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‘Door to Freedom’: Dr. Meryl Nass Takes on the WHO With Launch of New Nonprofit

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‘Door to Freedom’: Dr. Meryl Nass Takes on the WHO With Launch of New Nonprofit

Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare expert with a long history of investigating public health threats, launched the Door to Freedom nonprofit and website to educate the public and encourage them to take action about what she called a “global coup” by the World Health Organization.

Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare expert with a long history of investigating public health threats is sounding the alarm about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed changes to global health governance.

To fight what she sees as an attempted “global coup” by the WHO, Nass has launched the Door to Freedom nonprofit and website to educate the public about the issues at stake and to encourage people to take action.

The site provides resources to help people understand and take action on the WHO’s proposed  amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and its new “pandemic treaty.” Both instruments could dramatically expand the organization’s power and reach and undermine national sovereignty and individual rights, Nass said.

The Door to Freedom website provides an eight-page summary on “Why is Everyone Concerned About the WHO?” and an in-depth article — “The WHO’s Proposed Treaty Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics” — by Nass. It also hosts handouts in more than a dozen languages.

The WHO’s health proposals are unrolling more quickly than most people expect, Nass warned in a recent presentation. These are not just being pushed by the WHO “but by basically all international organizations,” she said.

Nass highlighted the May 27-June 1 United Nations (U.N.) World Health Assembly gathering, during which representatives of the 194 member states of the WHO will vote on the amendments and treaty.

Nass believes U.S. state legislatures can play a key role in countering the WHO’s “global coup,” by passing resolutions rejecting the WHO’s proposals. Door to Freedom has created this model resolution, and Nass urges anyone with connections to state legislators to contact her.

“We would love to have declarations from the governors about this as well, because it’s a 10th Amendment issue for them, too,” she said. Under the 10th Amendment, the “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Nass also encouraged people to write to their state attorneys general and elected representatives to help shed light on the WHO proceedings and their implications.

Nass created a summary document on the WHO’s proposed amendments and treaty. She also created presentations that contain images pulled directly from the WHO, the U.N., the European Union (EU) and related websites.

She has spoken to elected representatives in Washington, D.C., and in eight European countries over the past three months. She said the images in her presentations helped convince people that an attempted globalist takeover, using public health as a Trojan horse, “is really happening.”

WHO demands nations ‘surveil, censor and propagandize their citizens’

According to Nass, the WHO’s proposed IHR amendments and pandemic treaty would make the organization’s recommendations legally binding on WHO member states, which include the U.S.

“What used to be recommendations will be binding,” she said, with “WHO creating committees that will make sure countries carry out its orders” and member states passing WHO-recommended laws.

To make sure this happens, WHO is demanding that nations “surveil, censor and propagandize their citizens,” said Nass.

Countries will be expected to conduct extensive biological surveillance, including gathering and sharing citizens’ medical records — potentially even nasal swabs — with the WHO, purportedly so that pandemics can be identified earlier.

Nass pointed to specific proposals requiring states to monitor and censor mainstream and social media to combat “false and unreliable information” about WHO-designated public health and share citizens’ medical records and social media content with the WHO.

Under the proposed changes, “WHO’s unelected officials (Director-General, Regional Directors, technical staff) could dictate measures including quarantines, testing and vaccination requirements, lockdowns, border closures” with member states required to comply, according to Nass.

Source: Nass presentation

Yet these officials “would not be accountable for their decisions” and would continue to enjoy diplomatic immunity, she said.

All nations must seek out ‘potential pandemic pathogens’

One of the most concerning aspects of the WHO’s proposed changes is the requirement for nations to seek out “potential pandemic pathogens” and share them widely, Nass said.

The proposed IHR amendments would obligate states to transfer genetic sequence data for “pathogens capable of causing pandemics and epidemics or other high-risk situations” to other nations or third parties, despite the risks involved, according to Nass.

The data on pathogens is to be shared with universities, research centers and pharmaceutical companies in an online “biohub.”

Source: Nass presentation

This is nothing less than gain-of-function research, which the WHO only skirted around mentioning until recently, Nass said, but definitively named in a February draft of the treaty.

