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Morphological Abnormalities in Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Initiated by Environmental Contaminant

http://www.remedypublications.com/open-access/morphological-abnormalities-in-blacklegged-tick-ixodes-scapularis-initiated-by-environmental-9184.pdf

Morphological Abnormalities in Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Initiated by Environmental Contaminant

John D Scott1*, Nguyen Nguyen2, Jaclyn TA McKeown3 and Evgeny V Zakharov2,3,4

Aug. 29, 2022

Open Journal of Of Public Health

1Upper Grand Tick Centre, Fergus, Ontario, Canada
2Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity of Ontario, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
4Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Abstract
Environmental pollutants cause teratogenic abnormalities in ectoparasites and their hosts.  These contaminants are consumed or absorbed, and often invisible causing deformities in arthropods, including ticks. Teratogen in arthropods arises as physiological and morphological change, and often halts proper metabolic function. During normal bird band operations, we collected a replete tick from an American Robin, Turdus migratorius, and the fully engorged larva molted to an unfed nymph. The larva was normal, but the subsequent nymph was deformed. Consequently, we could not identify the unusual specimen with standard taxonomy, so we took microphotographs and employed DNA barcoding by means of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene. Based on molecular analysis, we confirmed the aberrant specimen was a blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. Our finding collaborates that songbirds can pass teratogenic compounds to ticks during a blood meal, and cause environmental abnormalities in ticks.

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**Comment**

Study shows that environmental contaminants do strange things – even to the despised tick. In this case the nymph had a deformity that prohibits it from feeding.  Go to the top link to view a picture of a normal tick and then the mutant tick which does not have mouth parts.

This of course leaves a larger question and concern: if environmental contaminants can cause a tick to mutate without mouth parts, what are these contaminants doing to other creatures and humans?

While I’ve posted on the “climate change” agenda and the fact it’s a coverup for governmental “climate engineering” and is a huge money maker for leaders who are political, emotionally driven, unscientific, and the worst hypocrites on the planet, environmental contaminants ARE a serious threat to all life forms.  And while climate experts have stated that the simple reason the climate narrative is being followed is due to the fact scientists are on a gravy train to secure research funding, there is big money in geoengineering where nanoparticles, including many metals, are sprayed into the atmosphere and then uses microwave transmissions such as 5G to weaponize the weather.

A popular Lyme literate doctor, Dr. Klinghardt explains how the nano-aluminum poisoning affects our health, especially when combined with other toxins in our environment, such as the herbicide glyphosate, which is in most of our food, and with microwave radiation from smart meters, cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and cell towers (which are now upgrading to 5G.)

According to Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD, the ingredients of the persistent contrail formula that is being sprayed in the upper atmosphere by jet aircraft contains nanoparticles of aluminum (in several forms) along with barium, strontium, mercury, plastics and various other ingredients. Even viable Lyme disease cysts and other biological substances have been found in the nanoparticle dust that is falling from the sky.

Dr. Klinghardt has contributed significantly to the understanding of metal toxicity & its connection with chronic infections, chronic illness, & pain. He has been instrumental in advancing various fields within biological medicine, and regularly sees patients in the Sophia Health Institute located in Washington State and in his German clinic.

In Germany, his understanding of modern illness and his methods for assessing and treating modern chronic illnesses are being used by two thousand doctors.

Dr. Klinghardt identifies two powerful factors that are destroying the health of Americans. They are environmental toxicity from the interaction of various toxic metals and glyphosate, and environmental exposure to electromagnetic frequency radiation from technology that uses microwaves. (Read the full article.)

And now, with the roll-out of the experimental COVID “vaccines” which for the first time have lipid nanoparticles, we have the added burden of wondering just how these particles will affect people, aside from the concern of mRNA protein spikes. See:

Lipid nanoparticles—where do they go and what do they do? – The BMJ (bottom of article)

One of the major problems Dr. Klinghardt found in his practice was that there were very few laboratories in the world that can even measure and detect nano-aluminum.

For important connections between climate engineering, bio-weaponry, Lyme & ticks:

 

Category:

research, Ticks

Latest Executive Order to Develop AI Signals Alignment with WEF Agenda

https://thehighwire.com/videos/biden-executive-order-signals-alignment-with-wef/  Video Here (Approx. 7 Min) 

We are entering the 4th Industrial revolution – that’s what the World Economic Forum (WEF) is telling us. And, the target is you. The transhumanism push aims to merge humanity with artificial intelligence (AI). Jefferey Jaxen breaks down the latest Executive Order signed by President Joe Biden to develop artificial intelligence that will ‘unlock the power of biological data,’ signaling a conceding alignment with the WEF’s agenda.

