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Case Report of Male With Anaplasmosis

https://www.cureus.com/articles/416304-relative-bradycardia-in-a-61-year-old-male-with-anaplasmosis-a-case-report#!/

Relative Bradycardia in a 61-Year-Old Male With Anaplasmosis: A Case Report

Jessica A. James • Melissa Brown • Samuel M. Segal • Maria Gutierrez-Castillo

Published: October 17, 2025

DOI: 10.7759/cureus.94785 

Open Access
Peer-Reviewed

Cite this article as: James J A, Brown M, Segal S M, et al. (October 17, 2025) Relative Bradycardia in a 61-Year-Old Male With Anaplasmosis: A Case Report. Cureus 17(10): e94785. doi:10.7759/cureus.94785

Abstract

Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), or anaplasmosis, is a tick-borne illness caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, a gram-negative intracellular bacterium. A. phagocytophilum is primarily transmitted by Ixodes scapularis in the northeast United States and by Ixodes pacificus in California. Presenting symptoms typically include fever, chills, malaise, headache, myalgia, and rarely a rash. This case describes a 61-year-old Black male with a complex medical history, including prior tick-borne and arboviral infections (Lyme disease, dengue fever, and chikungunya), hypertension, mixed hyperlipidemia, bilateral carotid artery dissection, gastroesophageal reflux disease, atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, and current tobacco use. This patient presented to an emergency department in upstate New York with a fever, fatigue, constipation, myalgia, and night sweats. Throughout the patient’s hospital course, he maintained a state of relative bradycardia. The patient reported that he had returned from Haiti and the Dominican Republic two weeks prior to presentation in the emergency department and received several mosquito bites while abroad. Initial guideline-based empiric treatment was started with doxycycline due to suspicion of tick-borne illness, given his history of Lyme disease and his onset of symptoms while in upstate New York. Treatment was continued to complete a 14-day course after confirming the diagnosis of anaplasmosis by PCR testing of whole blood. After completing treatment with doxycycline, the patient’s symptoms resolved completely. This case illustrates a unique finding of relative bradycardia and fever of unknown origin in the context of recent international travel and history of tick-borne and arboviral infections.

 

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Anaplasmosis, Heart Issues, Lyme, mosquitoes, research, Uncategorized

CDC Quietly Rewrites its Vaccine – Autism Guidance: Where Does Their Dishonesty Come From?

https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-cdc-quietly-rewrites-its?

BREAKING: CDC quietly rewrites its vaccine–autism guidance

In a stunning shift, the CDC now says its own “vaccines don’t cause autism” claim was not evidence-based.

Maryanne Demasi, PhD
Nov 19, 2025

For the first time in a generation, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rewritten its official position on whether vaccines can cause autism.

This is a change that could reshape one of the most politically charged and emotionally fraught debates in modern medicine.

In a website update published on 19 November 2025, the agency now states that the long-standing claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is “not an evidence-based claim” because scientific studies “have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

The page also acknowledges that “studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

It’s difficult to overstate the significance of these statements. For nearly two decades, they would have been unthinkable for a federal public health agency.

The timing is equally striking.

The change arrives at a moment when the political and scientific landscape around vaccine safety is undergoing a marked shift inside the Trump–Kennedy administration.

For months, critics have accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and several of the administration’s appointees of holding unconventional views on vaccine safety.

The CDC’s revised language now places the agency closer to Kennedy’s long-standing argument that federal agencies had ignored crucial evidence.

The CDC explains the shift by pointing to the Data Quality Act, which requires federal communications to accurately reflect the evidence.

Because studies have not excluded the possibility that infant vaccines could contribute to autism, the agency concedes that its long-standing categorical statement was not scientifically justified.

The update states plainly that scientific uncertainty remains, particularly for vaccines administered in the first year of life. (See link for article)

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https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/where-does-the-cdcs-dishonesty-come?

Where Does the CDC’s Dishonesty Come From?

Is a new era at last is dawning at the CDC?

