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Ticks on the Move Due to Migrating Birds and Photoperiod – Not Climate Change

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Here is Aparna Taylor, ND, MSc from Calgary, Alberta on the right with a poster presentation at the recent ILADS conference in Chicago of John and Catherine Scott’s work on the spread of ticks.  Study found in the Journal of Veterinary  Science and Medicine:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/scott-scott-2018-ticks-and-climate-change-jvsm.pdf

I break it down here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/, and explain that according to the Scotts, there are numerous problems with the climate change model regarding tick proliferation and therefore, the spread of tick borne illnesses.

  1. Climate-change researchers overlooked and did not take into account established populations of I. scapularis found in the late 1960’s in the upper Midwest, as well as at Manitoba in 1991, in their climate change model maps. Even game hunters remember ticks on the heads and necks of deer in the 1950’s and 1960’s in northwestern Ontario and southern Manitoba. The faulty climate change maps are devoid of any ticks in those areas – yet experience shows otherwise. This has been the experience of patients across the globe as well.
  2. If there was any substance to climate warming in propagating ticks the Amblyomma americium (lone star tick) would have become established in the southernmost part of Ontario, but they haven’t.
  3. The progression of studies used by climate change researchers follows the order in which they were conducted not the result and progression of climate change.  Just because U.S. studies start in the early 80’s does not mean that was when ticks were established. As noted before, ticks and spirochetes have both been found in fossils, obviously long before the 80’s. This demonstrates climate adaptability.
  4. Climate change models overlook the fact that deer ticks were established in northwestern Ontario, southern Manitoba and were already in central Canada prior to 1970. What they predict to happen in the future has already happened in Canada. Their oversight caused a skewed rate of tick expansion and a miscalculation of northward projected movement.
  5. Ticks are marvelous ecoadaptors and find snow and leaf litter when conditions become harsh.  Warmer winters are in fact lethal to I. scapularis (black-legged) ticks. In fact, overwinter survival dropped to 33% when the snow melted. This has been substantiated by other researchers as well.
  6. Yearly bidirectional, songbird migration in spring and fall is behind tick expansion and the climate change model actually reflects migratory flight not warmer futuristic temperatures.
  7. Scott’s in-house tick studies have shown that black-legged ticks require 14 hours of daylight to molt. If ticks can’t molt, they can’t move on to their next life-cycle. Photoperiod is innate and can not be altered by the climate.

He states:

“The hypothesis that I. scapularis ticks will expand further north in the Prairie Provinces because of climate change is not only unscientific, but deceiving.”

I’ve been following the Scotts’ work for years as they are also patients who have been infected for decades with tick borne illness and who have done their own independent work.  I am thankful for them and the honest, transparent work they do.  As often happens in TBI research, the honest researchers are ignored while those pushing an agenda move forward.  Do not be fooled.

“For blacklegged ticks, climate change is an apocryphal issue.” -John Scott

Please spread the word that climate data will not help patients one iota.

For an excellent interview with John Scott:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/14/canadian-tick-expert-climate-change-is-not-behind-lyme-disease/ (He also explains the bogus Lyme vaccine as well)

**UPDATE July 2022**

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.

A formerly classified US military document titled “Forest Fire As A Military Weapon” is a truly shocking exposé of planned scorched Earth destruction. The US Forest Service actually participated in the research and planning that went into this military instruction manual for carrying out orchestrated forest fire catastrophes. What part have climate intervention operations played in the preparation of forests for extreme and unprecedented incineration all over the world? A short video report reveals the shocking degree of research that the US military and the US Forest Service has put into preparing forests for extreme incineration.  Go here if Youtube censors the video.

Climate change alarmists are barking up the wrong tree.  Climate engineering by our own government is causing weather changes and untold environmental damage.

Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine For Pain: Groundbreaking Study

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/acupuncture-beats-injected-morphine-pain-groundbreaking-study?

Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine for Pain: Groundbreaking Study

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Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine for Pain: Groundbreaking Study

An amazing new study has found that acupuncture, the ancient practice of using needles to stimulate bodily self healing, is more effective than intravenous morphine for pain. 

A truly groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine titled, “Acupuncture vs intravenous morphine in the management of acute pain in the ED,” reveals that acupuncture — one of the oldest techniques to treat pain — is more effective, faster in relieving pain, and with less adverse effects, than intravenous morphine.

The study was conducted over the course of a 1-year period at the Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital in Tunisia, a tertiary care facility with over 100,000 Emergency Department (ED) visits per year.