Source: Nass presentation

“This could also be called ‘proliferation of biological weapons agents,’ which is generally considered a crime,” she said.

Nass noted that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Select Agent Program, which manages dangerous pathogens with pandemic potential, “receives 200 reports yearly of accidents, losses or thefts of potential pandemic pathogens from high containment labs” in the U.S.

This amounts to four reports — and four potential pandemics — per week.

“When the WHO demands that every nation start doing this … you know there will be many accidents,” Nass said.

WHO using ‘misleading language and lies,’ secretive proceedings

According to Nass, the WHO deliberately uses deceptive language and false claims to advance its proposed IHR amendments and pandemic treaty, making it difficult for people to grasp the real consequences.

“The WHO is lying about what’s in them and calling us — those of us who call them out — liars,” she said.

Nass said the WHO gave politicians, ministers and public servants in all countries bullet points to help maintain the narrative.

In a recent U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the WHO pandemic treaty, Nass said U.S. officials “basically … just lied about the content of these documents.”

She provided several examples of the WHO’s misleading statements and “verbal methods to distract from, to misidentify, to misguide everybody about what they’re trying to do.”

The WHO’s central lie is that the pandemic treaty and changes to the IHR will not undermine national sovereignty when its proposals state otherwise.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the proposed documents are being written by the member states — not the WHO. However, the WHO admitted that “non-state actors in official relations with the WHO,” such as the Clinton Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank, are helping negotiate and draft the documents, Nass said.

The WHO justifies its proposed sweeping new powers under the guise of public health while further entrenching Big Pharma interventions and diminishing its product liability, Nass said.

Source: Nass presentation

The “One Health” approach — touted by the WHO as a way to prevent, detect and respond to pandemics — is another example of misleading language, according to Nass.

“It remains unclear what this strategy is, and there is no evidence to support the claim that One Health offers any public health advantages whatsoever,” Nass said.

Nass said the WHO has failed so far to handle pandemics. She also suggested pandemics cannot be controlled. Outside of man-made pathogens, most natural viruses are not as dangerous as advertised and their impacts can be mitigated for most people with inexpensive and widely available therapeutics, she said.

The WHO is also being secretive about its proceedings, Nass said. “We have not seen the negotiated IHR amendments since late 2022 despite continuous work on them for 15 months.”

Most of the WHO’s work happens in committees “using so-called consensus procedures in which no one knows what the majority of member states actually support or reject,” she said.

The voting buttons on the desk of each member are often deliberately not used, according to Nass.

Instead, “‘Secret ballots’ can be cast and then are removed … for a secret count,” she said. “Or votes are omitted altogether, as appears to have happened with the 2022 IHR amendments.”

Citing these and other irregularities, Substack journalist James Roguski on March 7 published “An Open Letter To Tedros,” authored by Silvia Behrendt, Ph.D., founder of Global Health Responsibility Agency, stating the WHO was “violating a procedural obligation in the amendment process” of the IHR.

Roguski encouraged readers to send the letter to their elected representatives, directors of health agencies and the media, telling them that “no amendments can [legally] be adopted by the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024.”

‘One Health’: A ‘word salad’ to expand WHO power

The WHO and other international organizations are using the “One Health” concept to justify a massive expansion of the WHO’s authority and scope, according to Nass.

While “One Health” has been around for 20 years and is even embedded in some U.S. legislation, such as the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, Nass said the language is meaningless.

“It is a word salad,” she said. “It has no meaning except that it wraps up humans, animals, plants and ecosystems into the range of things related to health that the WHO can take authority over.”

Despite the lack of a clear definition or evidence of public health benefits, Nass said the “One Health” concept has spread rapidly due to the enormous amount of money being spent to promote it.

“There are thousands of people … following the ‘One Health’ approach,” she said. “Nobody’s been able to figure out how it benefits anyone, but enough billions of dollars have been spent that it’s embedded everywhere.”

Nass pointed to a Lancet editorial stating that “One Health” represents “a fundamentally different approach to the natural world, one in which we are as concerned about the welfare of non-human animals and the environment as we are about humans.”