“What we have seen so far, it’s corporations and governments collecting data about where we go, who we meet, what movies we watch.  The next phase is the surveillance going under our skin. 

“COVID is critical because this is what convinces people it to accept, legitimize total biometric surveillance.” ~ Yuval Noah Harari,  professor, Dept. of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and advisor to WEF founder Klaus Schwab

Harari, a proud transhumanist, thinks free will is “dangerous” and a “myth.” He muses that the biggest question in the coming decades is “what to do with all these useless people.”  His best guess is a combination of drugs and computer games as a solution and that it’s already happening.  His vision for the future makes human relationships meaningless due to AI substitutes, and the poor die but the rich don’t.

The FDA is also using transhumanist slogans to push the COVID shots:

“It’s time to install that update! #UpdateYourAntibodies with a new #COVID19 booster.”

“Don’t be shocked! You can now #RechargeYourImmunity with an updated #COVID19 booster.”

The transhumanist pipedream pushed by the globalist cabal believe that the human body is nothing more than a biological platform equipped with genetic software that can be altered and updated at will.

All of this takes me back to a cartoon popular when my children were little called “Pinkie and the Brain”:

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And is it just me, or is there an uncanny resemblance here?

The Brain, mad scientist

Yuri Noah Harari, ‘public intellectual’ Independent.com

Klaus Shwab’s right hand man, Yuval Noah Harari has big plans for you.

This brief 9 minute video shows from the horse’s mouth clearly what the WEF is all about: 

  • acquiring “divine” powers & upgrading themselves into gods with a techno-religion
  • hacking human beings
  • ending free will
  • infiltrating democratically elected governments and penetrating cabinets
  • shaping the transformation of the world
  • emulating China
  • building an arc for the elites while leaving the rest of us to drown
  • using COVID to legitimize deployment of mass surveillance under your skin, and to accelerate the process of digitalization & automatization
  • implanting a chip under your skin for CBDC (central bank digital currency)

http://

Sept 19, 2022

WEF: “You Will Have NO PRIVACY And Life Has Never Been Better”

So not only will you “own nothing”, you also will have “no privacy” ~ but supposedly you’ll be happy about this.

It’s all about surveillance under the auspice of “health”.

Category:

Activism, Viruses

If Public Health Cared About Public Health & Research Ethics & Vaccinologist Paul Offit Won’t Be Getting Any More COVID Shots

**UPDATE April, 2023**

This article also points out how medical doctors were bribed by insurance companies to push the experimental, fast-tracked, gene-therapy injections.  The deck has been perfectly stacked from the beginning against an unsuspecting public.  

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/if-public-health-cared-about-public?

If Public Health Cared About Public Health and Research Ethics…

You would not have seen these during the push for mass vaccination.

James Lyons-Weiler
 
 

It only takes a little searching on Pubmed or Google to find factors associated with severe COVID-19.

Remember when the master wizards of Public Health decided to appeal to Americans to vaccinate for the “reward” of

Hamburgers?

(Watch comedian Jim Breuer dismantle de Blasio’s free french fries if you get the jab)

That’s former Mayor de Blasio, who evidently will now be teaching “Public Health” at Harvard University.

Or, remember when they tried to incentivize Americans to vaccinate with doughnuts?

And beer?

Michigan, California and few other states encouraged gambling as an incentive to vaccinate:

How about some participation in a nice, healthy sex trade practice (hey, they’re masked at least!)?

No, seriously, Toronto actually did this.

Even Larry Flynt got into the craze… want to get a vaccine at his joint?

These incentives were the brainchild of Public Health and the Biden Administration:

Here at Popular Rationalism, we prefer to stick with the Science:

“Several hundred studies provide powerful evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a strong linear risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes, with recent studies suggesting ~5-10% higher risk for COVID-19 hospitalisation per every kg/m2 higher BMI.”

The review says nothing about the effects of lap dances or gambling on the risk of severe COVID-19.

However, it’s worth pointing out that incentives for research are unethical.

