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Galaxy Diagnostics Launches Direct Detection Test For Lyme Disease

https://www.prlog.org/12846049-galaxy-diagnostics-launches-the-most-sensitive-test-available-for-direct-detection-of-lyme-disease.html

Galaxy Diagnostics Launches the Most Sensitive Test Available for Direct Detection of Lyme Disease

Science Leader in the Testing of Flea and Tick Borne Illness Introduces the Nanotrap® Urine Test for Lyme Borreliosis

By: Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc.123

Nanotrap Most Sensitive Test for Lyme Borreliosis

Nanotrap Most Sensitive Test for Lyme Borreliosis

DURHAM, N.C. – Nov. 10, 2020 – PRLog — Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc., the science leader in sample enrichment powered testing solutions for elusive flea and tick-borne pathogens, today announced the launch of the Nanotrap® Urine Test for Lyme Borreliosis.  This urine-based Lyme antigen test provides the most sensitive direct detection of Borrelia burgdorferi infection at all stages of the disease.  The test provides advantages antibody testing does not, namely:

  • Identifies positive cases missed by CDC-recommended Two-Tiered Testing (TTT)
  • Reduces concern for false positive results via direct detection of OspA proteins
  • Uses easy-to-collect urine sample

The revolutionary test greatly increases the likelihood of Lyme disease confirmation via innovative Nanotrap® technology developed by Ceres Nanosciences. Nanotrap® particles capture and concentrate low abundance Outer surface protein A (OspA) in urine samples confirmed by a highly sensitive Western blot.

Published data shows that the Nanotrap Urine Test is very effective for confirmation of early stage Lyme borreliosis in patients with EM rashes (24/24). Galaxy validation data (unpublished) shows that the Nanotrap® Urine Test will often confirm active infection in patients with negative TTT results. Further research is needed to confirm clinical utility for other presentations of Lyme borreliosis, including Lyme arthritis, Lyme carditis, and neuroborreliosis.

“The addition of the Nanotrap® test aligns with our mission to bring the most scientifically advanced sample enrichment technologies and diagnostic advances to the forefront of flea and tick borne disease”, said Galaxy CEO Amanda Elam. “Lyme disease is the fastest growing tick-borne illness in the United States. We are committed to improving the standard of care around detection of these elusive, low abundance pathogens to ensure better patient care for millions globally.”

Galaxy advocates for a new standard of care in Lyme Borreliosis testing and recommends a combination diagnostic protocol with Nanotrap® Urine test to confirm active infection and the CDC recommended TTT to detect the presence of antibodies.

You can order here and learn more at galaxydx.com.

About Galaxy Diagnostics

Galaxy Diagnostics is a privately held medical laboratory located in Research Triangle Park offering the only testing solutions powered by revolutionary sample enrichment technologies for elusive flea and tick borne pathogens. The company’s mission is to “Go Beyond” the limits of conventional detection by driving scientific innovation, creating new clinical knowledge through research and publication, and providing medical education and excellent customer support to healthcare providers, veterinarians, patients, and research customers in this important area of emerging infectious disease.

About Ceres Nanosciences

Ceres Nanosciences is a privately held company, located in Northern Virginia, focused on incorporating its novel Nanotrap® particle technology into a range of diagnostic products and workflows. The Nanotrap® particle technology can improve diagnostic testing by capturing, concentrating, and preserving low abundance analytes from biological samples. The Nanotrap® particle technology was developed with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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**Comment**

According to Dr. Shor, this “urine-based antigen test,” based on the OspA protein, is 100% sensitive for acute cases with EM rash (24/24 patients with EM rash tested positive). Please remember that while appearing successful for acute Lyme, this is a small study group. Also, having the EM rash is DIAGNOSTIC for Lyme – i.e. no testing even required.

It is far less effective for those who are chronically infected. It was positive for 42% out of 100 chronically ill patients.

I believe I heard Dr. Klinghardt recommend rolfing (deep tissue massage) before taking this test to force the organisms out in the blood where they can be excreted and picked up on this urine test.

