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Tick Problems Already & Towns Coming Together to Fight LD

http://wtnh.com/2018/02/27/tick-problems-already-starting/  (News video here)

Tick problems already starting

By Sam Kantrow, Meteorologists  Published: 

 

This winter has been extraordinary, starting with the extreme cold and snow earlier this winter. Thankfully now, Brandon and his pooch are on the move, doing everything they can to enjoy the warmer weather.

“Finally got some good weather coming up on us, time to come out and enjoy the weather.” Mentioned Brandon Butler of Wallingford as he hiked Sleeping Giant State Park

But unfortunately despite it being February, the tick problem is back already. If you’re skeptical, you’re not alone.

Francie Parness of Northford said, “Not usually during this weather do I think about it.”

And why would you after such a cold winter? Unfortunately it was not cold enough, and it didn’t last long enough to make a dent in the tick population. The proof can be seen at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s tick testing lab, where staff are busy dealing with the 40 ticks they’ve gotten from bite victims in Connecticut…over the last two days alone!

Dr. Goudarz Molaei of the Tick Testing Lab at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station warned, “It is quite alarming to see this many ticks in two days at this time of the year and that spells trouble for the weeks and months ahead of us.”

Those 40 cases are from humans alone. It’s happening to dogs as well.

“We’ve taken two ticks off of him in the last couple of weeks and believe it or not last month.” Said pet owners Jess and Linda Mallory of Hamden

So what does the future hold?

“I predict that we are going unfortunately to have a year with abundant ticks similar to last year.” stated Molaei

Meaning it will only get worse as we head into spring, so make sure you inspect yourself, your kids, and especially your pets every time you go outside before you come back inside.

http://wtnh.com/2018/02/21/towns-come-together-to-fight-lyme-disease/  (News story here)  WTNH.com Staff  Published: 

(WTNH) — Local health workers, leaders, and employers are working to tackle tick season before it starts.

 

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks

Vaccines Could Contribute to Disease Epidemics Due to Retrovirus Contamination

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-01-vaccine-manufacturing-process-could-be-contributing-to-disease-epidemics-retrovirus-contamination.html#

The vaccine manufacturing process could be contributing to disease epidemics due to retrovirus contamination

Thursday, March 01, 2018 by: 

Image: The vaccine manufacturing process could be contributing to disease epidemics due to retrovirus contamination

(Natural News) Vaccines are highly controversial, and much of the debate rightly surrounds their connection to autism and their inclusion of mercury and other heavy metals. However, there is another aspect of vaccines that doesn’t get as much attention even though it could have grave repercussions for life on this planet: Retrovirus contamination.

A type of virus whose genes are encoded into RNA rather than DNA, retroviruses function differently than other types of viruses but can be just as devastating. Human retroviruses include HIV and human T-cell lymphotropic virus 1, which has been associated with some leukemias and lymphomas.

All animals have some retroviruses integrated into their genomes, with as much as 15 percent of the human genome believed to be made up of ERV human retroviruses. They contribute to diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, and neuroimmune diseases.

The manufacturing process involved in human and veterinary vaccines uses live animal and human cells to serve as master seed stock. The process was developed before the mechanisms of retroviruses were fully understood, which means that no one was aware of the risks at the time. While many retroviruses are harmless and remain essentially dormant, they become harmful when they are exposed to cells from other species, which is what can happen during the vaccine manufacturing process itself as well as during the administration of vaccines that contain cell components from other species. Incidentally, this is similar to what has been creating problems when researchers try to transplant pig tissues and organs into humans.

As new vaccines were developed in the 1970s, exposure to retroviruses intensified. These retroviruses have now been associated with many of the chronic illnesses modern humans are facing, from cancer and autism to Alzheimer’s and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It is believed that as many as 20 million Americans could be infected with retroviruses, but not all of them will go on to develop a serious illness. They can be thought of as sleeping giants, who are only awakened when there is an immune deficiency.

A recent study published in the journal Biologicals outlined how endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are infecting cats and how the feline retrovirus known as RD-114 has contaminated vaccines for other pets. There are at least two ERVs in cat genomes, and the RD-114 virus is found in a wide range of vaccines for dogs and other animals. In fact, a different study showed that RD-114-related viruses contaminated around a third of the 25 commercial vaccines for dogs and cats tested.