See HHS’s

Attachment A – Addressing Ethical Concerns Offers of Payment to Research Participants

“OHRP FAQs  currently define undue influence as potentially occurring ‘through an offer of an excessive or inappropriate reward or other overture in order to obtain compliance.’”

The vaccines only had Emergency Use Authorization. Everyone who gave such incentives is guilty of “offering an excessive or inappropriate reward or other overture” to get people to comply with participation in human subjects research.

And never, ever forget the cruelty that took place under the guise of ‘public health’.

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**Comment**

I must also add the nonstop ads pushed by celebrities, politicians, film/cartoons, etc. as well as the fact our own government (HHS) coughed up $1 BILLION to promote the shots.

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/is-paul-offit-a-sitting-duck-for?

Is Paul Offit a Sitting Duck for ADE?

Read his position on why he won’t be taking the bivalent “booster”. CDC’s data suggests he might be in a group of people who could be in trouble. Let’s hope not.

 
James Lyons-Weiler

According to MedPage Today, Dr. Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, a well-known vaccine zealot and well-known apologist for aluminum toxicity against evidence, has decided that he’s had enough of COVID-19 vaccines. He won’t be getting another booster or the updated, bivalent vaccine. Yes, you read that right.

Medpage Today quotes him thusly:

“I have received three doses of the ancestral strain vaccine and contracted a mild case of COVID in May. As a result, all the evidence suggests that I have high frequencies of virus-specific memory B and T cells, which should protect me against severe disease this winter.”

Offit continues:

“I do not plan to get another dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines until it is clear that people who have been primed, boosted, and naturally infected are nonetheless at high risk of serious illness when encountering the virus.”

Here’s the question:

How do you tell the difference between vaccine failure and disease enhancement, as in antibody-dependent enhancement? Answer: with vaccine failure, you get asymptomatic disease.

With ADE, you get severe illness.

When Offit sees the data from CDC, he is going to find that people who have been primed and boosted may be susceptible to increased risk of hospitalization if they are infected with newer variants, due to ADE.

According to CDC, as of Sep. 07, 108,953,688 Americans had received a booster, or 48.6 percent of the country’s fully vaccinated population.

Also according to CDC, 75.5% of adult Americans have been “fully vaccinated”.

According to math, 48.6%  of 75.5% = 36.69% are, at this time, boosted

The reports that 44% of those hospitalized were boosted (e.g., WebMd citing CDC data) does not bode well for the booster program, and here’s why:

At COVID-19 vaccine program effectiveness = 0, the rate would be 36.7% of the hospitalized were boosted. But instead, it’s 44%. HIGHER than expected.

This implies negative effectiveness.

This is the full report with the concerning results that support negative effectiveness of boosting.

I’m not sure yet how those who also, like Offit, had a SARS-CoV-2 infection will fare, and will of course I hope everyone, injected or not, does well this winter, I suspect many will not. Perhaps (and I hope) Offit’s immunity from the SARS-CoV-2 infection will have provided him with diverse B- and T-cells to antigens other than the spike protein.

It seems likely given Omicron’s R0 (ease of spread) that nearly everyone who has been vaccinated likely by now has also had an infection. This “silent boosting” in the vaccinated via natural infection was reported years ago by Japanese medical researchers in Japan.

Here’s Dr. Vinay Prasad discussing some of the problem. He does a good job calling out a doctor (Robert Califf, Commissioner of Food and Drugs of the FDA) for claiming on Twitter that the bivalent vaccine will protect people with zero data from humans in the second sentence of Califf’s tweet.

But Prasad does not seem to recognize the implications of CDC’s data showing negative effectiveness; he thinks Califf’s first sentence is a-ok. And he reports Offit’s refusal of the bivalent booster near the end, too, providing 11 reasons why an annual COVID-19 “booster” is not like an annual flu shot.

NB: I need everyone on Twitter to Tweet this with #BringBackJack. Let Califf and Twitter know that by shutting down my account, they have activated the masses.

NB2: The artwork used in this Substack article involves a doctor duck image. In no way is this meant to imply anything about Dr. Offit other than the potential self-imposed risk of ADE implied by the title of this article.

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**Comment**

Prasad states that the first reason the COVID shot is not like the flu vaccine is due to the COVID shot being more reactogenic or causes more reactions/adverse effects. While this statement isn’t false, it by omission makes you believe the flu vaccine doesn’t cause negative reactions. That would be a false belief.

