Archive for the ‘Lyme’ Category

The Red Ring: Live Q & A With Cast and Crew on Lyme Documentary

http://  Approx. 39 Min

The Red Ring Q & A

About This Event:
 
Lyme disease is more than a seasonal scare. In reality, it is a growing epidemic impacting millions in over 65 countries world wide. The Red Ring seeks to raise awareness and dispel the stigma that Lyme is not something to be concerned about. The director, Joonas Berghäll, who suffers from chronic Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections, seeks a cure for his illness.
 
Joonas meets with numerous patients, doctors, researchers and experts from around the world in search for an answer to the core questions:
  • Why is the illness not taken seriously?
  • Why are there hundreds of millions of people suffering?

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For some answers to those questions:  

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Activism, Lyme

Lyme, Tularemia, Rickettsia, & Other Bacteria Found on Children’s Masks

**UPDATE, Nov. 2021**

Watch a series of brief videos where Tyson Gabriel, an industrial hygienist, safety engineer, and risk manager who trains doctors and has 20 years of experience implementing exposure prevention plans in industry, and is lead researcher for his team, examined each mask study on the CDC’s website.  Also see these reports.

Florida Press Release, Parents Cultured Children’s Masks And Found Lyme Disease, Tularemia, Rickettsia, and Other Bacteria

June 18, 2021

The press release dealt with a group of Florida parents who sent cultures of their children’s (ages 6-11) masks, worn at school for 6-8 hours, to a lab. The masks were freshly laundered before they were worn for the day. One adult mask was submitted who works as a cosmetologist.  Also see this news report.

The Lab report using proteomics to extract proteins from the masks to sequence them revealed the following:

While this might be surprising to some, this website has posted on the dangers of mask usage from day one as well as the fact Fauci himself initially stated they weren’t effective, yet people are still wearing them!

  • A 2014 study of hospital workers wearing surgical masks in a Bangkok hospital found their masks to be saturated with Staphylococcus aureus (found on some of the masks in the Alachua study) and the fungus Aspergillus.
  • Another study of hospital workers in China from 2019 observed that after more than six hours of use, masks worn by medical personnel also contained viruses, including adenovirus, bocavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza viruses.
  • Studies have shown that pathogen density on masks grows exponentially after two hours of use. Source

The final nail in the coffin should have been after the Danish mask study  a randomized, controlled trial on thousands of people.  But it didn’t matter.  The spin doctors used their power to shout it down, and any other information showing the dangers and ineffectiveness of mask usage. Merely posting the study got me kicked off LinkedIn.  So much for a free exchange of ideas in the era of COVID.

 
While a Florida appeals court has already ruled that the mask mandate in Alachua County is presumptively unconstitutional because it violates bodily autonomy, the rest of the country is still in question. The Boston Globe is already advocating their use for the flu season. 
 
For Lyme/MSIDS patients, this information should reinforce what we already know.  Ticks are not the sole perp transmitting “tick-borne illness,” and we need much more work done on this issue.  
 
Lida Mattman, the expert on the cell wall deficient forms has stated she believes Lyme is transmitted by fomites, (an inanimate object or substance that is capable of transmitting infectious organisms from one individual to another). But the spin doctors shouting down anti-mask science have also shouted down any work on sexual and congenital transmission. When I asked Elizabeth Burgess if I could interview her, as she has done much work in the past on animal transmission at the University of Wisconsin, she refused – still affected by nearly losing her job and the bullying that occurred for her controversial findings decades ago.
 
Further, Mattman did groundbreaking work on Lyme testing. Her Gold Standard Culture Method has disappeared thanks to the concerted suppression on microscopy. In 2004 she already claimed that she could not find any uninfected blood in the USA anymore.  
 
And now Lyme, Tularemia, and Rickettsia have ALL been found on the masks of children?  
This should cause us all to pause and consider.

For more on guidelines harming children:  https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-covid-19-school-guidelines-are-harming-kids . It became clear early on that children and teens are at very low risk from COVID-19, with a 99.997% survival.

Please consider signing the petition to lift COVID guidelines at school:  https://standforhealthfreedom.com/action/lift-school-covid-guidelines/

 

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Activism, Lyme, Mycoplasma, Tularemia

Tick Season 2021: Why Researchers Are Focusing on Staten Island Backyards

https://www.silive.com/news/2021/06/tick-season-2021-heres-why-researchers-are-focusing-on-staten-island-backyards.html

Tick season 2021: Here’s why researchers are focusing on Staten Island backyards

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For the last four years, researchers from Columbia University have been studying the rise in tick populations and Lyme disease on Staten Island — and the work continues this summer as they drag for ticks, set up hair traps and place trail cameras in residents’ backyards.

