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How Much Money is CDC Paying Mathematica to Propagate Their False Lyme Narrative?

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/31334901

How much money is the CDC paying Mathematica to propagate their false Lyme disease narrative?

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

FEB 22, 2023 — 

Please see the latest email addressed to the management team at Mathematica hired by the CDC to promote the false Lyme disease narrative under the guise of “Guidance.”

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “achen@mathematica-mpr.com” <achen@mathematica-mpr.com>, “info@mathematica-mpr.com” <info@mathematica-mpr.com>, “pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com” <pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com>
Cc: “lwx1@cdc.gov” <lwx1@cdc.gov>, “frederick.chen@ama-assn.org” <frederick.chen@ama-assn.org>, “gmarx@cdc.gov” <gmarx@cdc.gov>, “acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com” <acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com” <jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com>, “ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com” <ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com>, “tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com” <tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com” <sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com” <jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sara.berg@ama-assn.org” <sara.berg@ama-assn.org>, “jack.resneck@ucsf.edu” <jack.resneck@ucsf.edu>, “jack.resneck@ama-assn.org” <jack.resneck@ama-assn.org>, “todd.unger@ama-assn.org” <todd.unger@ama-assn.org>, “jon.burkhart@ama-assn.org” <jon.burkhart@ama-assn.org>, “karen.kmetik@ama-assn.org” <karen.kmetik@ama-assn.org>, “sanjay.desai@ama-assn.org” <sanjay.desai@ama-assn.org>, “william_henderson@paul.senate.gov” <william_henderson@paul.senate.gov>

Date: 02/22/2023 9:27 AM
Subject: How much money (taxpayer dollars) is the CDC paying Mathematica to propagate their false Lyme disease narrative?

To the management team at Mathematica,

Here are the facts about Lyme disease:

Persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment has been identified using direct detection methods in academic centers and autopsy findings [i] yet the average patient cannot obtain these tests to justify how sick they are with their chronic active infection. Serology cannot be used to gauge treatment failure or success which makes it the ideal tool for concealing persistent infection.

Serology has allowed the 30-year dogma to persevere [ii] whereas direct detection methods are exposing the exact opposite.

We are dealing with a life-altering/life-threatening infection with faulty/misleading antibody tests, inadequate treatment, no medical training and absolutely no disease control whatsoever; a public health disaster. And what was the reason for the mishandling of this coexisting hidden pandemic you might ask?

A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the vaccine model. You cannot prove vaccine efficacy when we do not know who has or does not have the infection.

The rush to create a vaccine here in the United States promoted the denial of persistent infection and focusing on the acute stage of disease hides the horribly disabled.

With nearly 100,000 signatures, the Change.org petition calling for a congressional investigation into the mishandling of Lyme disease has collected 1,100 pages of heart wrenching comments from horribly disabled Lyme patients all across America.

Here are just nine randomly selected comments from patients disabled from Wormser’s “nuisance disease” whose junk science has been financed by the CDC with an open checkbook. (RO1 CK 000152) [iii]

Comments collected from the Change.org petition calling for a congressional investigation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d40isfeff5h806o/petition_comments_Oct%2028%202020.pdf?dl=0

1.  My 16 year old daughter has late stage, neurological Lyme Disease. I have watch over the past several years as she has had to give up so much. She has stopped playing sports (basketball, soccer, and softball), dancing, eating many different foods, going to school, and even just spending time with friends. We have been to many different doctors with many different specialties looking for answers and have finally received a clinical diagnosis of Lyme Disease from two doctors who are working together to try to help her. The challenge now is to get her strong enough to endure the treatment that she is facing. We are told it may take years of treatment to get her to a reasonable quality of life. It is devastating to see my daughter struggle with all of this at a time when her friends are enjoy things like prom, graduations, and even just youth group activities while she sits at home suffering. This is a terrible disease!
Catherine Weakley, Virginia Beach, VA