The true goal of expanding the “One Health” framework to cover all humans, animals, plants and ecosystems, Nass said, is to enable “global governance” by the WHO and its backers.

Source: Nass presentation

Global health power grab extends beyond WHO

The push for centralized global health governance is not limited to the WHO, Nass said. Other major international bodies like the EU, G20, U.N. and the World Bank are advancing similar agendas.

Nass highlighted a brochure published by the EU last year outlining its pandemic preparedness strategy, which openly calls for “global governance with the World Health Organization at its core.”

Source: Nass presentation

The EU document advocates for a legally binding pandemic agreement, the “One Health” approach, strengthened international health regulations, and expanded surveillance and genomic sequencing of pathogens by all nations — all key components of the WHO’s controversial proposals.

Nass said some countries in and around Europe are showing signs of resistance to the WHO proposals, but she declined to identify them over concerns the European Central Bank could curb debt-laden countries’ dissent with threats of financial harm, such as interest rate hikes or calling in loans.

Nass noted that the G20, a forum of the world’s 20 largest economies, is also pushing for the same policies and is “open about the fact they’re interested in global governance.”

She pointed to a series of policy documents issued by the U.N. over the past year seeking to establish an “emergency platform” that would give the secretary-general the ability to declare a wide range of emergencies, including pandemics and biological threats, and “automatically” assume special powers to manage the response.

Source: Nass presentation

The World Bank has also jumped on the bandwagon, launching a billion-dollar “pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response” financing system aligned with the WHO’s international health regulations.

U.S. pandemic preparedness push: costly and ineffective?

The Biden administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 includes tens of billions of dollars for pandemic preparedness and response efforts that closely mirror the WHO’s controversial plans, Nass said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alone requested $20 billion for its pandemic initiatives, with additional funding sought by other federal agencies, Nass said. The Biden administration in 2022 earmarked $88 billion “for pandemic preparedness and biodefense.”

Source: Nass presentation

The White House claims this massive investment will “save trillions of dollars and millions of lives” in the event of a future pandemic. However, Nass said the U.S. government has failed to demonstrate its ability to effectively prevent, detect or respond to such threats.

“So they want to figure out how to detect them,” she said. “They want to deploy new technologies that don’t exist.”

The administration is hoping that by collecting vast troves of citizens’ hospital and medical records, they might gain some marginal advantage in identifying outbreaks more quickly, according to Nass.

She dismissed this as a false hope. “They want to share all those medical records internationally” — a key demand of the WHO — and are “relying on modeling to justify everything.”

Nass said before COVID-19, the U.S. was already spending around $10 billion per year on pandemic preparedness, yet still found itself critically short of masks, gloves, gowns, drugs and other essential supplies when the virus struck.

“Why would we expect a central WHO authority, which relies on vested interests for 85% of its funding, to do any better?” she asked.

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.

Please see James Roguski’s Resource Center to inform, connect, and empower people on the true aspirations of the WHO.

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HHS Releases Vector-borne Disease National Strategy

https://www.lymedisease.org/hhs-vector-borne-disease-strategy/

HHS releases vector-borne disease national strategy

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the National Public Health Strategy to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Diseases in People (VBD National Strategy).

As directed by the 2019 Kay Hagan Tick Act—named after the U.S. Senator who died due to complications from a tickborne illness—HHS led a four-year process with civilian agencies and defense departments to deliver this strategy.

Co-led by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the strategy identifies and describes federal priorities to detect, prevent, respond to, and control diseases and conditions caused by vectors in the United States.

This VBD National Strategy represents the largest formal federal coordination effort focused on vector-borne disease prevention and control with contributions by over 50 representatives across 17 federal agencies. This collaborative effort will help

  • Address the significant public health challenges related to vector-borne diseases;
  • Incorporate a One Health approach to enhance coordination and communication across human, animal, and environmental areas; and
  • Reverse the upward trends in illness, suffering, and death.

