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More of the Same Focus on Worthless Serology Testing For Borrelia Research

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/26304991?

More of the same focus on Serology!

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Identification of immunoreactive linear epitopes of Borrelia miyamotoi
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X1930353X

Rafal Tokarz, Teresa Tagliafierro, Adrian Caciula, Nischay Mishra,b, Riddhi Thakkar, Lokendra V. Chauhan, Stephen Sameroff, Shannon Delaney, Gary P. Wormser, Adriana Marques, W. Ian Lipkin,

A B S T R A C T

Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging tick-borne spirochete transmitted by ixodid ticks. Current serologic assays for B. miyamotoi are impacted by genetic similarities to other Borrelia and limited understanding of optimal antigenic targets. In this study, we employed the TBD-Serochip, a peptide array platform, to identify new linear targets for serologic detection of B. miyamotoi.

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Today’s letter to the corresponding author……

April 9, 2020

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th St.
NY, NY 10032
Attn: Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Dear Prof Tokarz,

In reference to the detection of tick-borne disease, please take a moment if you will to review the following list of publications using direct detection methods for identifying ongoing spirochetal infection. I will summarize the purpose of this correspondence at the end of this list:

1. Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis.  (Stony Brook Lyme clinic)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837

“We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.”

2. Cardiac Tropism of Borrelia burgdorferi: An Autopsy Study of Sudden Cardiac Death Associated with Lyme Carditis.(March 2016)
http://ajp.amjpathol.org/article/S0002-9440(16)00099-7/abstrac

“Fatal Lyme carditis caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi rarely is identified. Here, we describe the pathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular findings of five case patients.”

3. CDC Case Study #2: A case report of a 17-year old male with fatal Lyme carditis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054880715000253

Borrelia burgdorferi was identified via special stains, immunohistochemistry, and polymerase chain reaction. The findings support B. burgdorferi as the causative agent for his fulminant carditis and that the patient suffered fatal Lyme carditis.

4. Granulomatous hepatitis associated with chronic Borrelia burgdorferi infection: a case report
http://www.labome.org/research/Granulomatous-hepatitis-associated-with-chronic-Borrelia-burgdorferi-infection-a-case-report.html

The patient had active, systemic Borrelia burgdorferi infection and consequent Lyme hepatitis, despite antibiotic therapy. Spirochetes were identified as Borrelia burgdorferi by molecular testing with specific DNA probes.

5. Culture evidence of Lyme disease in antibiotic treated patients living in the Southeast.
http://danielcameronmd.com/culture-evidence-of-lyme-disease-in-antibiotic-treated-patients-living-in-the-southeast/

Rudenko and colleagues reported culture confirmation of chronic Lyme disease in 24 patients in North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. All had undergone previous antibiotic treatment

6. DNA sequencing diagnosis of off-season spirochetemia with low bacterial density in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi infections.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24968274

Faulty/misleading antibody tests landed a sixteen year old male in a psychiatric ward when his lab results did not meet the CDC’s strict criteria for positive results. His Western blot had only four of the required five IgG bands. Subsequent DNA sequencing identified a spirochetemia in this patient’s blood so his psychiatric issues were a result of neurologic Lyme disease misdiagnosed by antiquated/misleading serology. This patient was previously treated with antibiotics.

7. The Long-Term Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferiAntigens and DNA in the Tissues of a Patient with Lyme Disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963883/

Autopsy tissue sections of the brain, heart, kidney, and liver were analyzed by histological and immunohistochemical methods (IHC), confocal microscopy, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and whole-genome sequencing (WGS)/metagenomics. We found significant pathological changes, including borrelial spirochetal clusters, in all of the organs using IHC combined with confocal microscopy.

8. Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease
http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33

“This pilot study recently identified chronic Lyme disease in twelve patients from Canada. All of these patients were culture positive for infection (genital secretions, skin and blood) even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.”

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Note: For the sake of time this is just a short list of the hundreds of publications identifying persistent Borrelia infection.

What is the purpose of this email?

Direct detection methods, specifically DNA testing has the ability to identify persistent infection whereas serology cannot be used to gauge treatment failure or success. Not to mention that humans do not produce antibodies against Borrelia for 4-6 weeks after a tick bite. By the time serology tests are positive, the spirochetes have already invaded various deep tissues, like those in syphilis, and are hard to eradicate with antibiotics.

Serology has allowed the 30-year dogma to persevere [1]whereas direct detection methods are exposing the exact opposite.

We are dealing with a life-altering/life-threatening infection with faulty/misleading antibody tests, inadequate treatment, no medical training and absolutely no disease control whatsoever; a public health disaster.

It is time to utilize 21st century technology for the purpose of rapid detection and efficacy of treatment.

If DNA testing is accepted for the 21st century pandemic (COVID-19) [2] ; why not for the 20th century plague (Lyme disease) that has been allowed to proliferate unchecked?

