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Irish Rep Criticizes Minister of Health Regarding Lyme Disease

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/cllr-maura-healy-rae-says-lyme-disease-sufferers-failed-by-the-state-

Cllr Maura Healy-Rae says Lyme disease sufferers failed by the state

Stephen Donnelly

Stephen Donnelly

By  Stephen Fernane

Cllr Maura Healy-Rae has questioned whether the current diagnosis and treatment of chronic Lyme disease in Ireland is suitable to tackle what, for many people, is a debilitating illness.

The Kilgarvan-based Independent representative was referring to a letter sent by the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to Kerry County Council in March.

In the letter, the Minister stated that Infectious Diseases clinics in Ireland are available to patients, and there is no need for Irish residents to travel to other countries for diagnosis or treatment.

Cllr Healy-Rae criticised this, saying the comments have infuriated sufferers of the disease and that it shows a lack understanding on Minister Donnelly and his Department’s part.

Cllr Healy-Rae said testing in Ireland is only able to diagnose those who are recently infected but not those who have been infected over a longer period.

She explained how these tests screen for antibodies. But as chronic Lyme-disease sufferers have suppressed immune systems, their system often does not produce detectable antibodies.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

And herein lies one of the foibles in Lymeland – faulty and arbitrary testing perimeters based on antibodies for a stealth pathogen that hides, evades, morphs, and suppresses the immune system – creating a perfect formula for misdiagnosis, which is exactly what has gone on for over 40 years.

The article delineates how the Irish have to travel to Germany for better testing and treatment – another phenomenon in Lymeland – having to travel great distances to get any help at all.

The rep also points out the the “intensive” treatment required is not even available in Ireland – another issue felt globally in Lymeland.

The rep asks a beautiful question that has been asked for decades:

Why would patients go to such lengths by spending so much money and traveling such distances if they didn’t need to?

According to the CDC, AMA, FDA, NIAID, NIH, IDSA, and other bought out agencies, we are all hypochondriacs simply imagining our illness.

Ms. Healy-Rae’s Facebook page has numerous articles detailing the plight of Lyme/MSIDS patients.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment

Ask A Lyme Doctor: Q & A With Dr. Tania Dempsey

https://www.globallymealliance.org/blog/dr.-tanya-dempsey-questions?

Ask a Lyme Doctor: Q&A with Dr. Tania Dempsey

by Dr. Tania Dempsey on June 2, 2022

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Dr. Tania Dempsey is an expert in chronic disease, autoimmune disorders and mast cell activation syndrome. In this blog, she is answering Lyme related questions that GLA followers submitted via social media.
Are you seeing cases where Covid has re-activated Lyme or ignited new auto-immune diseases or mast cell activation syndrome? -Kimberly H.

We are just at the beginning of really understanding how COVID interacts with our immune system. Since there are few studies that have been published that give us complete clarity on this, much of what I discuss is based on my experience with my patients. What seems clear to me is there is often some sort of vulnerability or predisposition in the patient, like an autoimmune potential, underlying dysfunctional mast cells, or a history of chronic infections, that leads to the complications that we are seeing post-COVID. I have not yet seen post-COVID patients who did not have some hint of an underlying issue prior to COVID. I have patients who have a history of Lyme disease that is well controlled for a number of years but after COVID they see a recurrence in the symptoms that pre-dated their Lyme treatment. Some of these patients have new symptoms and I postulate that it could be related to their underlying old infection that reactivated in a new location in their body or the new symptoms represent a worsening of their immune dysfunction. COVID seems to both stimulate and suppress the immune system, depending on the timing of the infection and on the susceptibility of the person. If the patient has a history of Lyme disease that is chronic/persistent, we know that their immune system continues to be affected. The vast majority of Chronic Lyme patients (in my practice) have underlying dysfunction of their mast cells, even if they have not been formally diagnosed with mast cell activation syndrome. Many of them had a predisposition before being infected with Lyme, which was worsened by the infection. Since infections of various kinds are known to trigger mast cells, chronic infection can cause chronic mast cell activation that then can be triggered further by a new infection, such as COVID. The relationship between mast cells and other immune cells has been well described and MCAS can be a driver of the development of autoimmunity.

How should I deal with post Lyme flare ups? -Debra C.

There are three main scenarios that I see as contributors for “post-Lyme flares”.