The researchers are studying both parks and residential areas to better understand the ecology of ticks and the risk of tick-transmitted diseases in urban environments. And ticks are now being found across all of Staten Island, not just in the southernmost parts.

Most notably, the Asian longhorned tick continues to spread across the borough.

(See link for article)

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For more on Diuk-Wasser’s work.

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Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, research, Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Transmission

Eva Sapi, Lyme Disease Research Group on Antibiotic Resistance of Borrelia burgdorferi

Public Tick IPM WG Call Notes – 6.9.2021  Go here for Dr. Sapi’s presentation

A recording of this webinar is available by visiting this link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vrvbX7HbhcVkrnq37

Dr. Eva Sapi teaches Biology at the University of New Haven and has a research group that studies Borrelia burgdorferi.

Lyme disease numbers are going up with approximately 476,000 of Americans diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease from CDC surveillance data covering 2010-2018.

In vitro and clinical data observing the efficacy of antibiotics against Borrelia burgdorferi found that antibiotics, in some cases, do not work against Borrelia burgdorferi. In the mid-90s, in vivo studies found evidence that antibiotics such as tetracycline, erythromycin or doxycycline, failed to eradicate acute Borrelia burgdorferi infections. Studies turned to a stronger antibiotic, ceftriaxone. These studies also showed antibiotic resistance of Borrelia burgdorferi. These results led to the question of why Borrelia burgdorferi cannot be killed and if any other form(s) exist that are resistant to therapy.

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Very interesting webinar on the persistence of Lyme.

Sapi is also known for her in vitro work with Stevia. When I inquired about dosages, she stated those have not been determined. Dr. Horowitz and many other LLMD’s are using stevia as a biofilm and cyst form disruptor. The new kid on the block is liposomal oregano oil (some also use clove and cinnamon or a combination of the three) based on Dr. Zhang’s work.) When I inquired about these, she stated that these same doctors are also finding results using them but results are anecdotal. Dr. Phillips mentions it in his book “Chronic.” Dr. Ross also mentions it.

I’ve previously used cinnamon, clove, and oregano essential oils (EO’s) put with black seed oil in capsules. When I questioned herbalist Greg Lee on dosage, he agreed with my treatment of a total of 6 drops of EO’s taken twice a day. I never herxed or noticed any recognizable results on this treatment and relapsed on it. Lee spoke about liposomal oils years ago at an ILADS convention, but they were hard to find at the time.

I am currently using the liposomal form of oregano as part of my Bartonella treatment with (Rifampin/Clarithromycin). I’m hoping this combination works and has lasting results. The brand “Doctor Inspired Formulations” within the link can be found cheaper elsewhere, but they are all pretty expensive. I do not have a financial affiliation with anyone. Please note the other liposomal forms they create as well.

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Herbs, Lyme, research, Treatment

Alec Baldwin on Dealing With Years Of Lyme Disease Pain: ‘This Thing Just Attacks Me’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/alec-baldwin-on-dealing-with-years-of-lyme-disease-pain-this-thing-just-attacks-me/

By Julie Mazziotta

Living in the Hamptons around plenty of forests and fields, Alec Baldwin said he and his family “live in fear of Lyme” disease.

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The 63-year-old star has dealt with Lyme disease for the last 20 years, ever since he was first bit by a tick.

“I think twice that I had it, I got bit twice and I probably had it four times over five years where it came back at the exact same time,” Baldwin told hosts Sean Hayes and Dr. Priyanka Wali during an appearance on their podcast Hypochondriactor.

Baldwin explained the onset of his symptoms: “August of one summer I was standing on my friend’s porch at night, and it was a cool evening – it wasn’t a hot steamy evening – and I felt literally this wave go over my back and over my shoulders and kind of wrap around me like a chill, and I got just attacked. It came like someone snapped their fingers and put a spell on me.”

The 30 Rock star said he was unable to get out of bed for several days after.

“This thing just attacks me and I wound up laying in my bed for three days sweating through my sheets and just this horrible joint pain and soreness and exhausted. I couldn’t even get up for like three days,” he said.

(See link for article)

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Activism, Lyme