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The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for a Generation Betrayed

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2018/10/the-hpv-vaccine-on-trial-seeking-justice-for-a-generation-betrayed/

The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for a Generation Betrayed

by Mary Holland, Kim Mack Rosenberg and Eileen Iorio

Published October 18, 2018

Following is an excerpt from a well referenced book on HPV vaccine reprinted in TVR with the permission of the book’s co-authors. Learn more about this recently published book here and here.

Cancer strikes fear in people around the globe. So a vaccine to prevent cancer – as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is touted to do – seemed like a game-changer. Since 2006 when the US approved the first HPV vaccine, over 125 countries have introduced it to prevent cervical and other HPV-related cancers. The three HPV vaccines bring in over $2.5 billion in annual sales for Merck (Gardasil, Gardasil 9) and GlaxoSmithKline (Cervarix). They have been a pharmaceutical juggernaut, yet scandal has followed worldwide. The HPV vaccine is on trial – literally and figuratively – around the world in courts of law and public opinion.

No one disputes that cancer is a ravaging disease that leads to death, if uncontrolled. But the fact that cancer is a grave disease does not necessarily mean that a vaccine purporting to prevent it is safe and effective for everyone. The US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Medicines Agency, the World Health Organization, and many other public health agencies have embraced the HPV vaccine as a safe and effective way to prevent HPV-related cancers. Here are a few representative statements:

FDA: Based on the review of available information by FDA and CDC, Gardasil continues to be safe and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its risks.

CDC: The HPV vaccine is very safe, and it is effective at preventing HPV. Vaccines, like any medicine, can have side effects. Many people who get the HPV vaccine have no side effects at all. Some people report having very mild side effects, like a sore arm from the shot. The most common side effects are usually mild.

WHO: The WHO’s Vaccine Safety Committee considers HPV vaccines to be extremely safe.

EMA: The benefits of HPV vaccines continue to outweigh the known side effects.

These official statements contrast starkly with the reports of devastating injuries and death that we recount in this book. You’ll get to know these and other children and young adults.

Christina Tarsell, 21 years old.
Chris was an undergrad at Bard College, New York. A talented athlete, artist, and honor student, she received three Gardasil doses when she was twenty-one. Shortly after the third dose, she died in her sleep. After eight years of hard-fought litigation in the only judicial forum available, Chris’s mom “won” – the Court of Federal Claims finally acknowledged that Gardasil more likely than not caused the heart attack that led to Chris’s untimely death. You can see Chris, and a memorial to her, in the photo insert.

Alexis Wolf, 13 years old.
In 2007, when Alexis was in 7^th grade, she began the Gardasil series. After the second dose, her health deteriorated. After the third, she could no longer focus, sleep, eat, or behave normally. She started to have many seizures every day. She was put in psychiatric hospitals. A year and a half after her symptoms began, Alexis tested at a 4^th grade level. Today, at 25, Alexis still suffers from severe neurological injury, including daily seizures. You can see pictures of Alexis both before and after receiving the vaccine in the photo insert.

Joel Gomez, 14 years old.

Joel was an athletic, healthy teenager when he got two Gardasil doses in 2013. Without warning, Joel died in his sleep after the second dose. Joel’s family sued for compensation in the Court of Federal Claims. The family’s expert witness, Dr. Sin Hang Lee, testified that Gardasil likely caused his heart attack. The Department of Justice settled the case, awarding the family almost the full statutory death benefit.

Abbey Colohan, 12 years old.
In a small town in western Ireland, Abbey received the first dose of Gardasil at school. Abbey fainted immediately and then had seizures for more than an hour. Two days later, she passed out again. Abbey started to have chronic pain, fatigue, and frequent fainting spells. Abbey’s teen years have been consumed with illness and hardship. Ireland’s health service denies that Abbey had an adverse vaccine reaction at school.

Colton Berrett, 13 years old.
Colton was an athletic, kind, helpful teenage boy. He loved all outdoor sports. Colton started the three-dose Gardasil series when he was thirteen. Shortly after the third dose, he became paralyzed from the neck down and had to use a ventilator. Through intensive physical therapy, Colton eventually recovered some mobility but remained on a round-the-clock ventilator. He committed suicide two months before his eighteenth birthday. In the photo insert you can see pictures of Colton that convey far more than words ever can.

