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1 in 5 Shelter Dogs Infected With Lyme, Co-Infections and/or Heartworm

https://www.lymedisease.org/shelter-dogs-infected-with-lyme/

1 in 5 shelter dogs infected with Lyme, co-infections and/or heartworm

By Leigh Beeson, University of Georgia

Aug. 23, 2023

Long the bane of pet owners’ existence, ticks and mosquitoes are expanding their geographic range due to warming temperatures, frequently bringing disease with them.

A new study from the University of Georgia suggests shelter dogs in the Eastern U.S. may be bearing the brunt of that burden.

The researchers analyzed blood samples from 3,750 dogs from animal shelters in 19 states across the Eastern U.S. to determine the prevalence of heartworm and three tick-borne bacteria.

The study found more than one in 10 of the dogs were infected with heartworm. More than 8% of the dogs had been exposed to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. An additional 10% were infected with bacteria that cause anaplasmosis or ehrlichiosis, which are less well-known diseases contracted from ticks.

Almost 5% of the dogs had multiple infections, meaning many had been exposed to more than one disease-causing agent.

These diseases can easily avoided by using preventive medications. But that often requires access to veterinary care. Unfortunately, many neglected or stray animals that are brought to shelters haven’t received these preventatives for long periods of time, if they’ve had them at all.

For heartworm, infections may be treatable with medication and over even surgery, but it’s an expensive option. Unfortunately, many long-term infections are difficult to treat and may be fatal.

Corinna Hazelrig

Importance of prevention

“This study shows us how important those preventive medications are,” said Corinna Hazelrig, lead author of the study and a current doctoral student in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. At the time of the research, Hazelrig was an undergraduate student in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

“Preventatives can be expensive, and some pet owners may not want to or be able to invest in them. However, these pathogens are common throughout the Eastern United States, and the best management strategy for your pet’s health is to use preventive medications on a regular basis.”

Climate change increasing range of disease-carrying mosquitoes, ticks

Diseases caused by ticks and mosquitoes pose a significant health risk to humans, their pets and wildlife.

Heartworms can cause lasting damage to the heart, lungs and other arteries in animals if left untreated. Lyme disease commonly results in loss of appetite, fatigue and lameness, but it can also damage the kidneys.

Heartworms aren’t a huge concern for people, but Lyme disease can lead to fever, a rash and joint and muscle aches. Symptoms of anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis in people range from fever and severe headaches to more severe conditions, such as brain damage and organ failure.

All three tick-borne bacteria require antibiotics to clear the infection.

Due to climate change, the ticks and mosquitoes carrying these diseases are expanding their geographic range.

“People in the Northeastern U.S. don’t think heartworm is in their region, and people in the Southeastern U.S. don’t think Lyme disease is in their region,” Hazelrig said. “However, we detected heartworm in Maine, and we detected exposure to the causative agent of Lyme disease in Virginia. The change in our climate is allowing the geographic range of ticks and mosquitoes to expand.”

Disease-carrying pathogens pose threat to people

Even for people without pets, the increasing presence of disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes is concerning.

A previous UGA study in collaboration with Clemson University found that areas where more dogs are exposed to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease have higher rates of human infection as well.

Michael Yabsley

“Collectively, these studies highlight the importance of dogs as sentinels for some pathogens that infect humans, including the agent of Lyme disease,” said Michael Yabsley, a co-author on that paper and a corresponding author on the present study.

Yabsley is a professor with joint appointments in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

“These data help us understand the distribution of these pathogens, how their distributions are changing and where we may expect human infections to occur.”

This work was conducted in collaboration with the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC), which has provided prevalence maps for multiple pathogens of domestic dogs and cats since 2012.

These maps are updated monthly and show what’s happening in every county, including areas where there may not have been a risk for some of these pathogens a decade ago. CAPC makes access to the monthly canine data available in its prevalence maps, a resource available free online.

With around a million test results collected monthly from dogs, these maps allow veterinarians, physicians, pet owners and travelers to assess the risk of exposure across the United States and Canada.

Click here to read the study.

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Please learn about so called ‘climate change,’ and the fact researchers must repeat this dogma in order to get government grants.  It is a fact that a lie repeated often enough becomes “truth.”

Similarly to erroneous modeling used to predict COVID deaths, researchers have used erroneous modeling to push a climate narrative regarding ticks and disease proliferation.  The media then regurgitates fake data as a stick to beat us all over the head to spread fear for a much larger, nefarious agenda.

