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Prof. Holly Ahern’s Lyme Disease Comments to Australian Senate

https://www.lymedisease.org/holly-ahern-australian-senate/

Prof. Holly Ahern’s Lyme disease comments to Australian Senate

2/5/25

The Australian Senate has launched an inquiry into the access to diagnosis and treatment for people in Australia with tick-borne diseases. Professor Holly Ahern of the United States recently submitted the following written comments and was also asked to give verbal remarks. (See video at end of this article.)

Dear Committee Members:

I am a scientist, professor of microbiology, and co-founder of a Lyme disease advocacy organization in New York State. I am also the Scientific Advisor for the Focus on Lyme Foundation in Arizona, which has funded research on several projects directed at improving the state of diagnostic testing for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.

I have served on several state and federal committees convened to address the growing problem of tick-borne diseases in the United States, most recently the 2022 Dept. of Health and Human Services, Tick Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG).

But most of all, I am mother of a daughter who went from a record setting collegiate All American swimmer to bed bound and disabled over the course of only a few weeks. She lost years of her life as a result of flawed medical guidelines that prioritize care for patients early in the infection, while providing only minimal guidance for the diagnosis and care of patients in later stages of the disease.

In my daughter’s case, we saw the tick bite but she developed no rash. Fever, profound fatigue, widespread pain, and other symptoms began months later, and were attributed to a viral illness. The difficulties we faced in getting her illness diagnosed and appropriately treated in 2010 match those of hundreds of thousands of other people with Lyme disease in the United States and Europe, and also in Australia.

Biologically complex organism

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a microbe with global distribution. They are transmitted to humans by several species of tick. The bacteria are biologically complex. They adapt and survive in environments that would kill most other bacteria.

During human infection, some subgroups (genospecies) of these bacteria linger in the bloodstream, while others disseminate to connective tissue-rich areas of the body. Regardless, infection triggers profound immune system and other physiological events, leading to a wide range of symptoms that vary significantly among patients and can be quite severe.

The standard medical definition implies that the overwhelming majority of Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease) patients are infected with the same bacteria and have the same uniform disease presentation, which is straightforward to diagnose and treat. As defined, Lyme disease is caused by only a few specific genospecies of Borrelia (now named Borreliella). Several other genospecies of Borrelia are associated with diseases collectively referred to as “Relapsing Fever borreliosis.”

Differences between the two diseases are subtle. Relapsing Fever Borrelia fail to produce the skin manifestation (erythema migrans or “bull’s-eye” rash) that is noted in Lyme disease; however, other symptoms are very similar. Existing diagnostic tests for Lyme disease don’t detect infections caused by Relapsing Fever Borrelia.

Thus, a patient may be bitten by a tick and infected with a Relapsing Fever Borrelia, such as B. miyamatoi, show all the symptoms that a patient with Lyme disease would have, but may not be diagnosed or treated for the infection because the EM rash did not appear and/or the standard lab tests for Lyme disease were negative.  (See link for article)

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Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

The Biosecurity Ethics & Immune Tolerance Awareness Initiative And the Yale Study MSM Journals Refused to Publish

https://immunetolerance.substack.com/p/the-biosecurity-ethics-and-immune?

The Biosecurity Ethics & Immune Tolerance Awareness Initiative

Welcome to the Substack to raise awareness of #ImmuneTolerance and #VaccineInjuries #chronicdisease #autism #mentalillness #ADD #ADHD

 
A. W. Finnegan
Jan 09, 2025

Welcome to the Substack of the Biosecurity Ethics and Immune Tolerance Awareness Initiative. The Biosecurity Ethics & Immune Tolerance Awareness Initiative exists to educating the public about the role of immune tolerance in chronic diseases, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, and cancers. We further educate and advocate for ethical biosecurity practices and informed policy decisions made in full transparency, through ethical guidelines, working to close critical vulnerabilities, and defend actual national security from foreign influence in public health and biodefense strategies, rather than using National Security as guise to hide scandals and evade accountability.

The Truth of Chronic Disease in America Shall be Unveiled. The Health of All Depends on it.