Retrovirus contamination in vaccines widespread

Research scientist Judy A. Mikovits even goes so far as to say that nearly all human vaccines are contaminated with at least one retrovirus, usually from an animal thanks to the animal byproducts used in vaccine creation. Six percent of Americans now have mouse-related retroviruses, for example, and that almost certainly comes from vaccines.

Take the example of the rotavirus vaccines RotaTeq and Rotarix, which made headlines a few years ago when they were found to be contaminated with pig viruses. The problem becomes even worse when multiple vaccines are given in combination, as is often the case with children and infants. Dr. Mikovits points out that one pig retrovirus can cause symptoms similar to AIDS when there is a simultaneous immune system activation, such as concurrent vaccination, creating a “high-risk scenario for disease in humans.”

Vaccines are risky enough when you take retroviruses out of the equation, but this vastly underreported problem could eventually prove to be the biggest danger of vaccines yet.

Sources for this article include:

GreenMedInfo.com

ScienceDirect.com

NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov

HealthImpactNews.com

NaturalNews.com

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**Comment*

Lyme/MSIDS can activate the immune system and be that “sleeping giant,” the author points out.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/02/scottish-doctor-gives-insight-on-lyme-msids/  Dr. Lambert has treated a number of young women who fell ill after their HPV vaccination, which seems to have stimulated a latent Lyme infection to reactivate.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/  Asymptomatic girls after receiving Gardasil activated dormant Bartonella which was confirmed by testing.

More on retroviruses:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/15/vaccines-and-retroviruses-a-whistleblower-reveals-what-the-government-is-hiding/  What did microbiologist Judy Mikovitz get for exposing retroviruses in vaccines?  She got jailed without a search warrant and publicly demolished by those who can’t stand exposure to the truth.

 

 

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Activism, Alzheimer's, Autism, Lyme, Lyme Vaccine, PANS, vaccines, Viruses

Holistic Oral Health Summit

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Today there’s a mysterious disease epidemic attacking Americans…

You’ve heard about it on the news. Millions more people are suffering from all kinds of health problems and diseases. And many of these diseases are deadly.

But did you know that problems in your MOUTH cause a whopping 80% of these diseases?

All caused by modern dental practices and common oral infections.

The legendary physician Reinhard Voll, M.D. discovered this shocking fact after 40 years of scientific research.

Think about it. If you’re suffering from health problems or chronic disease, chances are very high that the problem started in your mouth.

These hidden poisons can cause cancer. Heart disease. Arthritis. Diabetes. Chronic migraines. Alzheimer’s. Bladder problems. And more.

You can get them from a routine dentist visit. Or they can develop on their own.

So why haven’t you heard about this from your doctor? The truth is most doctors don’t know.

That’s because the medical establishment has been working hard to ban this information. There’s too much at stake… you’ll learn more about that soon.

The good news is: we’re not keeping quiet.

You and your loved ones have a right to know these life-saving facts.

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Activism, diet and nutrition

Asian Ticks Mysteriously Turn up in New Jersey

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/27/588408433/asian-ticks-mysteriously-turned-up-on-a-new-jersey-sheep

Asian Ticks (Mysteriously) Turned Up On A New Jersey Sheep

February 27, 2018
COURTNEY COLUMBUS

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The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis.
Tadhgh Rainey

How did a tick that’s native to East Asia make it to rural New Jersey?

That’s the question puzzling researchers. The backstory involves a panicky sheep owner, tick-covered humans and a pair of pants stuck in the freezer.

The tick in question is Haemaphysalis longicornis — also known as the longhorned tick or bush tick.

It can reproduce by essentially cloning itself, allowing it to multiply quickly. It feeds on the blood of a variety of mammals, including people. In China, it has been linked to the spread of SFTS virus, described in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report as “an emerging hemorrhagic fever.”

The tick story starts last August. A resident of Hunterdon County, N.J., went to a county office because she had been shearing her sheep and noticed she was getting ticks on her arms, explains Tadhgh Rainey, the report’s lead author and the division head of the Hunterdon County division of health.

“What she didn’t know was her entire clothing, pants and everything, they were covered in ticks,” Rainey says. Those ticks were in the larval stage — smaller than 0.03 inches and tough to spot.

“Basically, they look like a speck of dirt,” Rainey says. “And if you look really closely, you’ll see those specks of dirt start to move a little bit.”

“I get this call from my assistant and he said, ‘We’ve got a resident here who showed up covered in ticks; she’s panicking; now we’re panicking and her pants are in our freezer,'” Rainey says. (Freezing, he explains, is one of the best ways to kill ticks.)