A Midwestern Doctor
Nov 20, 2025

Story at a Glance:

  • The widespread promotion of vaccination is predicated upon having profound benefits and no risks. As vaccines frequently injure their recipients, sustaining this paradigm requires suppressing all evidence of vaccine harm and psychologically programming vaccine supporters to be incapable of seeing injuries all around them.
  • Because of this, Senator Ron Johnson held a historic Senate hearing where discarded individuals with vaccine injuries could testify on their injuries.
  • The CDC has consistently used its authority to promote vaccination and support industry (e.g., soft drinks or lucrative therapeutics).
  • In many cases, these promotions have been directly tied to the CDC taking money from industry. Unfortunately, despite both CDC employees and members of Congress demanding investigations, the matter has been largely swept under the rug.
  • The CDC delegates vaccine recommendations to an impartial panel of (paid-off) experts who consistently support vaccination. Recently, RFK Jr. replaced them with scientists free of conflicts of interest.
  • At the first ACIP meeting, the CDC repeated its existing playbook, both making a number of truly remarkable statements defending the COVID vaccine at odds with public data, while simultaneously admitting they did not know numerous fundamental questions about the COVID vaccines that should have been figured out years ago.
  • Fortunately, times have changed, and many immediately saw these lies for what they were. Likewise, yesterday, the CDC made a historic pivot on a longstanding lie and acknowledged stating “vaccines do not cause autism” is a falsehood not supported by the existing evidence.

Important excerpts:

“….CDC corruption is so pervasive that it’s effectively been legalized. For example, a 1983 law authorized the CDC to accept gifts “made unconditionally…for the benefit of the [Public Health] Service or for the carrying out of any of its function,” and in 1992 Congress established A National CDC Foundation, which was quickly incorporated to “mobilize philanthropic and private-sector resources.”

“Since its inception, the CDC Foundation has been accused of egregious conduct and has received nearly 1 billion dollars from corporate “donors”(criticisms include a scathing editorial in one of the world’s top medical journals).

In 2016 CDC employees anonymously complained about this corruption…

….now that their halo of objective expertise has at last been broken (e.g., now only 61% of Americans trust the CDC), we are finally having a chance to seriously scrutinize their absurd claims, and the CDC is nearing the day when it can no longer operate as an unaccountable fiefdom steered by corruption rather than helping the American people. Each time we openly discuss their lies, their power weakens…..

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

It’s worth reposting a comment made after the article:

In 1986 the Federal government conceded that all vaccines are unavoidably unsafe, to such an extent that Congress and POTUS codified the (lack of) safety issue within the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Law.

There is no debate to be had since then about vaccine safety or effectiveness. The Feds have stipulated such.

Unavoidably unsafe is Codified.

Let me repeat.

The Federal government acknowledges that the (all) vaccines are so unavoidably unsafe that legal immunity is the ONLY way to protect Bigpharma from CAUSAL lawsuits that would force them to produce ONLY safe and effective vaccines…or go out of business.

Forget the science debate.

Forget the conflicts of interest.

None of that moves the needle.

None of that changes anything.

The 1986 Childhood Vaccine Law is THE prima facie evidence for the lack of safe and effective vaccine manufacturing practices.

The unconstitutional 1986 Law and the associated unlawful Childhood Vaccine Schedule mandate represent the keystone for the public health utilitarianism (aka gotta kill some to save some) ideology. As one or both goes, so does the unavoidably unsafe vaccine.

Either end the mandate or repeal the Law. Thats it. Its that simple. The rest will correct itself.

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Activism, vaccines

Operation Pop-Eye 2.0 & LOC-NESS: Weather Modification Worse Than You Think

http://

US Government Admits Chemtrails Are Real & It’s Worse Than You Think

Dane Wigington Reveals All

Nov. 10, 2025

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Are All These Strange Streaks in the Sky Chemicals Being Released Into the Air?
12:26 Who Is Behind This?
16:09 What Is the Government’s Position on Climate Engineering?
23:42 Weather Control and Operation Popeye
31:47 The US Military’s Role in Climate Engineering
37:14 Why Is Wigington So Dedicated to This Research?
39:05 The Mass Death of Insects and Trees Around the Globe
44:56 The Government’s Biological Warfare Tests on Unknowing Americans 48:01 Wigington’s Meeting With Gavin Newsom
50:28 Is the Government Using Wildfires as a Climate Engineering Weapon?
52:41 Has Congress Ever Attempted to Pass Legislation to Fight This? 57:06 Is Climate Engineering Impacting Earth’s Animal Population?
1:00:30 Where Can People Learn More?
  • According to this, the DOD us using military bases and leased airliners to spray 40-60 MILLION Tons of toxic nanoparticles yearly.
  • According to Dane Wigington, DOD scientist, Dr. Ken Caldera, is on recording stating he ‘designed methods for spreading pathogens into clouds to infect the populations below.’  85 countries were infected with COVID in 3 days and Italian researchers found COVID attached to airbourne particulates indicating COVID was released via air-bourne dispersion.