300 ED patients with acute pain were included in the study: 150 in the morphine group (administered up to 15 mg a day) and 150 in the acupuncture group. The two groups were comparable in terms of age, sex, and co-morbidities, with the only significant difference being that there were more abdominal pain patients in the morphine group and more low back pain cases in the acupuncture group.

The striking results were reported as follows:

“Success rate was significantly different between the 2 groups (92% in the acupuncture group vs 78% in the morphine group P b .01). Resolution time was 16 ± 8 minutes in the acupuncture group vs 28 ± 14 minutes in the morphine group. The difference was statistically significant (P b .01). The mean absolute difference in pain score between the 2 groups was 7.7. This difference is not clinically significant because the minimal clinically significant absolute difference reported by Todd et al is 13. In morphine group, the mean total dose of morphine administered was 0.17 ± 0.08 mg/Kg (Table 2).

The pain scale change from baseline at each time point in the 2 groups is shown in Figure. From the 5-minute time point, the acupuncture group reported significantly larger pain decrease compared with the morphine group. This difference persisted during the entire study period. Change of blood pressure, HR, RR, and oxygen saturation was not significant in both groups.

Overall, 89 patients (29.3%) experienced minor adverse effects: 85(56.6%) in morphine group and 4 (2.6%) in acupuncture group; the difference was significant between the 2 groups (Table 3). The most frequent adverse effect was dizziness in the morphine group (42%) and needle breakage in the acupuncture group (2%). No major adverse effect was recorded during the study protocol. (See Table 4.)”

In short, the acupuncture group saw a great pain-relieving effect, which occurred faster, with significantly less side effects.

A graph from the study showing the pain-decreasing differences between morphine and acupuncture

Discussion

Since 1996, the World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as a safe and effective therapy for the treatment of a wide range of conditions, including pain and discomfort.1 Despite this, the use of acupuncture within the conventional standard of care is still exceedingly rare. A deep skepticism exists for therapeutic modalities that do yet have a clearly characterized mechanism of action, as defined through conventional biomedical understanding and terminology. Often, in lieu of this, its therapeutic effects are written off as merely “placebo.”

Placebo, however, is not as diminutive term as it may first seem.  The placebo effect actually reflects the deep power and regenerative capability of the body-mind to heal itself. And since its power translates directly into real, measurable improvements in terms of clinical outcomes, it does not matter if we fully understand “how” it works. Also, consider that “evidence-based” (EB) medicine not only depends entirely on clinical outcomes as final proof of an intervention’s efficacy, but also, the entire EB medicine model depends on “controlling” for the placebo effect, as it is already tacitly recognized as having immense power in influencing the outcomes in most interventions. And so, whether or not a fully known or plausible “mechanism of action” has been identified is secondary in importance to whether it works or not in clinical practice.

Acupuncture happens to be one of the most extensively supported alternative modalities, with clinical trial data supporting its value in over 100 different conditions. If you do a pubmed.gov search you’ll find over 6,700 published studies related to the keywords “pain” and “acupuncture.” You can view the primary literature we have gathered on the topic on the GreenMedInfo.com Acupuncture portal:

Clearly the new study reveals that acupuncture has a powerful role to play in pain management. With addiction to pain relieving drugs affecting millions around the world, acupuncture is perfectly poised to provide patients a time-tested, drug-free alternative. As you can see from the study’s graph, the adverse effects comparison is staggeringly in favor of acupuncture as the safer modality.

Finally, here are the study’s powerful conclusions:

Our study demonstrated that in patients with acute pain syndromes presenting to the ED, acupuncture is at least as efficacious and has a better safety profile than IV morphine. The results of this study suggest that acupuncture has a potential role in controlling acute pain conditions presenting to EDs and appears to be safe and effective. Future studies should be performed in international populations. “

References

1 World Health Organization. Acupuncture: review and analysis of reports on controlled clinical trials; 2002.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.

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More on pain management:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/08/thc-vs-cbd-for-pain-the-differences-interactions/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/24/medical-marijuana-for-lyme-a-doctors-perspective/

DMSO/MSM: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/02/dmso-msm-for-lyme-msids/
LDN: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/12/18/ldn/, https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/12/ldn-reduced-pro-inflammatory-cytokines-in-fm-after-eight-weeks/
Magnetic Fields: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/15/treating-pain-with-magnetic-fields/
Laser Therapy: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/27/march-2018-support-group-laser-therapy/, https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/04/08/class-iv-laser-therapy/
Heat: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/28/hotter-bodies-better-at-fighting-disease/

Enzymes:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/05/how-proteolytic-enzymes-may-help-lyme-msids/

One Third Finish Ticks Carrying at Least One Disease Pathogen

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/one_third_of_ticks_in_finland_carry_at_least_one_disease_pathogen/10488767  2/11/18

One third of ticks in Finland carry at least one disease pathogen

Thanks to a growing tick database at the University of Turku, researchers have new insights into the disease pathogens that the tiny, blood-sucking arachnids carry.

