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FREE Virtual Lyme Disease Conference

Free Virtual Lyme Disease Conference

Hear from top Lyme disease doctors, researchers, organization executives, and more!

Featured speakers include Global Lyme Alliance’s Chairman, Paul Ross and GLA’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Tim Sellati, who will present on Transformative Discoveries Resulting from GLA. See the full list of speakers here.

Event Details:

  • Sunday, March 27, 2022
  • 9 am – 9 pm EST
  • Free to register
  • Suggested donations will support Global Lyme Alliance

Click below to register for free today!

About the Event

Registration closes on Friday, 3.25.22

Band Aid Lyme, LLC
Band Aid Lyme is a Social Enterprise company serving non-profits by fundraising for Lyme Disease research and treatments by planning and hosting events. As a Social Enterprise, all net profits at this time will go directly to a chosen organization.  

The First Fundraising Event Beneficiary: Global Lyme Alliance (click for more info)

The Lyme Disease Conference will be on Sunday, March 27th, 2022 from 9 AM – 5 PM. 
The location will be held online ONLY, as a virtual conference. All are welcome to attend.

Schedule of Speakers

BONUS TIME and additional speakers have been added to the schedule!
It is going to be a Lyme Conference Marathon!!
**Please note that the air time will be Eastern Standard Time.**

9:00am – 9:06am:
Band Aid Lyme, LLC welcome
9:07am – 9:14am:
Global Lyme Alliance welcome from Paul Ross, Chairman of Global Lyme Alliance
9:15am – 9:40am:
Global Lyme Alliance presentation by Tim Sellati, Chief Scientific Officer of Global Lyme Alliance on “Transformative Discoveries Resulting from GLA”
9:41am – 10:42am: 
Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, President of Lyme Disease Foundation, presenting on the “History of Lyme Disease”
10:43am – 11:36am:
Dr. Richard and Mrs. Lee Horowitz, Lyme Literate Medical Doctor and His Wife, presenting on Lyme Disease, generally
11:37am – 12:33pm: 
Dr. James Schaller, Advisory Board Member for Band Aid Lyme and Lyme Literate Medical Doctor, presenting on Bartonella
12:34pm – 1:03pm: 
Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale University School of Medicine, on Babesia Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Therapy
1:04pm – 1:51pm: 
David Zuckerman, former Vermont Lieutenant Governor and State Senator, advocating for Lyme Disease Sufferers & wife, Rachel Nevitt, Lyme Sufferer and devoted Lyme Disease Advocate; And they own and operate a large Vermont farm!
1:52pm – 2:27pm: 
Brandi Dean and Tommy Farnsworth, on the nonprofit, Ride Out Lyme, LLC; Kerry Ann Lang, on support groups and mental health for Lyme sufferers
2:28pm – 2:49pm: 
Michelle McKeon, President of Lyme and Cancer Services & Licensed Clinical Nutritionist at Balancing Pathways
2:50pm – 3:49pm: 
Dr. Kenneth Liegner, Lyme Literate Doctor, presenting on “A Call for Collaboration in the Field of Vector-Borne Diseases”
3:50pm – 4:23pm: 
Mr. Gregg Skall, Esq. and Mrs. Monte Skall, Founders of non-profit NatCapLyme, “On the Front Lines – A NatCapLyme Perspective”
4:24pm – 5:24pm: 
Adina Bercowicz, Founder & Executive Director & Yan Zelener, PhD, from LymeTV
5:25pm – 6:00pm
Lindsay Keys & Winslow Crane-Murdoch, Directors of The Quiet Epidemic documentary film about Lyme Disease
6:01pm – 6:22pm
Christine Lorentzen, Functional Medicine Health Coach Candidate (2/22) & Lyme Patient Advocate;
6:23pm – 6:48pm:
Dr. Roni DeLuz, on Lyme Disease treatments and detox protocols from Martha’s Vineyard, MA, at the Healed Therapy Clinic
6:49pm – 7:38pm:
Kelly Franks, PharmD, Advisory Board Member for Band Aid Lyme, Lyme Awareness Advocate and Lyme Sufferer; Jennifer Crystal, Lyme Awareness Advocate, Lyme Sufferer, and Blogger for Global Lyme Alliance; John Zito, Father of deceased Lyme Sufferer
7:39pm – 8:08pm:
Dr. Felix Scholz, PhD Immunology, of Infectolab Americas on Blood Testing for Lyme & Co-Infections
8:09pm – 8:47pm:
Brian Karr of We Inspect, “How to Find Out if Hidden Mold is Impacting Your Health”
8:48pm – 9:03pm:
Joan Randall, on Magnet Therapy for Lyme Disease and Co-Infections from Integrative Wellness in Woodstock, VT
9:03pm – 9:04pm:
Closing statements