Respectfully Submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

Cc: The tick-Borne Disease Working Group

References

1. Lyme Disease Is Hard to Catch And Easy to Halt, Study Finds
New York Times By GINA KOLATA Published: June 13, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/us/lyme-disease-is-hard-to-catch-and-easy-to-halt-study-finds.html

2. The Science Behind the Test for the COVID-19 Virus

https://discoverysedge.mayo.edu/2020/03/27/the-science-behind-the-test-for-the-covid-19-virus/

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https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/26339210?

Email to the attention of Dr. Paul Mead, Chief of the CDC Bacterial Diseases Branch

Today’s letter to Paul Mead of the CDC regarding the continued use of serology mentioned in the latest study on Borrelia miyamotoi at the top of the page.

Apr 13, 2020

Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3156 Rampart Rd
Fort Collins, Colorado CO 80521
Attn: Paul Mead, MD, MPH Acting Branch Chief

pfm0@cdc.gov

Dear Dr. Mead,

In October of 2018 you coauthored the following paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases and made the following statement regarding serologic testing for Lyme disease:

Direct Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciy614, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy614

Published: 11 October 2018

Excerpt:  (Quote from Paul Mead)

“… serologic tests cannot distinguish active infection, past infection, or reinfection. Reliable direct-detection methods for active B. burgdorferi infection have been lacking in the past but are needed and appear achievable.”

Dr. Mead…. So why is the National Institutes of Health funding Dr. Gary Wormser’s study for the serologic detection of B. miyamotoi?

Obviously Dr. Wormser didn’t get your memo or you are just providing lip service to give the illusion that our public health officials have everything under control.

What is the status of Direct Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease Dr. Mead? Persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment has been identified through the use of direct detection methods in academic centers and autopsy findings [1]yet the average patient cannot obtain these tests to justify how sick they are with their chronic active infection.

Please provide a list of grants issued by the CDC or National Institutes of Health for studies actively involved in developing Direct Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease.

I expect a prompt reply to this inquiry.

Respectfully submitted,

Carl Tuttle

Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

Reference:

[1] More of the same focus on Serology!

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/26304991

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For more on the concerted suppression of direct testing for borrelia:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/13/suppression-of-microscopy-for-lyme-diagnostics-professor-laane/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/03/cdc-deliberately-avoids-direct-detection-testing-methods-for-ld/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/13/direct-test-for-ld-carl-tuttle-chews-up-cdc-spits-them-out/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/16/2-tier-lyme-testing-missed-85-7-of-patients-milford-hospital/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/01/study-cdcs-2-tier-lyme-testing-inaccurate-in-more-than-70-of-cases/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/15/milford-pathologist-fires-broadside-at-cdc-motion-to-discuss/

BTW: The CDC is directly behind the COVID-19 testing fiasco.  This article points out that insisting upon their own tests is the MO of the CDC – even when human lives are at stake:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/cdcs-deadly-testing-fiasco-centralization-of-public-health-authority-a-threat-to-national-security/ The reason for this is so they control all the parameters for further products that will make them money – everything from test kits to drugs to vaccines.

The CDC has controlled Lyme testing for decades and it rules like the iron curtain even though research clearly shows it is abysmal and misses at least half of all cases – and often times much more.

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Activism, Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Lyme, research, Testing, Uncategorized

ACT NOW: Ask Your Mayor & Governor To Reopen Your Town, City, And State

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/action/act-now-ask-your-mayor-and-your-governor-to-reopen-your-town-city-and-state/

ACT NOW: Ask your mayor and your governor to reopen your town, city and state!

OUR STAND

  • Governors and mayors across the country have taken unprecedented action by restricting the movement of healthy individuals, closing places of worship and public spaces, and interfering with business by ordering them to close their doors.
  • There is a growing realization that government-imposed orders intended to contain the spread of the coronavirus are creating widespread devastation.
  • One in four Americans has lost either part or all of their income since the end of March, and the GDP has fallen by 24 percent.
  • US data shows that the case fatality rate might be as low as 0.1% — in other words, akin to the mortality rate of a severe seasonal flu. Ninety percent of those who are severely affected have an underlying health condition.
  • Cases in which COVID-19 are merely suspected to be a cause of death are being recorded as official COVID-19 deaths.
  • Americans are wondering how long they will be required to comply with orders that force healthy individuals to indefinitely stay at home and businesses deemed as “non-essential” to stay closed.
  • Individuals are capable of taking precautions to avoid COVID-19. Those who are vulnerable or who have COVID-19 should stay home, but healthy individuals need to return to work so that our jobs, our economy and our well-being are not destroyed.
  • It’s time to stand and request commonsense policies that protect the vulnerable while restoring individuals’ livelihoods and mitigating the repercussions of an indefinite shutdown. Email your governor and mayor NOW to urge them to lift the stay-at-home orders for healthy individuals.