I have sat across the table from twenty year old Lyme/MSIDS patients who were doing fine, had their infections under control, got the flu vaccine and then everything went to hell in a hand basket.

Vaccines can serve as triggers to reactivate latent infections. Patients NEED to know this and contemplate the risk. But, due to politics, few doctors are honest enough to truly give informed consent.

But, you are now duly warned.

Category:

Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Lyme Disease: ‘I Can’t Stop Taking Antibiotics, Otherwise I’ll be Bedridden Very Quickly’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2022/08/29/lyme-disease-one-small-tick-bite-with-many-complicated-consequences/

Lyme disease: ‘I can’t stop taking antibiotics, otherwise I’ll be bedridden very quickly’

Two experiences of the illness outline the difficulty in getting a diagnosis and the severity of symptoms

Manus Biggs experienced severe neurological disorders including vision impairment as a result of Lyme disease

Mark Hilliard
Mon Aug 29 2022

Sometime after Dr Manus Biggs contracted Lyme disease, he began noticing just how many ticks, the tiny creatures that carry the crippling pathogen, were nesting in the grass surrounding his Galway home.

In 2018 a small bite from one of these parasitic arachnids caused him to develop a chronic form of the condition and thus begin a grueling battle with symptoms that endure to this day.

“[It was] either in my back garden or in the local woods. But I have been bitten by ticks I’d say five or six times at least,” he says. “After I became more aware of the situation I couldn’t go out into the garden really without finding a tick on my shoe or on my T-shirt, whatever it might be …[It] is getting worse and worse. My garden was teeming with them.”

But for Biggs the true epiphany of his near five-year experience with the disease, including a regimen of heavy antibiotics and other treatments, has been about the medical understanding of the illness, research and treatments, going right to the core of accepted western medical practice.

Awareness of ticks and the risk of the bacteria they carry is not new — in some parts of the countryside warning signs guide walkers away from infested undergrowth, while parents routinely scan their children for attachments after a day playing outside.

The first symptom Biggs noticed was tiredness, something he dismissed as the rigors of his work at NUI Galway where, as an associate professor in biomedical engineering, he leads a team developing advanced medical technology.

A key problem is the difficulty in diagnosis — one GP assured him he did not have the disease, that there was ‘no point pursuing this’

However, sometime later he suffered a bout of Lyme related meningitis. His condition deteriorated: exhaustion, weakness, severe neurological disorders including vision impairment and communication issues left him housebound and often bedridden.

However, subsequent HSE testing confirmed the illness after six months. At the same time, he received positive results from a German lab. By this stage he was very ill.

A specialist neurologist asked him if he had been tested for Lyme disease and started him on a course of IV antibiotics which got him back on his feet. However, once this hospital treatment ended, he declined rapidly.

“It’s very aggressive. The cessation at all of therapy just leads to disaster,” he says, listing symptoms from extreme dizziness to problems processing sound and light.

Another specialist doctor began prescribing antibiotics. Today he takes three kinds twice a day which prevent replication of the bacteria but does not kill it, something he likens to a “net on top of a passive wild boar”. His own experiments have allowed him to refine a model of treatment that appears to keep the illness at bay.

“Now the position I’m in is that I can’t stop taking antibiotics, otherwise I’ll be bedridden very quickly. So essentially it’s a prophylactic therapy, I take huge amounts of high dose antibiotics and that’s still ongoing.

“I’m stuck in a position of anxiety because there’s always that sword of Damocles hanging over me.” By this he means the possibility of having to stop the medication in the event of a negative response.

The effectiveness of the antibiotics has led him to question medical orthodoxy, even though he knows this provokes a backlash. He came around to the belief, contrary to various studies, that Lyme disease is a persistent infection that requires more research and therapies than just simple antibiotic treatment.

“The realization of that really impacted my worldview in some respects; my educational foundation taught me to accept that a significant body of published work which reports the same conclusions cannot be refuted,” he says. “Unfortunately, I have been exposed to the reality that a lot of scientific studies, even those published in the most reputable journals, can be incomplete or just plain wrong.”