  1. Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is a leading culprit for increased symptoms after Lyme treatment. Whether there is underlying primary MCAS or secondary MCAS triggered by the infection, mast cells often continue to be dysfunctional even after the infection is cleared. Mast Cell Targeted Therapy can be very helpful in stabilizing mast cells, minimizing mediator release and thereby minimizing inflammation.
  2. Another important possibility to consider when patients have flares of symptoms after treatment for Lyme, is the presence of “co-infections.” Treating Lyme can make room for other infections to reactivate, like viruses (EBV, HHV-6, etc), Babesia, Bartonella, and many other microbes. It is important to look for other infections while treating Lyme, so as to not miss the need for other types of treatment.
  3. Persister Lyme is a major cause of  “Post-Lyme flares.” The bacteria that causes Lyme, Borrelia Burgdorferi, can exist in a slow-growing, persister form that is resistant to antibiotics and other anti-microbial treatment. Even aggressive treatment for Lyme disease can leave behind these persister organisms that can continue to wreak havoc on the body.
What are the best current treatment for “stubborn” Bartonella? -Deb T.

Bartonella is probably one of the most difficult chronic infections that I’ve had to treat in my practice. It is necessary to use a multi-pronged approach in treatment of Bartonella. Some patients have other co-infections, which complicates the treatment as well. While I don’t think there is a “best” treatment for Bartonella yet, in my practice what I have found helpful is a combination of modalities, which could include SOT therapy (Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique), Ozone therapy, Herbal protocols and/or Antibiotics, and other therapies.

GLA is currently fundraising for The Bartonella Discovery Program, a research project bringing together some of the top researchers world-wide who are experts on Bartonellosis. These researchers will learn more about the bacteria and which treatments are most likely to cure patients.

How do you heal the nervous system after neurological Lyme and Bartonella ravage it? -Katie M.

Healing the nervous system after Lyme, Bartonella or other infections is a complicated process.  Reducing inflammation, not just by treating the infections, but also by targeting the immune cells that can continue to cause inflammation, is key. We have a considerable amount of evidence that mast cells in the central nervous system are in constant communication with other immune cells like astrocytes and microglial cells and together can be a major driver of neuroinflammation. There is no cure for neuroinflammation but there are a vast number of drugs and natural treatments that have been studied and some show promise in reducing the neuroinflammatory process. Some strategies include mast cell targeted therapy, treatment with natural compounds such as proresolving mediators (SPMs), PEA (palmitoylethinolamide), resveratrol, turmeric, and others, and various drugs like low-dose naltrexone, minocycline, NSAIDS, and steroids. Treatment needs to be individualized and other confounding medical conditions should be taken into account when choosing a protocol against neuroinflammation.

The above material is provided for information purposes only. The material (a) is not nor should be considered, or used as a substitute for, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, nor (b) does it necessarily represent endorsement by or an official position of Global Lyme Alliance, Inc. or any of its directors, officers, advisors or volunteers. Advice on the testing, treatment or care of an individual patient should be obtained through consultation with a physician who has examined that patient or is familiar with that patient’s medical history.
GLA Contributor

Dr. Tania Dempsey

GLA Contributor

*Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Dr. Tania Dempsey is an expert in chronic disease, autoimmune disorders and mast cell activation syndrome. She received her MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her BS degree from Cornell University. Dr. Dempsey completed her Residency at NYU Medical Center/ Bellevue Hospital. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. Dr. Dempsey opened the AIM Center for Personalized Medicine, where she currently practices.

Email: info@aimcenterpm.com

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Activism, Babesia, Bartonella, Lyme, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Treatment, Viruses

Upcoming July 12 AONM Webinar: Potential Connection Between Lyme and Breast Cancer

https://aonm.org/upcoming_events/

AONM Webinar with Dr. Eva Sapi

TITLE:  Potential Connection of Borrelia Infection and Breast Cancer

DATE:  12TH JULY 2022

TIME: 19:00 BST (British Summer Time)

20:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time), 14:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time USA)

DESCRIPTION:

Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is known to be able to disseminate and colonise various organs and tissues of its hosts, which is very crucial for its pathogenicity and survival.

Recent studies have shown the presence of Borrelial DNA in various kinds of breast cancer tissues with poor prognosis which raises the question about whether B. burgdorferi could play a role in tumour development.

In this webinar, recent research data will be discussed on the potential role of B. burgdorferi in breast cancer.

Please join us at 7.00pm (UK) on Tuesday 12th JULY. The webinar is free of charge. There will also be ample time for questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

The webinar will be live, and a recording will be available shortly after broadcast.