In 1977, the U.S. Army publicly disclosed during Senate hearings that it had conducted 239 open-air biological tests between 1949 and 1969. These experiments released biological simulants—such as bacteria like Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii—over populated areas, including cities like San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., to study the spread of potential bioweapons.

‘Scientists’ Dump 65,000 Liters of Chemicals Into Ocean in Geoengineering Experiment

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/scientists-dump-65000-liters-chemicals-ocean-geoengineering-experiment

by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In a move that’s raising alarm, researchers have poured 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine, claiming it’s a step toward combating climate change through geoengineering. 

With unknown effects on marine life, many are worried this experiment reeks of tinkering that could backfire.

The trial, dubbed the LOC-NESS project, took place off the Massachusetts coast last August, with scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution leading the charge.

They argue that boosting ocean alkalinity could suck more CO2 from the atmosphere, turning it into harmless baking soda.

Recent studies warn of risks to species growth, metabolism, and biodiversity, while excessive alkalinity might harm seagrasses crucial for marine habitats.  (See link for article)

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Activism, Climate, Morgellons

How Microbes Like Lyme May Trigger Alzheimer’s & Cognitive Decline

http://  Approx. 15 Min

How Microbes Like Lyme May Trigger Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Decline 

Dr. Brian Balin (PCOM)
Tick Boot Camp
Nov. 18, 2025
 
Dr. Brian J. Balin, Professor of Neuroscience and Neuropathology and Director of the Center for Chronic Disorders of Aging at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), shares how decades of research have revealed a possible infectious origin to Alzheimer’s disease.
 
His pioneering discovery that the respiratory bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae infects brain tissue helped establish the Pathogen Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease.
 
His continuing work explores how tick-borne microbes—including Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease), Bartonella, and Babesia—interact with other pathogens to drive neuroinflammation and cognitive decline.
 
Dr. Balin discusses how pathogens such as Chlamydia pneumoniae, Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella, and Babesia have been detected in Alzheimer’s brain tissue; evidence that microbes may enter the brain through the olfactory system or blood-brain barrier, initiating inflammation, amyloid buildup, and tau pathology; and findings from his collaboration with Galaxy Diagnostics and Nicole Bell, identifying polymicrobial infections—including Babesia otocoli, a species previously thought to affect only deer—in human brain tissue.
 
He explains how 3D brain organoids and animal models reveal infection-driven neurodegeneration, why infection must be viewed as part of the exposome—the lifetime accumulation of environmental exposures—and how future treatments such as immune-modulating drugs, antimicrobials, and phage therapy could change care.
 
This episode underscores how microbes, including those transmitted by ticks, may play a significant role in neuroinflammation, cognitive decline, and Alzheimer’s disease.
 
Recorded live at the 2nd Annual Alzheimer’s Pathobiome Initiative (AlzPI) and PCOM Symposium (October 2025) at Ohio University, Dublin, Ohio.
 
Learn more at AlzPI.org. Listen to Tick Boot Camp Podcast Episode 406 “Pathobiome – Interview with Nikki Schultek” and Episode 101 “The Young Gun – Interview with Alex (Ali) Moresco” at TickBootCamp.com
 
For Dr. Balin’s publications and ongoing research, visit pcom.edu.
 
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Activism, Alzheimer's, Babesia, Bartonella, Lyme, Uncategorized

How the CDC Validates Chronic Lyme is All Smoke & Mirrors

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/34076105?

Progress Toward Understanding Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses

Carl TuttleHudson, NH, United States

Nov 19, 2025

This letter was written after seeing the following Facebook post from “Tick Boot Camp”

CDC Validates Chronic Lyme
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1392710922860645&set=a.445348080930272

Carl Tuttle

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: afiore@cdc.gov
Cc: dpd1@cdc.gov, Matthew_Kuehnert@mtf.org, ebelay@cdc.gov, richard.bradbury@jcu.edu.au
Date: 11/19/2025 9:06 AM EST
Subject: Progress Toward Understanding Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses

Emerging Infectious Diseases  Volume 31, Supplement—October 2025
 
Progress Toward Understanding Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses
Anthony E. Fiore
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/14/25-1187_article

Excerpt:

“Complicating the frustrated patient’s predicament, clinicians attempting unproven treatments (e.g., repeated antibiotic courses) might exacerbate illness by introducing additional risks or temporarily masking potentially treatable causes.”