In 1960, the science of slow, chronic disease and persistent infections, once baptized “immune tolerance” was obscured and marginalized to the realm of organ transplantation and its recipients, as the 1960 Nobel Prize was given in error to Frances MacFarland Burnet and Peter Medawar for immune tolerance through organ transplantation even though the two never worked together nor were they nominated together by anyone. However, it was Erich Traub, who had discovered it in 1935 through his discovery of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCM) in white mice.

Immune tolerance is a term applied to the state of chronic suppression of the immune system, where the immune system is too overwhelmed to adequately fight back. It is specifically defined as :

A state of unresponsiveness to a specific antigen or group of antigens to which a person is normally responsive. Immune tolerance is achieved under conditions that suppress the immune reaction and is not just the absence of an immune response.

This same condition correlated to another phenomenon alternatively coined “immune paralysis” following injection of large doses of pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens. In short, immune tolerance is immune paralysis. This was a major finding that would have vastly changed our understanding of chronic disease and immunology, yet the scientific establishment ignored it and marginalized it to organ transplantation, because the same condition is also seen in organ transplant recipients, and this is also thought to be the result of antigenic stimuli. Attributing it to organ transplantation only totally ignores something so immensely important about immunology and the disease process that it might as well be considered one of the pillars of chronic disease showing that unlike acute diseases measured by heavy inflammation and immune response, there is a polar opposite side of disease, measured by immunosuppression, lack of visible inflammation, and chronic disease.

However, the Nobel Prize “given in error” appears more likely to have been a deliberate choice as it would have devastated Western immunology and the science of infectious disease determined by antibodies and observable inflammation. Equally so, it would have flipped vaccine science on its head and exposed the true nature of vaccine-induced “immunity” as a slow destruction of the immune system rather than building it up as strong and healthy.

Erich Traub first elucidated the condition during vaccine research at the Rockefeller Institute in 1935 when he injected the brains of mice with foreign proteins, reactivating dormant LCM virus from within the mice, causing an epidemic from scratch. The result was a slow chronic disease via immunosuppression and persistent viral infection that could be passed congenitally from mother to newborn, maintaining itself through generations, while silently degenerating the genetic integrity of subsequent generations, plaguing them with chronic disease, neurological syndromes/wasting disease, and cancer.

In short, antigenic stimuli were behind this condition which produced chronic immunodeficiency and reactivated dormant viruses from within the body, invited additional opportunistic infections to create a highly complex and complicated chronic disease accompanied by neurological/neuropsychiatric disorders, wasting disease, and cancer. It would present in the absence of detectable antibodies and little to no outward inflammation. Likewise, Traub’s experiments demonstrate how a vaccine antigen too toxic for the body can cause new outbreaks with other diseases already dormant in the vaccine recipient.

Since the 1960s when the infectious origins of immune tolerance were buried and obscured, the science of chronic disease and neurological/neuropsychiatric disorders began working in reverse. Public Health has been ignoring the underlying condition at the root of these diseases for decades by using tests and diagnostics that evade the evidence of the condition by using the wrong biomarkers of disease and calling it “evidence-based medicine.” This so-called Evidence-based medicine only uses antibody response and inflammation as its criteria for diagnosis but immune tolerance is the polar opposite. There are ways to detect and diagnose immune tolerance using other biomarkers, but these are very different than biomarkers used to study acute diseases marked by robust antibody response and heavy inflammation. By using inadequate biomarkers like antibodies and acute inflammation as criteria for diagnosis, this will invariably show nothing of value for diagnosing a disease that is marked by immune tolerance outcomes and as a result, no disease will be recorded.   (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Important quote:

Nowhere is this more apparent than the recent wave of sick people injured by the COVID-19 vaccine.

Mandatory reading for each and every Lyme/MSIDS patient and every person who still believes in ‘vaccines.’

This, right here, is the pearl that has been trampled on by public health and mainstream medicine.

Yale scientists have found T-cell exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production in some COVID shot recipients with spike levels increasing over time leading to post-vaccine brain fog and immune dysfunction. Finally, someone is connecting the dots between ‘long COVID’ and post vaccination syndrome.  Findings Suggest Immune Imbalances and Viral Reactivation May Contribute to Chronic Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination.