Lucy Hinks, 13 years old.
Lucy was a healthy English teenager when she began the Cervarix series in her school. Shortly after the third shot, Lucy’s health plummeted. She could barely walk, slept 23 hours a day, and could not think straight. She could not attend school and had to be spoon-fed. Her parents described her as being in a “walking coma.” Through many therapies and treatments, Lucy has substantially recovered but still suffers from chronic fatigue.

Maddie Moorman, 15 years old.
Maddie began the Gardasil series at the gynecologist’s recommendation. After the second shot, Maddie became bedridden and ill. She had debilitating headaches every day and could no longer remember things. Her mom declined the third shot for her. Through conventional and holistic treatment, Maddie’s health began to recover slowly, and she was able to complete high school and go to college. But some of Maddie’s symptoms never abated, including a constant buzzing in her head and the inability to think the way she could before. She took her own life at twenty-one.

We show that the HPV vaccine clinical trials paved the way for such tragic results. Here are some of the little-known facts we’ll explore:

HPV vaccines have never been proven to prevent cervical or any other cancer. Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturers, did not have to prove that the vaccines prevent cancer. They were allowed to use precancerous lesions as “surrogate endpoints” in the clinical trials. Scientists do not know if the decline in cases of precancerous lesions will translate into fewer cases of cervical cancer in 20-30 years.

Even if they were 100% effective, which they are not, HPV vaccines do not prevent all cases of cervical cancer. The vaccines do not prevent infections from all HPV types associated with cancer, and not all cervical cancer is associated with HPV. HPV vaccines are not a replacement for cervical screening, yet evidence strongly suggests that young women are skipping screening in the mistaken belief that they no longer need it. HPV vaccine marketing hype appears to have contributed to a sharp drop off in cervical screening among young women.

None of the participants in the clinical trials received a true saline placebo. None of the clinical trials included a straightforward comparison of the effects of the vaccine against a true control. We use the term “fauxcebo” to describe the aluminum-containing adjuvants, other vaccines, and chemical mixtures that control subjects received instead of true saline placebos. These fauxcebos masked the adverse effects of the vaccines, making them appear safer than they would have if compared to true placebos.

Merck told young female clinical trial subjects that the vaccine had already been proven safe and that the placebo was saline. Both claims were false. A key purpose of the clinical trials was to establish safety, and the placebo was not saline. Clinical trial subjects suffered because of these lies.

The manufacturers never tested HPV vaccines on human fertility. Although this vaccine is given to adolescents throughout the world, the manufacturers acknowledge in their package inserts that they never tested the vaccine for fertility effects in humans – only rats. We look at the substantial evidence of severe adverse effects on fertility, including miscarriage and premature ovarian failure in girls and young women.

Evidence shows that certain ingredients in HPV vaccines, including sodium borate (also known as borax, a cleaning agent), may have negative effects on fertility. The European Chemicals Agency requires sodium borate to carry the following warning: “DANGER! May damage fertility or the unborn child.” In the US, borax is banned in food but allowed in vaccines.

The manufacturers never tested HPV vaccines to discover if they might cause cancer. The package inserts acknowledge that the vaccines have never been tested for “carcinogenicity.” But clinical trial data suggest that if women have HPV infections when they get the vaccines (and prescreening is not recommended), then they may be at higher risk for precancerous cervical lesions or worse. Some clinical trial participants later developed cancer, including cervical cancer.

The Gardasil clinical trials used a new metric, “New Medical Conditions,” as a way to claim that serious health problems after vaccination were unrelated to the vaccine or aluminum-containing fauxcebo. More than 50% of all clinical trial participants reported “new medical conditions,” including infections, reproductive disorders, neurological syndromes, and autoimmune conditions. The FDA did not question this novel metric or whether the vaccine itself might be contributing to these conditions.

Although 11-12 year olds are the target population for this vaccine (and it is approved for children as young as 9), the vast majority of clinical trial subjects were considerably older. Only a small percentage of participants were twelve or younger, and their age cohort lacked a true saline control placebo, as did the older age groups. Preteens, on the cusp of puberty, have significant biological differences from young adults, the primary age group in the clinical trials. Thus the target population was insufficiently studied before the vaccine received approval.