Category:

Activism, Babesia, Bartonella, Lyme, Psychological Aspects, Testing

CDC Removes 24% of Child COVID Deaths & Thousands of Others, Yet WHO Moves Forward With Global “Vaccine” Passports – the Ultimate Endgame

http://  Approx. 20 Min

CDC Quietly Removes 24% Of Virus Deaths in Children From Data, Blames “Coding Logic Error”

March 21, 2022

https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-removes-24-percent-of-child-covid-19-deaths-thousands-of-others

CDC Removes 24 Percent of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others

By Zachary Stieber
March 18, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old.

The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15.

“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the CDC says on the site.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

It must be noted that this type of faux pas will ultimately be used as ammunition to push for an “overhaul of public health”, particularly the consolidation and monopolization of data.  An internal CDC memo asks agency employees “to drive the success of the Data Modernization Initiative’’ — a CDC plan to strengthen the health surveillance infrastructure it relies upon.  Key points of the initiative:

  • unify public health data systems at the state and federal levels
  • “help” states hire staff to work on data collection & analysis (using $3 BILLION CDC funds)
  • create a “Travelocity”-like system where a “cloud-based” framework would allow staff to quickly analyze data and understand what is happening in real-time

HHS Protect took over part of U.S. COVID data collection at the beginning of the ‘pandemic’ which has since been taken over by the CDC.

It is clearly evident that the CDC wants to monopolize data and medicine, just like it monopolizes testing, treatments, and “vaccines.”  Do we really want the CDC to have even MORE data, power, and authority when it has bungled nearly every single thing it has touched?

Sounds like a perfect prelude to enable global “vaccine” passports where personal medical information is stored, tracked, and used by the government.

Go here to watch a brief video on what this dystopian technology would look like, and here to read about the players involved, their need to consolidate and monopolize data at the expense of personal freedom, choice, and privacy, and how COVID has been fraudulently used to bring an unsuspecting public to this point in time for the elite’s ultimate end game.  Go here to learn how Google and Youtube are investing $12 million to censor dissenters who have questions, concerns, or disagree with the accepted narrative.

SUMMARY:

  • Erroneous statistics have been and continue to be cited by doctors and others when setting public health policy as well as pushing for COVID-19 shots including the belief all children should get the jab, despite the fact:
    • children rarely get COVID or transmit it
    • children have more than a 99.9% chance of surviving
    • Johns Hopkins researchers recently reported that when studying a group of about 48,000 children, they found zero COVID deaths among healthy kids
    • a new study from Germany shows extremely few deaths among healthy children overall and ZERO deaths in 5-11 year olds, suggesting most studies are designed to distort the risk to kids.  Go here to read and listen to Dr. Prasad on how many are citing research that is flawed
    • more children have died from the COVID jabs than from COVID and more cases of COVID are among the “vaxxed”
    • before the change, the CDC listed 1,755 children as dying from COVID-19 along with approximately 851,000 others
    • the update saw the CDC cut 416 deaths among children and over 71,000 elsewhere, arriving at a total of just under 780,000
    • the agency adjusted its death count in August 2021 “after the identification of a data discrepancy”
    • the third correction to data still doesn’t solve the problem
  • Others have been using the NCHS tally, compiled from death certificates, which is also erroneous due to the fact it includes those who died with COVID and those who died from COVID. This bizarre counting includes people who died from drowning, gun shots, and car wrecks as dying from COVID
  • Some consider the updates “great news” as a quarter of pediatric COVID deaths vanished
  • Some are calling on the CDC to issue a public apology or at least announce such updates & changes since policies are put in place due to their false data.  (Don’t hold your breath)
  • The CDC wiggles out of accountability by simply stating that their data is subject to change

