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Lyme Disease Biobank Collects Patient Samples For Research

**Comment**

Both, the Lyme Bio Bank (Bay Area Lyme Foundation) and the Columbia Specimen Bank are listed on this website.  They are on the right hand side of the website and they are both listed under “Lyme Resources.”  May sure you plan ahead if you have blood/specimens you want to donate as paperwork and steps that require some time need to be taken.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-disease-biobank-san-rafael/

Lyme Disease Biobank collects patient samples for research

Aug. 18, 2022

Lyme disease biobank

“With the lack of government initiative to make Lyme and tick-borne diseases easy to diagnose and simple to cure, it’s up to organizations like Bay Area Lyme and Lyme Disease Biobank to expand our understanding of tick-borne diseases.” –Harrison S., LDB participant

“I participated in the Biobank program because I want to support legitimate science—it’s the compass pointing us in the direction that will lead to better diagnostics and therapeutics for Lyme patients. I am grateful that BAL is funding this critical research which is so sorely needed, and doing it expeditiously. It goes a long way to make up for the five decades of inaction by the CDC and HHS.” – Rebecca W., LDB participant

Over three days in June, the Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB) welcomed participants to Gordon Medical Associates, our LDB collection site in San Rafael, California. Persistent/chronic Lyme patients traveled from as far away as Sacramento, California, and Reno, Nevada, to donate blood and urine samples to the Biobank.

Gordon Medical Associates staff with Liz Horn, PhD, MBI (far right), Principal Investigator, Lyme Disease Biobank, with patient samples ready to be shipped to the Biobank

LDB, a program of Bay Area Lyme Foundation, was founded to ensure an adequate number of samples for researchers investigating Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

Over 1000 specimens

Since its inception in 2014, LDB has collected over 1,000 patient samples for the Biobank, and it supports more than 70 projects around the United States. The program collects blood and urine from people who have been diagnosed with acute or persistent/chronic Lyme disease.

Led by Principal Investigator Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, the Lyme Disease Biobank has partnered with Gordon Medical Associates since 2019 to collect samples from patients with persistent/chronic Lyme.

In 2018, the LDB launched its tissue collection program. Lyme patients who have upcoming surgeries may elect to have tissue that would otherwise be discarded collected and stored in the Biobank.

This program is administered by the National Disease Research Interchange which also manages post-mortem donations to the Biobank.

Partnering with MyLymeData

Our partner, MyLymeData, helps generate awareness about the tissue collection program and provides additional information about the tissue samples to researchers using the samples.

“As a doctor who treats Lyme patients, I feel it’s my duty to support finding better diagnostics and treatments for Lyme patients. Lyme is an underfunded and under-researched aspect of chronic illness, and we need all the help we can get.” – Natalie P., ND, LDB participant

“We are extremely grateful to everyone who has donated samples to the Biobank so far. Patients are the key to finding answers to the challenges of Lyme disease—we could not have made such important research gains without your commitment to the cause. We humbly thank you for your participation!” – Linda Giampa, Executive Director, Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Sarah R., LDB participant

Click here to read more about Lyme Disease Biobank.

Participate in future sample collections in San Rafael.

“I hope my participation in the Biobank will lead to a greater understanding of persistent/chronic Lyme disease and that better diagnostics and treatments will be developed from this program. One doctor told me that Lyme was a ‘hippie doctor disease.’ It’s not. Lyme is a true epidemic that must be addressed. Upon walking out into the parking lot, I found I was emotional: I felt like I was going to burst into tears. Someone was listening! I felt I had been heard with compassion and empathy. Thank you!” – Sarah R., LDB participant

SOURCE: Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Related posts:
  1. Donate samples to Lyme Disease Biobank to aid research
  2. Learn about the Lyme Disease Biobank’s tissue collection program
  3. Lyme Disease BioBank Adds Lyme Disease Tissue Collection Program
  4. Lyme biobank provides crucial service to researchers pursuing a cure

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Lyme, research

FOIA Request Uncovers Lab Rat Offspring Got Rib Malformations After COVID Shots

https://www.theepochtimes.com/lab-rats-got-rib-malformations-from-covid-vaccine-moderna-trial-documents

Lab Rat Offspring Got Rib Malformations After COVID Vaccination: Moderna Trial Documents

By Enrico Trigoso
August 16, 2022

Moderna documents regarding their COVID vaccine trial on animals, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, showed that some of the offspring of rats that were injected with Moderna’s mRNA shot developed rib malformations.

The 700 pages contain a portion of the formal Biologics Licensing Application (A) package that a manufacturer is required to submit to the FDA for approval.

