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Deadly Meat Allergy

A man suddenly has a cardiac arrest at home and the cause of his medical emergency is a mystery! Let’s solve the mystery together and learn about shock, septic shock, anaphylactic allergies and more!  Scroll to about the 14 minute mark to finally hear he has Alpha Gal.

This video was adapted from a published medical case report: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…

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It’s far from straight-forward just like Lyme/MSIDS.  So many unknowns.
 

 

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Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Gut Health, research, Testing, Ticks

Sharp Rise in Lyme Cases Due to Change in How They Are Reported

https://www.lymedisease.org/sharp-rise-in-lyme-cases/

Sharp Rise in Lyme Cases Due to Change in How They Are Reported

Reported Lyme disease cases in the U.S. rose nearly 70% in 2022. The CDC says it’s not because of a large increase of new infections, but rather because of a change in reporting requirements.

According to the CDC, there were more than 62,000 reported cases in 2022. This was up from about 37,000 a year from 2017 through 2019.

Although the CDC estimates that about half a million people get Lyme disease in the US every year, “reported cases” are those which follow a strict case definition and specialized requirements.

In the past, in order for a Lyme case to be officially counted, local health departments needed to go through a complicated verification process for each case. In 2022, reporting requirements were eased in states the CDC considers “high incidence.” In those states, Lyme cases are now counted based solely on a positive Lyme test.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CNN

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**Comment**

Ha, ha, ha….this is a joke.

The chance of getting a positive test is akin to winning the lottery, so numbers in reality are exponentially higher yet.

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It’s important to clearly understand that government sanctioned Lyme testing (like COVID testing) is utterly useless:

 

 

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Uncategorized

ALS & MS Suspected in Woman Later Diagnosed With Bartonella & Lyme Disease

https://danielcameronmd.com/als-and-ms-suspected-in-woman-later-diagnosed-with-bartonella-and-lyme-disease/

ALS AND MS SUSPECTED IN WOMAN LATER DIAGNOSED WITH BARTONELLA AND LYME DISEASE

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After developing multiple neurologic symptoms following a spider bite, a woman tests positive for Bartonella. Yet, her symptoms are attributed to possible multiple sclerosis (MS) or ALS. Just prior to having hip surgery, additional tests confirm that she is positive not only for Bartonella, but for Lyme disease, as well.

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In their article, “Bartonella- and Borrelia-Related Disease Presenting as a Neurological Condition Revealing the Need for Better Diagnostics,” Ericson and colleagues describe the case of a 61-year-old female, who experienced a painful bite while hiking in Minnesota.¹

It was diagnosed as a spider bite because of the two large bite marks present and the painful sensation. One day after the bite, a large blue ring appeared around the bite and the woman developed muscle aches and pains.

The woman was treated with doxycycline for two weeks, which decreased but did not resolve the arthritic pain.

Five months later, her symptoms progressed to include blurry vision, lack of balance, muscle pain, night sweats and insomnia.

At this point, testing for Lyme disease and Bartonella were negative.

After expressing continued concern about having Lyme disease, she was referred to an infectious disease physician, who stated that he “did not believe in persistent Lyme disease.” She was then referred to a neurologist for an MRI.

“At this time, her blood was used in a research study aimed at developing new PCR diagnostic techniques for Bartonella infections,” the authors state.

This new PCR test confirmed the presence of both Bartonella vinsonii and Bartonella henselae.

One year after infection, the patient visited an integrative medicine physician who prescribed clarithromycin and rifampin based on symptoms consistent with a Bartonella infection.

However, her symptoms continued and she was referred to a physical therapist, who prescribed a wheeled walker. Her primary care physician attributed her symptoms to possible ALS or MS.

“She reported to multiple physicians that her hips sounded like popcorn whenever she walked or climbed stairs.”

Hip x-rays revealed a loss of cartilage. She had bilateral hip degeneration, which would require hip replacements.

Prior to surgery, the woman underwent another round of tests for Bartonella. And again, test results confirmed for a second time the presence of Bartonella.

However, in addition, testing revealed “a spirochete-like organism” in a buffy coat smear sample.

“Given her symptomology and the known possibility of co-infections in Lyme disease, the spirochete was suspicious for Borrelia burgdorferi.”

Testing for Lyme disease was positive.

Once the woman began treatment for Lyme disease, her condition improved.

However, “Despite the intermittent use of antibiotics for five years, the patient remains positive for Bartonella henselae and Borrelia burgdorferi.”

If she ceases taking antibiotics, her symptoms recur within 3 months.

Authors Conclude:

  • “This case report illustrates the inadequacy of conventional tests in diagnosing Bartonella spp. infections, and the potential promise of enhanced techniques.”
  • Serology and other antibody-based tests are usually used for Bartonella and Borrelia detection. However, this patient never tested positive through serology but was positive by FISH and PCR testing.
  • “The limitations of serology for detecting an active infection need to be more clearly understood by the medical community.”
References:
  1. Ericson ME, Mozayeni BR, Radovsky L, Bemis LT. Bartonella- and Borrelia-Related Disease Presenting as a Neurological Condition Revealing the Need for Better Diagnostics. Microorganisms. 2024; 12(1):209. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12010209

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**Comment**

Incredible work here, and it’s easy to see why: the funding for it was independently obtained through the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and all the authors are serious researchers who are not part of the Cabal.  I know three of them personally and Dr. Mozayeni is a widely known and respected LLMD.  This work would NEVER happen in mainstream research which is completely bought out and untrustworthy.  Ericson, whose son had a severe Bartonella infection, continues to do amazing work:   https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/27/advanced-imaging-found-bartonella-around-pic-line/

This study shows perfectly what patients have been up against for decades: negative serology, coinfection involvement making the CDC definition meaningless, and transmission by other insects and arachnids.