Please Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q-sHmlu0QK6LsFx024wQNw

AONM Webinar with Dr. Armin Schwarzbach

TITLE:  The Growing Evidence Between Infections and Cancer 

DATE:  28 July 2022 

TIME:  19:00 BST (British Summer Time)

20:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time)

14:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time USA)

DESCRIPTION:

There is significant research to suggest that infections contribute to the forming of, or even cause Cancers. In this fascinating Webinar Dr. Schwarzbach will present evidence that will substantiate this claim. The potential behind such findings are huge for patients worldwide regarding not only unrealised and future therapeutic interventions, but also the prevention of Cancers.

Please join us at 7.00pm (UK) on Tuesday 12th JULY. The webinar is free of charge. There will also be ample time for questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

The webinar will be live, and a recording will be available shortly after broadcast.

Please Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d-WiN6srSsOOPJZlHa32AA

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Activism, Lyme, Uncategorized

The Heroic Dr. Jones & The Gift of a Boy’s Life

https://rescue.substack.com/p/the-heroic-dr-jones-and-the-gift

The Heroic Dr. Jones & the Gift of a Boy’s Life

Before covid and doctors like Pierre Kory, Paul Marik, and Peter McCullough, Dr. Charles Ray Jones saved children from another deadly disease big medicine chooses not to understand: Lyme disease.

Mary Beth Pfeiffer

Editor’s note: Our writer Mary Beth Pfeiffer, an award-winning investigative reporter, is a rare mainstream journalist who has written about flawed policies on covid treatment. Before covid, she wrote articles and a book, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, that told of heroes like Dr. Charles Ray Jones. After a half-century of giving Lyme disease-infected children their lives back, Dr. Jones died in May at ninety-three. “Mainstream medicine never accepted Jones’ way of treating tick-borne illnesses,” Mary Beth says. “It should.” This is the story of one of many children Dr. Jones saved. —MC

Dr. Jones, 87, comforts Troy Murphy, then 11, in a home visit in a Hartford, Connecticut, suburb in December 2016. With a scientific mind and the compassion of a great doctor, Dr. Jones expertly treated Troy and many children who were sickened by Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. For challenging a dogma that strictly limits such care, he suffered a tremendous personal cost. His reward was Troy Murphy’s life. (Photo by Mary Beth Pfeiffer)

Dr. Charles Ray Jones was eighty-seven years old and in his waning days of doctoring when Troy Murphy became his patient in late 2016. Early that year, the boy, age ten, had turned in mere weeks from exuberant, active, and whip-smart in school to unable to eat or walk and consumed by pain. Within months he was living in a hospital bed in the family living room. He was fed through a tube.

For his first appointment, this withered young boy was carried into Jones’ office, screaming and fearful of another doctor. In a three-hour examination he was reassured, and he came to trust. “You can be the same Troy you were before all this happened,” Jones, a giant of a man in a sweatsuit, told him. “You are fixable.”

And so Troy was. Two years later, he returned to school in a wheelchair, first part-time, then, months later, full-time. The following year, he started to walk the halls on his own. Today, six years later, Troy is a high school junior who hopes to try out for varsity soccer. He smiles broadly in family photos. He hikes and banters with his four brothers like he used to. He is happy and whole.

Dr. Jones died on May 15, 2022, at the age of ninety-three, from cardiopulmonary edema. Troy may have been one of the last children saved from disability and even death by this remarkable pediatrician. But, among thousands Jones treated from an office in New Haven, Connecticut, Troy was surely not the only one.

“I still break down at the thought of where we were close to six years ago,” Alison Murphy said of her “walking miracle” and fourth of five sons, Troy. “Dr. Jones was the critical and pivotal person to turn things around for him, and I will forever be grateful for everything he did to bring my boy back.”

Troy had Lyme disease. He seemed to have recovered from the tick-borne infection when, weeks later in early 2016, he was savaged by what was assumed to be a bad flu. This time, however, he lost 20 percent of his body weight, cried incessantly from pain, could not eat or sleep, and was losing control. “What did I do wrong to make this happen?” he asked Dr. Jones in their first traumatic meeting.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Turns out Troy not only had Lyme but Borrelia hermsii; Babesia duncani, Bartonella henselae, and mycoplasma pneumonae. No wonder the poor boy was so ill.