Please note that the CDC has a history of “quietly” updating its website with significant changes, and often changes definitions, and testing perimeters.   Some examples:

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/03/01/who-moving-foward-on-global-vaccine-passport-program/

WHO moving foward on GLOBAL vaccine passport program

Tech giants and US gov’t co-operate on “SMART Health Cards”, and their use is spreading across the US…& maybe the world.

Kit Knightly

Countries all over the world are totally scrubbing their Covid measures, mask mandates and social distancing rules.

The CDC has changed their guidance on vaccine doses, and said people don’t need to wear masks anymore. Boris has done the same, and (some) of the UK’s emergency powers are going to expire soon.

It seems like Covid is over, and the good guys won, right?

Well, not exactly.

The pandemic narrative may be fading away, but certainly not without a trace. Covid might be dying, but vaccine passports are still very much alive.

This week, while the eyes of the world are fixed on Ukraine and the next wave of propaganda, the World Health Organization is launching an initiative to create a “trust network” on vaccination and international travel.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • The “Vaccination” Credential Initiative’s (VCI) list of members is revealing:
    • Google
    • Amazon
    • insurance companies
    • hospitals
    • bio-security firms
    • nearly every major US university
  • VCI’s steering committee is also revealing:
    • Apple reps
    • Microsoft
    • Mayo Clinic
    • Mitre Corp (multi-million dollar government-funded research org)
  • Discussion of an international “Pandemic Treaty” is underway today in Geneva and will undoubtedly include provisions on international “vaccine” passports.
  • The “Smart Card” is a covert federal “vaccine” passport system that allows them to sidestep those who care about individual freedoms as well as state vs federal law. Technically they are only implemented by each state individually via agreements with VCI, which is also technically a private company. The government indirectly funds the smart card.
  • While the government claims this is all handled privately, the smart card is run by VCI, created by the MITRE corp. which is funded by the U.S. government, so gov. agencies can get their hands all over your private data as well as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
  • Corporate giants serve as fronts for government programs and in return get big cuts of the profits as well as bailouts if needed, and regulatory reforms that cripple their competitors.
  • Quasi-monopolies like Facebook and Twitter harvest data for the government and censor anyone they are told to. The government then turns around and targets their competitors. 
  • Microsoft, Google, and Apple, take government money to create the tech, run the program, and harvest and store data which they make available to the government.
  • This unholy alliance is what allows the government to claim that it isn’t a “federal” passport system or a “federal” “vaccine” database. They merely sub-contract tech giants to do the work for them.
  • They have eked out everything they can out of COVID and have moved onto passports – the ultimate end-game of the plandemic. 
  • If the war in Ukraine doesn’t deliver on the rest of their plans, they will simply resurrect COVID.

For more:

Category:

Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Update for Wisconsin AB 299 & AB 316: Action Needed

Wisconsinites, please act today and ask Governor Evers to sign both AB 299 & AB 316

AB 299 has passed both the State Assembly and the Senate. If enacted, it would prohibit governmental entities and persons/entities doing business in Wisconsin from requiring individuals to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of receiving services, transacting business, accessing facilities, or participating in nonprivate functions. Essentially, this bill is a COVID-19 vaccine passport ban. 