2.  My best friend’s life has been devastated by Lyme Disease for the last several years. If only her doctors had taken her concerns and symptoms seriously in the beginning and administered the proper tests, she may not have gone through so many years of pain. I accompanied her to these appointments and watched first hand as her symptoms were ignored and mis diagnosed over and over again. She has gone through years of suffering that could have been prevented had she been diagnosed at the start and given antibiotics. For the sake of her and the many others who are suffering needlessly I urge you to investigate this matter fully and support education, awareness, acceptance and action throughout the medical community.
Samantha Erin Barragar, Malibu, CA

3.  I have been suffering from Neurological Lyme Disease since I was 15 years old. A year and a half ago, I had a serious flare up that has left me disabled with seizures, tremors, cognitive issues, immobility, and chronic pain. The severity of this disease should not be overlooked, and warrants significant research. The outdated and immoral IDSA guidelines must be investigated for the sake of all current and future persons infected with Lyme. Our voices deserve to be heard!
Caren Dandeo, Middletown, NJ

4.  I’m positive for lyme and co infections and was getting better with treatment, then insurance stopped paying. I’m wheelchair bound now and cannot stand, move, or take care of myself. United HealthCare cited the CDC guidelines of 28 days of antibiotics of treatment. THAT’S NOT ENOUGH.
Doug Frenz, Hudson, OH

5.  I’m only 20 years old and I’ve suffered from Lyme Disease for the past 6 years of my life. For the first few years of my disease I went undiagnosed; doctors would tell me I was crazy, and I continued to get sicker and sicker. My 15 year old sister is also really sick with Lyme and has been for years. It breaks my heart. There has to be something serious done about this epidemic, and fast.
Niki Mitchell, Binghamton, NY, NY

6.  My 4 Lyme tests came back “negative” according to my PCP’s. I was “negative” for 8 years while I did indeed have Lyme. When I visited 2 LLMD’s they both verified that I had Lyme. Had it been caught 8 years prior it could have been cured. Instead, it spread to all parts of my body and brain. I in turn became a burden on the healthcare system and lost all of my assets. Accurate testing MUST be developed!
Serenaty S, New York, NY

7.  I am disabled, in a wheelchair, and currently on IV medicine to try and kill off Lyme, Babesia, and Bartonella. I am in huge debt because insurance refuses to pay for anything – not doctor visits, not medicine, nothing. Too many are sick and dying. Enough.
Wendy Vogt, Redwood City, CA

8.  My husband has been diagnosed with neurological lyme and the coinfections of bartonella and babesia. We spent years going form doctor to doctor trying to find out what he has. His illness reached the point where he is no longer able to work. Our insurance company will not approve the IV antibiotics he needs to get better due to the current CDC guidelines. The illness does not just affect the patient but the entire family. Lyme needs to be addressed.
Kathy Wilder Bichler, Fair Lawn, NJ

9.  Spent over $100,000 dollars to get our son well in Oklahoma. 21 doctors would not recognize Lyme disease because of ignorance. We went out of state to find a LLMD. It is an awful disease and in so many ways. His Lyme test only had one band positive so according to the CDC is not proof of Lyme. Well wrong…he was pulled 5 ticks off himself and 3 days later severally I’ll for the next 2 1/2 years of being homebound. We where lucky we had a savings but I took our retirement money.
Diana Clock, Bixby, OK

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

“In the fullness of time, the mainstream handling of Chronic Lyme Disease will be viewed as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of medicine because elements of academic medicine, elements of government, and the entire insurance industry colluded to deny a disease.”   -Kenneth B. Liegner, MD, Internal Medicine, New York, USA

References:

[i] 700 articles LYME Evidence of Persistence (personal Dropbox storage area)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n09sk90eo6xz7ua/700%20articles%20LYME%20EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf

[ii] Lyme Disease Is Hard to Catch And Easy to Halt, Study Finds
New York Times By GINA KOLATA Published: June 13, 2001
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/us/lyme-disease-is-hard-to-catch-and-easy-to-halt-study-finds.html