To watch Dr. Shor’s presentation:

http://  Approx. 1 hour 20 Min

May 24, 2017

NatCapLyme Presentation

Diagnosing people early is critical as doctors, despite knowing this complex illness can become very severe and more difficult to treat if left untreated, continue to take a ‘wait and see’ approach. They continue to rely upon faulty testing that misses anywhere from 70-86% of cases, and often wait for test results before treating – dooming thousands of patients to a life-time of suffering. This test will hopefully help these early cases; however, it will not be as effective for the chronically infected – nor help with those who are coinfected.

Diagnosing tick-borne illness has always been a clinical diagnosis.

Time for doctors to become educated instead of lazily relying upon faulty testing.




Estimates for Lyme Borreliosis Infections Based on Models Using Sentinel Canine and Human Seroprevalence Data – Far Higher Than ‘Official’ Data

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042720300580?via%3Dihub

Estimates for Lyme borreliosis infections based on models using sentinel canine and human seroprevalence data

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open access

Abstract

Two models were developed to estimate Lyme borreliosis (LB) cases. One was based on the seroprevalence of Borrelia infections in human samples. This model used corrections for false negative and false positive results from published test sensitivity and specificity measures. A second model based on Borrelia infections in sentinel dogs was used to quantify the prevalence of Lyme disease Borrelia infections in humans; the reference baseline for this model was human and canine infections in Germany. A comparison of the two models is shown and differences discussed. The relationships between incidence, prevalence and total infection burden for LB were derived from published data and these were used in both models to calculate annual incidence, prevalence and total LB infections. The modelling was conservative and based on medical insurance records coded for erythema migrans. Linear model growth rates were used in place of the commonly adopted exponential growth. The mean of the two models was used to create estimates for various countries and continents. Examples from the analyses for LB estimated for 2018 include:

incidence –

  • USA 473,000/year
  • Germany 471,000/year
  • France 434,000/year
  • UK 132,000/year

prevalence –

  • USA 2.4 million
  • Germany 2.4 million
  • France 2.2 million
  • UK 667,000

total infections –

  • USA 10.1 million
  • Germany 10.0 million
  • France 9.3 million
  • UK 2.8 million

Estimates for the world for 2018 are:

incidence

  • 12.3 million/year

prevalence

  • 62.1 million

total infection burden

  • 262.0 million
These figures are far higher than officially published data and reflect not only the underestimation of diagnosed cases, which is acknowledged by health agencies, but also undiagnosed and misdiagnosed cases.

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For more:

Prevention for pets:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/16/april-lyme-prevention-month-for-dogs-a-pet-owners-guide/

Adaptive Biotechnologies Clinical Study to Advance Diagnostics for Lyme Disease.

https://www.lymedisease.org/members/emails/immunesense-lyme-study-web

Join us to advance diagnostics for Lyme disease by being in a research study

Lyme disease if often missed or misdiagnosed.  If you have recently been diagnosed with Lyme diasea, or suspect a recent infection, your immune system may hold kay information that can help advance development of a novel diagnostic.  By developing a test that recognizes specific immune cells, we may enable more reliable detection of Lyme biases than current diagnostic tests.

You will be compensated $50 for study participation.

Go here to find out if you qualify:  https://1nhealth.com/lyme-disease-study/?

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Fauci States COVID Test Has a Fatal Flaw Back in July, Just Like He Said Face-Masks Were Useless Back in May

https://humansarefree.com/2020/11/bombshell-fauci-states-covid-test-has-fatal-flaw

Important excerpts from article below:

Bombshell: Fauci States COVID Test Has Fatal Flaw

By Jon Rappoport, Guest writer 

Bombshell Fauci States Covid Test Has Fatal FlawJuly 16, 2020, podcast, “This Week in Virology”

Tony Fauci makes a point of saying the PCR COVID test is useless and misleading when the test is run at “35 cycles or higher.” A positive result, indicating infection, cannot be accepted or believed.

Here, in techno-speak, is an excerpt from Fauci’s key quote (starting at about the 4-minute mark [1]):

“…If you get [perform the test at] a cycle threshold of 35 or more… the chances of it being replication-confident [aka accurate] are miniscule… you almost never can culture virus [detect a true positive result] from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…”

What Fauci failed to say on the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35.