AB 316 has also passed both legislative chambers. If enacted, it would prohibit governmental entities in Wisconsin from discriminating against individuals based on their COVID-19 vaccination status or whether they have proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

ACTION NEEDED:

1) Contact Governor Evers’ Office and ask him to sign AB 299 and AB 316! Please see talking points below to use when contacting him.

Email: Click here to submit a comment to Governor Evers online.

Phone: Call his Madison office at 606-266-1212 and his Milwaukee office at 414-227-4344.

Mail: P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707

2) Please share this email with family and friends, or you can tell them to go to http://NVICAdvocacy.org and click on the alert for these bills.

3) Login to the NVIC Advocacy Portal OFTEN to check for updates.   http://NVICAdvocacy.org. We review bills and make updates daily. Bills can change many times over the legislative process and your timely visits, calls, and emails directed at the correct legislators are critical to this process.

TALKING POINTS (Please personalize to share how this bill affects you and your family):

AB 299:

  • AB 299 prohibits state and local governmental entities, as well as individuals or entities doing business in Wisconsin, from requiring individuals to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of access, receiving services, or participating in business or functions.
  • This bill serves as an effective COVID-19 vaccine passport ban, and would allow Wisconsin citizens to move about freely in society, regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status.
  • COVID-19 vaccine passport systems come with serious privacy concerns.
  • Allowing COVID-19 vaccine requirements as a condition of service or access causes segregation, and potentially cuts individuals off from resources and services they need – such  groceries or healthcare – simply because they have not received a vaccine that is the subject of such a requirement.
  • This discrimination can even be life threatening. Some individuals have been turned down from life-saving organ transplant surgeries because they were not vaccinated against COVID-19.
  • More and more states and cities are beginning to rollback their COVID-19 restrictions, including proof of vaccine policies. Even the mayor of Washington DC announced she would end the city’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for businesses.
  • Multiple states have prohibited vaccine passports including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma (for students), South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah (government ban only), and Wyoming. Wisconsin should too.

AB 316:

  • AB 316 would prohibit discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccination status by the state and other governmental entities in Wisconsin.
  • Any form of discrimination against individuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 is essentially a form of coercion to try and get them vaccinated by implementing barriers to navigate life.
  • It is unreasonable to penalize perfectly healthy individuals who simply have not received a particular vaccine.
  • This bill would prohibit government-sponsored COVID-19 vaccine discrimination, allowing residents of Wisconsin to freely participate with their state and local governments.
  • It would also ensure that the residents of Wisconsin are allowed to access needed state and local government facilities and services without fear of discrimination based on their COVID-19 vaccination status.
  • State and local governments are taxpayer-funded and exist to serve the public. Since there is no vaccine requirement for paying taxes, there should be no chance of a vaccine requirement for accessing or using government facilities and services, or as a prerequisite for any other type of interaction with the government.
  • Passing this bill would also clarify that there is no state requirement or expectation of private persons and entities in Wisconsin to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or to require proof of vaccination.
  • Even individuals who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can still spread and catch it. COVID-19 vaccine requirements or mandates reduce the focus from health to mere vaccine status.
  • Our American system of government was founded upon protecting the rights of individuals. This protection entails prohibiting the intrusion upon these rights from other individuals and entities, including the government itself.

Sincerely,

NVIC Advocacy Team

Category:

Activism, vaccines

Diagnosing Lyme Arthritis of the Hip in Children

https://danielcameronmd.com/diagnosing-lyme-arthritis-of-the-hip-in-children/

Diagnosing Lyme arthritis of the hip in children

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How can doctors distinguish a case of Lyme arthritis of the hip from transient arthritis or septic arthritis (SA) in children? A few findings from a recent review, published in the journal Cureus, may be helpful in making a correct diagnosis.