As Biggs continues his battle against the illness, thousands of kilometres away in Montreal, Irishman Dermot O’Sullivan (30) is hoping his is now behind him.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • In O’Sullivan’s case, he initially thought he was having a reaction to the COVID shot, but he developed breathlessness and a large red rash on his chest.
  • Then, his heart rate was very low but a monitor tracking it found the rate would dip and climb, setting off an alarm.
  • An ID doc suspected Lyme and confirmed this through testing.
  • The patient developed complete heart block, was put on IV antibiotics, and was told he might need a pacemaker.
  • He was monitored in the hospital by getting a blood test once a week that eventually looked good where all the inflammation and presence of infection were gone.
  • He continued IV antibiotics for two more weeks after leaving the hospital.
How can the outcome of two patients with the same disease be so different?

That is the million dollar question and why mainstream medicine and research will NEVER be able to solve this with their current allopathic mindset of one drug for one disease.  What is not discussed in this article at all is the existence of coinfections which makes cases more severe and for a longer duration.

The other important factor is the fact Biggs has been bitten by ticks numerous times.  When you read the work of experienced Lyme literate doctors you find out there are factors that amplify the problem:

  1. Multiple bites
  2. Active Lyme arthritis with a high sedimentation rate
  3. Heart murmurs
  4. Hormonally active women

IV’s give much higher blood levels of drugs than orals, and that the following variables necessitated IV treatment:

  1. Spinal tap shows high inflammation (high protein)
  2. High Sed rate and synovitis (inflammation of synovial membrane)
  3. People sick for more than 1 year
  4. Age over 60
  5. Acute carditis
  6. Immune deficiency
  7. Those who used immunosuppressants
  8. Failed oral treatment

Another important topic that isn’t discussed is the blow-back these infections can cause.  It is nearly impossible to decipher the difference between active infection and the blow-back or damage they can cause.  Mainstream calls this “Post treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome”  PTLDS and throws everyone into this four-cornered box.  The problem of course is that some truly are still fighting active infection(s) and require MORE antimicrobials.

A agree with this interview about PTLDS because the term doesn’t distinguish between the two groups (those with infection and those with blowback).  Further, until public health and mainstream medicine admit that some can still be actively infected after the “accepted”, brief, but unscientific monotherapy, patients will not get the help they need.

This problem has been ignored for over 40 years.  Polly Murray (RIP), the Connecticut woman in the 70’s who was astute enough to notice everyone in her town was sick with a similar looking illness, complained about this in her book “The Widening Circle,” but nothing’s changed.  She also explains how all of these patients, including her entire family improved when put back on antibiotics.  The ‘powers that be’ wouldn’t listen then and they aren’t listening now.

Some things never change.

There is hope; however.  Unfortunately Lyme/MSIDS is not slowing down.  It’s just a matter of time before more and more become infected and have to travel down this pot-hole riddled road.  They will find out for themselves that the “accepted science” doesn’t match reality, which BTW appears to be the “new norm,” and hopefully the COVID debacle is waking up even more people from a deep slumber of denial.  While Lyme advocates rejoice over a “historic increase in Lyme funding,” this will only line the pockets of a heavily entrenched Cabal that’s been doing the “accepted and approved” research on Lyme since it began.

But don’t take my word for it.  Listen to Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, the “discoverer” of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) the causative agent of Lyme (although there are many more strains and some yet unidentified):

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Nov. 2014

Excerpts from interview with Willy Burgdorferi, Ph.D.

Dr. Willy Burgdorfer “inocuating” Ornithodoros ticks, May 1954 (Rocky Mountain Laboratories Historical Collection/Nicholas J. Kramis)  Source  Image is public domain

For more: 

Category:

Lyme, Treatment

Tonight: “Lyme Brain & Fibro Fog” With Dr. Rawls

Join Dr. Bill Rawls for a LIVE WEBINAR + Q&A TONIGHT at 8pm EDT as he explains what causes the neurological symptoms and brain fog that often accompany chronic Lyme disease and fibromyalgia.

Dr. Rawls will also share natural remedies for long-lasting relief.

Some of the things discussed in this webinar will be:

  • Why cognitive symptoms like confusion, short-term memory loss, anxiety, anger, and depression are so common in chronic illness patients such as those with Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and Long COVID
  • How microbes, inflammation, and immune dysfunction disrupt cognitive function
  • The best herbs and natural remedies for restoring and protecting brain health
  • Diet tips and other lifestyle factors that help ease symptoms
  • Numerous insights during the LIVE Q&A with Dr. Rawls

Join us, and bring your questions! Plus, we will announce a free gift and drawing for webinar attendees.
Reserve Your Seat Now »

Category:

Herbs, Inflammation, Lyme, Psychological Aspects, Supplements