Your home address information is required from the legislative offices to ensure you are reaching out to your designated representatives. Your email and your phone number are used to establish connection with your designated representatives. Messages from non-constituents don’t have the same impact on a legislator as messages from verified constituents, who can vote for that officeholder. We do not share your name and contact information with any third parties unless legally required to do so.

CALL TO ACTION:

Since COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency on January 31, the American way of life has been completely upended. Schools and businesses are shut down, and nearly all of the US population — approximately 97 percent — has been ordered to stay at home by their state and local governments. The fallout has been significant: the trauma of loved ones dying all alone, living in constant fear of COVID-19, and losing numerous fundamental freedoms — from the ability to assemble and worship, to their ability to earn a livelihood.

With so many lives being profoundly affected in such a short time, people are now wondering whether the emergency measures being imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus are more harmful than the virus itself. Over the past few weeks, we have heard positive news reports that the virus is not nearly as lethal as originally projected. At the same time, we have witnessed a staggering rise in unemployment, with more than 16 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits between March 15 and April 4. Many small businesses have been forced to shut down. Entire business sectors are in distress. And the International Monetary Fund is now projecting that our country is headed for the worst economic recession it has experienced since the Great Depression. 

Citizens Are Struggling To Survive Under Lockdown

Stand for Health Freedom recently conducted a survey of our readers to gauge how they are being affected by the pandemic. Nearly 6,000 individuals responded with heart-breaking stories of their struggles to survive financially, physically and emotionally. Some of the reports we received are dire:

  • individuals being denied life-saving medical treatments to preserve supplies for COVID-positive patients
  • mothers being separated from their newborn babies
  • pregnant women being bullied into having C-sections to avoid hospital crowding
  • widespread despair, depression and devastation from job losses, isolation and a lack of support systems

These reports, along with knowledge about the devastating effects of joblessness — including stress-induced heart attacks and suicide — give rise to a growing realization that government-sanctioned orders intended to contain the spread of the coronavirus are creating widespread devastation. One in four Americans has either lost part or all of their income since the end of March, and the GDP has fallen by 24 percent. A children’s shelter in Indianapolis reported a 472% increase in demand for its services in a period of weeks. A restaurant owner in Washington state spent more than eight years growing his establishment into an icon in his city — only to see his assets, retirement plan and livelihood shattered when he had to suddenly (and perhaps permanently) close his doors. Industries nationwide are seeking trillions in government aid. We are only weeks into this national emergency; the economic fallout under a continued lockdown will be far more profound.

US Deaths Dramatically Lower Than Expected

On March 14, the Imperial College model — the model used as the basis for the drastic measures that were taken across the country — estimated that over 2 million Americans would die if the entire nation was not locked down. The estimations also cited the need for social distancing measures for as long as 18 months “until a vaccine is available.” The lead author, Neil Ferguson, later unapologetically retracted that estimate, even though it had already adversely affected hundreds of millions of lives. Ferguson also acknowledged that two-thirds of people whom the Imperial College projected would die from COVID-19 would have died with or without the infection due to chronic disease and related co-morbidities. 

Likewise, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an advisor to President Trump, also used the Imperial College estimates to spur President Trump’s call for social distancing and widespread stay-at-home orders. A few weeks later, however, an editorial by Fauci in the New England Journal of Medicine“Covid-19 – Navigating the Uncharted,” suggested the case fatality rate might be as low as 0.1% — in other words, akin to the mortality rate of a severe seasonal flu.

Moreover, an April 10 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that nearly 90% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 have an underlying condition. This is in line with the Italian government’s top health agency finding that 99% of COVID-related fatalities within their population were from individuals with pre-existing, life-threatening conditions.

Decisions Affecting Millions Are Being Made Based On “Suspected” COVID Deaths

Both the US health statistics agency and the World Health Organization have announced that the certification of “deaths by COVID-19” require zero proof that the virus actually caused the death. This means that the official death statistics for COVID-19 do not require cases to be positively confirmed through virus testing. Cases in which COVID-19 are merely suspected to be a cause of death are being recorded as official COVID-19 deaths. Public officials cannot make properly informed decisions based on inaccurate information, so we must urge them to reconsider drastic emergency measures they imposed based on faulty data.

It’s Time to Stand – Urge Your Lawmakers to Re-open Your City and State

Americans are wondering how long they will be required to comply with orders that force healthy individuals to indefinitely stay at home and businesses deemed as “non-essential” to stay closed. We recognize that state governments have very broad police powers in times of emergency. However, the state must use those powers wisely. Arbitrary and oppressive government action is unconstitutional, even during a declared national emergency. This means that state and local lawmakers have a duty to take the least restrictive measures in response to issues that stem from an emergency.