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Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, mosquitoes, research, Ticks

Leprosy in Florida

**UPDATE**

According to this, ticks have the potential of acting as a reservoir and/or vector of leprosy.  Mycobacterium drugs have also been found to help chronically infected Lyme/MSIDS patients.  Nobody is talking about this connection, but the following connections have been discussed:

  • Researchers in both India and the U.K. have found links between leprosy adverse events and COVID shots in people previously diagnosed with leprosy.
  • Zoonotic transmission from armadillos (but nobody’s been around them that’s infected)
  • International human migration (which doesn’t explain why Texas hasn’t been hit with leprosy)

According to the CDC, leprosy is very rare in the U.S., with fewer than 200 cases reported per year and most contracting it in a foreign country.

Dr. Robert W. Malone said he believes the sudden reporting on leprosy is “fearporn,” but added, “There is no question that being immunosuppressed is a key factor to contracting leprosy.”

He added:

“Therefore, as mRNA inoculations cause immunosuppression, it has been hypothesized that in some individuals this could pose a higher risk of contracting the disease after vaccination.”

http://  Approx. 11 Min

CDC Issues Alert on Leprosy

Aug. 4, 2023

Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov

Historically uncommon in the U.S., Leprosy, or Hansen disease is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae.  Florida accounts for 81% of leprosy cases and 159 new cases were reported in 2020.

The CDC is clueless as to transmission but states that prolonged person-to-person contact through respiratory droplets is the most likely culprit, but this has never been proven.

The strains found are the same strains found in 9-banded armadillos in the region so they hypothesize zoonotic transmission.  (Is this sounding familiar yet?)  The fly in that ointment is that these patients have had ZERO exposure to this animal.  Other research suggests international human migration.

Romanov states it is an interesting coincidence that the cases are being found either in Southern states or the sanctuary state of New York where illegal migrants have been flowing over the boarders.

While no research on this has been done on the topic of migration and leprosy in the U.S., researchers in other countries have done this work and found a direct link between migration of people from countries that have leprosy and a surge in leprosy cases.  Spanish researchers found that their spike in leprosy was not related to African migrants but from South American migrants (Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and other South and Central America nationalities).

South American immigrants in North America increased from 27.6 M in 1990 to 58.7 M in 2020 so even the CDC admits the potential link to migration and leprosy cases in nonendemic areas, yet people continue to flow over the border.  According to this report, there are nefarious reasons for this.

  • Both Texas and California are allowing immigrants to be peace officers even though they know nothing about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
  • Texas’ Gov Abbot built a facility to house 200,000 illegals who are bringing infectious & antibiotic resistant diseases such as drug resistant TB.  Tens of thousands of cattle in Texas are now being slaughtered due to these migrants transmitting this TB to the cattle, which further reduces meat in the food supply.
  • They have also built state of the art “schools” to be used as indoctrination camps to potentially weaponize these migrants against U.S. citizens by dangling carrots
  • TrakkaSystems advanced camera technology is being used to capture imaging so journalists and freedom workers on the ground can show the public what is happening at the border and that the problem is much worse than what we are being told.
  • Elon Musk’s Starlink system is used for communications.
  • SpaceX located nearby is allowing illegals to cross that property while others cannot enter.

So what other changes have been occurring in Florida?  Don’t forget the massive release of GMO mosquitoes, i.e. Frankinbugs, which are effective dirty needles spreading disease which are now being seriously considered to “vaccinate” people. This technology goes back to 2010 when Japanese researchers genetically modified mosquitoes to produce SP15 against leishmaniasis (parasitic disease spread by sand flies).

Yes folks, it’s getting more frightening by the day.