At first, Rainey assumed the parasites were deer ticks, a native species common in the area. But the sheer number of ticks on the resident’s clothing — more than 1,000 — surprised him. Usually, finding 20 to 50 larval deer ticks in that situation would be “quite a bit,” he says. What’s more, under the microscope, they didn’t look like deer ticks.

Rainey later went to the paddock where the sheep lived to collect ticks.

“Within two minutes, we’re covered in ticks,” he says. “Numbers I had never seen before — just sort of stunning.”

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A close-up of the New Jersey sheep’s ear, infested with an East Asian tick.
Tadhgh Rainey

Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly 1,000 more from the 1-acre paddock.

The tick has previously been found in the U.S. on large animals in quarantine, including a horse in New Jersey in the 1960s, says Andrea Egizi, the senior author of the paper, which was published last week in the Journal of Medical Entomology. Egizi is a research scientist with the Monmouth County Tick-Borne Disease Lab and a visiting professor in the entomology department at Rutgers University.

But this is the first time all life stages of this species (larvae, nymphs and adults) have been found on an unquarantined animal in the U.S.

Now here’s the thing: This sheep had definitely not visited Asia. As the paper notes, it had no “travel history.” So how did it pick up the ticks?

“There were no other domestic animals on that property, so it’s a really big mystery exactly how it got there,” says Egizi.

One or more ticks could have hitched a ride into the U.S. on a large animal such as a horse or a cow, or even on a dog or a person, Rainey says.

The sheep’s owner gave it a chemical wash to rid it of ticks. In a follow-up visit in November, the tick team didn’t find any ticks on it. County workers treated the property with chemicals and cut the high grass, Rainey says. By late November, they couldn’t find any ticks either on the sheep or in the paddock.

But that doesn’t mean they’re gone.

“It is possible that they were all killed, but we also don’t know if, before the property was treated, they were spread out of that property by wild animals,” Egizi says.

Then again, maybe the weather did them in.

“There are some populations [of this tick] that are less cold-tolerant, so there is a possibility that the winter killed them,” Egizi says.

The ticks face another challenge: The elderly sheep has died, so their only known host won’t be around anymore.

But they could also be the ultimate survivors.

“These invasive species are notorious for having survival strategies that outwit us at every corner,” Rainey says.

This spring, the researchers plan to go back to the site to look for any ticks that might have survived the winter and chemical treatments.

What’s less certain is whether people should be worried (aside from the obvious OMG factor of being covered in ticks).

Ticks generally don’t transmit diseases from person to person. Instead, they pick up a disease from an infected animal and can pass it to a person they feed on. Some native tick species in the U.S. can transmit Lyme disease and other diseases. But tick specialists aren’t too concerned about the longhorned tick. Even though it has been implicated in disease transmission in countries like China and Japan,

Egizi says, “It would be a question of whether they could transmit our local pathogens, which we don’t know.”

Meanwhile, tick specialists are in awe of the whole story. Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., called the discovery of the tick “serendipitous.”

“I wonder how often this kind of thing happens, but it goes undetected,” he says. “We don’t really have a systematic national capability to go around looking for invasive ticks from exotic places. They might be occurring, and we’ll never find out until it’s too late.”

Courtney Columbus is a multimedia journalist who covers science, global health and consumer health. She has contributed to the Arizona Republic and Arizona PBS. Contact her @cmcolumbus11

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**Comment**

Oh, this is rich on so many levels.

  1. We have ticks from Asia but haven’t a clue how they got here
  2. IT CLONES ITSELF & MULTIPLIES QUICKLY…..Hello!
  3. They’ve been found previously in the U.S.
  4. In China it spreads SFTS Virus, “an emerging hemorrhagic fever”
  5. A top ecologist wonders if this kind of thing happens but it goes undetected
  6. There isn’t a systematic national method to look for invasive ticks
  7. This might be occurring other places – but we won’t find out until it’s too late

 

But remember…….most importantly…….don’t panic

p.s.  Just received a comment from a NY Lyme advocate who reminded me that many ticks have an anti-freeze like substance within them that allows them to survive freezing temperatures.  For a great, short video on this:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/20/polar-vorticks/

So, sticking pants in a freezer isn’t wise.  It would be better to stick them in the dryer on high heat 10-20 min:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/05/31/fry-and-die/

 

 

 

 

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Activism, Ticks, Viruses

Strides in Lyme Research & Links to Mosquitos As Carriers

https://sponauglewellness.com/huge-strides-in-lyme-research-and-links-to-mosquitos-as-carriers/

HUGE STRIDES IN LYME RESEARCH AND LINKS TO MOSQUITOS AS CARRIERS

PUBLISHED BY  Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

Kudos to Columbia University, et al., for making a more diligent effort to provide better quality testing diseases spread by ticks. Their findings include multiple infectious organisms that are injected via ticks into the blood stream of Americans on a daily basis.