[iii] Effective propaganda/racketeering scheme all financed through taxpayer dollars!
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/25694689

Clinical Microbiology Reviews; “Lab Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis”

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u

Clinical Microbiology Reviews; “Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis”

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

FEB 21, 2023 — 

Please see the inquiry below addressed to the authors of this publication titled Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis. There has been no response from Branda or Steere…

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “branda.john@mgh.harvard.edu” <branda.john@mgh.harvard.edu>, “asteere@mgh.harvard.edu” <asteere@mgh.harvard.edu>
Cc: “cmr-eic@asmusa.org” <cmr-eic@asmusa.org>, “jdienbard@chla.usc.edu” <jdienbard@chla.usc.edu>, “fcfang@uw.edu” <fcfang@uw.edu>, “louisa.messenger@unlv.edu” <louisa.messenger@unlv.edu>, “johann.pitout@cls.ab.ca” <johann.pitout@cls.ab.ca>, “schuetz.audrey@mayo.edu” <schuetz.audrey@mayo.edu>, “cmstaley@umn.edu” <cmstaley@umn.edu>, “achen@mathematica-mpr.com” <achen@mathematica-mpr.com>, “info@mathematica-mpr.com” <info@mathematica-mpr.com>, “pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com” <pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com>, “lwx1@cdc.gov” <lwx1@cdc.gov>, “frederick.chen@ama-assn.org” <frederick.chen@ama-assn.org>, “gmarx@cdc.gov” <gmarx@cdc.gov>, “acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com” <acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com” <jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com>, “ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com” <ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com>, “tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com” <tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com” <sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com” <jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sara.berg@ama-assn.org” <sara.berg@ama-assn.org>, “jack.resneck@ucsf.edu” <jack.resneck@ucsf.edu>, “jack.resneck@ama-assn.org” <jack.resneck@ama-assn.org>, “todd.unger@ama-assn.org” <todd.unger@ama-assn.org>, “jon.burkhart@ama-assn.org” <jon.burkhart@ama-assn.org>, “karen.kmetik@ama-assn.org” <karen.kmetik@ama-assn.org>, “sanjay.desai@ama-assn.org” <sanjay.desai@ama-assn.org>, “william_henderson@paul.senate.gov” <william_henderson@paul.senate.gov>

Date: 02/10/2023 9:02 AM
Subject: Clinical Microbiology Reviews; “Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis”
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Published online 2021 Jan 27
 
Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849240

John A. Branda and Allen C. Steere

“Lyme borreliosis is caused by a growing list of related, yet distinct, spirochetes with complex biology and sophisticated immune evasion mechanisms.”

Dear Drs. Branda and Steere,
I read your manuscript with great interest. While searching for the word “seronegative” I came across seven results in your publication but could not find the following references:

There is a wrongful death lawsuit in the state of NY where a 17yr old collapsed in his front yard later pronounced dead at the hospital. His Lyme test was negative.

1. Wrongful death suit shows pitfalls of IDSA Lyme guidelines
Joseph Elone died of Lyme disease
By Mary Beth Pfeiffer Sept 9, 2019
https://www.lymedisease.org/elone-wrongful-death-lawsuit-lyme/

In Pennsylvania there was a civil lawsuit against doctors who misdiagnosed Lyme disease as multiple sclerosis. The patient had four negative serologies but the fifth one came back positive.

2. Pa. Supreme Court to Hear Medical Liability Case with Statute of Limitations Implications
https://www.pamedsoc.org/list/articles/Statute-of-Limitations

Duke University Oncologist Dr. Neil Spector required a heart transplant; his Lyme serology was repeatedly negative.

3. Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician’s Search for True Healing
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/book-list/gone-in-a-heartbeat-a-physician-s-search-for-true-healing-by-neil-spector-md/

I would like to point out the following case study from Stony Brook Lyme clinic. I understand the patient received thirteen spinal taps, multiple courses of IV and oral meds, and relapsed after each one, proven by CSF antigens and/or PCR. The only way this patient (said to be a physician) remained in remission was to keep her on open ended clarithromycin- was on it for 22 months by the time of publication. Standard antibody tests were negative.

4. Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis.  
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837
Lawrence C. Lipton R.B. Lowy F.D. Coyle P.K.

Department of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Department of Neurology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY., USA

Abstract
We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.

5. Seronegativity in Lyme borreliosis and Other Spirochetal Infections 16 September 2003
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d6m45jzlhhwalu/Seronegativity.pdf?dl=0

Here is a recent wrongful death lawsuit in the state of Maine: (I understand Mr. Smith’s Lyme test was negative)

Mercy Hospital, physician ordered to pay $6.5M for deadly misdiagnosis
Pete Smith, 25, died in 2017 after a doctor failed to recognize the signs of Lyme Disease
https://www.wmtw.com/article/mercy-hospital-physician-ordered-to-pay-dollar65m-for-deadly-misdiagnosis/42745675

Regardless of your so-called “advances in diagnostics” these references prove serology has always been the wrong diagnostic tool for an infection that often produces no detectable antibodies in all stages of disease.   “Spirochetes with complex biology and sophisticated immune evasion mechanisms” as you pointed out in your summary.

Is there a reason why the references I have presented here are missing from your publication?
A response to this inquiry is requested.
A copy of this inquiry has been sent to the management team at Mathematica Policy Research who have recently been contracted by the CDC.

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: CMR Editorial Board

Reference:

1.  HB490 COMMISSION TO STUDY TESTING FOR LYME AND OTHER TICK-BORNE DISEASES
https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/30346445

In November 2021, a commission created by the State of New Hampshire finished an exhaustive investigation of Lyme disease test accuracy. The commission reported that only 20-30% of people exhibit antibodies at detectable levels, and the commission concluded that “CDC-approved serologic tests for Lyme disease are unreliable in all stages of the disease.”

Fibromyalgia Associated With Borrelia-Specific T Lymphocytes

https://www.eurekaselect.com/article/129522

Antinuclear antibody seropositivity in fibromyalgia associated with Borrelia-specific T lymphocytes

Author(s): Basant K. Puri*Gary S. Lee and Armin Schwarzbach

DOI: 10.2174/1573397119666230215124048

Current Rheumatology Reviews 2023; 19()

Abstract

Background: Our group have recently reported that there is no evidence of an association between fibromyalgia and Borrelia-specific T lymphocytes. However, a small number of case reports has suggested that infection by the bacterial genus Borrelia may be associated with the presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANAs).

Objective: To test the hypothesis that those fibromyalgia patients who are ANA seropositive are more likely to show evidence of Borrelia-specific T lymphocyte reactivity than those who are seronegative.

Methods: T lymphocyte reactivity to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (full antigen) was assessed using the enzyme-linked immunospot and serum ANA status was assessed using immunofluorescence in 27 fibromyalgia patients fulfilling the revised diagnostic criteria of the American College of Rheumatology.

Results: The ANA seropositive and seronegative groups were matched for age, sex and ethnicity; the T lymphocyte reactivity to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (full antigen) in the former group (mean 5.60) was significantly higher than that in the seronegative group (mean 1.81; p < 0.05).

Conclusion: This novel study points to an association of ANA seropositivity in fibromyalgia with Borrelia-specific T lymphocytes.

For more:

More on U.S. Funding of Biolabs in Ukraine: A ‘Jobs Program’ for Foreign Scientists

If you wondered why mainstream and social media did a virtual blitzkrieg on immediately supporting Ukraine, which on an international corruption scale ranks just below China and Cuba, wonder no further. Now the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission will investigate Ukraine for violating and persecuting ethnic groups.

The media is a virtual puppet now being used by the government to influence and distract the public and to funnel billions into Ukraine.  You are also unlikely to hear from MSM that hundreds of children are listed (with all of their personal information) on a Kiev-backed kill list.  The UN has done nothing about it.