Doctors and scientists have published peer-reviewed articles on the adverse effects that many young women reported after HPV vaccination. Here is a non-exhaustive list:

Headache
Orthostatic intolerance
Syncope
POTS
Fatigue
Cognitive dysfunction
Disordered sleep
Visual symptoms
Blurring of vision
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Neuropathic pain
Motor symptoms
Skin disorders
Voiding dysfunction
Limb weakness
Vascular abnormalities
Irregular period

Despite US government assertions that the vaccine is safe, the federal compensation program for vaccine injury has paid out millions of dollars in damages for HPV vaccine injuries. Families have received compensation for death, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, complex regional pain syndrome, Guillain-Barre syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and other severe, debilitating conditions. We delve into reported HPV vaccine injuries and the pursuit of justice.

All participants in the Gardasil clinical trials who received a “placebo” rather than the vaccine were encouraged to receive HPV vaccines at the end of the clinical trial period. By doing this, Merck destroyed any opportunity for large-scale, long-term safety and efficacy studies of vaccinated versus the original control subjects.

Lawsuits have been filed against Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and government health agencies around world, including in the US, India, Colombia, Japan, Spain, and France. Families want treatment for their injured children and young adults. They also want to hold the manufacturers accountable and to prevent future injuries to other children.

National and international health agencies are working hand-in-glove with the HPV vaccine manufacturers to promote, advertise, finance, recommend, and even compel children to get HPV vaccines. We have included examples of CDC and UK National Health Service ads for HPV vaccines in the photo insert.

The US government earns royalties from Merck and GSK for licensing HPV vaccine technology. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, with others, participated in the invention of HPV vaccines. While receiving millions of dollars in annual royalty income from these corporations, the US government ostensibly holds the upper hand in regulating them. The conflict of interest is obvious.

The HPV vaccine saga began just as Merck was trying to turn the page on its criminal conduct with Vioxx, its failed painkiller drug. Just as Vioxx was raking in $2.5 billion in annual revenue — almost the same amount Gardasil and Gardasil 9 are now bringing in — Merck withdrew it from the market because it was causing heart attacks, strokes, and death. Merck had not disclosed known heart attack risk in its clinical trial data. In 2005, Merck paid multi-million dollar civil and criminal penalties and entered into a $4.85 billion settlement with injured plaintiffs. Congress, the Department of Justice, and the media investigated Merck for falsifying data, making false statements to regulators, making false marketing claims, failing to disclose material information to consumers, and more. In 2006, the FDA approved Gardasil, leading some to dub the HPV vaccine “Help Pay for Vioxx.” History repeats itself in the Merck Vioxx and Gardasil sagas.

In researching and writing this book, we spoke with more than a hundred people who shared with us their time, expertise, and deeply personal stories. We also spoke with many injured young people and their parents, as well as with parents whose children died. We are humbled that they trusted us with their stories and have done our best to give them voice.

We also reached out to doctors, scientists, and medical researchers. We met with advocates fighting for those who have been injured. We met personally with women who were subjects in the clinical trials and spoke with doctors who were principal trial investigators. We also contacted HPV vaccine proponents, including the FDA, and are grateful for their assistance. We reached out to Merck with a long list of questions on two occasions but received no replies.

We bring legal and financial backgrounds to this task. While we are not doctors or scientists, we believe that our perspective is critical to this debate. For too long, those with real and potential conflicts of interest in industry and government have dominated public discourse about vaccine safety.

Part I examines the clinical trials and the race to develop the vaccine. It analyzes surprising data that have received little attention to date. We also provide a primer on cervical cancer to explain its real risk factors. While we focus on the Gardasil clinical trials, we also look at Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline’s version, and at Gardasil 9, the only currently available HPV vaccine in the US. (GSK took Cervarix off the US market, likely because of low sales. Merck replaced Gardasil with Gardasil 9, the new HPV vaccine against a broader range of HPV viruses.) We use official documents and the accounts of two young women injured in the clinical trials to examine their many flaws. We close Part I with a look at India, where clinical trials led to national outrage and a legal battle against the pharmaceutical industry and its partners.

Part II covers what happened after the vaccines hit the market. How do you sell a vaccine for an infection that clears almost all the time? We look at the marketing magic and “disease branding” that created a market out of thin air. We also share heartbreaking stories of injury and death. We follow several families’ fights for justice. We look closely at the US and Australia, powerhouses in HPV vaccine development, whose governments are leading the charge towards universal HPV vaccine uptake.