Therefore, all labs in the US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating in fraud. Fraud on a monstrous level, because millions of Americans are being told they are infected with the virus on the basis of a false positive result, and the total number of COVID cases in America — which is based on the test — is a gross falsity. (See link for article)

Go here for video & references:   [1] Fauci on YouTube.com; [2] FDA.gov; [3] NYtimes.com)

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**Comment**

I posted on this back in September:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/30/coronavirus-cases-plummet-when-pcr-tests-are-adjusted/

The entire COVID-19 house of cards is built upon this faulty testing which is designed to drastically inflate case numbers.

Rapport’s evidence is found on the FDA website: in a document titled [2]: “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel For Emergency Use Only.” See page 35.

  • FDA: “…a specimen is considered positive for 2019-nCoV [virus] if all 2019-nCoV marker (N1, N2) cycle threshold growth curves cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles (< 40.00 Ct).”
  • He also lists a New York Times article (August 29/updated September 17) headlined: “Your coronavirus test is positive. Maybe it shouldn’t be.” [3]
  • “Most tests set the limit at 40 [cycles]. A few at 37.”
  • The Times:“This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients…”
The labs purposely won’t reveal their collusion.

Rapport states this should be taken to court. I agree.

Regarding facemasks, Dr. Fauci stated back in May that masks might make people ‘feel better’ but that they often create unintended consequences. He also states they don’t provide perfect protection.

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Of course he reversed this some time later because the fear narrative had to be pushed. The fact the largest study on face masks has been rejected by 3 journals tells you of the major spin doctoring going on:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/06/danish-newspaper-reveals-largest-study-on-masks-has-been-rejected-by-3-medical-journals/

Also see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/03/is-it-time-for-full-time-mask-mandates/  All the research listed here

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/13/best-video-on-masks-yet-new-health-problems-emerging-from-continuous-mask-wearing-but-attempted-murder-charges-sought-for-those-who-refuse-them/

But lying is something Dr. Fauci does well, and he’s been getting away with it for decades:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/30/anthony-fauci-40-years-of-lies-from-azt-to-remdesivir/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/12/shedding-light-on-the-dishonorable-record-of-dr-fauci-a-real-mengele/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/24/the-truth-about-fauci-featuring-dr-judy-mikovits/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/31/7-minutes-of-covid-19-truth/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/24/the-rush-to-patent-control-profit-from-the-coronavirus-dates-back-to-1999-implicates-the-cdc-dr-fauci/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/19/yes-fauci-and-gates-do-have-ties-to-covid-19-vaccine-maker/

Nine COVID Facts: A Pandemic of Fearmongering & Ignorance

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/october/28/nine-covid-facts-a-pandemic-of-fearmongering-and-ignorance/

Nine Covid Facts: A Pandemic of Fearmongering and Ignorance

undefinedEver since the alleged pandemic erupted this past March the mainstream media has spewed a non-stop stream of misinformation that appears to be laser focused on generating maximum fear among the citizenry. But the facts and the science simply don’t support the grave picture painted of a deadly virus sweeping the land.Yes we do have a pandemic, but it’ a pandemic of ginned up pseudo-science masquerading as unbiased fact. Here are nine facts backed up with data, in many cases from the CDC itself that paints a very different picture from the fear and dread being relentlessly drummed into the brains of unsuspecting citizens.

1) The PCR test is practically useless

According to an article in the New York Times August 29th 2020 testing for the Covid-19 virus using the popular PCR method results in up to 90% of those tested showing positive results that are grossly misleading.

Officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada compiled testing data that revealed the PCR test can NOT determine the amount of virus in a sample. (viral load) The amount of virus in up to 90% of positive results turned out to be so miniscule that the patient was asymptomatic and posed no threat to others. So the positive Covid-19 tests are virtually meaningless.

2) A positive test is NOT a CASE

For some reason every positive Covid-19 test is immediately designated a CASE. As we saw in #1 above up to 90% of positive Covid-19 tests result in miniscule amounts of virus that do not sicken the subject. Historically only patients who demonstrated actual symptoms of an illness were considered a case. Publishing positive test results as “CASES” is grossly misleading and needlessly alarming.

