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Treating Bartonella: Medical Detective Pts 1-5

https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/bartonella-the-second-great-imitator

Bartonella: The Second “Great Imitator” Underlying Many Chronic Illnesses – Part 1 of 5

Richard Horowitz
Feb 05, 2025

Bartonella is the third “B” of the triad found in the vast majority of my chronically ill patients who suffer from chronic Lyme disease/PTLDS, along with Borrelia and Babesia.A gram-negative intracellular bacteria, it’s controversial and misunderstood and has been throwing a monkey wrench into my treatments for decades. I barely remember learning about it in medical school, except when they were teaching me about cat scratch fever in children that would cause small, localized rashes (papules) at the site of the scratch with swollen lymph nodes and fevers. It would be treated with a short course of antibiotics like azithromycin. These images show classical cat scratch disease before and after treatment when the lesions are starting to crust up.  (See link for article)

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https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/bartonella-establishing-the-diagnosis

Bartonella: Establishing the Diagnosis, and the Role of Multiple Bartonella Species and MSIDS Factors in Chronic Illness – Part 2 of 5

Richard Horowitz
Feb 12, 2025

As you learned last week in Bartonella Part 1, this is a very tricky bacteria, with symptoms overlapping many of those associated with chronic Lyme disease and other co-infections. Since there are so many species of Bartonella, the first step is to determine if Bartonella is actually in your body. As a Medical Detective, I know that there are certain clues to follow, but what exactly are they?

Clues to the Existence of Lyme and Bartonella in Chronic Illness

Let’s start at the beginning. You’ve been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease–you had a prior EM rash and/or filled out the questionnaire and scored above 63, implying a high likelihood of exposure. See the prior Medical Detective Substacks on using this HMQ questionnaire:

https://cangetbetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MSIDS-QUESTIONNAIRE-FINALR.pdf

(See link for article)

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https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/effective-treatments-for-bartonella

Effective Treatments for Bartonella Infections – Part 3 of 5

Richard Horowitz
Feb 19, 2025

Bartonella is an intracellular biofilm/persister bacteria, like Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterial agent of Lyme disease. For years, many doctors were using single drug therapies for Cat Scratch Disease (CSD), even in the chronic persistent phases of the infection (some may still). This was before we understood the complexity of how this bacteria persists.

Years ago, however, I did recognize that at least 2 intracellular antibiotics were more effective than one for difficult-to-treat intracellular infections. So for many years I treated Bartonella with doxycycline/rifampin or Zithromax/rifampin. Although they helped to knock down symptoms, Bartonella would invariably return after antibiotics were stopped. Persisters persist! (See link for article)

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https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/treating-bartonella-double-dose-dapsone

Treating Bartonella: Double Dose Dapsone Combination Therapy (DDDCT) – Part 4 of 5

Richard Horowitz
Feb 26, 2025
 
In Bartonella Parts 1, 2, and 3, you learned the basics of Bartonella testing, symptoms, and treatment options, with a detailed discussion of laboratory work needed before starting the protocol, and how/why the medication and support supplements are being used to increase the tolerability and safety of DDDCT and HDDCT. Please review this information with your doctor before proceeding with the antibiotic protocol listed below.  (See link for article)
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https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/treating-bartonella-2-week-pulses

Treating Bartonella: 2-Week Pulses of Antibiotics for Chronic Bartonellosis – Part 5 of 5

Richard Horowitz
Mar 05, 2025
 
Bravo! You’ve made it to Part 5, the final Medical Detective Substack on diagnosing and treating chronic Bartonella infections. As you read in the previous 4 Substacks, Bartonella is often found in my chronic Lyme patients, at least 80% of the time, right behind active Babesia infections–watch for unexplained fevers, day/night sweats, chills, flushing, “air hunger,” and an unexplained cough if you have ongoing Babesia. (See link for article)
 
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Bartonella, research, Treatment

How to Ban COVID Shots in Your State

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/gene-based-vaccine-ban-situation?

SITUATION UPDATE – Efforts to Ban COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Gain Momentum

And how to ban mRNA injections in your state.

Mar 05, 2025

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Since the beginning of 2025, legislative efforts to ban gene-based vaccines have intensified. There are now a total of 9 U.S. states with initiatives to remove COVID-19 mRNA injections from the market:

The McCullough Foundation is actively providing lawmakers across various states with abundant evidence for the immediate market withdrawal of these gene-based products. (See link for most recent developments)

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Important Excerpt:

How to Ban mRNA Injections in Your State

In light of the extreme population harm inflicted by COVID-19 mRNA injections, these efforts will not stop despite immense interference efforts. If you want to join the fight and help ban mRNA injections, please share the following 51-page bill template with your local, state, and federal lawmakers so they are equipped with the necessary information required to ban gene-based injections:  https://zenodo.org/records/14873302

Also share the following study that provides irrefutable evidence supporting the immediate market withdrawal of COVID-19 mRNA injections:  https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/review-of-calls-for-market-removal-of-covid-19-vaccines-intensify-risks-far-outweigh-theoretical-benefits/

If you don’t have time to create a letter for your State Reps to end the mRNA shots, consider editing mine:  Letter to State and Federal Reps  In the letter I also ask them to pass legislation giving consumers utility meter choice.