By

“The clinical presentation of Lyme arthritis (LA) of the hip can be similar to both acute bacterial septic arthritis (SA) and transient synovitis (TS),” explains Cruz and colleagues. ¹ “Differentiating between SA, LA, and TS of the hip can be challenging, even for the most discerning clinician.”

But, accurately diagnosing these conditions is important since treatment of each is distinct, states Cruz. So in an effort to identify any unique features, Cruz and his team performed a systematic review of all published studies involving pediatric patients with LA.

They identified 88 patients diagnosed with Lyme arthritis of the hip. The average age was 7.5 years. The authors compared these cases with those involving children with transient arthritis and septic arthritis. Transient arthritis causes hip pain and limping and occurs after a viral infection.

According to Cruz and colleagues, children with Lyme arthritis of the hip were more likely to bear weight. Still, one-third (33%) refused to bear weight but this is compared with more than 60% of the SA and TS patients who refused to do so.

Children with Lyme arthritis of the hip were less likely (23%) to have fever. Whereas more than half (53.8%) of the septic arthritis patients were febrile.

A review of laboratory data found neither the white blood count (WBC) nor the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was a good marker for distinguishing Lyme arthritis of the hip from septic arthritis.

But, an ESR of at least 40 should prompt clinicians to obtain hip synovial fluid to evaluate for septic arthritis, Cruz says. Conversely, “an ESR less than 40 mm/hr could be worked up further with Lyme serology as LA or TS become more likely.”

A high synovial WBC of at least 65,000 cells/mm3 was proposed as a potential cutoff suggestive of bacterial septic arthritis. The synovial WBC was 47,533 – 64,242 cells/mm3 for Lyme arthritis. The synovial WBC was 105,432 – 260,214 cells/mm3 for septic arthritis.

Clinical judgment is still necessary when distinguishing these entities. And as Cruz suggests, “if significant hip irritability or other clinical signs of [septic arthritis] SA exist, then treatment for SA should be initiated.”

The authors did not discuss whether any of the children with transient arthritis might suffer from seronegative Lyme disease.

Related Articles:
References:
  1. Cruz AI, Jr., Anari JB, Ramirez JM, Sankar WN, Baldwin KD. Distinguishing Pediatric Lyme Arthritis of the Hip from Transient Synovitis and Acute Bacterial Septic Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Cureus. 2018;10(1):e2112.

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I’m not sure this study is helpful at all.  Also, it would be extremely unwise to put symptoms in a simplistic box.  Lyme/MSIDS has a way of creeping outside every body it’s put into.

Category:

Lyme, research

Dear Lyme Warrior Help! Lyme Disease and Mood Swings, Epstein-Barr Virus, and Body Aches

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/dear-lyme-warrior-help-

Dear Lyme Warrior…Help! Lyme disease and Mood Swings, Epstein-Barr Virus, and Body Aches.

by Jennifer Crystal on February 15, 2022

Every few months, Jennifer Crystal devotes a column to answering your questions. Below she answers some that she’s recently received. Do you have a question for Jennifer? If so, email her at lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com.
Were your moods always shifting with Lyme disease?

Lyme disease can cause anxiety and depression as well as other psychiatric issues, so certainly mood swings are not uncommon. In his book Lyme Disease: Medical Myopia and the Hidden Global Pandemic, psychiatrist Bernard Raxlen, M.D. describes patients who were “ordinarily upbeat, optimistic, outgoing, socially engaged and level-headed” experiencing a “personality shift” and becoming “irritable, disagreeable, withdrawn, antisocial and up-tight.” [i] Some Lyme disease patients feel that they become an entirely different person.

I generally kept my demeanor, but I certainly had mood swings much more easily than I did when I was healthy. I remember laughing in a buffet line with my sister, when suddenly I got cranky and snapped at her. “Whoa,” she said. “Why the sudden mood shift?” There could have been several explanations that probably were not mutually exclusive. It’s possible that my blood sugar dropped; one of my other tick-borne illnesses, babesiosis, causes hypoglycemia. I also may have run out of energy; the tank can fall to empty unexpectedly for Lyme patients, and when it does, there’s nothing left to give. The shift may also just have been indicative of the way tick-borne illnesses were affecting my brain.