Growing Problem of Vector-Borne Diseases

Vectors—biting insects and arachnids like mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and lice—can spread germs that make people sick. These diseases are major causes of death and illness worldwide, and they increasingly threaten the health and well-being of people in the United States.

Diseases and conditions spread by vectors include Lyme disease, Zika virus, West Nile virus, dengue, malaria, plague, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and alpha-gal syndrome.

According to CDC, reported cases of these diseases doubled over the last two decades. Due to shifting land use patterns, global travel and trade, and a changing climate, the threat of existing and emerging vector-borne diseases continues to grow.

As geographic ranges of vectors expand, the number of pathogens spread by vectors continues to climb—yet only one vaccine is available to protect people against almost 20 domestic threats.

Goals of the Vector-Borne Disease National Strategy

The rising public health threat of vector-borne diseases requires a comprehensive and sustained national effort to protect people. In 2020, the U.S. government published a framework responding to this need, titled A National Public Health Framework for the Prevention and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases in Humans (Framework). A consortium expanded the Framework into this comprehensive strategy.

As stipulated in the Kay Hagan Tick Act, HHS and CDC consulted the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group while developing the interagency strategy. The strategy incorporates recommendations from the now sunset Working Group.

In addition to identifying challenges and opportunities to enhance the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases, the strategy lays out an ambitious national public health approach to develop diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for coexisting conditions. Although critical to public health and wellness, clinical and healthcare services, access to care, legal protections, and reimbursement or payment for clinical services are outside the scope of this strategy.

Implementing the VBD National Strategy

The federal government envisions a nation where vector-borne diseases no longer threaten the health and well-being of people. Agencies and departments are proactively working to protect people from illness, suffering, and death due to vector-borne diseases by

  • Better understanding when, where, and how people are exposed to and get sick or die;
  • Developing, evaluating, and improving tools, methods, and guidance to diagnose diseases and their pathogens;
  • Developing, evaluating, and improving tools, methods, and guidance to prevent and control disease;
  • Developing and assessing drugs and treatment strategies; and
  • Disseminating and implementing public health tools, programs, and collaborations to prevent, detect, diagnose, and respond to threats.

Federal Government to Develop New Approaches to the Threat

Vector-borne diseases are a global threat, with national security, economic, and health implications for the United States. As the federal government continues to proactively strengthen its response to this threat, HHS and CDC plan to develop future iterations of the VBD National Strategy with opportunities for public engagement.

Read the VBD National Strategy.

SOURCE: US Department of Health and Human Services

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**Comment**

It’s quite easy to see where this is going.

  1. They emphasize there’s only 1 vaccine. Vaccines are the only thing these people care about because they are big business and quite lucrative.
  2. Despite more and more experts defying the climate narrative, and proof that the entire paradigm is corrupt, and being used for a much bigger agenda, it is mentioned here because it too is big business and quite lucrative.
  3. While the article mentions diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for coexisting conditions – they won’t lift a finger regarding Lyme/MSIDS, unless it’s a vaccine.  No money in these other things.
  4. The buzz word of the day – ‘One Health’ has been hijacked by the corrupt WHO as an ultimate power grab, which would give them unlimited control over humans, animals, and the environment.
  5. Similarly to the completely unobtainable goal of a ZERO COVID policy, the federal government’s vision of a nation where vector-borne diseases no longer threaten the health and well-being of people is seriously a joke.
  6. The mention that vector borne diseases are a national security threat is code for: we are going to keep working on vector bioweapons.
Again, the only thing the HHS is going to release is a lot of hot air.

It is not going to do ONE thing to help the plight of Lyme/MSIDS patients. It will gladly spend even more of our tax-dollars to do yet more worthless research showing the same things they’ve been showing for 40 years.

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Activism, Lyme, mosquitoes, Ticks, Transmission, Viruses

Peripheral Neuropathy Evaluation & Repair in Lyme Disease

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/neuropathy-repair-heal-that-tingling-numbness-pain

Updated: 4/24/2023

Neuropathy in Lyme Disease

In chronic Lyme disease it is common to have nerve injury in locations outside of the brain and spinal cord – also called peripheral neuropathy. Common symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include:

  • numbness,
  • burning sensations,
  • and/or sharp, stabbing or electric feelings.