But mainstream medical journals won’t publish it.

The variety of symptoms include:

  • Excessive fatigue (85%)

  • Tingling/numbness (80%)

  • Exercise intolerance (80%)

  • Brain fog (77.5%)

  • Difficulty concentrating (72.5%)

  • Sleep disturbances (70%)

  • Neuropathy (70%)

  • Muscle aches (70%)

  • Anxiety (65%)

  • Tinnitus (60%)

  • Burning sensations (57.5%)​

Immunosuppression can be caused by vaccinations of all kinds as well as unethical biodefense practices using simulants in open-air tests since the 50’s.  Finnegan states:

Lyme disease had been one such simulant spread through ticks on shorebirds in the early 1950s under the supervision of Erich Traub on Plum Island, using strains of Borrelia anserina that he had acquired from Rockefeller-funded psychiatrist Franz Jahnel through his student Werner Schäfer in 1939.

Finnegan goes on with the sordid history of immune tolerance and how public health officials understand it fully and are deliberately using it as a defense strategy, while misleading the public.

Certain antigens responsible for immune tolerance are also potent mitogens which are responsible for cancer through the upregulation of telomerase.

MAHA will fail if the origins of immune tolerance via toxic antigen is not addressed.

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President of Bayer Pharmaceuticals Admits Shock That People Took Gene Therapy

“If we had surveyed the public two years ago, would you be willing to take a genome cell therapy and inject it into your body, we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate.” ~ Dr. Oelrich

Now injections will probably become a thing of the past as airborne mRNA ‘vaccines’ are being created that can be delivered straight into the lungs without a shot.

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Activism, Lyme, vaccines, Viruses

Gravy Train of Extra Costs Tagged to NIH Research Grants Gets Bull-DOGEd

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/gravy-train-of-nih-indirects-gets?

Gravy Train of NIH “Indirects” Gets Bull-DOGEd

Progressively Growing Extra Costs Tagged to Research Grants Cut Back to 15%

 
Feb 16, 2025

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

I talked to someone today who has recently received a coveted NIH RO1 grant. Instead of being happy she said she is terrified. Why? Recently, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has trimmed back “indirects” universities and hospitals slap on top of the direct research funded projects. This rate has grown from 15% over decades to >50% at many prestigious medical centers. The current indirect rate at Harvard is 69%.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This website continually posts information on the unhealthy alliance between Industry, government, and University research facilities. 

For a great start, Congress needs to repeal the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 so that the government agencies entrusted with public health do not have conflicts of interest in owning patents.  

Research institutions at universities should not be colluding with government by receiving government money.  The two need to be separate.

MAHA has begun, but there’s a lot to do.

The entire government grant process is riddled with conflicts:

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Activism, research

Like Penicillin, ‘Miraculous’ DMSO Could Change the Lives of Afflicted Millions

https://rescue.substack.com/p/like-penicillin-miraculous-dmso-could?

Like Penicillin, ‘Miraculous’ DMSO Could Change the Lives of Afflicted Millions

The FDA long ago buried dimethyl sulfoxide, but a crusading physician and the medical freedom movement may resurrect it for stroke, paralysis, chronic pain, and more.

 
Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Feb 13, 2025
 
Article Excerpts:

A half-century after it was lost to medicine, DMSO may yet take its rightful place in the medicine cabinet and maybe even in the pantheon of medical cures.

Check PubMed for DMSO, and more than 39,000 studies come up, many of them documenting efficacy in treating dozens of conditions in laboratory animals and people. Then ask why your doctor doesn’t even know about DMSO—and why the FDA long ago all but banished it from clinical use.

A seasoned physician with a fierce moral compass, who writes under the Substack pseudonym A Midwestern Doctor, AMD is determined to change that—part of a mission to resuscitate proven and potential cures that have been lost to our pharma-dominated medical culture.