If anyone could unravel that hot-mess, it was Dr. Jones.  A true legend that will be missed more than words could ever express.

For more:

I also highly recommend this article:  Dr. Jones’s Still-Relevant Advice on Children With Lyme  The article goes through symptoms of Lyme in children, behavioral problems, nuances with treatment and more. 

Unfortunately, while Pfeiffer understands and writes about COVID corruption, she has accepted the faulty “climate change” narrative. Spain just admitted it has recently been spraying deadly chemtrails as part of a secret UN program to fight COVID, and previously four state meteorological agency whistleblowers announced in 2015 that planes were regularly spraying lead dioxide, silver iodide, and diatomite throughout Spain to ward off rain and to allow temperatures to rise to create a summery climate for tourism as well as the agricultural sector – producing cold drops of great intensity.

Climate engineering is very real and is causing very real damage.

I assure you, Spain is not alone.

Kristen Meghan, a military chemtrails whistleblower has witnessed canisters of fine, powdered aluminum and barium being shipped to U.S. Air Force bases and being loaded onto jets.

Aluminum and barium are the metals that have been found (and continue to be found) in great excess in soil, rainwater, dust, and blood samples. These are the same metals associated with numerous patents which describe the mechanisms and processes of injecting aluminum and barium into jet engines for the purpose of spraying them into the atmosphere; a process called “geoengineering” by scientists. This also explains why the public witnessed the sudden appearance of trails coming from jet engines which never produced them previously.

Several whistleblowers have come forward exposing ongoing atmospheric spray operations, but Kristen has provided the link between the military and the massive amounts of toxic metals we are all experiencing on the ground.  Go here to watch an informative speech by Meghan.

Category:

Activism, Lyme

New Pathogens Found in Oklahoma Ticks

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/vbz.2021.0057

Detection of Borrelia miyamotoi and Powassan Virus Lineage II (Deer Tick Virus) from Odocoileus virginianus Harvested Ixodes scapularis in Oklahoma

Published Online:19 Apr 2022https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2021.0057

Abstract

Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) is the primary host of adult Ixodes scapularis (deer tick). Most of the research into I. scapularis has been geographically restricted to the northeastern United States, with limited interest in Oklahoma until recently as the I. scapularis populations spread due to climate change. Ticks serve as a vector for pathogenic bacteria, protozoans, and viruses that pose a significant human health risk. To date, there has been limited research to determine what potential tick-borne pathogens are present in I. scapularis in central Oklahoma. Using a one-step multiplex real-time reverse transcription-PCR, I. scapularis collected from white-tailed deer was screened for Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia miyamotoi, Babesia microti, and deer tick virus (DTV). Ticks (n = 394) were pooled by gender and life stage into 117 samples. Three pooled samples were positive for B. miyamotoi and five pooled samples were positive for DTV. This represents a minimum infection rate of 0.8% and 1.2%, respectively. A. phagocytophilum, B. burgdorferi, and B. microti were not detected in any samples. This is the first report of B. miyamotoi and DTV detection in Oklahoma I. scapularis ticks. This demonstrates that I. scapularis pathogens are present in Oklahoma and that further surveillance of I. scapularis is warranted.

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**Comment**

A few points:

  • This article is based upon the faulty premise that somehow “climate change” is causing tick and disease proliferation.  This has been proven to be false yet is continually regurgitated as truth.  This; however, does not mean “the powers that be” are not committing heinous acts of “climate engineering” which IS causing very real destruction of life.
    • This recent article proves Spain has admitted recently spraying deadly chemtrails as part of a secret UN program to fight COVID.
    • Four state meteorological agency whistleblowers announced in 2015 that planes were regularly spraying lead dioxide, silver iodide, and diatomite throughout Spain to ward off rain and allow temperatures to rise to create a summery climate for tourism as well as the agricultural sector – producing cold drops of great intensity.
  • We’ve also been told ad nauseum that Lyme doesn’t exist in Oklahoma and while this research also didn’t find it, it did discover B miyamotoi which symptoms are similar to Lyme. But again, just because they didn’t find it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. The black legged tick is abundant in Oklahoma.
  • Oklahoma is Ehrlichiosis Central and has many other tick-borne diseases:
    • spotted fever rickettsiosis
    • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
    • STARI (which many experts tell me is simply Lyme)
    • Tularemia
    • Heartland Virus
    • Tick paralysis
    • Anaplasmosis

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Anaplasmosis, Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, research, Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Tularemia, Viruses