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Second Jamestown Canyon Virus Case in New Hampshire

http://outbreaknewstoday.com/new-hampshire-reports-2nd-jamestown-canyon-virus-case-27643/  Sept. 2017

New Hampshire health officials have recorded the second human Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) case of the year in an adult from Goffstown. This follows a case confirmed in mid-August in Hanover.

Image/Elionas
Image/Elionas

It is likely that this case was acquired in New Hampshire, but due to recent travel, location of exposure is not certain.

“As we head into the fall, it’s important for people to remember that mosquito-borne diseases like Jamestown Canyon Virus are still a risk in New Hampshire,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan. “We want residents and visitors to continue to enjoy the outdoors, but they should take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites as long as mosquitoes are still around.”

LISTEN: Powassan virus: The spread is inevitable

Until the second hard frost of the season, residents and visitors to New Hampshire should continue to protect themselves and their family members from mosquito-borne diseases by using an effective mosquito repellant that contains 30% DEET, wearing long sleeves and pants at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active, and removing standing water from around your home so mosquitoes do not have a place to breed. Repellents with picaridin, IR3535 and some oil of lemon eucalyptus and para-menthane-diol products also provide protection against mosquito bites. A hard frost is defined as two consecutive hours of temperatures below 28 degrees Fahrenheit.

Related: Iowa reports 1st West Nile virus death of 2017

Initially described in the early 1970s, JCV is a mosquito-borne pathogen that circulates widely in North America primarily between deer and a variety of mosquito species, but it can also infect humans. Reports of JCV in humans are rare (Since 2000, more than 50 cases of JCV have been identified nationally. The cases have primarily been in the Midwest and Northeast) and most reported illnesses caused by Jamestown Canyon virus have been mild, but moderate-to-severe central nervous system involvement has been reported.

 

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Activism, mosquitoes, Viruses

Pharma Using Scare Tactics Over Pertussis Vaccine Failure

https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2017/09/27/desperation-over-pertussis-vaccine-failure-is-driving-pharma-to-use-scary-propaganda/  James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Sept 26, 2017

Desperation Over Pertussis Vaccine Failure is Driving Pharma to Use Scary Propaganda

IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN the commercial in which GlaxoSmithKline has ripped a page out of 1930’s Nazi Germany, you won’t believe your eyes.  In this commercial, and in associated propaganda posters, grandparents are demonized and turned into wolves – leering at their own grandchildren.

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Here, non-vaccinated grandparents are depicted as animals, less than human, and as a dire threat to a helpless infant. With the insinuation that grandparents could be responsible for any case of infantile pertussis infection, the message pitches family member against family member. Joseph Goebbels (Nazi propaganda Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945) would be proud that their tactic of de-humanizing part of the population is alive and well in 2017.

How accurate is the message is that grandparents can spread whooping cough (pertussis) to their new infant?

Yes, pertussis infection is contagious. What GSK has left out, however, is the fact that individuals who vaccinated can be turned into silent carriers, based on two reasons.

(1)   The vaccine itself, not low vaccination rates, can lead to persistent asymptomatic pertussis infection.
(2) As a result of (1), the TDaP/DTaP vaccination program has failed. 

That’s not my opinion.  That is scientific consensus:  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/135/6/1130.full.pdf

In the commercial, we see that the grandmother has symptoms (a slight cough or sniffle).  This is meant to imply that an infection is the threat.  In reality, asymptomatic wild-type pertussis carriers are the threat, and they are created by exposure of the immune system to the failed vaccine.

The realization that TDaP/DTaP has failed has led to experimental use of TDaP (with no safety or efficacy data: Source: CDC) during pregnancy.  It is “hoped” that it will prove effective and safe.  Studies after the introduction of TDaP during pregnancy are biased: they removed (excluded) women who were at risk of complications.  These women are not screened out of the clinical vaccination program, however, and this represents a consistent failure of translational research on vaccines.  The FDA stands by while vaccines never tested on a given population are applied, and they are thereby complicit and responsible for the fetal deaths and other serious adverse events, such as autism, that can result from maternal immune activation during pregnancy.

New York Times Calls for Citizens to Break Federal Law

Today, The NYT ran a piece asking the question “Can I Spread the Word About an Unvaccinated Child?” and the author counsels the public to go ahead, spread the word about unvaccinated children.  Each person, and their children, are entitled to medical privacy under the The HIPAA Privacy Rule, which establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical information.

Meanwhile, in 2017 Germany, Kindergartens must report their parents to the State if they have opted out of vaccination (Source: Reuters):

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The Nazi propaganda protocols are well in place.  Turn your enemy (the informed, non-vaccinating public) into animals, and then turn people against each other. The next step is the argue that those who do not vaccinate do not have the same rights as those who do vaccinate.  Luckily, 48/50 states in the US allow non-medical exemptions for children whose parents are informed of the actual risks associated with vaccines.