3) The Centers for Disease Control dramatically lowered the Covid-19 Death Count

On August 30th the CDC released new data that showed only 6% of the deaths previously attributed to Covid-19 were due exclusively to the virus. The vast majority, 94%, may have had exposure to Covid-19 but also had preexisting illnesses like heart disease, obesity, hypertension, cancer and various respiratory illnesses. While they died with Covid-19 they did NOT die exclusively from Covid-19.

4) CDC reports Covid-19 Survival Rate over 99% 

The CDC updated their “Current Best Estimate” for Covid-19 survival on September 10th showing that over 99% of people exposed to the virus survived. Another way to say this is that less than 1% of the exposures are potentially life threatening. According to the CDC the vast majority of deaths attributed to Covid-19 were concentrated in the population over age 70, close to normal life expectancy.

5) CDC reveals 85% of Positive Covid cases wore face masks Always or Often 

In September of 2020 the CDC released the results of a study conducted in July where they discovered that 85% of the positive Covid test subjects reported wearing a cloth face mask always or often for two weeks prior to testing positive. The majority, 71% of the test subjects reported always wearing a cloth face mask and 14% reported often wearing a cloth face mask. The only rational conclusion from this study is that cloth face masks offer little if any protection from Covid-19 infection.

6) There are inexpensive, proven therapies for Covid-19

Harvey Risch, MD, PhD heads the Yale University School of Epidemiology. He authored “The Key to Defeating Covid-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It”which was published in Newsweek Magazine July 23rd, 2020. Dr. Risch documents the proven effectiveness of treating patients diagnosed with Covid-19 using a combination of Hydroxychloroquine, an antibiotic like azithromycin and the nutritional supplement zinc. Medical Doctors across the globe have reported very positive results using this protocol particularly for early stage Covid patients.

7) The US Death Rate is NOT spiking

If Covid-19 was the lethal killer it’s made out to be one would reasonably expect to see a significant spike in the number of deaths reported. But that hasn’t happened. According to the CDC as of early May 2020 the total number of deaths in the US was 944,251 from January 1 – April 30th. This is actually slightly lower than the number of deaths during the same period in 2017 when 946,067 total deaths were reported.

8) Most Covid-19 Deaths Occur at the End of a normal Lifespan

According to the CDC as of 2017 US males can expect a normal lifespan of 76.1 years and females 81.1 years. A little over 80% of the suspected Covid-19 deaths have occurred in people over age 65. According to a June 28th New York Post article almost half of all Covid suspected deaths have occurred in Nursing Homes which predominately house people with preexisting health conditions and close to or past their normal life expectancy.

9) CDC Data Shows Minimal Covid Risk to Children and Young Adults

The CDC reported in their September 10th update that it’s estimated Infection Mortality Rate (IFR) for children age 0-19 was so low that 99.97% of those infected with the virus survived. For 20-49 year-olds the survival rate was almost as good at 99.98%. Even those 70 years-old and older had a survival rate of 94.6%. To put this in perspective the CDC data suggest that a child or young adult up to age 19 has a greater chance of death from some type of accident than they do from Covid-19.

Taken together it should be obvious that Covid-19 is pretty similar to typical flu viruses that sicken some people annually. The vast majority are able to successfully fight off the virus with their body’s natural immune system. Common sense precautions should be taken, particularly by those over age 65 that suffer from preexisting medical conditions.

The gross over reaction by government leaders to this illness is causing much more distress, physical, emotional and financial, than the virus ever could on its own. The bottom line is there is NO pandemic, just a typical flu season that has been wildly blown out of proportion by 24/7 media propaganda and enabled by the masses paralyzed by irrational fear.

State and local governments in particular have ignored the rights of the people and have instituted outrageous attacks on freedom and liberty that was bought and paid for by the blood and sacrifice of our forefathers.

Slowly the people are recognizing the great fraud perpetrated on them by bureaucrats and elected officials who have sworn to uphold rights and freedoms as spelled out in the US Constitution. The time has come to hold these criminals accountable by utilizing the legal system to bring them to justice.

Either we act now to preserve freedom and liberty for our children and future generations yet unborn, or we meekly submit to tyrants who crave more power and control. I will not comply!


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com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong/  Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.

Excerpt:

  1. Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel.
  2. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus.
  3. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.