There have been indications this week that states may plan to reopen soon. We must, however, let our governors and mayors know that it is not their job to guarantee health or to privilege certain lives over others. Individuals are capable of taking precautions to avoid COVID-19. Those who are vulnerable or who have COVID-19 should stay home, but healthy individuals need to return to work so that our jobs, our economy and our well-being are not destroyed.

It’s time to stand and request commonsense policies to protect the vulnerable while restoring livelihoods and mitigating the repercussions of an indefinite shutdown. Email your governor and mayor NOW to urge them to lift all stay-at-home orders no later than May 1. Then share this with your family, friends and those in your community so they can have the opportunity to stand.

*If you live in Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah or Wyoming, your governor will not receive a letter because we found no indication of an order for healthy individuals to stay at home or for businesses to close.

**If you live in one of the top 250 cities in America by population, your mayor will receive a letter so long as your city is not one of the seven for which we found no indication of an order for healthy individuals to stay at home or for businesses to close.

 

SEND YOUR LETTER NOW

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Activism, Viruses

Wisconsin Extends Stay At Home Order Through May 26

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/493177-wisconsin-extends-stay-at-home-through-may-26-closes

Wisconsin extends stay-at-home order through May 26, closes schools for rest of academic year

BY JUSTINE COLEMAN – 04/16/20 

 

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Activism, Viruses

Tobacco Company Enters Race to Develop COVID-19 Vaccine

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/14/tobacco-company-making-covid-19-vaccine.

Tobacco Company Is Making COVID-19 Vaccine

Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked

April 14, 2020

covid 19 vaccine

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • British American Tobacco (BAT) has joined the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, with plans to potentially manufacture 1 million to 3 million doses of vaccine per week
  • The proprietary technology involves temporarily encoding tobacco plants with genetic instructions to produce specific target proteins
  • To create the experimental vaccine, the company cloned a portion of COVID-19’s genetic sequence to develop an antigen, which is a substance that induces an immune response in the body, particularly the production of antibodies
  • BAT stated that if testing goes well, they could potentially begin manufacturing the experimental vaccine in June 2020
  • When vaccines are fast-tracked to market, safety and efficacy tests are often bypassed and serious adverse effects can occur(See link for article)

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For more: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/29/dr-fauci-pushes-for-covid-19-vaccine-despite-research-showing-vaccinated-may-get-sicker-and-even-die-lab-animals-got-sicker-too/Please watch the short video in the link.  Researchers are quite worried about respiratory vaccines due to past work which shows “paradoxical immune enhancement.” Children receiving the vaccine worsened and there were also deaths. It’s been fast-tracked thereby passing important safety studies in animals. 

Further, a Mouse study:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209347/A Double-Inactivated Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Vaccine Provides Incomplete Protection in Mice and Induces Increased Eosinophilic Proinflammatory Pulmonary Response upon Challenge.

Lastly, many of the COVID-19 vaccines utilize aborted fetal cell lines (PER C6 Ad5 technology), which is concerning ethically for some as well as the fact the FDA is concerned about safety:

 “Residual DNA in vaccines derived from tumorigenic cells, including those transformed by Ad5, can pose potential risks to the vaccine recipient in two respects: oncogenicity and infectivity. Each of these biological properties must be considered and evaluated for each cell substrate.”  https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/covid19-vaccine-makers-using-aborted-fetal-cells/ and http://Moderna mRNA-1273 Covid-19 Vaccine Uses Aborted Fetal Cells – Sanofi Pasteur’s Version Does Not

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Activism, vaccines

Israeli Study Reveals COVID19 Lockdown Was Pointless

https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2020/04/15/israeli-professor-shows-virus-follows-fixed-pattern-

Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern

Marina Medvin
Posted: Apr 15, 2020

Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern

Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University, who also serves on the research and development advisory board for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, plotted the rates of new coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain.

The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Remember this?:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/13/seven-silver-linings-of-the-pandemic-the-grand-farce-of-social-distancing/

Best quote:

“They want a federal lockdown because God forbid we look back on this situation in a year and say, “Hmmm. Apparently, looking at the data from Arkansas, locking down the whole planet was utterly unnecessary.” Do you know how unhinged Americans are going to become when they realize their jobs and small businesses were destroyed for no reason?” 

I just learned the WHO is demanding Sweden locks down:  https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/why-is-who-demanding-sweden-lockdown-because-they-show-the-lockdown-makes-no-difference/?

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/09/epidemiologist-coronavirus-could-be-exterminated-if-lockdowns-lifted/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/15/covid-19-testing-in-chicago-30-50-already-have-antibodies-milwaukee-man-given-plasma-transfusion-from-recovered-patient/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/15/dr-rand-paul-had-zero-symptoms-with-covid-19/

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Activism, Viruses