Here are some additional reminders of disgusting Nazi propaganda posters depicting members of the Jewish faith into sub-humans.

1The caricatures from Musée des Horreurs include heads or faces of prominent Jews, Dreyfus supporters, and Republican statesman placed on grotesque animal bodies.  http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/museedeshorreurs/about/

Remember, the TdaP/DTaP not only fails to protect individuals from infection – it can create silent carriers.  The logical outcome of continued use of TDaP in any population is a pertussis epidemic. Here a a Scientific American story on the problem:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/

With symptoms, infected family members could know they should stay away from baby, and they could seek treatment.  Pertussis infection is curable via antibiotics.

With the vaccine, family members could unknowingly spread pertussis to their newborns.

We don’t need propaganda.  We need CDC and ACIP to adult, and pull TdaP/DTaP from the schedule.  Better yet, GSK should pull it themselves.  If CDC/ACIP or GSK won’t, we need the FDA to ban the vaccine, forcing the development of safer, more effective means of controlling pertussis.

In the meantime, babies are at risk of pertussis infection from the vaccinated, silent carriers, and CDC/ACIP, FDA, and GSK – NOT grandparents – are responsible for the associated morbidity and mortality.

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For more on Vaccines:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/06/video-how-vaccines-are-made/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/21/aluminum-flawed-assumptions-fueling-autoimmune-disease-and-lyme/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/19/autism-aluminum-adjuvant-link-corroborated/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/03/30/ty-bollinger-the-truth-about-vaccines-series/  (I highlight Dr. Gentempo’s 9 part vaccine series which covers nearly every vaccine)

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/21/class-and-race-profiling-in-the-vaccine-culture-war/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/07/20268/  New Lyme Vaccine Coming Soon.  Caveat Empter – Buyer Beware!

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/08/dark-ages-of-immunization-medicine-are-now/

 

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Activism, vaccines

Dr. Steven Phillips Writing Book on Lyme and Bartonella Treatment

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-came-up-what-think-may-durable-treatment-lyme-were-book-steven/

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Dr. Phillips has closed his practice to new patients as the waiting list was 1.5 years long.  Wanting to focus on broader issues he hired a nurse practitioner and another doctor.

The important news for patients is he has come upon a treatment he feels is a durable remedy for late stage Lyme and bartonella and is raising money to study it in mice for proof.  After that he plans on writing a book about the process.

Dr. Phillips

He and Dana Parish have started a Q & A video series on Facebook to answer questions about Lyme, bartonella, and other co-infections.

https://www.facebook.com/lymebook/videos/679186688953380/  Video 1

If you haven’t seen Dr. Phillips in action before, you are missing a real treat.  This man I can level the CDC in mere minutes.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/01/unedited-interview-with-dr-phillips-fox-5-ny/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/03/dr-phillips-does-it-again/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/11/dr-phillips-completely-trounces-cdc/

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Activism, Bartonella, Lyme, Treatment

Sacrificial Virgins – HPV Vaccine

 Sept. 2017

Sacrificial Virgins: Part I – Not for the greater good

The HPV vaccine is a treatment in widespread use but its efficacy in preventing cancer is medically unproven, while unintended, adverse reactions are blighting and even ending the lives of girls and young women across the world. However, pharmaceutical manufacturers and many health authorities are refusing to acknowledge there is a problem and the medical community is continuing to offer the vaccine. This is the subject of a three-part series of films – Sacrificial Virgins – the first of which was launched on YouTube on 11 September 2017.

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Rob Verkerk, PhD, explains how there is no good current informed consent information being given regarding the HPV vaccine, that many medical practitioners are NOT reporting adverse events, and the importance of having accurate information in order to be able to make an informed consent.  In the UK, if a child is 12, they are deemed Gillick competent and can be vaccinated against the will of their parents.  

In the U.S., currently as of 2016, there are no federal vaccination laws, but all 50 states have laws requiring vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP), polio, and measles and rubella (MMR); however, exemptions exist but vary from state to state.  All school immunization laws grant exemptions to children for medical reasons. Almost all states grant religious exemptions for people who have religious beliefs against immunizations. Currently, 18 states allow philosophical exemptions for those who object to immunizations because of personal, moral or other beliefs.

To find your state laws:  https://vaccines.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=003597   I am happy to report that in my state of Wisconsin, all three exemptions exist.  Please discuss this with your medical professional and consider that if your child has Lyme/MSIDS, their bodies are in a war already.   