In this article Marty Ross MD reviews:

  • laboratory evaluation of neuropathy in chronic Lyme disease and a functional medicine approach to remove nerve insults and to repair nerve injury.

Neuropathy Laboratory Evaluation

A basic laboratory evaluation of neuropathy may include:

  • Vitamin B6 (too much Vitamin B6 causes neuropathy)
  • Vitamin B12 (low Vitamin B12 causes neuropathy)
  • Vt D3 (levels around 40 ng/ml to 80ng/ml support healthy nerve function)
  • CBC
  • CMP (evaluation of kidney and liver function)
  • TSH, Free T3, and Free T4 (evaluate for low or high thyroid function)
  • TTG-IgA & EMA (for possible celiac disease)
  • heavy metal urine testing (see the end of the article for when to do this)

(See link for video and article)

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Neuropathy Laboratory Evaluation

A basic laboratory evaluation of neuropathy may include:

  • Vitamin B6 (too much Vitamin B6 causes neuropathy)
  • Vitamin B12 (low Vitamin B12 causes neuropathy)
  • Vt D3 (levels around 40 ng/ml to 80ng/ml support healthy nerve function)
  • CBC
  • CMP (evaluation of kidney and liver function)
  • TSH, Free T3, and Free T4 (evaluate for low or high thyroid function)
  • TTG-IgA & EMA (for possible celiac disease)
  • heavy metal urine testing (see the end of the article for when to do this)

Functional Medicine Neuropathy Repair

Steps to repair nerve injury include:

removing the nerve insults

  • correcting abnormal labs including thyroid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12
  • stopping RX meds that may cause neuropathy
  • treating infections
  • correcting mold toxicity

repairing the nerve damage

  • repairing nerve cell and mitochondria power plant membranes,
  • increasing the master cell repair antioxidant glutathione,
  • increasing the nutrient Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
  • taking acetyl-l-carnitine if you do not eat red meat,
  • decreasing inflammation, and
  • using the peptide BPC-157.

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Lyme, Supplements, Testing

MHRA Admits Their Circular Reasoning. Flu Vaccine 42% Effective & RSV Vaccine Linked to GBS

https://expose-news.com/2024/03/12/mhra-admits-using-circular-reasoning/

MHRA admits using circular reasoning in claiming huge number of covid vaccine injuries reported are due to “high public awareness”

BY RHODA WILSON ON 

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) has acknowledged that it used circular reasoning and lacks documentation to support its explanation why there is a high number of Yellow Card reports related to covid injections. The agency asserted that the increase in reports is due to heightened public awareness, resulting in more people submitting reports than usual.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The UK’s MHRA Yellow Card scheme is similar to the  U.S. VAERS system where people can voluntarily report any suspected adverse reactions to vaccines.  Similarly to the staggering amount of adverse reactions and death being reported to VAERS after the COVID gene therapy injections, there is also an unprecedented uptick in Yellow Card reports.  Both have an abysmal capture rate.

But rather than simply admit the obvious, ‘the powers that be’ continue the #ABV narrative (anything but the ‘vaccine’) which is blaming heightened public awareness for the surge in reports despite ZERO data to support its claim.

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/03/influenza-vaccines-only-42-percent-effective-in-adults-this-year/

Influenza Vaccines Only 42 Percent Effective in Adults This Year

by Marco Cáceres

Published 

Article Excerpts:

The influenza vaccines currently being administered in the United States are estimated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be 42 percent effective in adults. This is an interim estimate for the 2023-2024 “flu season” published in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on Feb. 29, 2024.1 2 3

By “effective,” the CDC is referring to reducing the risk of influenza-related hospitalizations or “medically attended influenza virus infection, not actually preventing influenza infections—notably influenza A (H1N1) and B (Victoria lineage).1

Most influenza-like-illness (ILI) which occurs during the “flu season” is not actually caused by  type A or type B influenza. Studies show that less than 25 percent of suspected ILI cases turn out to be influenza after lab testing. There are many other respiratory infections that look like influenza but are caused by other types of viruses and bacteria.2.4

There are nine influenza vaccines that are licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for distribution during the 2023-2024 flu season, each of which contains at least one ingredient that is a potential allergen.