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Activism, mosquitoes, research

2 Insects, 2 Bites, 1 Patient: A Lyme Disease & Jamestown Canyon Co-infection

https://www.cureus.com/articles/161559-two-insects-two-bites-one-patient-a-lyme-disease-and-jamestown-canyon-co-infection#!/

Two Insects, Two Bites, One Patient: A Lyme Disease and Jamestown Canyon Co-infection

Nicholas S. Weiler • Eric Niendorf • Igor Dumic

Published: June 10, 2023

DOI: 10.7759/cureus.40222

Peer-Reviewed

Cite this article as: Weiler N S, Niendorf E, Dumic I (June 10, 2023) Two Insects, Two Bites, One Patient: A Lyme Disease and Jamestown Canyon Co-infection. Cureus 15(6): e40222. doi:10.7759/cureus.40222

Abstract

Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne illness across the United States, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks. Jamestown Canyon Virus (JCV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen found mostly in the upper Midwest and Northeastern United States. Co-infection between these two pathogens has not been previously reported since it would require the host to be bitten by the two infected vectors at the same time. We report a 36-year-old man who presented with erythema migrans and meningitis. While erythema migrans is a pathognomonic sign of early localized Lyme disease, Lyme meningitis does not occur in this stage but in the early disseminated stage. Furthermore, CSF tests were not supportive of neuroborreliosis, and the patient was ultimately diagnosed with JCV meningitis. We review JCV infection, LD, and this first reported co-infection to illustrate the complex interaction between different vectors and pathogens and to emphasize the importance of considering co-infection in people who live in vector-endemic areas.

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Lyme, mosquitoes, research, Testing, Ticks, Viruses

Malaria in US for the 1st Time in 20 Years

**UPDATE**

Dr. Peter McCullough states that each year there are a few cases of malaria but travel history and contact tracing are never precise enough to determine where it came from.  He too finds the timing of a malaria “come back” and a new mRNA-based “vaccine” for malaria uncanny.  He warns:  “So next time you hear about an old disease making a comeback, look for some new profitable drug or vaccine on the horizon and be suspicious of a false medical scare to juice up investor interest.”

I couldn’t agree more.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/malaria-found-in-us-for-first-time-in-20-years/

Malaria found in US for first time in 20 years, alarming officials

By
June 26, 2023

Five new cases of malaria — one in Texas and four in Florida — are alarming officials because they were locally acquired, meaning a mosquito in the US was carrying the parasite.

That hasn’t happened since 2003 in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention.

Almost all cases of malaria now seen in the US are from people who traveled outside the country, where they were exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes.

But these five new cases — seen in people who hadn’t traveled abroad — raise fears that local mosquitoes could be spreading the disease to other people.

“It’s always worrisome that you have local transmission in an area,” Estelle Martin, an entomologist at the University of Florida who researches mosquito-borne diseases, told Vox.

Malaria spreads when a person carrying the parasite gets bit by a mosquito. The parasite develops inside the mosquito, which then bites another person — or several other people, infecting them with the parasite.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Predictably, the article makes sure to let the reader know a magic bullet”vaccine” is available, but doesn’t mention the fact that these current malaria cases come less than 2 years after the WHO’s recommendation for widespread use of RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix), the first malaria vaccine for children.  History is filled with examples of vaccine-derived disease as well as “vaccine” reactivation of disease, which are rarely discussed or even mentioned, but happen frequently in Lyme/MSIDS patients and in others with chronic conditions or impaired immune systems (which now includes nearly everyone on planet earth).
  • Also, predictably, the article blames a “warming” climate and refuses to mention the prominent and dangerous role of climate engineering.  Please remember researchers must tout the accepted “climate change” narrative to get government grants, so truth simply doesn’t matter.
  • The article predictably doesn’t mention the thousands of GMO mosquitoes utilizing CRISPR technology that are being released, “coincidentally” in Florida – of which nobody has a clue about the long-term effects and dangers of.  It simply isn’t discussed.  They are also now attempting to use the same CRISPR technology in mice to supposedly curb Lyme disease.  Please watch Dr. Jane Ruby expose how HCQ is the prevention and treatment for all forms of malaria but how the ‘powers that be’ are using a ‘slight of hand,’ to dismiss it.
  • Journalists place information in specific places, with the most important details in the beginning of the article, knowing that many will never read the the entire piece.  In this case, after they prominently display the “warming climate,” clap-trap they finally mention at the end of the article that migration is probably the more likely culprit.  This deflection technique is also used with ticks and Lyme/MSIDS in that that they prominently display and quickly blame the climate and either flat-out deny or mention as a last resort the role of migrating birds and other animals as well as the fact our government has been experimenting on ticks and dropping them out of airplanes for decades.  These inconvenient truths would detract from the end goal of prolific “climate change” propaganda which must be pushed at all costs no matter the lunacy and illogic, leaving truth nowhere to be found

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Similarly to how Lyme is a cousin to syphilis, Babesia, a common tick-borne infection suffered by Lyme/MSIDS patients, is a cousin to malaria.  Both tick-borne illnesses have been improved utilizing meds that treat their cousins and bizarrely enough, malaria was actually used to treat advanced syphilis. Out of nine advanced syphilis patients, six recovered after being inoculated with malaria.  Tens of thousands with neurosyphilis would be eventually be treated at special pyrotherapy asylums using malaria.