The DOD has budgeted $1.3 BILLION over the next five years to “supercharge” US soldiers’ immune systems to supposedly make them impervious to chemical and biological threats, requiring a close collaboration between the government and Big Pharma, but typically government “cures” drive out real cures.

For nearly a decade NIH, DARPA, and BARDA (hence millions of our tax dollars) have funded an implantable biochip using 5G that can detect viral respiratory diseases and control biological processes remotely, which opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses.  Bill Gates enters the picture with a 2019 MIT study, funded by the Gates Foundation, which describes how “near-infrared quantum dots” can be implanted under the skin along with a vaccine to encode information for “decentralized data storage and bio-sensing.”  The entire project was motivated by Gates’ desire to identify those who have not been vaccinated, which is one step closer to happening as new, specific ICD codes have been created for those foregoing the ineffective, dangerous COVID clot shots that have caused more reports of adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.

Here’s the frightening bit:

….developing individual preventative measures or cures for each known chemical or biological threat is no longer realistic, according to the document. Instead, DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) will focus on finding ways to engineer servicemembers’ immune systems with catch-all vaccines, therapeutics and equipment that can handle a seemingly endless landscape of chemical and biological threats, including ones that aren’t directly the result of weapons programs, Politico first reported.

“There is also an expansion of high containment labs worldwide with ready access to powerful new technologies, increasing the risk of accidental and deliberate outbreaks, even pandemics,” he added.

CBDP will “leverage” existing relationships with pharmaceutical companies to fast-track development of immunization technologies, each of which can protect troops against multiple viruses, the Pentagon strategy states.

It appears the military/medical complex has completely given up on treatments.  All effort and money is being directed to a supposed magic bullet “vaccine” or experimental therapeutic “cure all.”  This is why repurposed drugs like HCQ with zinc, ivermectin, etc. are maligned, censored, banned, with legal battles and doctors being persecuted.

The CBDP is looking to “modulate the immune system” of soldiers through six different metabolic pathways as well as looking into monoclonal antibodies for three distinct groups of viruses including COVID, i.e. addressing many bugs with one drug.

  • Dr. Ruby discusses that in her experience those getting COVID again (which again, can’t be verified due to the PCR fraud occurring and the inability to know if something truly is COVID) have had experimental monoclonal antibodies or the jab.  Getting the antibodies is like renting an army for a day. They come in, clean house, but then go away.  On the other-hand, the soldiers in your immune system stay around, continuing to clean house as needed.  Those getting the jab are catching every little cold bug or flu that’s going around.

This will all be done by mimicking Operation Warp Speed‘s funding and fast-tracked regulations to make it all happen at the speed of light, like they did with the experimental COVID gene therapy shots, developed by the military which are strategically called “counter measures” and “prototypes,” to avoid lengthy conventional regulatory, commercial development and testing pathways normally required for pharmaceutical products (ICH, 2022) and to proceed to Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).

Of course they are also requesting a “unique medical infrastructure” designed to fast-track new “vaccines” and drugs as well as wearable devices that monitor vital signs.

These questions are begging to be asked:

  • Is THIS why the government insisted on the country-wide rollout of the COVID shots?
  • Is THIS why the government mandated that their own soldiers get them?
  • Are they already collecting information to feed this new experiment?

The following information on U.S. taxpayer funded bio labs in Ukraine will be déjà vu for those familiar with the sordid history of Lyme/MSIDS, which actually has a Wisconsin chapter.  A secret directive in 1946 by President Truman, originally coined “operation overcast,” fast-tracked immigration papers for more than a thousand former Nazi scientists. It was later renamed “Operation Paperclip” because a paper clip would be attached to someone’s file, indicating they were to be allowed in without scrutiny. These scientists formed the core that developed America’s nuclear missile program as well as weapons for America that almost certainly violated international law.  What doesn’t get a lot of air-play is the secret history of Lyme disease.