Part III is a deeper dive into the latest research on aluminum-containing adjuvants and other ingredients of concern, including DNA fragments. We discuss HPV transmission, the potential threat of “type replacement,” cervical screening in both high and low resource countries, and more. If you don’t need the deep science dive, skip ahead.

Finally, Part IV takes readers around the world to Japan, Denmark, Ireland, the UK, and Colombia. Each of these countries is a unique case study regarding the HPV vaccine, and the role that governments, media, and the law play. You’ll get a close look at the latest developments in each country yet also see the global threads in common.

We strongly advocate for informed consent and hope that this book will help people to make truly informed decisions about this vaccine. Only you can be the ultimate judge for yourself or your loved one.

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More on the HPV vaccine: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/24/more-deaths-after-hpv-vaccination/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/29/shocking-flaws-in-gardasil-trial-design-prevents-safety-assessment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/03/editors-of-medical-journals-confirm-hpv-vaccines-cause-more-harm-than-good-science-author-facing-death-threats/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/28/merck-accused-of-fraud-deceit-and-negligence-in-u-s-gardasil-case/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/14/gardasil-and-female-reproduction/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/02/16/gardasil-vasculitis-msids/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/19/motor-and-sensory-findings-in-girls-who-received-gardasil/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/02/sacrificial-virgins-hpv-vaccine/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/02/hpv-after-vaccines/

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Activism, vaccines

Resources For Lyme/MSIDS Patients & Advice From an Old Gray-Hair

Recently Lymedisease.org came out with this: https://www.lymedisease.org/2018-lyme-disease-resource-list/ and within this link you can find out numerous things including a symptom checklist, the ability to purchase an informative quarterly journal they put out, find their Facebook and Twitter accounts, online support groups and sign up for a free newsletter. All of that is dandy.

What isn’t dandy is the physician directory they offer.

Here’s why.

Lyme/MSIDS is a political hotbed – particularly for physicians and practitioners. State medical boards have come after these folk (think witch hunt) for prescribing outside the CDC guidelines (which essentially state 21 days of doxycyline will cure you) and then descend upon them like the Spanish Inquisition. Many doctors have lost their license to practice in this way.

You’d think with all of the people getting infected that this would change. But it hasn’t.

The problem with a static list created by folks not in your state is the list of doctors is forever influx. As I look at the list for my state of Wisconsin, there’s folks on there I haven’t even heard of, and that’s not good as I’m heavily involved in the vetting process of obtaining the necessary information making sure the doctors on our list are properly trained by ILADS. There’s also many more doctors properly trained who aren’t on their list at all.

Why ILADS? Glad you asked.

At this point in the game, there are two sides to the Lyme/MSIDS Wars:

CDC/NIH/IDSA camp that believes Lyme is hard to catch and simple to treat with 21 days of doxy. If you have symptoms after that they believe it’s something other than Lyme and are likely to give you an anti-depressant. They deny persistent/chronic infection and believe there’s only between 10-20% of us out here who suffer with symptoms after treatment. They call this PTLDS (of unknown cause) – but they state emphatically isn’t due to a persistent infection. They also aren’t factoring in coinfections at all. They treat you with a one drug for one pathogen paradigm, which only works on acute cases and even then sometimes doesn’t work. Also, due to the disbelief in persistence, their treatment times are extremely short. All of their studies are of short duration on antibiotic usage with virtually little to no follow-up – rigged from the get-go for those of us with chronic symptoms.
ILADS camp looks at animal studies proving persistent/chronic infection and extrapolates that out to humans. They believe this is a complex illness with a lot of moving pieces and parts which requires a clinical diagnosis and treatment regimen, specifically designed to the individual. They take coinfections into account and treat accordingly with whatever drugs are necessary to get the job done. They also treat longer as the understand how these pathogens work symbiotically to modulate the immune system making our cases tougher. Depending upon the case, treatment could go from weeks to life-long as each case varies tremendously. They also understand many of these pathogens are spread congenitally, via breast milk, and even sexually and treat accordingly. They also understand the immune system component but that often the infection is driving it.

All of that to say this: If they are not ILADS trained, there is NO WAY we can insure they are properly educated to treat this monster.