But, nobody will care about this work except patients and the doctors who dare to treat them.

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Bartonella, Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment

Deciphering Lyme Disease

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/right-now-lyme-disease

Deciphering Lyme Disease

by Jonathan Shaw

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2024

WHOLE-GENOME sequencing of hundreds of samples of Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has revealed why the severity of the illness varies from place to place and person to person. The findings suggest new strategies for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme—the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America and Europe, and one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States.

Assistant professor of medicine Jacob Lemieux spearheaded the sequencing effort beginning in 2017. Lemieux had become interested in tick-borne disease several years earlier, when he was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of professor of immunology and infectious diseases Pardis Sabeti. A colleague had mentioned the genetic similarities between the parasites that cause babesiosis (a disease also spread by ticks) and malaria, which Lemieux had studied previously. Intrigued, he and Sabeti, one of the world’s leading geneticists studying the biology and evolution of human disease, published the whole-genome sequence of the Babesia parasite in 2015.

On the heels of that success, they expected their sequencing of Lyme-causing bacteria to take perhaps six months. “It took more like six years,” says Lemieux. “It turned out that the genetic diversity of Lyme disease is orders of magnitude harder to handle than any other pathogen.” And that complexity is associated with the wide range of Lyme disease symptoms—from severe arthritis in children to fatigue and potentially debilitating joint, neurological, and cardiovascular symptoms in adults—that persist in some patients for months or even years after treatment.

Rather than being concentrated in one place, “The genome of the Borrelia spirochete [it is a spiral-shaped bacterium] is shredded,” he explains. “There is one chromosome,” the double-stranded linear sequence of DNA found in most living cells, “but then there are about 20 plasmids.” Plasmids are small, circular strands of DNA that can replicate independently of the DNA in the main chromosome. And though extremely difficult to sequence, they turned out to be critical to understanding variations in the severity of Lyme disease.  (See link for article)

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A few key points:

  • Patient samples were primarily from those with the “classic” bullseye rash, which while diagnostic of Lyme is highly variable and often not seen at all in many patients.
  • The group focused on strains that disseminate easily.
  • A study author who also studies COVID states BOTH diseases have plasmids that used to be viruses that infected bacteria.
  • Notably, the most severe cases had a surface protein with plasmids that occur only in certain strains that are associated with virus-derived plasmids. Some of the genes encode lipoproteins on the bacterial surface which appear to protect the bacteria against immune assault.
  • The authors state their discovery will allow for better diagnostic tests that can single out those at risk of severe disease, which could in turn help researchers test whether longer treatments are more effective against these more dangerous strains.
  • Predictably, the group is pushing for a “vaccine” to “block” the illness from ever occurring.
  • The team included none other than Allen Steere who first identified the disease affecting children in Lyme, Connecticut that he wrongly attributed to juvenile arthritis. His continued myopic focus on Lyme arthritis is worth noting as the disease(s) in the literature has shown it to cause dermatological, neurological, and neuropsychiatric manifestations since the 1800’s. He was also named in the racketeering lawsuit alleging he colluded to deny persistent infection. He is a pharma consultant, co-author of the antiquated and unscientific IDSA Lyme guidelines and a CDC/EIS biowarfare officer which is chartered with responding to biowarfare agents released on U.S. soil, as well as developing vaccines against them. He also worked for the private Yale Corporation that worked closely with the biowarfare tick lab in Connecticut. Steere personally oversaw the Lymerix vaccine trials and associated tests run by the company that licensed the vaccine from his previous employer.  Steere personally testifies against doctors who who treat chronic Lyme.  Source

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Lyme, research, Testing, vaccines, Viruses

Lyme Disease Test Lawsuit Settled & Dismissed

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/01/lawsuit-over-at-home-lyme-disease-test-gets-dismissed-after-settlement.html

Lawsuit over at-home Lyme disease test gets dismissed after settlement

By Greta Jochem | gjochem@repub.com

SPRINGFIELD — A class action lawsuit alleging that an at-home Lyme disease test is faulty was voluntarily dismissed last week in U.S. District Court in Springfield after a settlement.

Moira Kerans, a Dalton woman, and TruthCures, a Kansas-based nonprofit group, filed a lawsuit in June against LetsGetChecked, arguing the company’s home Lyme disease tests are deceptive and inaccurate.

On Dec. 28, the plaintiffs filed to voluntarily dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be brought again.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The class action lawsuit alleges that the LetsGetChecked test is not accurate.

Sadly, this can be said about ALL testing for Lyme, particularly the FDA “cleared” 2-tier CDC testing, which was rigged for vaccine purposes by leaving out two highly specific bands.

As with most settlement cases, the terms are confidential so we will never know what went on behind closed doors.  The only thing that was brought to light was that the company will never again sell these tests directly to consumers.

The complaint asked for $5 million in damages and a jury trial. In the end, each side paid its own costs and attorneys fees, according to the voluntary dismissal paperwork.  Evidently the amount of money in the agreement was “minimal.”

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Activism, Lyme, Testing