Finally, after all the controversy, after all the battles between those of us considered Lyme literate doctors and organizations like the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an organization who recently admitted they missed the mark, for years, with their overzealous requirements on antibody testing which has proven to have at least 60 percent false negatives.

Lyme Disease Mosquito

This research by Columbia University, et al., and their admittance that previous Lyme testing was inept, should surely wake-up the World Health Organization (WHO), whom was recently named in a report for violating human rights of people with tick-borne diseases.

The report resulted in a meeting between United Nations Human Rights Council, medical professionals, scientists, human rights experts, and advocates. A human rights expert discussed the neglect of Lyme patients, in which the outdated codes of WHO resulted in very sick people being denied treatment. He also mentions the attacks on Lyme doctors who are treating chronic Lyme disease patients.

The previous lack of quality testing for Lyme disease in conjunction with the past CDC criteria and the fear many physicians on a national level, have historically faced from medical boards, is undoubtedly responsible for the unnecessary suffering, and worse, severe brain infections and neurological sequela in millions of Lyme patients in America.

Again, hats off to Columbia University and others involved for attempting to advance testing for the multiple infectious organism ticks can carry, and often inject, into our blood stream.

Are Ticks the Only Culprit? Dr. Sponaugle Believes Mosquitos Are Also to Blame for Lyme Disease.

However, the focus continues to remain too much on “tick-borne” when in fact, there should be more American research on mosquito borne diseases. I suggested in 2009, when I took over my daughter’s medical care for Lyme disease, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, West Nile, Babesia, etc., that mosquitoes are surely carrying Lyme disease. This scientific fact was finally proven in Germany, the study was released by University of Frankfurt in 2015.

Personally, I have never met a chronic Lyme patient who denied being bitten by a mosquito, yet, I have treated thousands who denied ever seeing a tick.

Are Women More Prone to Mosquito Bites?

Many men bring their chronic Lyme wives to Sponaugle Wellness and upon questioning, suggest that their wife is actually their mosquito repellent. Do mosquitoes prefer “sugar” to “spice”? The old nursery rhyme suggest females are indeed, sweeter than men, is it actually true? If so, and if mosquitoes are a major reservoir for Lyme spirochetes, it might explain why we treat so many women with severe Lyme disease who have never seen a tick.

To make this debate more interesting, I must mention a University of Florida study that suggest mosquitoes are more attracted to the sweet smell of lactic acid. Thus, patients with higher toxicity levels will attract more mosquitoes, it is a known fact that females, in general, suffer far more gut toxicity than men.

Furthermore, we know that females have twice the prevalence of toxin derived Multiple Sclerosis (MS) than do men.

The more toxicity one suffers, the more inflammation one suffers, and subsequently, excessive inflammation stimulates an elevation of multiple blood clotting factors (Fibrinogen, Thrombin-Antithrombin III, PAT). The elevated clotting factors ultimately narrow the capillary lumen and prevent red blood cells from traveling through the microcirculation and thus compromise the delivery of oxygen. This leaves deep tissue in a state of micro-hypoxia or lack of oxygen, thus leaving body tissue in a slight, but chronic anaerobic state. This mild anaerobic state causes excessive production and accumulation of sweet smelling lactic acid in the body tissue and blood stream.

The take home message is – the more toxic, the more inflamed, the more excessive blood clotting, the more reduction of capillary blood flow, the more lactic acidosis build up, the “sweeter” you smell to mosquitoes. This will explain the mechanism for some of you who know well that you are the “mosquito magnet” among your friends and family.

​If we accept the stellar research from University of Frankfurt, and we acknowledge that many more people are bitten by mosquitoes than by ticks, should we then not surmise that partial causation of the surge of Lyme disease is actually secondary to the ever-growing scourge of mosquitos.

​I believe these scientific facts and common sense should compel well-funded institutions to immediately begin an attempt to study and ascertain what percentage of mosquitoes are indeed carrying Lyme spirochetes.