Where should you go to find educated doctors?

I highly recommend you contact your local Lyme support Group for this information. These are the folks with boots on the ground experience in your state who are familiar, or can point you to someone with accurate and up to date information on how to find a properly trained doctor. In the state of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Lyme Network (WLN) http://wisconsinlymenetwork.org/ is your go-to source for the trained doctor list as well as other valuable information. They are actively involved in raising funds/accepting donations to get Wisconsin doctors properly trained, raise awareness, provide education and support, and promote research for vector-borne illnesses to patients, medical community and the general Wisconsin population. Check to see if your state has such an organization that serves as a clearinghouse of vetted information, particularly on doctors.

Local support groups will be able to help you with costs, treatment style, and nuances that are indispensable such as:

Treatment style. Believe it or not there is a wide girth of treatment styles even within ILADS. (this is important as one physician in Wisconsin uses primarily ozone which requires weekly treatments in-house, requiring a long drive for many)
How long it takes to get an appointment
How often you must be seen
How they handle complications
Whether they are good at returning phone calls or not
If the office staff is rude
If they do in-house blood work
If they accept insurance
If they have supplements in house for purchase
If they have adjunctive treatments they offer (this is important because often you have to be a patient to use these. For instance if you wanted to try ozone, chelation, hyperbaric, or Biomat, if you are not their patient, you probably would have to pay a “new patient” fee to utilize their service.)

Those are just things off the top of my head but there are probably 1,000 more details such as this that you will be able to query your local support group for or even discover important questions to ask. These groups really are indispensable FREE reservoirs of information that you should take advantage of.

Why is this important?

Personally, I remember when I started this journey riddled with pot-holes. I had symptoms that nearly led me to the ER, I knew nothing about what I’m telling you now, and had to essentially reinvent the wheel. That is not fun when you can’t remember words and forget why you walked into a room.

Thankfully, I had presence of mind enough to email my local support group which taught me a number of these things in short order, giving me the cherished and coveted list of Lyme-literate doctors for my state so at least I could make somewhat of an educated guess. Looking back, I wish I would have gone to group in person to ask more questions as it would have been even more helpful to understand costs, regimens, and the personality of the offices and doctors involved. **Caveat** Please keep in mind some folks might have had a negative experience with a certain doctor. Try to balance all opinions and in the end, make sure to ask the support group leader’s opinion as typically they are experienced or can point you to someone who is to bounce all the feedback onto. Sometimes the negative experience isn’t even the doctor’s fault but a misunderstanding or even due to the patient himself. To say patients can be psychologically impaired at times which can affect our judgment would be an understatement.

Since treatment is often years long, you want to find someone that works with you. These doctors, bless them, are often mavericks of one sort or another as it takes special people to deal with the likes of us and handle the inherent risks of the political issue and the polarization of the medical community. These are stand-alone individuals who have defied convention and that often leads to some interesting personality-types.

On top of this, issues such as convenience can become important as treatment is often long & complex, so having the ability to get blood work done in house, purchase supplements in one stop, and have access to adjunctive treatments can really simplify life which has already been made extremely complex due to this illness.

And lastly, don’t feel badly if at some point you need to change doctors or even have numerous ones. Since this complex illness can and often affects the entire body, it’s nearly impossible for ONE practitioner to be able to handle it all. You might very well need someone experienced with diet and nutrition on top of a Lyme literate doctor, as well as a physical therapist, chiropractor, psychiatrist, and more. Everyone is entirely different.

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Activism, Lyme

Altering Human Genetics Through Vaccination

I’ve been sitting on this article for a while but with the push for gene-editing on mice and insects feel compelled to share it now while the iron’s hot. To understand how this relates to Lyme/MSIDS, please see my comment at the end of the article.

https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/altering-human-genetics-through-vaccination/

June 28, 2018

Altering Human Genetics Through Vaccination

Children’s Health Defense Note: CHD has internal documents in which the FDA acknowledges that technology that allows for the creation of these new vaccines has outpaced their ability to predict adverse events. Shouldn’t our federal agencies be calling for a moratorium until we have that knowledge—especially since it is heavily reported that the CDC/FDA post-marketing surveillance systems are inadequate to pick up problems after licensure?

By Jon Rappoport, Contributing Writer, Children’s Health Defense

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot.

Over the years, I’ve written many articles refuting claims that vaccines are safe and effective, but we’ll put all that aside for the moment and follow the bouncing ball.

Massachusetts Senator and big spender, Ed Markey, has introduced a bill that would shovel no less than a billion dollars toward the universal flu-vaccine project.

Here is a sentence from an NIAID press release that mentions one of several research approaches:

“NIAID Vaccine Research Center scientists have initiated Phase 1/2 studies of a universal flu vaccine strategy that includes an investigational DNA-based vaccine (called a DNA ‘prime’)…”

This is quite troubling, if you know what the phrase “DNA vaccine” means. It refers to what the experts are touting as the next generation of immunizations.

Instead of injecting a piece of a virus into a person, in order to stimulate the immune system, synthesized genes would be shot into the body. This isn’t traditional vaccination anymore. It’s gene therapy.

In any such method, where genes are edited, deleted, added, no matter what the pros say, there are always “unintended consequences,” to use their polite phrase. The ripple effects scramble the genetic structure in numerous unknown ways.

This is genetic roulette with a loaded gun. Anyone and everyone on Earth injected with a DNA vaccine will undergo permanent and unknown genetic changes…

Here is the inconvenient truth about DNA vaccines—

They will permanently alter your DNA.

The reference is the New York Times, 3/15/15, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes the frontier of research—the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:

“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.”

“’The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.”

“The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.” [That was three years ago.]

“I.G.T. is altogether different from traditional vaccination. It is instead a form of gene therapy. Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions. The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue, usually muscle.”

Here is the punchline:

“The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”

Read that again: “the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA.”

Alteration of the human genetic makeup.

Not just a “visit.” Permanent residence. And once a person’s DNA is changed, he will live with that change—and all the ripple effects in his genetic makeup—for the rest of his life.

The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion:

“Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.”

Yes, some people might be leery. If they have two or three working brain cells.

This is genetic roulette with a loaded gun. Anyone and everyone on Earth injected with a DNA vaccine will undergo permanent and unknown genetic changes…

And the further implications are clear. Vaccines can be used as a cover for the injections of any and all genes, whose actual purpose is re-engineering humans in far-reaching ways.

The emergence of this Frankenstein technology is paralleled by a shrill push to mandate vaccines, across the board, for both children and adults. The pressure and propaganda are planet-wide.

The freedom and the right to refuse vaccines has always been vital. It is more vital than ever now.

It means the right to preserve your inherent DNA.

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

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**Comment**

Frightening information, indeed, and reminiscent of Brave New World.

Hopefully regarding DNA based (gene-editing) vaccines, the evidence for harm is self-evident.

Regarding how this specifically could affect Lyme/MSIDS patients, the vaccine issue should STILL be self evident in the harm it could cause chronically/persistently infected people, but secondly, they are gene-editing mice and mosquitoes and releasing them into the wild in hopes of eradicating Lyme and Zika with unintended consequences: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/11/new-england-scientists-explore-new-method-for-eradicating-lyme-disease/

In brief, gene editing has shown unintended consequences of mutations, enhancement of other pathogens, cancer in humans, and very real ethical issues.

Lastly, while many think the only problem some have with aborted fetal tissue in vaccines is only an ethical one, I was told by people with far more experience than I, that putting human DNA from a certain gender into another human of a different gender, could also have unintended consequences – transgenderism.

Please read my entire comment at end of article within link. This is scary business. Please speak out in your sphere of influence.

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Activism, Genetic Mutations, Inflammation, Lyme, research, vaccines

Basketball Star Pushing for Lyme Cure

https://www.theguardian.com/personal-investments/ng-interactive/2018/oct/09/elena-delle-donne-wnba-lyme-disease-foundation

Great interactive article in link above on stats, prevention, symptoms, and the Elena Delle Donne Charitable Foundation.

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Activism, Lyme, Uncategorized

Direct Test for LD. Carl Tuttle Chews up CDC & Spits Them Out.

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/23412818?

Direct Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH
OCT 13, 2018 —

Latest message to the TBD Working Group:
———- Original Message ———-
From: Carl Tuttle <runagain@comcast.net>
To: jaucott2@jhmi.edu, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov
Cc:
Date: October 12, 2018 at 1:48 PM

Subject: Re: News Release: Dr. Sin Hang Lee Accuses CDC of Resorting to Politically Motivated False Science to Cover Up Its Failure to Promote More Exacting Test for Lyme Disease

To the Tick Borne Disease Working Group,

Please see the viewpoint below recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases regarding direct detection tests for Lyme disease.

I have purposely highlighted coauthor Martin E Schriefer of the Centers for Disease Control because he was one of the CDC officials working directly with Dr. Sin Lee of Milford Molecular Diagnostics regarding “direct detection” of Lyme disease.

All communication from the CDC stopped with Dr. Lee with absolutely no explanation whatsoever prompting the current lawsuit.

And now we see Schriefer’s name on this publication pushing for DNA tests?

It’s time to fire the CDC and take control of this runaway plague as all the evidence indicates deliberate mishandling of a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers while leaving its victims in financial ruin.

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

CORRECTED PROOF

Direct Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease

Steven E Schutzer, Barbara A Body, Jeff Boyle, Bernard M Branson, Raymond J Dattwyler, Erol Fikrig, Noel J Gerald, Maria Gomes-Solecki, Martin Kintrup, Michel Ledizet, Andrew E Levin, Michael Lewinski, Lance A Liotta, Adriana Marques, Paul S Mead, Emmanuel F Mongodin, Segaran Pillai, Prasad Rao, William H Robinson, Kristian M Roth, MARTIN E SCHRIEFER, Thomas Slezak, Jessica L Snyder, Allen C Steere, Jan Witkowski,Susan J Wong, John A Branda

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

Published: 11 October 2018

Abstract
Borrelia burgdorferi was discovered to be the cause of Lyme disease in 1983, leading to seroassays. The 1994 serodiagnostic testing guidelines predated a full understanding of key B. burgdorferi antigens and have a number of shortcomings. These 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. New approaches have effectively been applied to other emerging infections and show promise in direct detection of B. burgdorferi infections.

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THE FOLLOWING EMAIL WAS PREVIOUSLY SENT TO THE TBD WORKING GROUP AND POSTED AS AN UPDATE HERE: https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/23321574

Subject: Re: News Release: Dr. Sin Hang Lee Accuses CDC of Resorting to Politically Motivated False Science to Cover Up Its Failure to Promote More Exacting Test for Lyme Disease

On September 25, 2018 at 11:11 AM Carl Tuttle <runagain@comcast.net> wrote:

To the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group,

Before you read the following press release I would like to point out that Patient #45 from Table 2 of the attached CDC document titled, “Reply to Response to Motion to Dismiss” (page 26) had a bulls-eye rash and a single positive Western blot Band 41 which as you know is the flagellar antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi.

Patient #45 has a case of early Lyme confirmed by the bulls-eye rash but hadn’t yet produced a full set of antibodies to the infection. Dr. Lee’s 16S rRNA gene sequencing was able to accurately detect early infection before antibody production.

The CDC claims the following:

“ with respect to pretreatment patients, he (Dr. Sin Hang Lee) reported B. burgdorferi in a patient whose antibody testing failed to indicate the presence of the disease at all (patient 45). Attachment I at 4287 and 4292. Therefore, Dr. Lee’s tests were not accurate.”

For the record, you will find the following statement from the CDC website:

Diagnosis, Testing, and Treatment

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html

Excerpt:
As with serologic tests for other infectious diseases, the accuracy of the test depends upon the stage of disease. During the first few weeks of infection, such as when a patient has an erythema migrans rash, the test is expected to be negative.

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The CDC is responsible for the current Lyme disease crisis where patients cannot obtain a timely diagnosis through accurate early detection.

This perpetuated outdated dogma of using a restricted pattern of antibody tests for disease definition is now on record disclosing the hidden agenda of the bureaucrats in charge of the Lyme disease policy.

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In Unprecedented CDC lawsuit, Dr. Sin Hang Lee Accuses CDC of Resorting to Politically Motivated False Science to Cover Up Its Failure to Promote More Exacting Test for Lyme Disease

Milford, Conn. – Dr. Sin Hang Lee, the Connecticut based pathologist who, in May, filed an unprecedented $57.1 million Lyme disease related lawsuit against theUnited States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),charged the CDC in a legal filing* this week of employing false, pseudo-scientific theories in order to justify its own anti-consumer actions aimed at perpetuating Lyme disease testing by a flawed technology previously endorsed by the CDC. It is also believed that certain current and former CDC representatives receive personal financial gains (royalties) as a result of their having worked on the approval and promotion/CDC endorsement of a Lyme disease serology test.

According to Dr. Lee, the truth behind the CDC’s inexplicable retreat from supporting a cutting-edge test capable of diagnosing Lyme disease infections with 100% accuracy, came to the surface in the CDC’s lawsuit-related recent filing in theU. S. Court of Federal Claims. For the purpose of suppressing direct detection tests to diagnose early Lyme disease infections, the CDC’s lawyers wrote,

“with respect to pretreatment patients, he (Dr. Sin Hang Lee) reported B. burgdorferi in a patient whose antibody testing failed to indicate the presence of the disease at all (patient 45). Attachment I at 4287 and 4292. Therefore, Dr. Lee’s tests were not accurate.”

Dr. Lee informed the Court through his legal counsel,

“Using Lyme disease serology test results to overrule 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis is to practice Lysenkoism in disguise.” It is serious when the CDC allows its policies to be made on the basis of bogus science, said Dr. Lee.

Dr. Sin Hang Lee, a Connecticut pathologist and the plaintiff in the $57.1 million lawsuit against the CDC, said Lyme disease is actually a chronic tick-borne borrelia infection or its sequelae because this bacterial infection has not been diagnosed correctly at the early stage for timely appropriate treatment.

The world’s scientific literature of medicine all agrees that 16S rRNA DNA sequencing of bacterial genes in patient specimens is a tool to reach irrefutable diagnosis of bacterial infections, including those due to Borrelia, even if antibodies to the bacteria in the patient are not measurable.

When a government authority, like the CDC, insists upon using a negative antibody testing result to overrule the 16S rRNA gene sequencing diagnosis of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in official federal court documents, this is concrete evidence that the CDC has resorted to Lysenkoism to perpetuate Lyme disease in the United States, said Dr. Lee through his lawyer*.

Lysenkoism once prevailed in the Soviet Union under Stalin when bogus science was used to suppress true biological and medical sciences and to punish the scientists and medical doctors who did not follow the Party Line. Since the CDC has now, for the first time, officially narrowed the case definition of Lyme disease in a Federal Court case as an illness to be diagnosed by testing the antibodies against a particular strain of Borrelia burgdorferi to the exclusion of all other direct detection diagnostics, including Sanger sequencing, this Party Line must be challenged by evidence-based science in the public eye as well as in Court, said Dr. Lee.

* See document, called Sur-Reply filed on September 20, 2018 at the U.S. Federal Court of Claims in response to the CDC statements previously submitted to the Court on August 27, 2018.
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Attachments:
1. Lee – Reply to Response to Motion to Dismiss
2. Lee – Sur-Reply re Motion to Dismiss 2018-09-20

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

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For more:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/direct-diagnostic-tests-for-lyme-the-closest-thing-to-an-apology-you-are-ever-going-to-get/

Key quote: “These serologic tests cannot distinguish active infection, past infection, or reinfection.”

In plain English, the CDC’s “FDA approved” two-tiered tests don’t show squat.

Direct detection is nothing new. Dr. Sin Hang Lee sued the CDC over their suppression of HIS direct detection test. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/15/milford-pathologist-fires-broadside-at-cdc-motion-to-discuss/
Another great article showing how they’ve worked tirelessly to suppress direct detection tests: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/03/cdc-deliberately-avoids-direct-detection-testing-methods-for-ld/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/paving-the-way-for-better-lyme-diagnostic-tests/ (This article does a great job explaining the tests)

In the comment section I explain how small labs like IGeneX have been poisonously smeared by the CDC. I actually attended a public meeting at the WI capital where a pediatric doctor quoted right off the CDC website and called the IgeneX Lyme test, “Home-brewed.”

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6315a4.htm
“Often these are laboratory-developed tests (also known as “home brew” tests) that are manufactured and used within a single laboratory and have not been cleared or approved by FDA.

Patients, the doctors who dare treat them, and these smaller labs specializing in bacteriology and virology have been quaking in their boots for decades due to the antics of the CDC.

The CDC is a bully, plain & simple.

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