  • Alfuria contains the mercury-based preservative thimerosal (multiple-dose vials), egg protein, neomycin and polymyxin.
  • Fluad contains egg protein, kanamycin, neomycin and polysorbate 80.
  • Fluarix contains egg protein, gentamicin and polysorbate 80.
  • Flublok contains polysorbate 20.
  • Flucelvax contains thimerosal (multiple-dose vials) and polysorbate 80.
  • FluLaval contains egg protein and polysorbate 80.
  • FluMist contains egg protein, gentamicin, pork gelatin and monosodium glutamate (MSG).
  • Fluzone contains egg protein.
  • Fluzone High-Dose contains thimerosal (multiple-dose vials) and egg protein.9

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/03/rsv-vaccines-for-senior-adults-linked-to-guillain-barre-syndrome/

RSV Vaccines for Senior Adults Linked to Guillain-Barré Syndrome

by Rishma Parpia

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Excerpts:

On Feb. 29, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) presented a preliminary analysis that showed that 23 adults over the age of 65 who received a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).1 When a person develops GBS, including after an infection or vaccination, the body attacks the peripheral nerves. GBS symptoms begin with muscle weakness and numbness or tingling in different parts of the body and recovery can be complete or paralysis of one or more limbs can occur, including full body paralysis, which can lead to death.2

The CDC’s analysis evaluated preliminary rates of GBS following one dose of either GSK plc’s RSVPreF3+AS01 (AREXVY) vaccine or Pfizer, Inc.’s RSVPreF (ABRYSVO) vaccine and compared it to the rates of GBS in an historical control group.

Data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also illustrated a higher- than-expected number of GBS cases being reported in RSV vaccine recipients. Tom Shimabukuro, MD, director of the Immunization Safety Office at the CDC said:

Taken together, these data suggest a potential increased risk [of GBS after RSV vaccinations].6

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CHD Sues AT&T on Behalf of Woman Who Alleges Cell Tower Caused 51 Strokes & NJ Residents Win Right To Deny Verizon’s Application To Build Nine 5G Towers on Boardwalk

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-lawsuit-cell-tower-wireless-radiation-51-strokes-

CHD Sues AT&T on Behalf of Woman Who Alleges Cell Tower Caused 51 Strokes

The lawsuit, filed on March 11, is Children’s Health Defense’s second case that strategically uses the Americans with Disabilities Act on behalf of those who get sick from wireless radiation.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

A Minnesota woman alleging the radiofrequency radiation emitted by a cell tower near her home triggered 51 strokes on Monday sued AT&T and other companies involved in the operation of the tower.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which is funding the lawsuit, filed the complaint on behalf of Marcia Haller, who previously told The Defender she became disabled shortly after the cell tower was “upgraded” in 2019.

In addition to suffering dozens of strokes since then, she’s suffered vision and hearing loss, headaches, sleep disruption, chronic fatigue and cognitive impairment. She also experiences ongoing issues with balance, orientation and mobility.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (Duluth), alleges the companies operating the tower must provide Haller with a “reasonable accommodation” and/or modify their “policies, practices or procedures” to comply with federal disability law.

In addition to AT&T, defendants in the suit include T-Mobile and American Tower.

This is CHD’s second lawsuit leveraging the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on behalf of individuals suffering from radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure.

“CHD is excited to file the second complaint in this strategic line of cases,” Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia, director of CHD’s Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless program, said.

“We hope we will be able to help Marcia get relief, while at the same time, drive the conversation around electromagnetic sensitivity, RF radiation, and the lack of recourse for those harmed by cell towers forward,” Eckenfels-Garcia said.

The case draws attention to the need for better federal regulation of RF radiation and outlines the scientific evidence that debunks the “RF radiation is safe” narrative, according to Eckenfels-Garcia.