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Close-up photo of taiga tick specimen. Image: Maija Laaksonen / Turun yliopisto

Around a third of the ticks in Finland – mostly found in the south – carry at least one pathogen. Two percent of the persistent arachnids carry several disease-causing agents, researchers at Turku University said.

About 30 percent of common ticks and 24 percent of taiga tick populations have been found to carry one disease pathogen. Common ticks more commonly carry several disease causing pathogens than taiga ticks, according to the researchers.

The most common pathogen found in the ticks was Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterial species that causes Lyme disease in humans – an illness referred to locally as borreliosis – and was found in 17 percent of the ticks at the university’s growing tick database bank.

Lyme disease cases are treated with aggressive antibiotics, without necessarily determining which specific bacterium is responsible for the infection.

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Common tick specimen. Image: Maija Laaksonen / Turun yliopisto

New research has revealed that ticks on the south coast carry the most pathogens but the region is home almost exclusively where the most common ticks – Ixodes ricinus or castor bean ticks – are found.

Both castor bean ticks and taiga ticks are now commonly found in areas across central Finland, the researchers said. Even further north, the tick populations are quite similar to ones in central areas, but the taiga has become more common in the north.

About three years ago researchers at the university asked members of the public to send in ticks they had found and now the institution has received more than 20,000 ticks. The researchers say that they want to take advantage of the significant amount of information they can learn from the specimens.

Examination of those thousands of tiny arachnids have uncovered many types of disease-causing bacteria and researchers have new insights into the arachnids themselves and the potential illnesses they carry.

The researchers said they hope to learn more about ticks, saying that their research has only begun, and that their study of the ticks will continue for several years. Ultimately, their goal is to find how tick-borne illnesses are transmitted, they said.

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**Comment**

The data just keeps pouring in.  Ticks carry many, many things that infect us.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/01/one-tick-bite-could-put-you-at-risk-for-at-least-6-different-diseases/  It’s up to 18 pathogens and counting…..

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/   Key Quote: “Our findings recognize that microbial infections in patients suffering from TBDs do not follow the one microbe, one disease Germ Theory as 65% of the TBD patients produce immune responses to various microbes.”

The authors state the “Borrelia persistent form,” biomarker can enhance the sensitivity of any LD test. Using the CDC recommended two-tier testing, the study also showed that 72% of individuals classified “negative” by the CDC, were positive for ‘Borrelia persistent form’ and other microbes such as Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia. Co-infections are common and have been documented all over the world.

This seminal work proves that exposure to tick transmitted microbes weakens the human immune system, making people very ill due to the synergistic effects of these pathogens.  This complex then further opens the door to opportunistic microbes, such as Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Epstein-Barr virus and others.

This is exactly what is happening in the real world.  I pray the CDC/NIH/IDSA get the memo.

 

 

 

Advanced Heart Block in Children With Lyme Disease

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00246-018-2003-8

Advanced Heart Block in Children with Lyme Disease

Meena Bolourchi, Eric S. Silver, Leonardo Liberman

 

Original Article

 

Abstract

Background

The clinical course of children with advanced heart block secondary to Lyme disease has not been well characterized.

Objective

To review the presentation, management, and time to resolution of heart block due to Lyme disease in previously healthy children.

Methods

An IRB approved single-center retrospective study was conducted of all patients < 21 years old with confirmed Lyme disease and advanced second or third degree heart block between 2007 and 2017.

Results

Twelve patients (100% male) with a mean age of 15.9 years (range 13.2–18.1) were identified. Six patients (50%) had mild to moderate atrioventricular valve regurgitation and all had normal biventricular function. Five patients had advanced second degree heart block and 7 had complete heart block with an escape rate of 20–57 bpm. Isoproterenol was used in 4 patients for 3–4 days and one patient required transvenous pacing for 2 days. Patients were treated with 21 days (n = 6, 50%) or 28 days (n = 6, 50%) of antibiotics. Three patients received steroids for 3–4 days. Advanced heart block resolved in all patients within 2–5 days, and all had a normal PR interval within 3 days to 16 months from hospital discharge.

Conclusion

Symptomatic children who present with new high-grade heart block from an endemic area should be tested for Lyme disease. Antibiotic therapy provides quick and complete resolution of advanced heart block within 5 days, while steroids did not appear to shorten the time course in this case series. Importantly, no patients required a permanent pacemaker.

