guest-blogs/sarah-maxwell-county-level-tick-borne-disease-data-in-the-usa/

May Awareness LDA Guest Blogger

Dr. Sarah Maxwell, Ph.D.

Dr. Sarah Maxwell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Public Health and Public Policy, University of Texas at Dallas.  Dr. Maxwell is an expert on tick-borne disease surveillance and the use of triangulation and thematic mapping to assess tick-borne disease risk, particularly in perceived non-endemic areas and among vulnerable populations. Her recent work includes a grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation, titled Nursing in the Fields: Vector-borne Illness Prevention and Detection among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. She has numerous publications on tick-borne diseases in high-impact journals. Dr. Maxwell served as a Fellow and continues her role as Faculty Affiliate at Boston University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Human Neurobiology. She is also a Research Affiliate, Center for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, George Mason University and founding member of Integrate, Communicate, Inform (ICI)-Vector-borne Disease Working Group.

County-Level Tick-Borne Disease Data in the U.S.: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Researchers

by Dr. Sarah Maxwell, Ph.D.*

Challenges Associated with Tick-Borne Disease Data

Navigating tick-borne diseases (TBDs) in the United States is analogous to traversing a labyrinth, filled with obscure pathways and blind alleys. These complex passageways found throughout state public health websites fail to provide researchers, public health officials, and medical practitioners with a quick reference to assess locally-acquired disease risk. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention generally do not provide county-level data on tick-borne diseases in the U.S., other than Lyme disease.[1] State public health departments offer limited TBD data, while the presentation of data is typically unhelpful at best. State reporting skips years; is inconsistently presented; or is presented in formats that make it very difficult to build a dataset, even for just one state.

For states with emerging tick-borne diseases, large states with varying eco-systems, and counties outside of the Northeastern U.S., TBDs other than Lyme disease are largely ignored. At the state level, data are often located in various formats (e.g., PDF or maps) and are inconsistently presented, particularly across years and among groups (e.g., age, gender). Knowledge of county-level disease presence is key to improved testing and diagnosis. A national data guidebook that documents all county-level TBD data is needed to assist medical practitioners in determining disease risk and travel-acquired TBDs, and to provide data access to TBD researchers so desperately need.

I therefore, reached out to the Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) with the goal to create a one-stop, quick-reference online, easy-access data guidebook. The overarching goal of this grant-funded initiative is to create a national, county-level guidebook on all tickborne diseases. The Data Guidebook will contain links to all state public health department pages related to TBDs, with a comprehensive summary of all available data. As I have begun this daunting task, however, I have also been downloading all PDFs, maps, written reports, and anything I can locate that will assist researchers to improve tick-borne disease surveillance and public health communication. These reports provide historical and fixed information so that links and changes to state public health department websites do not negatively affect the main goal, i.e., to secure TBD, county-level data in the United States over as many years as possible.

The products of this LDA-funded grant will allow researchers, epidemiologists, summer camps, schools, medical practitioners, and anyone requiring local information to obtain official data via a quick-reference manual. Researchers can quickly assess, for example, if a state offers downloadable data; if county-level data are available, and in what format; and what those data offer (see detailed description below). 

Measurable Objectives Contained within the Data Guidebook Grant Proposal:

a) By March, 2024: A complete directory of state TBD state public health links and information will be entered into an excel file. Note: many states have data that are only publicly available through very detailed search criteria and may not appear on the main public health websites, underscoring the importance of a one-stop source for TBD data.

  • Texas is an example, depending on year: Texas has changed its TBD reporting multiple times, resulting in data that are completely disconnected and not available to researchers in any single database. In 2017, Texas reported TBDs via PDF by region. In 2023, the website was updated to direct visitors in search of TBD data to the CDC. County-level data are no longer available. https://healthdata.dshs.texas.gov/# However, a search for specific diseases produces a dataset from 2000-2019, but does not provide county-level data. This muddled reporting structure requires a researcher to become a detective, and limits data availability to all TBDs.

b) By December, 2024: complete an analysis by state that is ready for preparation into a professional report. Examples of full report information include the following descriptive information for each state, allowing researchers and others to effectively locate and analyze TBD data:

  • Executive summary of each state’s data and data availability
  • County vs only state level data availability
  • List of reportable tick-borne diseases (with county data)
  • List of reportable emerging TBDs, if any
  • Usability and presentation of data – e.g., maps, excel, Word, PDF (links provided)
  • Available dates for each disease
  • Does public health identify imported/non-locally acquired identified in maps or data? Y/N
  • Data by age, gender, seasons Y/N and at the county or state level Y/N

c) By March 15th, 2025: a professional, 50-page report is prepared with one page per state. Information will be presented for quick reference by any researcher or end user, allowing open access, once and for all, to TBD county-level data in the U.S.

d) By December, 2025: publish a research note in a peer-reviewed journal outlining the report and presenting an overview and analysis of TBD public health data in the United States. This peer-reviewed research note will describe the state-of-the-states’ TBD data availability, presented in both written and summary form, similar to a health dashboard.

Preliminary Findings:

To fully comprehend the daunting task of mismatched data facing tick-borne disease researchers, visual illustrations are necessary. The grant launched in January, 2024, and as I now assemble the County-Level Tick-Borne Disease Data Guidebook, I can attest that it is worse than I first anticipated. States may or may not provide county-level data. If they do, it is often located in a PDF and, within that PDF, data may or may not be organized. In fact, many states present data in written paragraph form, rather than data that can be cut and pasted, and data across the board cannot be easily downloaded or converted to Excel. Additionally, within these PDFs are multiple other reportable/communicable diseases. A researcher might spend a full day pulling data from multiple links, PDFs, past reports, or even in Word documents, and most of these data are not necessarily located on one easy-to-locate website. Tick-borne diseases must be sorted out from other reportable diseases in the process. Historical data reports, if ever collected in the first place, often require significant sleuthing, digging, and searching.

Let’s face it, the United States tick-borne disease data situation is so inconsistent and complex, ChatGTP cannot even fix the problem. The complexities are shown below with examples of reports from selected states.

Sample State Tick-Borne Disease Data Reports

Sample Draft Data Guidebook: Arkansas

The Tick-Borne Disease Data Guidebook provides a summary for each state. The Excel file screenshot below highlights available data in Arkansas, one of the few states I have reviewed thus far that offers downloadable or cut-and-paste raw data that includes emerging TBDs. Good job, Arkansas!  But, my request to you, Arkansas Department of Public Health, can you please start posting county-level data? With so many summer camps in Arkansas, along with countless state and national parks, historical sites, campers, backpackers, and hikers…along with notably high (and increasing) cases of diseases such as Tularemia and Rickettsiosis, Spotted Fever (RMSF), those who are unaware or are visitors to the state, may find themselves with flu-like symptoms and no explanation from their medical provider.

(Low resolution sample)

County Level Tick Borne Disease in Arkansas

What Comes Next:

Will this grant fully solve the data problem? Sadly, no, but the Lyme Disease Association, Inc. has just funded the platform on which our collective work can now change the entire field of tick-borne disease research. We must continue to address the lack of public health information, and particularly, communication. What comes next is simple: The data will be held in separate files for each state, along with the Data Guidebook. The LDA will offer all collected information, along with the Data Guidebook entries online for anyone to access. From there, we, collectively, must develop a dashboard of all known TBDs at the county and state-levels across the United States. I am committed to this project, and the next step will be accomplished. Do you have ideas? Are you an institutional prospective partner? Feel free to reach out: sarah.maxwell@utdallas.edu Let’s support the LDA and the University of Texas at Dallas in taking that next step so that disease surveillance becomes easy and accessible, and let’s work together so that patients can be diagnosed quickly and properly with local data.

[1] The CDC offers one county-level data set for selected tick-borne diseases from 2016-2019 https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/resources/Reported-Tickborne-Disease-Cases-by-County-of-Residence_2016-2019.xlsx

*Author Note: The opinions expressed in this Blog are personal opinions of author Dr. Sarah Maxwell only and do not necessarily reflect those of any other entity.

Rats Jumping Ship, COVID Cover-Up, UN’s Secret Plan & Schwab Steps Down,

**UPDATE**

Former adviser to Dr. Fauci bragged during a congressional hearing that he learned from the ‘FOIA lady’ how to make inconvenient emails disappear and how to misspell key words to avoid FOIA requests.  

Former NIH head Francis Collins has now finally admitted what Fauci also admitted: there is no evidence to support social distancing and the origin of COVID is not settled.

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/the-rats-are-jumping-ship-nyt-reports?