Now that I am in remission, my moods are more stable, thanks to diminished infection in my body as well as medication for anxiety and depression. I get sad easily when I’m overtired, but that usually improves after a good night’s sleep. I do sometimes still get “Lyme rage”—going  from 0 to 60 very quickly when something small goes wrong—but again, this happens almost exclusively when my tank is on empty. Getting appropriate rest, pacing myself, keeping my infections at bay, and utilizing talk therapy and medication all have helped me stabilize my moods.

You mentioned you also had Epstein-Barr virus in addition to tick-borne illnesses. How did you get it under control?

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the virus that causes mononucleosis. People who have infectious mononucleosis keep Epstein-Barr antibodies forever, but for most, the infection becomes dormant. For those struggling with compromised immune systems or other infections, however, Epstein Barr virus can either remain active after mononucleosis or get reactivated during times of stress. As I explain in my “Reactivated Infections: A Possible Piece of the Chronic Illness Puzzle” post, my own case of mono slipped into chronic active Epstein-Barr virus, leaving me bedridden for two years, because I didn’t realize my body was wrestling underlying tick-borne infections.

Many Lyme disease patients have high Epstein Barr titers for similar reasons—their immune systems are too overtaxed to adequately fight both tick-borne illness and EBV. Researchers are also newly discovering how EBV can actually cause other diseases, such as a recently discovered link between EBV and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

No matter how Lyme disease and EBV are related, patients just want to relieve suffering from both. For me, this relief was concurrent. Once I adequately treated my tick-borne illnesses, my fatigue—caused by both the tick-borne illnesses and EBV—got much better.

In addition to antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and anti-malarials for my tick-borne illnesses, my doctor also put me on a number of vitamins and supplements to help boost my immune system. These included Transfer Factors. It’s important to remember that what works for one patient might not work for another. There is no set protocol for treating tick-borne illness or EBV. Your LLMD, and perhaps your PCP, need to look at biomarkers to see how your immune system is functioning overall, what nutrients you might be missing, and what you may need to reduce your viral and bacterial loads.

Adjunct therapies like integrative manual therapy and neurofeedback helped with the impacts of all of my illnesses. Most importantly, EBV required rest, rest, and more rest. And as I also note in my “Reactivated Infections: A Possible Piece of the Chronic Illness Puzzle” post, my EBV is in remission, but it can flare up if I’m not careful. Talk to your doctors to see how you can get your own EBV under control.

When you had aches and pains with Lyme disease, did they extend into your quads? How about into your calves? Did the pain move around?

Yes! Something that sets Lyme disease pain apart from the pain of, say Rheumatoid Arthritis, is that it is migratory. You might feel it in your left elbow one day, and your right knee the next. Lyme is an inflammatory disease, and inflammation can happen anywhere in the body. You can feel pain in your joints as well as your muscles and bones. If you are experiencing this type of moving pain and have not yet seen a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) to determine if the pain might be caused by tick-borne illness, I encourage you to do so!

 [i] Raxlen, Bernard, M.D. with Cashel, Allie. Lyme Disease: Medical Myopia and the Hidden Global Pandemic. London: Hammersmith Health Books, 2019 (21).

Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her work has appeared in local and national publications including Harvard Health Publishing and The Boston Globe. As a GLA columnist for over six years, her work on GLA.org has received mention in publications such as The New Yorker, weatherchannel.com, CQ Researcher, and ProHealth.com. Jennifer is a patient advocate who has dealt with chronic illness, including Lyme and other tick-borne infections. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her via email below.

Email: lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com

Category:

Lyme, Pain Management, Psychological Aspects