The documents have not yet been made public, but were analyzed by former pharma executive Alexandra Latypova and reviewed by The Epoch Times.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • No study report was given, only Moderna’s interpretation of the results done as part of the singular reproductive toxicology test
  • The injection manufacturers didn’t give any dose calculations or justification information for dosage selection
  • Despite results the FDA issued a statement on Jan. 30 saying that there were no adverse effects on postnatal developments
  • The Pfizer shot also caused a 295% increase in abnormal ribs in the offspring of “vaccinated” rats
  • A board-certified OBGYN states that this is an extremely dangerous warning signal which was never brought to the light of day – which means the CDC, Pfizer, Moderna, and prominent medical journals are guilty of lying to the American public and should be held accountable
  • Thorp recently analyzed and verified the most recent Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data related to COVID-19 vaccines and compared them to the influenza vaccines, finding numerous abnormalities.  A summary of his findings:
    • increases in menstrual disorders, miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal cystic hygroma, fetal malformations, fetal cardiac arrest, fetal cardiac arrhythmias, fetal cardiac disorders, fetal vascular malperfusion abnormalities, abnormal fetal surveillance testing, abnormal fetal growth patterns, placental thrombosis, and fetal death.Compared to influenza vaccines, COVID-19 shots posed the following risks:
      • Abnormal uterine bleeding (menstrual irregularity), 1,000 times greater than for influenza vaccines
      • Miscarriages, 50 times greater
      • Fetal chromosomal abnormalities, 100 times greater
      • Fetal malformation, 50 times greater
      • Fetal cystic hygroma (a major malformation), 90 times greater
      • Fetal cardiac disorders, 40 times greater
      • Fetal arrhythmia, 50 times greater
      • Fetal cardiac arrest, 200 times greater
      • Fetal vascular malperfusion, 100 times greater
      • Fetal growth abnormalities, 40 times greater
      • Fetal abnormal surveillance tests, 20 times greater
      • Fetal placental thrombosis, 70 times greater

Category:

research, vaccines

Tick Bites Warning As Woman Waits 29 Years For Lyme Disease Diagnosis

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/tick-bites-warning-after-pauline-bowie-waited-29-years-for-lyme-disease-diagnosis  Article and video here

Tick bites warning as woman waits 29 years for Lyme disease diagnosis

University experts working to understand more about ticks found in Scotland.
 STV News
By Susan Ripoll

A woman who waited 29 years for a Lyme disease diagnosis is warning people about the dangers of a tick bites

Pauline Bowie, from Clydebank, was bitten in 1989 and for decades experienced chronic fatigue, heart problems and joint pain. 

She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and ME, but was still struggling with her symptoms when she heard about Lyme disease.

“I was off work, barely able to get out of bed at times and it was just a throwaway comment from my dad,” the 54-year-old said.

“He had been speaking to a cousin of mine who was getting treated for Lyme disease.”

Pauline googled the virus and finally felt “everything fell into place”.   (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • A ‘throwaway’ comment is quite often how “everything falls into place” for people because  government public health has failed to lead mainstream medicine to truth about this plague. Myths have continued unabated for over 40 years and show no sign of changing.
  • Similarly to this patient, nearly everyone who goes to a regular GP to get standardized testing has a negative test – further propelling the Lyme lies.
  • It wasn’t until this patient, like so many others, uses a more sensitive test – vilified by conflict riddled authorities due to their own patent ownership in testing, that she found out not only did she have Lyme, but numerous other tick-borne infections (TBIs). This is also common in Lymeland.
  • And she, like thousands, if not millions more – don’t receive true help until they see a doctor who specializes in TBIs – who are also vilified and called “quacks” by conflict riddled authorities, and who are hunted down by state medical boards and other professional medical groups and are persecuted for helping patients.
  • The patient admits she’s now in remission but has occasional flare-ups – or relapses, necessitating stints of treatment.  This concept is completely denied, ignored, and vilified by mainstream medicine.
  • She also admits she can do things now she hasn’t been able to do since she was in her 20’s, and that it’s been “life changing.”  DITTO!
  • Scientists as Glasgow University have developed a map where members of the public can upload information about where and when they found ticks, and take samples from hot spots.
  • Evidently people from all over Scotland are stating they’ve never seen ticks like they have this year and the team has found larger numbers in urban areas and gardens, and warns that they are everywhere.
  • The article then gives tick prevention ideas which can also be found here in an article that is more thorough & complete. They also recommend changing into a new set of clothes at the end of your activity which is a good idea.  (Put the others in a tightly secured bag and put in dryer on high for 15-20 min when you get home)
  • They also give a section on what to do if you are bitten.  I believe this article is better.  The article quotes the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS – how to handle a tick bite):

    “ILADS recommends that prophylaxis (preventive treatment) be discussed with all who have had a blacklegged tick bite. An appropriate course of antibiotics has been shown to prevent the onset of infection.