The Rats Are Jumping Ship: NYT Reports Serious Vaccine Damage, Chris Cuomo Does A Lamentation Tour, Promotes Ivermectin

Does It Mean They Know The Truth Is Crashing Down On Them?

 
Article Highlights:
  • NYT concedes COVID shot damage: “Thousands Believe COVID Vaccines Harmed Them.  Is Anyone Listening?”
  • Previously ridiculing it, party-line Chris Cuomo now takes ivermectin every day & admits he was ‘vax’ injured
  • According to Farber, the detonation of civilization has been prepared for a long time. She states AIDS was the prequel. She describes a Berlin conference where a ‘pale, quaking researcher named Ian Weller,’ showed that AZT was deadly. He told Farber, “The worst thing is, is that I can’t tell you anything about it.”  
  • It’s important to note the prominence of Fauci in both the AIDS debacle and COVID, and Lyme disease.
  • Farber states that they simply folded AZT ‘lessons learned’ into the new flagship of Andrew Sullivan’s ‘cocktail therapy,” which was many protease inhibitors in combination – most of which still used deadly AZT.  Similarly to how remdesivir failed for Ebola but was then drug out of the graveyard for COVID to make up for lost profits, AZT initially a failed cancer therapy was resurrected for AIDS.  It’s important to note that while Fauci et al. have no trouble admitting HIV replicates quickly and creates mutations, he is loathe to admit there are multiple strains of borrelia that shape-shift, evade the immune system, and often come with other pathogens requiring a cocktail treatment. (See link for article)

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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/05/rand-paul-exposes-the-great-covid-cover-up/

The Great COVID Cover-Up

by Jon Miltimore | Guest Writer

May 19, 2024

In an explosive new op-ed, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that at least 15 separate federal agencies knew that attempts to create a COVID-19-like coronavirus were being undertaken at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as early as January 2018.

Yet, heads of these agencies did not reveal this information to the public; for years, they actively refused to release information on the project to lawmakers such as Paul, who were attempting to provide congressional oversight.

“For years, I have been fighting to obtain records from dozens of federal agencies relating to the origins of COVID-19 and the DEFUSE project,” wrote Paul, who in March revealed he was formally launching a bipartisan investigation into the virus’s origins with Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan.  (See link for article)

**Comment**

The DEFUSE project was a proposal submitted by the now debarred EcoHealth Alliance and the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology but also included NIAID headed by Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ian Lipkin, one of the authors of the now-disgraced “Proximal Origin” paper.

Hopefully it is clear for all now that COVID was not about health at all or they would have:
Coverup is the word for the day

The UN Secret Plan

I first reported on the United Nation’s (UN) diabolical plan when reporting on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘pandemic treaty’ as the WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations, which concerns itself with international migration. In the year 2000, they published Replacement Migration, a solution put forth to deal with declining and aging populations. Right now; however, mostly single, healthy, fighting age men, without families are flooding U.S. borders and violence has erupted everywhere they go.  It’s highly likely these ‘migrant replacements’ are trained soldiers. 

In this video, 24 year old veteran of Customs and Border Protection JJ Carrell reveals that the Biden administration is paying NGOs $1 TRILLION for millions of foreign men who are unvetted to invade the U.S. to be used against citizens who are waking up in what also amounts to a vast money-laundering scheme. 

  • In the Row Hotel, the cost of housing and feeding one person for a year is $36,000.

  • The NGOs are buying new buses and $150,000 Mercedes vans to transport illegals.

  • Carrell highlights corruption within these systems, citing instances where nurses and other service providers are paid excessive amounts, such as one nurse earning $20,000 a week.

  • A lawsuit filed in Texas by the Guatemalan Attorney General and General Secretary accuses the Biden administration of funneling over $21 million to an NGO called Save the Children, which is allegedly involved in child sex trafficking.

  • Jill Biden was on the board of this organization, adding a layer of political mess and potential conflict of interest.  Source

It’s important to know that the ‘Pandemic Treaty’ is only a minor piece of this global puzzle and ‘health’ is only a fraction of the real story.  Its far, far bigger than just health and pandemics.

Listen to the following report:

http://  Approx. 14 Min

UN’s Secret Plan to Invade America

Redacted

May 20, 2024

The United Nations has a secret plan to invade America. Among the millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the U.S. are United Nations trained army soldiers. They are being paid and delivered by the United Nations right to your doorstep.