According to the lawsuit, Haller’s physician said that Haller’s symptoms — including “life-threatening embolic strokes” — occur when she is exposed to high levels of RF radiation or pulsated RF radiation, such as 5G.

“Her physical impairments already substantially limit major life activities … and RF exposure triggers and/or exacerbates her symptoms and condition,” the complaint said.

The companies could “easily and with minimal cost” take action to end Haller’s symptoms, “but they have refused to do so” — despite receiving a letter about her symptoms.

The suit asks the court to declare that the ADA applies to Haller’s situation. This would mean that the companies would be liable for discriminating against Haller because they failed to accommodate her disability.

It also seeks injunctive relief, meaning that it wants the court to order the companies to “end the discrimination” by either relocating their tower or reducing the amount of RF radiation it emits.

Haller is requesting a jury trial and compensation for attorney fees and costs.

Cell tower was likely ‘upgraded’ for 5G

Marcia and her husband, Jay, believe the cell tower was upgraded in 2019 for deploying 5G. “They [the companies] won’t admit to what they did,” Marcia told The Defender. “They say they don’t have to tell us.”

Marcia at the time was in her third semester of nursing school and worked as a certified nursing assistant at a hospital.

On the weekend after the upgrade, Marcia was at home and began feeling dizzy and as if something “just didn’t feel right.”

She called Jay, who runs a trucking business, telling him, “Something’s wrong in my head … I don’t know how to explain it. I just feel like crap.” But she told Jay she didn’t need him to come home. “I’ll be fine,” she said.

The physical sensation was “awful,” Marcia said. In addition to dizziness, she had headaches and nausea. “I couldn’t pick my head up off the pillow without the room spinning and feeling very sick.”

‘We think you’re having a stroke’

The symptoms continued. On Monday, she went to urgent care and was diagnosed with vertigo.

She returned home. A few days later, she had blind spots in her vision and tingling in her arm with “almost a numb feeling.”

Marcia called the on-call nurse center. They told her, “You need to come down to the emergency room. We think you’re having a stroke.”

An MRI of Marcia’s brain showed numerous damaged areas called lesions. She was admitted to the hospital on Oct. 10, 2019, and diagnosed with strokes, vision loss and balance difficulties.

After three days in the hospital, the strokes stopped happening — meaning MRIs of her brain showed no new lesions — and Marcia returned home.

But before the end of the month, Marcia “started feeling the same thing again” and went back to the emergency room.

Jay recalled, “We were home — the kid [Marcia and Jay’s son] and I — and she was cooking dinner … She turned around and her face had actually drooped on this one. It was like ‘uh-oh.’”

Marcia went back to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with more brain lesions. A neurologist told Marcia the MRI scan of her brain looked like a “starry night” because of how many white spots, or lesions, appeared.

The doctors still did not know what was causing them, she said.

Multiple trips to the hospital

Over the following weeks, Marcia went “back and forth a few times” between her home and her local hospital.

After a night or two at the hospital, she would begin feeling better. But after returning home, her symptoms reemerged and she’d have to return to the hospital. “Each time, more strokes,” she said.

According to Jay, “A week or 10 days later, there’d be seven or 10 new ones [lesions appearing in the MRI scans]. This was going on for about a month. I think we rounded up to about 51 complete strokes.”

Still, her local hospital doctors couldn’t explain why this was happening.

In November 2019, Marcia saw doctors at the Mayo Clinic who began treating her symptoms with plasmapheresis to put new plasma in her blood, steroids and a medication called CellCept.

But after a second round of treatment, Marcia had more strokes — including one that temporarily impaired her hearing — and she continued to experience extreme fatigue.

‘That’s when we started piecing things together’

During one of Marcia’s stays at the Mayo Clinic, Jay “just woke up” with a strong sense that the cell tower radiation was causing Marcia’s symptoms. “Then he started doing research and that’s when we started piecing things together,” Marcia explained.

Based on what Jay was discovering, he and Marcia decided to try living elsewhere.

On March 3, 2020, they and their son moved into Marcia’s parents’ house a mile further away from the tower. Marcia “got a lot better,” she said. The strokes stopped.