    When the decision is made to use antibiotic prophylaxis, ILADS recommends 20 days of doxycycline (provided there are no contraindications).The decision to treat a blacklegged tick bite with antibiotics often depends on where in the country the bite occurred, whether there was evidence that the tick had begun feeding, and the age of the person who was bitten.  Based on the available evidence, and provided that it is safe to do so, ILADS recommends a 20-day course of doxycycline.

  • Personally, I would treat each and every black-legged tick bite with antibiotics/antimicrobials.  The risk just isn’t worth it. Taking the “wait and see” approach is foolish considering the potential devastating outcome.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Prevention, research, Ticks, Uncategorized

CDC Fails To Acknowledge Neuropsych Symptoms of Lyme & Other TBDs

https://www.lymedisease.org/neuropsych-symptoms-lyme-tbds/

CDC fails to acknowledge neuropsych symptoms of Lyme and other TBDs

Lyme disease and co-infections can bring on a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as pain, seizures, and cognitive impairment. Yet, patients often find that their doctors don’t understand the connection.

In a recent study, Sarah Maxwell, PhD, and co-authors compared official public health information, case reports, medical literature, and the self-reported symptoms of patients with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In the following article, she explains what the researchers found.

By Sarah Maxwell, PhD

Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recognize most neuropsychiatric symptoms of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. This leaves medical providers with scant information regarding the full extent of possible symptom presentation, to the detriment of patients.

Patients would be better served by improved public health recognition and communication regarding the full spectrum of possible tick-borne disease related symptoms, some of which can be quite frightening, such as hallucinations.

In our recent lead article in Healthcare, we found that neuropsychiatric symptoms are prevalent in the medical literature and among patients’ self-reports, but are not recognized by public health officials, specifically the CDC’s: Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Health Care Providers.

In the article, we note that, “The complexity of diagnosis originates from patients presenting with non-specific and multisystem symptoms, with potential misattribution of symptoms by practitioners, regarding psychiatric and associated neurological problems.”

Our mixed-methods approach included a systematic review of the literature on psychiatric and neurological symptoms of tick-borne diseases. We then compared the medical literature to the CDC’s publication: Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Health Care Providers.

CDC only recognizes a few neuropsych symptoms

We found that out of all the neuropsychiatric symptoms reported in the medical literature for common tick-borne diseases, only a few were fully recognized by public health officials.

The table below summarizes the symptoms presented in our study. Column one lists symptoms. Column two lists the tick-borne diseases associated with those symptoms in the medical literature. The third column lists the tick-borne diseases that are associated with the symptom, if any, as recognized by the CDC. The final column shows symptoms that are reported in the literature but not recognized by the CDC.

For example, in the medical literature, the symptom, “difficulty with, or slurred speech (dysarthria),” is associated with five tick-borne diseases: Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, Powassan virus disease (PVD), and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF).

However, the CDC does not recognize dysarthria as a symptom of any tick-borne disease, as noted in the fourth column.

Panic attacks and hallucinations are additional examples reported among Lyme disease patients, but also not recognized in public health guidance to physicians.

Make the comparison

Table 1. Symptom comparison from medical literature and the public health reference manual for common tick-borne diseases.

(RMSF—Rocky Mountain spotted fever; BMD—Borrelia miyamotoi diseases;  PVD—Powassan virus disease; TBRF—Tick-borne relapsing fever.)

Symptom Reported in Scientific and Medical Literature Reported by the CDC Reported in the Scientific Literature, but Not Recognized by the CDC
Headache Lyme disease, BMD, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, anaplasmosis, RMSF, and PVD Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, RMSF BMD, PVD, and tularemia None, headache is the most common presenting neurological symptom among all TBDs
Confusion/Altered Mental Status Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and PVD Confusion: BMD

Altered mental status: ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, RMSF, and PVD