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GBNews
Bev Turner, Neil Oliver and Edward Dowd expose the shocking reality of COVID, the ‘vaccine’ rollout, and the long-term agenda

For years, we were told to “trust the science,” follow the rules, and never question the official narrative, but now the truth is emerging. Lockdowns devastated lives while politicians and corporations profited, ‘vaccine’ mandates cost people their jobs and health, and governments used the crisis to push digital IDs and surveillance. Excess deaths remain unexplained, censorship silenced dissent, and those who dared to question were punished.

Meanwhile, global elites and the media which are in their back pocket are already preparing for the next crisis—will we fall for it again? Was the pandemic response about public health or control?

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Texas Dept of Health Whistleblower: Child Died of Multiple Respiratory Illnesses Not Measles

UPDATE:

According to reports from both parents and doctors, it now appears this poor child who was struggling to breathe was refused breathing treatments for RSV…..

Another person who tested positive for measles died, but no additional details including comorbidities will be released. They go out of their way; however, to tell you they were unvaccinated.  Have we learned nothing?  The lack of transparency and dishonesty must end.  The health department is counting this as a ‘measles related death,’ in spite of all of these factors.

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/dr-henry-ealy-says-texas-dept-of?

Dr. Henry Ealy Says Texas Dept. Of Health Services Source Told Him Child Was Not Admitted For Measles And Family Has Confirmed “…The Child Did Not Die From Measles.”

The Mennonite Child Was Not Vaccinated, And Was Admitted For Multiple Life Threatening Conditions. Tested Positive On PCR, Which Is Never Diagnostic Of Infection

Celia Farber
Mar 05, 2025
Article Excerpt:

Here is the untold story: A child died, of multiple co-existing respiratory illnesses, in Texas, and  somehow it became international news.

That tunnel system right there—hospitals to mass media—is the one to look at. How on earth, and why on earth, did this child’s death get sent out to the media, while no child who dies of a vaccine reaction ever gets reported? The answer is obvious.

Hospitals are part of the propaganda arm of Big Pharma and public health apparatus. (See link for article and an important history lesson regarding how a HIV ‘positive’ patient was used for a similar nefarious reason.)

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**Comment**

Dr. Henry Ealy gives another history lesson from California in 2014 at Disneyland when a similar measles hysteria was created to set the stage for Senate bills creating ‘vaccine’ mandates.  It forced a mass exodus from California.  He then states that a Texas whistleblower contacted him with additional information on the untimely death of a child that is being used by the media to drum up fear.

  1. The child was admitted to the hospital with RSV, pneumonia, and measles.
  2. Measles was confirmed via PCR but the cycle threshold used was not released. This exact ploy was used during COVID and it was proven that high thresholds find anything and everything and therefore isn’t to be trusted.
  3. The child was unvaccinated.
  4. Ealy was hung up on by a DHS agent for simply asking questions, and he is calling for radical transparency and that all medical conditions are listed in cases like this.
  5. How this case is being handled will result in children being mandated to get MMR shots to enter school and Senate bills putting politicians in charge of medical decisions rather than parents.
  6. The Texas Health Dept. is doing the same thing the CDC does to drive up numbers: fraudulently grouping together those who are of unknown vaccine status with those who are unvaccinated.
  7. Measles outbreaks occur every year across the U.S. despite 90.8% MMR vaccine uptake.
  8. ICAN’s attorneys obtained documents related to the widely reported May 2023 “outbreak” of measles in Maine. As it turns out, test results from the CDC confirmed that the measles case was “consistent with vaccine strain,” meaning there was no “outbreak” and, instead, it was the    vaccine that caused the child’s rash.
  9. Just like COVID, there are effective treatments for measles: cod liver oil, vitamin D, budesonide, and clarithromycin that are censored and banned.
Don’t fall for it!

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

New Paper Identifies Chronic Disease ‘Smoking Gun’

https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/new-paper-identifies-smoking-gun?

NEW Paper Identifies ‘Smoking Gun’ of Chronic Disease

… and most of us are in the crosshairs. The US Navy knew about it way back in 1971, yet nothing was done to stop it.

World Council for Health
Mar 04, 2025

In 1971, the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute published a groundbreaking review of 2,311 scientific studies on the biological and health effects of electromagnetic fields. The findings were stark: 132 distinct biological effects, symptoms, and diseases were linked to wireless radiation exposure. The Navy’s report was a warning—a prophetic one, as it turns out. But like so many warnings about environmental and public health risks, it was ignored.