By June, she was talking about returning to school, Jay said. “We’d go fishing every night and she just had a lot more energy.”

Around the same time, Marcia’s doctors at the Mayo Clinic had Marcia taking pill chemotherapy. “So they’re patting themselves on the back for the chemo,” Jay said, “I think it was moving that made it stop.”

But in October 2020, Marcia’s parents returned so Jay, Marcia and their son moved back to their house close to the tower.

In just a week, Marcia started experiencing the same symptoms again.

‘Living through this has stolen a piece of us we will never get back’

Jay and Marcia became more convinced that the RF radiation from the tower was making Marcia sick.

They think living so close to the tower may have been a factor in Jay’s development of rheumatoid arthritis. Their son, too, has had negative health episodes — including a major blood clot in his left arm — that Marcia and Jay suspect may have been linked to the radiation.

Jay said he wouldn’t call it a coincidence that “all members of our household have been struck with rare illnesses and permanent health problems that will impair us for the rest of our lives.”

“Living through this has stolen a piece of us we will never get back,” he added.

Oct. 16, 2020, they hired Frank DiCristina — a certified building biologist and certified EMR specialist — to measure the wireless radiation levels throughout their home.

DiCristina’s report showed peaks of up to 18 milliwatts per squared meter (mW/m2) — which is 18 times higher than what the Standard of Building Biology considers the “extreme limit,” noted DiCristina in the report.

In late October 2020, Jay constructed a Faraday cage — an enclosure with metal lining that blocks out all RF radiation — to give Marcia a place of relief from the radiation.

Having a space free of RF radiation has made a big difference in Marcia’s well-being, but she said it’s not fun having to go into a small enclosed space to feel OK.

She and Jay call the Faraday cage “the penalty box.” It’s a tiny room with no power and no windows — just a “complete black box with two beds,” Marcia said.

She and Jay sleep there, with their 18-year-old son spending the night away from home as often as possible. “I would be nervous to sleep in my house because I don’t want to get sick again,” Marcia said.

Marcia also now wears a silver-lined baseball cap designed to block RF radiation when in her home. With these measures, she slowly was able to complete her nursing program and return to work.

However, she still experiences symptoms on her property when outside the Faraday cage. “Simple things like enjoying the fire pit, gardening and just relaxing on the deck are now basically a memory,” Marcia said.

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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New Jersey Residents Opposing 5G Towers Win Right to Intervene in Verizon Lawsuit

A federal judge last week gave residents of Belmar, New Jersey, the green light to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Verizon against Monmouth County after county officials denied the telecom giant’s applications to build nine 5G towers on a stretch of boardwalk located in the county.

Residents of Belmar, New Jersey, won the right to intervene in a lawsuit Verizon brought against Monmouth County officials for allegedly illegally denying the telecom giant’s applications to build nine 5G towers on a stretch of boardwalk located in the county.

U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Brendan Day last week ruled that a local activist group, Belmar Against 5G Towers, and seven individuals who claim Verizon’s proposed wireless facilities could harm their local environment and property values may join the suit. (See link for article)

Important quote:

“The proposed 5G towers impact their health, the environment they live in, their property values and the aesthetics of their neighborhood, so it is important that they can advocate for their interests in this litigation,” Eckenfels-Garcia told The Defender.

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**Comment**

Expect to see more of this.

How many are experiencing symptoms but are not connecting the dots to EMF?

Once again, technology is being widely rolled out despite lack of safety. Please also note the supreme power the utility companies have been given and their complete lack of transparency and their disregard for human health.  This is the new norm, unfortunately.  I have discovered this personally when attempting to “opt out” of Smart Meters.  They simply don’t care.

People shouldn’t have to sue the utility company to be free of radiation emitting technology but here we are.  People also shouldn’t have to spend thousands of dollars to hire a company to expose and ameliorate this radiation as well, yet here we are.

Yes, a person could move, but before long there won’t be anywhere on planet earth to move to escape this damaging technology.  And that is, after all, the whole reason for it.

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