Creating a ‘jobs program’ for foreign scientists on the taxpayer’s dime isn’t new.

https://rumble.com/v1ysaqg-new-defense-department-records-reveal-u.s.-funding-of-anthrax-biolabs-in-uk.html  Video Here (Approx. 8 Min)

DOD Records Reveal U.S. Funding of Anthrax BioLabs in Ukraine

https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/ukraine-biolabs-november-2022/  Documents Here

Judicial Watch obtained 345 pages of heavily redacted records under the umbrella of the DOD on the U.S. funding of anthrax lab activities in the Ukraine.  Russia requested the UN Security Council to investigate these bioweapons but was rejected.

“This is really a jobs program for Soviet scientists.

What do you do with all these labs and all these scientists hanging around who have very deadly toxins on their hands?  Well, you Co-op them.  Right?  So you create a program, you fund them, you let them do their experiments, but the idea since you are funding them, you’re controlling them. That’s the idea. Except that then it becomes inconvenient and awkward when things like wars pop up or when the Russians knock out all the electricity in Ukraine, and guess what’s needed to maintain those laboratories and the security of those pathogens in those labs?  Electricity. ~  Chris Farrell Director of Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch

In other words, experimenting with deadly pathogens has significant risk.

Yet, the laboratory work isolating deadly pathogens continues with a partnership with an investment firm directed by Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz (stepson of climate czar John Kerry).

https://rumble.com/v28hf3e-dr.-andrew-huff-on-the-connection-between-hunter-biden-and-biolabs-in-ukrai.html  Video Here (Approx. 3 Min)

Dr. Andrew Huff on the Connection Between Hunter Biden & Biolabs in Ukraine

“Metabiota is the company that had the contracts w/ DTRA for the labs in Ukraine.

Metabiota is the company that was invested into by Rosemont Seneca, which was Hunter Biden’s VC firm.”

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**Comment**

Circling back to Lyme for a moment, according to patent no. WO/2008/147879 filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UMDNJ Biomedical Informatics expert Ryan Golhar PhD describes “a processing technique, associated method, product description, and related software… for achieving rapid identification of DNA”. The author explains how this can detect a very wide range of biological warfare pathogens:

“The present invention provides methods and devices for the identification of bioagents via the presence of their nucleic acids. In the context of the present invention, a ‘bioagent’ is any organism, living or dead, or a nucleic acid derived from such an organism. Examples of bioagents include but are not limited to cells (including but not limited to human clinical samples, bacterial cells and other pathogens) viruses, toxin genes and bioregulating compounds). Samples may be alive or dead or in a vegetative state (for example, vegetative bacteria or spores) and may be encapsulated or bioengineered.”  Source

Golhar then goes on to list the many biowarfare pathogens, which may be detected using his technique. The list is subdivided into bacterial, viral, toxin, and fungal weapons.

Bacterial biological warfare bioagents capable of being detected by the present methods include, but are not limited to:

  • Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
  • Yersinia pestis (pneumonic plague)
  • Franciscella tularensis (tularemia)
  • Brucella suis
  • Brucella abortus
  • Brucella melitensis (undulant fever)
  • Burkholderia mallei (glanders)
  • Burkholderia pseudomalleii (melioidosis)
  • Salmonella typhi (typhoid fever)
  • Rickettsia typhii (epidemic typhus)
  • Rickettsia prowasekii (endemic typhus)
  • Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
  • Rhodobacter capsulatus
  • Chlamydia pneumoniae
  • Escherichia coli
  • Shigella dysenteriae
  • Shigella flexneri
  • Bacillus cereus
  • Clostridium botulinum
  • Coxiella burnetti
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Legionella pneumophila
  • Borrelia burgdorferi (LYME DISEASE)
  • Vibrio cholerae

The following excerpt says it all:

A hard-to-catch, easily cured disease that neither kills nor disables would hardly seem much of a choice as a bioweapon. Why then, do we hear, again and again, that the agent of Lyme is being studied in maximum-containment biowarfare labs?