No wonder the WHO Pandemic Treaty is shrouded in secrecy.

On her website, called Freedom Research, Dr Meryl Nass has described the WHO’s notion of ‘pandemic preparedness’ as a ‘scam/boondoggle/Trojan horse,’ which aims (among other things) to transfer billions of taxpayer dollars to the WHO as well as other industries, in order to vindicate censorship in the name of ‘public health,’ and perhaps most importantly, to transfer sovereignty regarding decision-making for ‘public health’ globally to the Director-General of the WHO (which means that legally, member countries would lose their sovereignty).

In addition, she highlights the fact that the WHO intends to use the idea of ‘One Health’ to subsume all living beings, ecosystems, as well as climate change under its own ‘authority;’ further, to acquire more pathogens for wide distribution, in this way exacerbating the possibility of pandemics while obscuring their origin, and in the event of such pandemics occurring, justifying the development of more (mandatory) ‘vaccines’ and the mandating of vaccine passports (and of lockdowns) globally, thus increasing control (the key term here) over populations. Should its attempt at a global power grab succeed, the WHO would have the authority to impose any ‘medical’ programme it deems necessary for ‘world health,’ regardless of their efficacy and side-effects (including death).

Don’t be fooled: behind the tyrannical WHO stands the UN’s global agenda

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https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2024/05/the-great-reset-klaus-schwab-is-steps-down-from-wef-position/

The Great Reset: Klaus Schwab Steps Down From WEF Position

…a responsibility he has held since establishing it in 1971.

World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab has announced his decision to step back from his role overseeing the globalist organization, a responsibility he has held since its establishment in 1971.

In an email to staff on Tuesday, which was shared with Semafor by a source connected to the organization, Schwab expressed his intention to transition from executive chairman to non-executive chairman. He stated that the pending change in his role is awaiting approval from the Swiss government, with finalization anticipated ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in 2025.  (See link for article)

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**Comment*

Leadership in the WEF is a continuing oligarchy.  Shwab’s wife leads the organization’s foundation and presides over awards ceremonies and all his children hold prominent positions. Claiming to be a non-profit, the organization amassed nearly $500 million in revenue, and reportedly retained 200 million Swiss francs in cash, according to Semafor’s previous reporting.

 

BetterHealthGuy’s Notes on ECO24

https://www.betterhealthguy.com/eco2024  Notes Here

ECO24

Exponential Clinical Outcomes (ECO24) was held online in May, 2024 and was created by Dr. Todd Watts and Dr. Jay Davidson who also created CellCore Biosciences.

I have posted Dr. Davidson’s removing parasites to fix Lyme & chronic illness, which I consider some of the best help for parasites out there.  His wife battled Lyme/MSIDS so Davidson had to figure it all out to help her.  I also posted Dr. Todd Watts’ ‘The Parasite Guy Podcast’ where he shares his own journey with parasites and Lyme disease.

The notes are in the link above and are provided by Scott Forsgren, FDN-P, better known as the BetterHealthGuy.

This is a wonderful resource for executive summaries of the various speakers who present on everything from foundation medicine, testing, why patients get worse, hormones, fasting, mold, unresolved trauma, ‘vaccine’ detox support, infertility, muscle testing, and much more.  There’s certainly something for everyone in this seminar.

Reminder: Healing Lyme Summit June 4-19, 2024

Just a reminder of the upcoming Healing Lyme Summit on June 4-19, 2024.  Go to link to register. 

Speakers include:

Myriah Hinchey, Richard Horowitz, Alexis Chesney, Eboni Cornish, Christine Green, Jyotsna Shah, Joseph Burrascano, Felix Scholz, Rachel and Dorothy Leland, Daniel Cameron, Nafysa Parpia, Ari Whitten, Garth Nicolson, Lorraine Johnson, Steven Harris, Casey Kelley, Jacob Leone, Robert Bransfield, Debby Hamilton, Nancy O’Hara, Trudy Scott, Bill Rawls, Ginger Savely, Beth McDougall, Dale Bredesen, Sunjya Schweig, James Neuenschwander, David Perlmutter, Tania Dempsey, Bruce Patterson, Kevin Ellis, Tom Moorcroft, Neil Nathan, Eric Gordon, Jill Crista, Amy Derksen, Nicola Ducharme, and many more.