Roughly 50% of patients responded to the treatment, presenting with an acute reduction in their neurological symptoms and able to resume their normal lives, freed from the asylum. Of that number, another 50% experienced a full remission. Though the data is incomplete, it is believed that 15% of all patients treated with fever therapy died from complications of the vivax malaria infection (7).  Source

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Activism, Malaria, mosquitoes, vaccines

La Crosse Virus – 2nd Most Common US Virus Spread by Mosquitoes

https://theconversation.com/la-crosse-virus-is-the-second-most-common-virus-in-the-us-spread-by-mosquitoes-and-can-cause-severe-neurological-damage-in-rare-cases

La Crosse Virus is the Second-Most Common Virus in the US Spread by Mosquitoes – and Can Cause Severe Neurological Damage in Rare Cases

By Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Assoc, Professor of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, University of Tennessee

Sept. 9, 2022

For the Laudick family of Greensburg, Indiana, life forever changed on Aug. 5, 2013. That was the day 4-year-old Leah Laudick told her mom, Shelly, that she had a bad headache.

Two days later, Leah was hospitalized nearby with worsening headaches and a slightly elevated white blood cell count. She slept for most of the day and by Aug. 9 was largely unresponsive.

That day, during her transfer to Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Leah had her first of several seizures. Doctors were unable to identify her illness – tests for diseases like meningitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and herpes simplex all came back negative.

One day later, on Aug. 10, Leah’s brain activity stopped. That evening she passed away in the arms of her grieving parents.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A Bill Gates funded factory breeds 30 million mosquitoes to release in 11 countries and genetically modified mosquitoes are now vaccinating humans.

What could possibly go wrong?

Mainstream media & medicine will not connect the fact that millions of mosquitoes are being released all over the world with subsequent changes in ecology, disease transmission, human/animal health, the fact DARPA is involved and where “toxicity is health, and the old crazy is the new normal.”  BTW: it’s happening in Lymeland too.

Just repeat “It’s safe and effective.”

SUMMARY:

  • The only reason we know about this case is due to Leah’s father emailing the author (an associate professor of entomology) asking how he could help with her work and agreeing to tell their story.
  • The family learned a few months after her death that La Crosse virus was the culprit.
  • While West Nile Virus makes up more than 90% of annual viral infections from mosquitoes or ticks, La Crosse is the next most prevalent virus causing 2% of mosqui or tickborne viral infections a year which extrapolates out to 50-150 cases per year.
  • Historically most cases occurred in the upper Midwest but the majority now occur in the southern Appalachia region.
  • Nobody knows why but there’s plenty of trollop about the climate
  • It is carried and transmitted primarily by the eastern tree-hole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus, a native species found throughout most of the Eastern U.S. This mosquito’s preferred habitat is places with obvious tree holes for female mosquitoes to deposit their eggs, such as hardwood forests.
  • It may also be transmitted by two exotic and invasive mosquito species: the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, and the bush mosquito, Aedes japonicus.
  • It’s hard to diagnose because it looks similarly to the flu.
  • The only way to test for it is to send it to the completely and utterly corrupt CDC, which monopolizes testing and maligns any other labs or tests.
  • Cases tend to cluster in local communities so those successfully diagnosed can tell local doctors and officials it is present in their area.
  • Symptoms start with fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headache that lasts nearly 2 weeks.  Most recover; however, like West Nile, it is neuroinvasive and the immunocompromised can have severe cases which are typically discovered in the hospital after experiencing a seizure, coma, partial paralysis of one side, or an altered mental state.  Some experience long term neurological damage and in rare cases, death.
  • Similarly to Lyme/MSIDS, the best antidote is to prevent the bite in the first place:
    • get rid of outdoor objects that catch and contain water to reduce mosquito breeding
    • avoid mosquitoes by staying inside during peak hours in the early evening
    • use repellents like mosquito coils, and bug spray
    • wear light clothing

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Activism, mosquitoes, Testing, Viruses