 Lyme disease,

anaplasmosis
Pain Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, tularemia, RMSF, and PVD Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, tularemia, RMSF, and PVD PVD
Seizures Lyme disease, RMSF PVD Lyme disease, RMSF
Vertigo/Dizziness Lyme disease, RMSF None Lyme disease, RMSF
Tingling/Numbness Lyme disease None Lyme disease
Cognitive Function (concentration, memory difficulty, and word recall) Lyme disease None Lyme disease
Paralysis: difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) or Bell’s palsy Bell’s palsy: ehrlichiosis

dysphagia: Lyme disease

 Bell’s palsy: Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis

dysphagia: none

 Dysphagia: Lyme disease
Difficulty with, or slurred speech (Dysarthria) Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, PVD, and RMSF None Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, PVD, RMSF
Low Blood Pressure (hypotension) babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis (also present in TBRF) babesiosis ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and TBRF
Fainting (syncope) Lyme disease, babesiosis None Lyme disease, babesiosis
Depression Lyme disease, babesiosis babesiosis, but uncommon Lyme disease
Anxiety Lyme disease (also present in TBRF) None Lyme disease
Fatigue and malaise Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and tularemia (and other TBDs) None, fatigue and malaise are commonly agreed upon as classic symptoms of TBDs
Mania, panic attacks, delusions, or hallucinations Lyme disease None Lyme disease

We also compared patient self-reported neuropsychiatric symptoms to those recognized by the CDC and the medical literature.

We discovered that patient self-reported symptoms aligned well with the medical case reports, but generally were not recognized by the CDC.

Through an online survey using a convenience sample of patients with self-reported tick bites and concomitant Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, we evaluated patient reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Anxiety, depression, panic attacks

Anxiety, depression, panic attacks, hallucinations, delusions, and pain—ranging from headaches to neck stiffness and arthritis—were common among patients who report a tick-borne disease diagnosis.

Overall, pain and psychiatric symptoms were dominant presentations among survey respondents across all TBD diagnoses, with the majority reporting anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.

Additional reported symptoms also included those not acknowledged by public health officials, including delusions, hallucinations, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

In contrast, Bell’s palsy, often noted as a classic sign of Lyme disease by public health officials, was reported less frequently by the respondents than psychiatric presentations.

Public health guidance does not align with the medical literature or with patient self-reported symptoms in our study.

We conclude that, “Given the multitude of non-specific patient symptoms this study indicates the need for a revised approach to tick-borne disease diagnosis. Our findings suggest the need for improved awareness of the wide range of associated symptoms and communication from official public health sources regarding tick-borne diseases.”

Click here to read the full article.

Sarah Maxwell, PhD, is an assistant provost and associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research and grants focus on tick-borne disease surveillance and patient experiences with Lyme disease. She also serves on the scientific board of the Texas Lyme Alliance.

Category:

Lyme, Psychological Aspects, research

DARPA, Insects, Mad Science & Us

https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/mid-summer-madness-resistance?

GENETIC ENGINEERING

DARPA, Insects, Mad Science and Us

Tessa Lena writes in Mercola.com:

“Irresponsible use of new and very advanced technologies by the military is life-threatening.

Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner.

‘Insect Allies’ is a DARPA (U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects) program designed to genetically modify mature plants in a live environment by releasing insects infected with genetically modified viruses.

Some scientists, although on board with genetic modification in principle, are questioning DARPA’s motives and raising concerns.

Researchers in Singapore, as well as DARPA in the U.S. have developed ‘remote-controlled insects.’

The craziest crazies have somehow escaped the asylum and installed themselves in high positions of power. Insane, they are coming up with one bad idea after another and barking orders at us, mad shine in their eyes and saliva coming out of their mouths. They are crazy — and in charge of institutions, schools, newspapers and armies.

They are running around with their high-tech pistols filled with high-tech poisons and their little sadistic CRISPR scissors. They are crazy — yes, they are crazy — and they are killing us slowly, and sometimes not so slowly. Welcome to the future where toxicity is health and the old crazy is the new normal. We are not crazy — they are crazy — and they have been from the beginning. And in 2020, they stopped pretending. What now?

You may think that you have seen it all but here is a great idea. Take some insects, infect them with a genetically modified virus designed to genetically edit mature plants in real time, and release them. Release them into wild and repeat, ‘it’s safe and effective.’

Sweet idea, right? Well, DARPA thought so, and so in 2016, they started a project called “Insect Allies” that is designed to do that. (This is a different project from Oxitec’s controversial release of GM mosquitos.)

DARPA’s official story is that in the name of national security, a good way to protect the American crops from potential threats is to genetically modify them using GM viruses as genetic modifiers and insects as flying syringes. And that they just need to test it!… Some suspicious peasants may foolishly wonder: What will happen in the short term and in the long term to the people who eat those plants, to the people and animals possibly bitten by those insects, to the wild insects who mate with the infected insects, and to all other life in the area and beyond that may get impacted? What ridiculous nonsense. Here is the answer, peasant: No one knows — and importantly, no one cares. Any more questions?”

Learn more: DARPA, Insects, Mad Science, and Us: Nowhere To Hide:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/darpa-insects-mad-science-us-nowhere-hide/5788125

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Activism, mosquitoes, research, Viruses