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**Comment**

Two things stick out 1) These are all kids 2) They need to be followed for a much longer period of time.  There is a third thing as well and that’s the ineffectiveness of steroids, which has long been known, as catabolic steroids will suppress the immune system allowing the infection to worsen.  Many a Lyme/MSIDS patient has had to learn that fact the hard way.  The next question begging to be asked is are these kids were infected with other TBI’s (tick borne infections) such as Bartonella, Babesia, Mycoplasma, and numerous viruses?  After all, one tick bite could give you 18 and counting different infections:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/01/one-tick-bite-could-put-you-at-risk-for-at-least-6-different-diseases/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/02/13/lyme-disease-treatment/  This link shows the importance of overlapping treatment with many antimicrobials to effectively treat a pleomorphic (shape-shifting), complex bacteria(ish) organism that pretty much defies all convention in the infectious world.  It’s complexity has never been taken seriously by main-stream medicine.

Myopic and limited research such as this worries me greatly.  These kids are young and have full lives ahead of them.  Due to the lack of recognition and acceptance of the complexity of the organisms involved, these children in my mind are in harm’s way and are in great risk of developing serious issues in the not so distant future.  

Please spread the word!

For more on Lyme:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/

Key Quote: “Our findings recognize that microbial infections in patients suffering from TBDs do not follow the one microbe, one disease Germ Theory as 65% of the TBD patients produce immune responses to various microbes.”

And I’ll bet that 65% is still low….

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/27/school-related-difficulties-with-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/23/caring-for-a-child-with-lyme-podcast/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/12/lyme-disease-case-started-with-headaches/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/08/misdiagnosed-how-children-with-treatable-medical-issues-are-mistakenly-labeled-as-mentally-ill/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/04/ld-diagnosis-took-forever-because-of-mental-health-stigma/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/30/child-with-lymemsidspans-told-by-doctors-she-made-it-all-up/

Skull Infection Due to Bartonella

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30319958/

Skull osteomyelitis as a rare complication of cat scratch disease.

Rafee Y, et al. Avicenna J Med. 2018 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

Bartonella henselae, the causative agent of cat scratch disease (CSD), is one of the most common causes of regional lymphadenitis in children. Other less common manifestations of B. henselae infection including fever of unknown origin, neuroretinitis, and osteomyelitis are being increasingly recognized. We describe a 3-year-old female with a recent history of typical CSD involving lymph nodes who developed osteomyelitis of the skull, a very rarely recognized complication of this infection.

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**Comment**

Having spent two days getting my head crammed full of information on Bartonella from some of the leading experts, I chuckle once again at the words, “rare complication” of a disease that frankly is probably going to surpass Lyme disease in sheer numbers and devastation.  Few are studying Bartonella and fewer yet are connecting it to Lyme/MSIDS, yet so many of us have it.

I saw bold, colored pictures of Bartonella in skin, bone, brain, liver, heart, synovial fluid, blood, and the prostrate.  In other words, everywhere.  It was clearly demonstrated that Bartonella can cause long-lasting and even lethal intra-erythrocytic (inside red blood cells) bacteremia in mammals.

In the abstract above, a toddler has a true bone infection from being chronically and inadequately treated for Bartonella.  Being only 3, this study is informative in that this type of infection doesn’t take a long period of time to occur.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884909/  This next link explains that due to facial skeletal anatomy, a bone infection here is more difficult to treat. Bones involved in osteomyelitis of the skull include the mandible, frontal bone, maxilla, nasal bone, temporal bone, and skull base bones.  (Those of you with facial pain can probably identify with this)

While they state it is rare and mostly happens in third-world countries, Bart is going to blow that myth to the wind.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/03/bartonella-treatment/  This link corroborates the above link in that one of the mechanisms of Bart is to compress blood vessels, causing inflammation and edema of the area it infects.  In this case, the marrow.  This of course compromises blood flood and perpetuates a ripe area for the infection to abide.  This explains why the bottoms of our feet feel like someone beat them with a hammer.

In the talks on Bart, I learned that it was all over the area when a port was removed from a patient, indicating the need for continuing treatment to clear up the Bartonella infection in the surrounding tissue.  Please share this information with your doctor.

For more on Bartonella:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/07/fox-news-bartonella-is-the-new-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/07/finally-rt-pcr-detected-bartonella-henselae-dna-on-tissue-valve/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/13/dr-fox-cat-scratch-fever-warning/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/05/11/bartonella-henselae-in-children-with-congenital-heart-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/04/endocarditis-consider-bartonella/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/08/09/a-bartonella-story/