When I exposed, a few years ago, a document I found on the US National Institute of Health’s website which listed Lyme as one of the pathogens studied in Fort Detrick, (the premier biowarfare lab in the US), the NIH quickly announced it was a “printing error” and removed the words Lyme disease from the page.

However, further leaks have resulted in similar information being accidentally released again and again. For example, Lyme was listed as one of the biowar agents to be studied in the new high-containment lab in San Antonio, Texas, in a report that was picked up by the Associated Press (3). After being publicized over the internet by Lyme disease patient campaigners, the link to the article was summarily removed by MSNBC; however, various archived copies survive.

A document on the website of Colorado State University revealed that Lyme was being studied in a top-security BSL-3 lab there. (4) Biosafety Level 3 is used for some of the most dangerous pathogens known, which additionally pose a major biowarfare hazard because of transmission by the airborne route. It is only one step down from BSL-4, the highest level of containment, reserved for those agents for which there is no known vaccine or treatment.

Lyme disease in nature is usually acquired by tick-bite and is not considered transmissible by the airborne route. But weaponisation usually involves creating fine-milled, aerosolisable particles – and techniques for lyophilisation, or freeze-drying of borrelia in fine particles – were developed decades ago. Source

It does appear that history repeats itself.

For more:

Patient Contracts Babesia From a Blood Donor: Only 14 States Test For It

https://danielcameronmd.com/patient-contracts-babesia-blood-donor/

PATIENT CONTRACTS BABESIA FROM A BLOOD DONOR

babesia-blood-donor

Babesia is most commonly transmitted through a tick bite but it can also be transmitted through a blood transfusion. To minimize the risk to the public, blood banks now screen donors for Babesia in endemic states.

In their article “Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a patient with sickle cell disease undergoing chronic red cell exchange,” Costa and colleagues describe a patient who contracted Babesia from a donor living in Ohio, a state that is not considered endemic for Babesia

According to the authors, a 30-year-old man with sickle cell disease (SCD) required approximately 10 units of red blood cells every 3–4 weeks throughout his childhood.

Approximately 2 months after a red blood cell exchange, he presented with fever, neck pain, and photophobia. Several days later, he developed a persistent fever, chills, headache, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

He was diagnosed with Babesia through identification of parasites in his red blood cells and positive antibodies. He was also borderline positive on an antibody test for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

“Prior to laboratory-based blood donor screening for Babesia, transfusion-transmitted babesiosis (TTB) was a leading infectious risk to the blood supply in the United States.”

The young man was treated for Babesia with azithromycin and atovaquone for 10 days with resolution of his symptoms. He was not treated for Anaplasma phagocytophilum or Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

The patient lived in a state endemic for Babesia but did not recall a tick bite.

“A donor lookback investigation was initiated with the blood supplier,” the authors wrote. They found that in the preceding 6 months, the patient had received 65 units of blood, with 58 units screened for Babesia.

Unfortunately, “One of the donors of the 7 untested units was B. microti seropositive,” the authors wrote. The donor lived in a state not requiring Babesia screening.

“Our case demonstrates the continued vulnerability of the US blood supply to Babesia.”

“The seropositive donor had not had any symptoms of babesiosis; he lived in Ohio and reported being very active over the past year, including hiking and camping in several states (Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina),” the authors wrote.

In 2019, the FDA recommended testing of blood donors for Babesia in the 14 states where almost all cases of Babesia have been reported. “The policy confined to 14 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin),” wrote the authors.

Authors Conclude:

“Heightened awareness and health care provider education are imperative, especially in non-endemic [states] where clinicians may not be accustomed to diagnosing community-acquired or TTB, placing transfusion recipients at risk of delayed diagnosis and severe disease.

References:
  1. Costa V, Mercure-Corriveau N, Gourneau J, et al. Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a patient with sickle cell disease undergoing chronic red cell exchange. Transfusion. Jan 13 2023;doi:10.1111/trf.17244

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**Comment**

Once again, the madness of limiting potential infection to certain geographical areas despite the ability of people, animals, and bugs to move around is completely asinine.  Yet, here we are – still in the madness.

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