Today, we’re living in the shadow of that neglect. A new paper reveals the devastating consequences of that inaction. Announced at the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the paper connects the dots between unheeded warnings from 50 years ago and the current epidemic of chronic disease in the United States.

The implications are staggering.

Of the 36 fastest-growing chronic diseases in the U.S., 23 were predicted by the Navy’s 1971 study. By 2015, these diseases accounted for over 549 million cases and added as much as $2 trillion in annual healthcare costs to the U.S. economy. The paper argues that this explosion in chronic illness is not a coincidence—it’s a direct result of unchecked exposure to wireless radiation.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Ever notice how ‘technology’ gets rolled out without ethical considerations or proper safety testing?  There’s a reason….

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It’s important to note that 5G and the digitization it provides is needed for The Great Reset, the ‘powers that be’ are thrusting upon us.  They know very well the technology has deleterious effects upon all biological life forms but it’s all for ‘the greater good,’ which simply means what’s best for “Stakeholder Capitalism,” which has been described as ‘tyranny for the good of its victims.’ Touted as being inclusive, there are three firms in particular: “BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard—that together are the largest shareholder in about 80% of the companies in the S&P 500 and have accumulated unprecedented control (commonly known as a monopoly) over U.S. corporations forcing their own ‘environmental, social, and governance’ (ESG) agenda upon the American corporate sector and by extension, on all of us.  It’s only good for those in power – not the average Joe.

This very data collection will be used against us for vast surveillance, control, and tyranny.  COVID gave us a glimpse of this, but it will be far far worse and every ‘pandemic’ will be used for this ultimate outcome which will include centralized medicine.  See: “The Big Picture: Life Inside the Control Grid,” to understand more.

Included in this quagmire is AWZ Venture Capital, an investment fund that invests in transformational nanotechnology that is next generation AI powered, and whose board of Directors is the who’s who of Israeli, US and UK Intelligence.  This ‘transformational nanotechnology’ includes smart dust, self assembly nanotechnology, mesogen microchips, Quantum Dot biosensors – all of which are DUAL PURPOSE militarized applications for bioelectronic surveillance, remote control and torture and can be used not just for bidirectional telemetry but also remote extermination – all AI controlled.  

Sound crazy?  We’re about to find out.

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Activism, research

The Lymeland Emperor Has No Clothes On

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33299384?

The emperor has no clothes!

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Mar 3, 2025

Please see the following inquiry that will most likely go unanswered. Note that Dr. John Aucott is a coauthor of this study who often says he believes in chronic Lyme disease but only at Lyme disease events held by advocacy groups. 

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “aghirsch@geisinger.edu” <aghirsch@geisinger.edu>
Cc: “aejustice1@geisinger.edu” <aejustice1@geisinger.edu>, “cmnordberg@geisinger.edu” <cmnordberg@geisinger.edu>, “nsjosyula@geisinger.edu” <nsjosyula@geisinger.edu>, “jaucott@jhmi.edu” <jaucott@jhmi.edu>, “alison.rebman@gmail.com” <alison.rebman@gmail.com>, “bschwar1@jhu.edu” <bschwar1@jhu.edu>, “bmcinfectiousdiseases@biomedcentral.com” <bmcinfectiousdiseases@biomedcentral.com>, “irina.masalagiu@springernature.com” <irina.masalagiu@springernature.com>, “rauf.bhat@springernature.com” <rauf.bhat@springernature.com>
Date: 03/01/2025 12:04 PM EST

Subject: A comparison of genome-wide association analyses of persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome

A comparison of genome-wide association analyses of persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-024-10238-x

Annemarie G. Hirsch, Anne E. Justice, Amy Poissant, Cara M. Nordberg, Navya S. Josyula, John Aucott, Alison W. Rebman & Brian S. Schwartz

To: Annemarie G. Hirsch, Corresponding Author

I read your manuscript with great interest and wanted to share a comment on your article I received from a fellow researcher who has experienced first-hand the devastation of Lyme disease. I added HTML links (references) to his statement and included my own comment. Additionally, I have a question for you and your co-authors.

Comment received:

“With respect may I say as Lyme and PTLD victim, Borrelia has the following characteristics:

Or, maybe it’s as the authors claim that PTLD is associated with:

“Our top index single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs77857587, is in high linkage disequilibrium with a long-range protein quantitative locus SNP, rs111774530, for the MARC2 (Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 2) protein.”

Carl Tuttle’s comment:

If I’m interpreting his comment correctly, it would appear that we have been dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug and essentially, “the emperor has no clothes.”

Question:

What academic discipline would you encounter if your department acknowledged chronic Lyme disease and began focusing on finding effective antimicrobial treatments for all borrelia forms; round body, biofilm etc.?

A response to this inquiry is requested.

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH

Cc: Rauf Bhat, Senior Editor

Stefan Baral, Senior Editorial Board Member

Letter to the Editor of the BMJ published June 2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

(It should be noted that the corresponding author refused to reply after repeated requests by BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee)

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Activism, Lyme, research