First up is DMSO, a drug and over-the-counter supplement that can be injected, delivered intravenously, taken orally, or applied topically—where it quickly moves through the skin to the circulatory and other systems. As natural as penicillin, DMSO can be found in some vegetables and is a smelly, oily byproduct of wood pulp processing.

“Whenever the occasional miracle drug comes out that works too well with a wide range of applications,” AMD wrote in the second DMSO post last September, “it is inevitably consigned to the dustbin of history regardless of the data put forward for it.”

AMD’s nine articles—amounting to 399 printed pages—have alone drawn more than two million views and have been boosted by other influencers—Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Joseph Mercola, and podcaster Joe Rogan—earning them bona fide viral status. The articles have drawn ten thousand comments, including sometimes-startling testimonials of spinal injury reversed, Parkinson’s improved, and mundane reports of urination restored, and hemorrhoids, dental disease, and skin conditions vanquished. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Always good to see people willing to swallow the red pill.  I can only pray Pfeiffer, a prior Lyme patient and advocate, will wake up to the climate change agenda, which the UN is using to bankroll politics, and withdraw her book.  (Not likely to happen as money & reputation are involved)  Climategate which relies on fraudulent science is part and parcel of a global endgame that is driving geoengineering which has very real health, environmental, privacy, and economic consequences.

DMSO is a must-have for every medicine cabinet, but particularly for those suffering with Lyme/MSIDS.  It’s an anti-inflammatory, pain reducer, is widely antimicrobial – both bacteria and viral, and much more.  

Important article excerpt:

To kill DMSO, AMD wrote, FDA repeatedly cited the anaphylactic death of a woman in a research study who continued to take DMSO after having an allergic reaction, as well as eye changes in dogs that reversed after treatment and were of little consequence in numerous other studies.

Please know this is what the FDA does.  Cherry-picks data that agrees with their pre-determined outcome that supports their narrative that they benefit from financially.  

The article gives many examples including a child with Down syndrome who took DMSO along with other supplements who is rapidly progressing skills, blowing everyone away.

Toward the end of the article there is a quote from A Midwestern Doctor who states DMSO is just part of a larger scope of his attempt to reveal Big Pharma’s scams in order to fix the broken healthcare system.  It’s important to zoom out even farther; however, to expose the global corruption which has overtaken not only the U.S. health care system, but science, science journals, mainstream journalism, government, and academia.  It’s all interrelated.  

MAHA has begun

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Activism, Pain Management, Treatment

MAHA Has Begun: Bigtree Roasts Journalists – They Had it Coming

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/executive-order-establishing-the?

EXECUTIVE ORDER – Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission

MAHA has officially begun!

 
Feb 13, 2025

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

With RFK Jr. being confirmed as HHS Secretary, President Trump has just signed the following  executive order to establish the MAHA commission:

 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population. Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more chronic diseases. An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness.

These realities become even more painful when contrasted with nations around the globe. Across 204 countries and territories, the United States had the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer in 2021, nearly double the next-highest rate. Further, from 1990-2021, the United States experienced an 88 percent increase in cancer, the largest percentage increase of any country evaluated. In 2021, asthma was more than twice as common in the United States than most of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Autism spectrum disorders had the highest prevalence in high-income countries, including the United States, in 2021. Similarly, autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis are more commonly diagnosed in high-income areas such as Europe and North America. Overall, the global comparison data demonstrates that the health of Americans is on an alarming trajectory that requires immediate action.

This concern applies urgently to America’s children. In 2022, an estimated 30 million children (40.7 percent) had at least one health condition, such as allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disease. Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s. Eighteen percent of late adolescents and young adults have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent of adolescents are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese.

These health burdens have continued to increase alongside the increased prescription of medication. For example, in the case of Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, over 3.4 million children are now on medication for the disorder — up from 3.2 million children in 2019-2020 — and the number of children being diagnosed with the condition continues to rise.

This poses a dire threat to the American people and our way of life. Seventy-seven percent of young adults do not qualify for the military based in large part on their health scores. Ninety percent of the Nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures is for people with chronic and mental health conditions. In short, Americans of all ages are becoming sicker, beset by illnesses that our medical system is not addressing effectively. These trends harm us, our economy, and our security.

To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety. We must restore the integrity of the scientific process by protecting expert recommendations from inappropriate influence and increasing transparency regarding existing data. We must ensure our healthcare system promotes health rather than just managing disease.

Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the Federal Government to aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our citizens, including the rising rates of mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. To do so, executive departments and agencies (agencies) that address health or healthcare must focus on reversing chronic disease.  (See link for article & full executive order)

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https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/look-whos-mainstream-media-now?

Look Who’s Mainstream Media Now…

“You were a part of the greatest lie modern society has ever told. How do you feel?” Watch Del Bigtree call journalists to account at the MAHA press conference.

 
World Council for Health
Feb 17, 2025

Two days ago, a political polar shift took place. An hour after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Del Bigtree stood behind a MAHA lectern and roasted the mainstream media for failing to report the truth that vaccines cause harm.

His speech is worth watching. You can find it here from around the 16-minute mark.

Many of you will be familiar with Del. In 2022, the World Council for Health was fortunate to have Del as Master of Ceremonies at our first Better Way Conference. As producer and presenter of The High Wire, he’s been covering vaccine harms for many years, and been a resonant voice of reason throughout the so-called pandemic. Every week, viewers around the world – not just in America – tune in to his show to learn the facts about health and medical fraud. But like so many independent news media, The High Wire is dismissed by the ‘mainstream’ as a purveyor of conspiracy and misinformation.

If anyone is still labouring under the idea that truth-telling media such as The High Wire and others, are ‘alternative’ or ‘fringe’, and that the real journalists are the ones at well-funded agencies, they need to see this press conference. As Del put it:

“The world just changed today.”

Mainstream media aren’t mainstream anymore. It’s now truth tellers taking the podium and calling out the fourth estate for putting corporate interests before the truth.

In his speech, Del shone a bright light on the media, the NIH and their Big Pharma sponsors, exposing their dereliction of duty and countering the propaganda that ‘vaccines are safe’ with incontrovertible facts, not least the long, long lists of reported side effects as listed on vaccine packet inserts.

He made it clear to those in the room – and all those watching – that the media’s abject failure to fulfil its duty is no longer tenable. That, in gaslighting parents of injured children, in hiding the truth and peddling sponsored lies, the corporate media has been author of its own ruin.  (See link for article and press conference)

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**Comment**

Wisconsin should be proud of Senator Ron Johnson, who introduced Bigtree, for his honesty about vaccine damage, COVID shenanigans, and for his willingness to throw his support behind persecuted & censored doctors.

Bigtree calmly lays mainstream media out cold.

And it was beautiful!

Bravo! Keep it coming…..

Sadly, I don’t believe it will all be rectified.  Previously RFK stated that the COVID gene therapy shot is the ‘deadliest vaccine ever made,’ and even petitioned the FDA in 2021 to revoke its authorization for it, yet has done nothing to remove it from the market. 

He’s now stating we need more data, which is short-hand for ‘I’m compromised.’

Interestingly, Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy voted for Kennedy to lead the nation’s health agencies only after Kennedy assured him he would not dismantle the nation’s ‘vaccine’ safety systems or take down government ‘vaccine’ guidance. Cassidy said the evidence is clear. “The science is good. The science is credible. Vaccines save lives. They do not cause autism. There are multiple studies that show this.”

Except, the science is not settled.  The science is not good.  It’s been shown repeatedly ‘vaccines’ can cause autism. Claims that ‘vaccines’ save lives are all based upon flawed models.

Doctors get paid extra to ‘vaccinate’ their patients and drug companies pay the FDA & NIH to fast-track vaccines.

Time to call a spade a spade.

“Your Doctor, Your Insurance Company, Your Clinic, Your Hospital – We Can All Get Paid More if We Make You SICKER.” ~ Dr. Scott Jensen

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  • https://maha.io/  Creating a national director of practitioners that prioritize lifestyle adjustments over prescription drugs and providing a platform to house all leading health experts and influencers with articles and videos that empower you to take action to meet your health goals.

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Activism, vaccines