To: Anthony Fiore, MD, MPH,

In 2016 Dr. Paul Auwaerter, past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America coauthored a study revealing the persister form of Borrelia burgdorferi resistant to antibiotics.

Here is a timeline of events:

2015

Standard antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease does not kill persistent Borrelia bacteria.
http://droopyyoupi.blogspot.com/2015/08/standart-antibiotic-treatment-for-lyme.html

Excerpt:

-What has tuberculosis and Borrelia burgdorferi in common? In the late stage of the disease occurs persistent (tolerant) bacteria, which essentially means that the bacteria lasts and lasts and lasts. They protect themselves against antibiotics and are difficult to treat.

– Both Borrelia burgdorferi and tuberculosis is relatively easy to cure in the early stages, even with the use of one antibiotic. In the late stage it is impossible to cure the disease with the same type of treatment in the acute phase, said Dr. Ying Zhang when he visited the year NorVect conference.

-Dr. Ying Zhang is a professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

-Two days after NorVect conference, published Dr. Ying Zhang’s latest research Identification of new compounds with high activity against stationary phase Borrelia burgdorferi from the NCI compound collection.

2016

A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library
Jie Feng 1, Wanliang Shi 1, Shuo Zhang 1, David Sullivan 1, Paul G Auwaerter 2, Ying Zhang 1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27242757/

Abstract

Under experimental stress conditions such as starvation or antibiotic exposure, Borrelia burgdorferi can develop round body forms, which are a type of persister bacteria that appear resistant in vitro to customary first-line antibiotics for Lyme disease. To identify more effective drugs with activity against the round body form of B. burgdorferi, we established a round body persister model induced by exposure to amoxicillin (50 μg/ml) and then screened the Food and Drug Administration drug library consisting of 1581 drug compounds and also 22 drug combinations using the SYBR Green I/propidium iodide viability assay. We identified 23 drug candidates that have higher activity against the round bodies of B. burgdorferi than either amoxicillin or doxycycline.

2022

Nitroxoline Drug Combinations Are More Active Than Lyme Antibiotic Combination and Can Eradicate Stationary-Phase Borrelia burgdorferi
Alvarez-Manzo, Hector S.1; Zhang, Yumin1; Zhang, Ying2,✉
https://journals.lww.com/imd/fulltext/2022/09000/nitroxoline_drug_combinations_are_more_active_than.7.aspx

Abstract

Lyme disease (LD), caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and Europe. Despite the standard 2–4 weeks’ antibiotic treatment, approximately 10%–20% of patients will develop posttreatment LD syndrome, a condition that is poorly understood. One of the probable causes is thought to be the presence of B. burgdorferi persister forms that are not effectively killed by the current LD antibiotics. In this study, we evaluated nitroxoline, an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections, for its activity against a stationary-phase culture enriched with persister forms of B. burgdorferi. Nitroxoline was found to be more active than doxycycline and equally active as cefuroxime (standard LD antibiotics) against B. burgdorferi. Importantly, the nitroxoline two-drug combinations nitroxoline + cefuroxime and nitroxoline + clarithromycin, as well as the nitroxoline three-drug combination nitroxoline + cefuroxime + clarithromycin, were as effective as the persister drug daptomycin-based positive control three-drug combination cefuroxime + doxycycline + daptomycin, completely eradicating stationary-phase B. burgdorferi in the drug-exposure experiments and preventing regrowth in the subculture study. Future studies should evaluate these promising drug combinations in a persistent LD mouse model.

Dr. Fiore… This is the missing research that should have been conducted early in the discovery phase of the disease but as we now know, all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket while a campaign was orchestrated to discredit the sick and disabled patient population along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21867956/

What has been deceitfully established here in the US is wreaking havoc globally. Example:
Lyme disease: Australians ‘being treated worse than a dog riddled with mange’, Senator John Madigan says
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-11/lyme-disease-treatment-in-australia-criticised-by-john-madigan/7080708

This research is being suppressed as the disabled Lyme patient population around the globe remain sick indefinitely. (Three decades and counting)

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH

Cc: D. Peter Drotman, MD, MPH Editor-in-Chief

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Activism, Lyme, research, vaccines