For more on Gardasil and HPV Vaccines:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/02/hpv-after-vaccines/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/02/16/gardasil-vasculitis-msids/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/14/gardasil-and-female-reproduction/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/19/motor-and-sensory-findings-in-girls-who-received-gardasil/

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Activism, Lyme, vaccines

PANS/PANDAS, Steroids, Autoimmune Disease, Lyme/MSIDS, & the Need For Medical Collaboration

http://www.neurosciencechicago.com/pans-and-pandas-in-pediatric-diagnostics/  The Neuroscience Center

PANS and PANDAS in Pediatric Diagnostics

PANS is a relatively new term used to describe acute-onset OCD cases. PANS stands for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome and includes all cases of abrupt onset OCD, not just those associated with streptococcal infections. PANDAS, is an abbreviation for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections.

PANS & PANDAS is used to describe the group of children and adolescents who have sudden onset of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorders, and in whom symptoms worsen following conditions such as streptococcal infection (Strep throat & Scarlet Fever), influenza, chickenpox, Lyme disease, and mycoplasma (which causes so-called walking pneumonia). The illness can become a psychiatric emergency within 48 hours, and should be treated by a Pediatrician (or other primary care physician) along with a Psychiatrist.

Currently, the illness is conceptualized as an example of mis-directed immune attack, and might occur because of a kind of similarity between antigens on the viral or bacterial agent and childs own cells – so the body begins to attack itself.

Both PANS and PANDAS are clinical diagnoses. They are made by a physician after clinical evaluation. The history must reveal an abrupt onset of OCD and/or tics (or sudden, dramatic worsening if the child had pre-existing OCD or tics). Laboratory testing will not confirm or negate the diagnosis. Testing can suggest different routes of acute and/or long-term treatment – relevant tests include anti-streptococcal antibody titers, anti-nuclear antibody titers, and a test of immune reactivity, such as an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) or C-reactive protein.

The primary care physician will likely prescribe antibiotics, nutritional support, and perhaps steroids. Sometimes, IVIG (immunoglobulins administered by IV) or plasmapheresis (a way of purifying blood and then replacing it into the patient). Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is occasionally useful to restore physiologic resilience and aid in stabilizing immune dysfunction. Psychiatric care will likely include traditional anti-OCD interventions such as medication.

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Great, concise information.  A warning; however, about steroids if pathogens are involved as certain steroids (catabolic) can suppress the immune system, allowing infection to proliferate and worsen.  This has happened to many a Lyme/MSIDS patient when they were misdiagnosed initially with things like fibromyalgia, MS, and other autoimmune conditions and given catabolic steroids such as prednisone or cortisone.  https://www.verywell.com/anabolic-steroids-corticosteroids-difference-190456

Not all steroids do this and it’s important not to take a broad brush stroke condemning all when some actually build the body up (anabolic) as well as the fact patients may even require small doses of catabolic steroids such as cortisol if they aren’t making enough.  Blood tests are often used along with a clinical diagnosis to determine these imbalances. http://www.hormone.org/diseases-andconditions/adrenal/adrenal-insufficiency

So type of steroid is important as well as dose.

Nothing’s ever simple, is it?

And to confuse things even more

                  HLN, Published 2012, Approx. 8 min.

What if an apparently normal, intelligent and productive person suddenly became psychotic, violent and unstable? Susannah Cahalan, tells her frightening story in the book Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.

In this case, Cahalan was finally diagnosed after the doctor had her draw a clock, a common test for Alzheimer’s patients.  When she drew it, all the numbers were on the right side, demonstrating that the right side of her brain was not functioning as well as the fact her problem was neurological not psychiatric.  She was found to have autoimmune encephalitis and the treatment is very high doses of steroids which suppress the immune system as well as IVIG, a blood product prepared from the serum of between 1,000 and 15,000 donors https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809480/, and plasmapherisis, a plasma exchange to rid the body of abnormal antibodies http://plasmapheresis.net.

  Her doctor, then Staten Island surgeon, Dr. Najjar, speaks here about the professional isolation he felt due to the lack of collaboration between the disciplines of psychiatry and neurology.

This problem also exists for Lyme/MSIDS and must change.

 Boy’s Lyme Disease Morphs into Autoimmune encephalopathy.  It took 10 years and 20 doctors to find out 12-year-old Patrik had Lyme disease. Just 4 months later the doctors discovered he also has a condition where his immune system attacks his brain.  Dr. Souhel Najjar, Cahalan’s doctor, heroically saves the day again.

  (Trailer  here)  Zero Media  Published 2017.

These stories are critical to share and with today’s technology we can do this easily.  Please pass this on to every parent you know as it may save another life.

For more on psychiatric Lyme/MSIDS: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/10/18/psychiatric-lymemsids/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/17/lymemsids-and-psychiatric-illness/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/26/can-lyme-steal-your-mind/

 

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Activism, Lyme, PANS, Psychological Aspects, Treatment