Women who consider themselves “Mosquito Magnets” are most susceptible

Let us always think and pontificate, let us not become complacent assuming we have the answer in totality. We must realize the more we know, the less we really know. We cannot blindly accept the limited thinking of many, we should surely be focused on studying the possibility that mosquitoes are potentially every bit as responsible for causing an increased prevalence of Lyme disease in Americans.

We should also surmise that there is a great possibility, certainly remain open minded to the concept, that mosquitoes can more easily transport Bartonella, a much smaller bacterium than the Borrelia spirochete.

At Sponaugle Wellness, our clinic is saturated with Bartonella ridden females most of whom have never seen a tick, but they do consider themselves a mosquito magnet. Their blood smears are saturated with various Protozoa which readily correlate with Protozoa infection on their PET brain scans.

These women who suggest “mosquitoes love them” more commonly test positive for Bartonella which truthfully seems to be ubiquitous. The blood smears of these women typically reveal Bartonella infection which correlates with medial frontal lobe pressure, mid forehead, and often significant pressure behind their eyes. These same female patients who readily attract mosquitoes exhibit a specific pattern of under activity in the medial frontal lobe on their PET brain imaging.

​This “Bart pattern” we see on their PET brain scan, and the excessive pressure these patients experience in the middle of their forehead and behind their eyes, normally goes away once we enhance their mitochondrial function, enhance natural killer cell activity via all natural IV protocols, which then, after the enhancement of their immune function we provide an efficacious kill with specific antibiotics that are much better for killing Bartonella than they are for Lyme spirochetes.

Let’s keep learning together as I encourage you, the patients, to increase awareness and put pressure on politicians to allocate more tax dollars for the study of mosquitos as a potential and significant reservoir of not only Lyme spirochetes, but also what my patients are proving is a Bartonella epidemic in America. For more information, read Dr. Sponaugle’s full study on How Borrelia Bacteria is Transmitted from Mosquitoes to Humans.

Read original article on Columbia’s Multiplex Test for Tick-borne Diseases (TBD Serochip) here.

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**Comment**

I wished I shared the same outlook the author of this article has; unfortunately, regarding other insects being vectors of Bb, I hear powerfully placed & highly funded entomologists use a Magnarelli et al, study completed in the 80’s that showed spirochetes in the heads and midguts, but as a “rare” event.  They then state that the public “zeros” in on “rare events” too much and lowers their perception of risk by the main vector (the tick, of course).

So, in essence, you have researchers choosing to downplay (censor) something that is happening in real time because they are worried about our response. 

I keep hearing the “Don’t panic” mantra from authorities which then trickles down through a blind and bought out media.  These people obviously aren’t infected.

Trust me.  You panic when you can’t walk.

For those interested in the ancient, dusty Magnarelli et al study:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=3170711  Prevalence of infection for hematophagous insects (blood sucking) ranged from 2.9% of 105 Hybomitra lasiophthalma (horse fly) to 14.3% of seven Hybomitra epistles (horse fly) …Groups of 113 field-collected mosquitoes of Aedes canadensis and 43 Aedes stimulans were placed in cages with uninfected Syrian hamsters. Of these, 11 females of both species contained B. burgdorferi and had fed fully or partially from the hamsters. No spirochetes were isolated from the hamsters, but antibodies were produced in one test animal.

My question is, do other serious, life-threatening diseases rely solely on studies completed 30 years ago & then quit studying?

For the German study on Mosquitos and Bb:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/23/german-study-finds-borrelia-in-mosquitos/   DNA of Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia bavariensis and Borrelia garinii could be detected in ten Culicidae species (mosquitoes) comprising four distinct genera (Aedes, Culiseta, Culex, and Ochlerotatus). Positive samples also include adult specimens raised in the laboratory from wild-caught larvae indicating that transstadial and/or transovarial transmission might occur within a given mosquito population.

It’s right here in bright purple crayon.  But the elephant sits, unnoticed in the middle of the room.

And issue after issue such as is Bb sexually, congenitally, & transmitted via breast milk?   Are other ticks involved?  How do coinfections affect cases?  When is the CDC going to even acknowledge that patients are coinfected?  And on and on to infinity.  

To those answers, highly placed and powerful people will smugly point to research done by themselves over 30 years ago.  Then they even have the audacity to smugly point out meta-analysis of buckets of studies done by themselves over 30 years ago to cinch the deal.  Mind you, these studies have two inches of dust on them, yet we are to blindly accept that nothing’s changed.

And yet, Lyme/MSIDS is a pandemic – and coming to your neighborhood soon.

But……don’t panic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Activism, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission