Archive for the ‘Ticks’ Category

Baggio-Yoshinari Brazil’s Lyme-Like Illness From Ticks That Shouldn’t Transmit it

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218955/

. 2018; 73: e394.
Published online 2018 Nov 6. doi: 10.6061/clinics/2018/e394
PMCID: PMC6218955
PMID: 30462754

Passage of Borrelia burgdorferi through diverse Ixodid hard ticks causes distinct diseases: Lyme borreliosis and Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome

Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara,I,* Virginia Aparecida Gelmeti Serrano,I and Natalino YoshinariII
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Abstract

Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome is an emerging, tick-borne, infectious disease recently discovered in Brazil. This syndrome is similar to Lyme disease, which is common in the United States of America, Europe and Asia; however, Brazilian borreliosis diverges from the disease observed in the Northern Hemisphere in its epidemiological, microbiological, laboratory and clinical characteristics. Polymerase chain reaction procedures showed that Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome is caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto spirochete. This bacterium has not yet been isolated or cultured in adequate culture media. In Brazil, this zoonosis is transmitted to humans through the bite of Amblyomma and Rhipicephalus genera ticks; these vectors do not belong to the usual Lyme disease transmitters, which are members of the Ixodes ricinus complex. The adaptation of Borrelia burgdorferi to Brazilian vectors and reservoirs probably originated from spirochetes with atypical morphologies (cysts or cell-wall-deficient bacteria) exhibiting genetic adjustments, such as gene suppression. These particularities could explain the protracted survival of these bacteria in hosts, beyond the induction of a weak immune response and the emergence of serious reactive symptoms. The aim of the present report is to note differences between Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome and Lyme disease, to help health professionals recognize this exotic and neglected zoonosis.

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**Comment**

This abstract shows a Bbss spirochete NOT YET isolated or cultured in adequate culture media, i.e., is invisible to current lab techniques.  Also, please note that the ticks mentioned are not TYPICALLY thought of as transmitting Lyme.

Two commonly touted myths busted to smithereens.

The plot thickens with the mere mention of ATYPICAL morphologies (cysts or cell wall deficient) bacteria as well as GENETIC ADJUSTMENTS WITH GENE SUPRESSION, and the ability of these bacteria to SURVIVE FOR A LONG TIME.  

To this day, the CDC/IDSA refuses to recognize the persistent nature and pleomorphism of Bb.

Researchers who talk about pleomorphism are almost always from outside the U.S.:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00596/full  There’s only a handful of U.S. researchers taking on pleomorphism.  All the IDSA-authors (The Cabal) report about Lyme as if it were a mere nuisance, which it is not.

In short, we have a LYME-LIKE Illness that:

  • can’t be picked up with common lab techniques
  • coming from ticks that don’t normally transmit it
  • caused by a bacteria that shape-shifts
  • makes genetic adjustments to survive

Now add other potential pathogens to this stew and it’s quite clear why patients are so ill and why it takes far more than 21 days of the mono-therapy of doxycycline.

Please spread the word!

For More:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/30/study-shows-lyme-msids-patients-infected-with-many-pathogens-and-explains-why-we-are-so-sick/  This international group of researchers state that:

“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.”

They also point out that 83% of all commercial tests focus only on Lyme (borrelia), despite the fact we are infected with more than one microbe.

They too mention the pleomorphism of borrelia:

“In addition to tick-borne co-infections and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections, pleomorphic Borrelia persistent forms may induce distinct immune responses in patients by having different antigenic properties compared to typical spirochetes32,33,34,35. Nonetheless, current LD diagnostic tools do not include Borrelia persistent forms, tick-borne co-infections, and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections.”

It’s all right here in bright purple crayon.

 

 

Category:

Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission

Ehrlichiosis Presenting as Severe Sepsis & Meningoencephalitis in an Immunocompetent Adult

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30425837/

Ehrlichiosis presenting as severe sepsis and meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent adult.

Buzzard SL, et al. JMM Case Rep. 2018.

Abstract

Introduction: Ehrlichia are obligate intracellular pathogens transmitted to vertebrates by ticks.

Case presentation: We report the case of a 59-year-old man who presented to the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center (Lexington, KY, USA) after being found fallen down in the woods. A lumbar puncture revealed what appeared to be bacterial meningitis, yet cerebrospinal fluid cultures, Gram stains and a meningitis/encephalitis panel were inconclusive. However, an Ehrlichia DNA PCR of the blood resulted as being positive for Ehrlichia chaffeensis antibodies. The patient received a 14 day course of doxycycline, and recovered from his multiple organ failure. The aetiology of the ehrlichial meningoencephalitis was likely transmission through a tick-bite, due to the patient’s outdoor exposure.

Conclusion: While it is rare to see Ehrlichia as a cause of meningitis, this illness can progress to severe multisystem disease with septic shock, meningoencephalitis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Those with compromised immunity are at a higher risk of developing the more severe form of the disease and have higher case fatality rates.

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**Comment**

Nothing about this monster is rare – it’s just not in the literature yet.  Again, researchers would be wise to remember that just because something isn’t found in the literature, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, particularly in a disease complex that testing misses half the cases and much goes unreported because it’s undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

Notice this poor man was found flat on his face in the woods – that’s how serious this stuff can be.  Please notice his immune system was fine.

Meningeal involvement (brain swelling) is NOT rare.  Why would it be?  When these pathogens can cross the blood/brain barrier, it makes complete, logical sense that people would deal with swelling.  They deal with swelling in their elbows, knees, fingers, wrists, and about every other place in the body.  Dr. Phillips talks about Balanitus, a painful swelling of the foreskin, or head of the penis in males here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/22/s-e-x-lyme-msids/

I had swelling in my head so great that I wondered if I’d ever go a day without excruciating headaches that honestly felt like I’d been kicked by a horse, but the pain was completely all over in the lining of my head (meningeal).  I had an MRI, which came back normal, but I’ve met numerous folks with a Lyme and Chiari diagnosis:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/02/chiari/

Warning – some with Lyme/MSIDS go through with the Chiari surgery but continue to have symptoms because until the pathogens are dealt with, symptoms will not resolve.  

Now, I’m just a crazy gray-hair, but doesn’t it seem quite logical to have swelling in the brain with Lyme/MSIDS?

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/02/everything-thats-known-about-ehrlichiosis/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/15/ehrlichiosis-masquerading-as-thrombotic-thrombocytopenia-purpura/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/02/north-carolina-ehrlichia-often-overlooked-when-tick-borne-illness-suspected/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/24/oklahoma-ehrlichiosis-central/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/11/gestational-lyme-other-tick-borne-diseases-dr-jones/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/09/dogs-ehrlichiosis/

Category:

Ehrlichiosis, Inflammation, research, Testing, Ticks, Treatment

Tick-borne Relapsing Fever as a Potential Veterinary Medical Problem

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29943903/

Tick-borne relapsing fever as a potential veterinary medical problem.

Elelu N. Vet Med Sci. 2018.

Abstract

Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) caused by the bacteria Borrelia, is poorly documented in veterinary medicine. Given the widespread presence of the soft tick vectors – Ornithodoros and the recently discovered hard tick vectors, as well as their close association with animal hosts, it is highly likely that infection occurs, but is rarely reported to be of veterinary importance. Sporadic reports of canine infection, some being fatal through to probable cause of abortion in horses have been published. Some of these pathogens exist in regions where there are limited diagnostic facilities, hence, they are likely to be missed and their impact on productivity may be unquantified. Here we review available literatures on cases of TBRF in domestic and wild animals in order to show their potential veterinary medical impact. Future efforts using field and laboratory surveys are needed to determine pathogenesis, vector competence and distribution in animals, their impact on animal health and productivity as well as to prevent further spill to the human population, where it is already a public health problem in some parts of the world.

 

 

Category:

Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), research, Ticks

It’s 1984

First edition cover:  Wikipedia

Recently, social media and numerous media outlets have banned alternative health sources.  

A few examples:

The media outlets typically state it’s because the alternative media sources have violated a “misinformation” policy, or they don’t give a reason at all.

This is quite interesting because there are many areas of health/life where the jury is still out, and without public awareness, dialogue, and debate, serious issues will never be acknowledged or addressed.  To state another viewpoint is “misinformation” doesn’t stick because if you can back it up (which these sources do) then you may not like it, you may even disagree with it, but it’s another opinion in the wide-world of opinions. And the last time I checked, this is what America was built upon – a diversity of opinions and the ability to make informed choices.

Lyme/MSIDS is a perfect example.

Anyone in Lymeland understands that those who have been holding the power for over 40 years have controlled the narrative with an iron fist.  The folks willing to put their necks on the line and counter this narrative are few and far between, yet, if you look for it, you can find the true story – the years of denial, abuse, flawed and biased science, and yes, even the discovery that our government tweaks pathogens within ticks in a lab.

Yes, I said it, because they did it.

pps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/660311.pdf  In this 1967 U.S. Army report, we find starting on page 600, ticks that were experimentally infected with various pathogens.  For instance, on page 301 that Boophilus australis was experimentally infected with murine typhus rickettsia.  Dermacentor albopiotus with spotted fever, Dermacentor andersoni with typhus rickettsiae, and so on and so forth.

This is not the only place I’ve read about tick experimentation.

In PJ Langhoff’s book, “God Science: The Secret World of Rampant Genetics, Hidden Illness, and Biotech Profiteering,” she details how as a kid in Illinois, she and her siblings heard a radio announcer state that researchers from a nearby facility were going to drop items from an airplane and that people were to leave these items alone and let the researchers collect them.  Shortly after, every kid in the neighborhood was out hunting.  PJ first found a boring piece of cloth which she left, but after that found an interesting capsule that had broken open upon impact.  Funny looking bugs were crawling out of it. Bugs she didn’t recognize.  She developed a perfect bullseye rash, went to doctor after doctor who had no idea what it was, went from a straight-A student to a struggling student, and the rest is history with her struggling with chronic/persistent symptoms ever since.  I highly recommend her book.  FYI:  Years later she attempted to obtain the “official” information on this tick drop and it was scrubbed from existence yet all her siblings remember it as if it was yesterday.

What on earth were they dropping ticks for?

Regarding an interview with James H. Oliver, Lorraine Johnson of Lymedisease.org has the following to say:

“James H. Oliver is a well-known expert in ticks and their pathogens. He is a Professor of Biology Emeritus at Georgia Southern University and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the 1950s, he served in the army at Ft. Dietrich, Maryland, a top-secret biological warfare facility, where he studied ticks and the diseases they carry.”

“The interview suggests to me that the reason we have such a large problem with our tick population today may be related to military experiments in the 50s. They were part of a biological warfare effort against the Russians. One goal was to figure out how to get ticks to reproduce quickly and abundantly, as well as how to distribute ticks to targeted areas.”

“Perhaps the government’s failure to fully acknowledge and address the Lyme epidemic reflects its role in creating the problem?”  https://www.lymedisease.org/lymepolicywonk-questioning-governments-role-lyme-disease-make-conspiracy-theorist/

Excerpt from interview:

. . .I am a biologist, so that’s where I started working on ticks and mosquitoes—how to produce a lot of them. Drop them out of airplanes. Everything was very hush-hush, very secret. I’m still leery talking about it, because I think they might put me in jail because I’m delivering secrets. [Laughs.] It was a crazy time.

We would run all kinds of distribution tests on where these things go when you release them and what were the factors that would cause the migration. Can we drop them out of airplanes and how do we get the bugs to the enemy? That was the thing we did.https://www.lymedisease.org/lymepolicywonk-questioning-governments-role-lyme-disease-make-conspiracy-theorist/

Sounds incriminating to me.

Can you see now why a climate change agenda keeps getting rammed down our throats?  It’s the old “bait & switch.  Get us looking anywhere but where it matters.

Johnson goes on in the article to discuss Rickettsia helvetica, also called the Swiss agent, discovered at the same time as the Lyme organism, and the need to study it further.  The reason is quite clear when you read what Oliver has to say:

A lot of tick pathogens are rickettsia and rickettsial diseases. Every time I go to my local physician and I have some strange illness that they don’t know what it is, he says it is probably a rickettsia—an idiopathic condition. I’ve tested negatively for rickettsia, but the symptoms [suggest it] could be.  https://www.lymedisease.org/lymepolicywonk-questioning-governments-role-lyme-disease-make-conspiracy-theorist/

Could this be a reason so many have symptoms but continue to test negative?

Another interesting tidbit for Wisconsinites is that our beloved Dr. Hoffman who treated patients for this in Illinois during his residency before it was called Lyme disease said they called it a rickettsial disease.  Perhaps he was closer to the mark than he knew.

There’s more sources I could present, but I distress….

Which brings us back to the issue at hand:  Censorship of opinions that don’t fit the narrative.

In George Orwell’s prophetic 1984, the ruling party controls everything – including thoughts considered rebellious, called Thoughtcrime.  They even developed a new language called Newspeak which eliminated all words remotely related to rebellion.

Ironically, the main character works in the Ministry of Truth where historical records are altered to fit the needs of the Party.

Everyone in the the world of 1984 lives in fear.

Maybe like this?  https://www.disclose.tv/all-found-murdered-doctors-who-discovered-cancer-enzymes-in-vaccines-333465

I won’t spoil the end for those of you who haven’t read it, but you may just wake up one day and discover you are living in 1984.

For the answer to this tyranny, I quote British philosopher John Stuart Mill’s inaugural address of 1867:

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

 

 

 

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Ticks

Study Shows Most Common Cause of Anaphylaxis is Alpha Gal

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180730/Study-finds-tick-bite-meat-allergy-as-most-common-cause-of-anaphylaxis.aspx

Study finds tick bite meat allergy as most common cause of anaphylaxis

Jul 30 2018

An increase in the Lone Star tick population since 2006, and the ability to recognize the ticks as the source of “alpha gal” allergy to red meat has meant significantly more cases of anaphylaxis being properly identified.

A new study in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) showed that at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, alpha-gal ( a complex sugar found in red meat from beef, pork, venison, etc.) was the most common known cause of anaphylaxis. In previous studies of anaphylaxis, researchers were often unable to identify the source of the severe allergic reaction.

“Of the 218 cases of anaphylaxis we reviewed, 33 percent were from alpha gal,” says Debendra Pattanaik, MD, lead author of the study. “When we did the same review in 1993, and again in 2006, we had a great many cases where the cause of the anaphylaxis couldn’t be identified. That number of unidentified cases dropped from 59 percent in 2006 to 35 percent in this report – probably from the number of identified alpha gal cases. Our research clearly identified alpha gal as the cause of anaphylaxis in the majority of cases where the cause was detected. Food allergies were the second leading cause, accounting for 24 percent.”

The people in the study were seen between 2006 and 2016. The study notes that alpha gal allergy was first identified in 2008, so previous reviews wouldn’t have taken it into consideration. Due to increased awareness of red meat allergy, and more diagnostic testing available, alpha gal allergy went from an unknown entity to the most commonly identified cause of anaphylaxis at this center.

“We understand that Tennessee is a state with a big population of Lone Star ticks, and that might have influenced the large number of alpha gal cases we identified,” says allergist Jay Lieberman, MD, vice chair of the ACAAI Food Allergy Committee and a study co-author. “The Lone Star tick is predominantly found in the southeastern United States and we would expect a higher frequency of anaphylaxis cases in this region would be due to alpha gal. However, the tick can be found in many states outside this region and there are already more cases being reported nationwide.”

The remainder of the cases of anaphylaxis in the study were attributed to insect venom (18 percent) exercise (6 percent) systemic mastocystosis (6 percent) medications (4 percent) and other (3 percent).

A bite from the Lone Star tick can cause people to develop an allergy to red meat, including beef, pork and venison. The allergy is best diagnosed with a blood test. Although allergic reactions to foods typically occur rapidly, within 60 minutes of eating the food, in the case of allergic reactions to alpha-gal, symptoms often take several hours to develop. Because of the significant delay between eating red meat and the appearance of an allergic reaction, it can be a challenge to connect the culprit foods to symptoms. Therefore, an expert evaluation from an allergist familiar with the condition is recommended.

Allergists are specially trained to test for, diagnose and treat allergies. To find an allergist near you who can help create a personal plan to deal with your allergies and asthma, use the ACAAI allergist locator.

Source:

https://acaai.org/

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For more on Alpha Gal:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/12/tick-related-red-meat-allergy-found-in-minnesota-wisconsin/  Yes, Martha, it’s here in Wisconsin.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/28/what-the-mystery-of-the-tick-borne-meat-allergy-could-reveal/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/27/alpha-gal-perioperative-management/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/16/a-strange-itch-trouble-breathing-then-anaphylactic-shock/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/04/arkansas-woman-develops-deadly-meat-allergy-after-tick-bite/  As Meritt points out on the Allergy & Asthma Clinic of Northwest Arkansas’ website, the alpha-gal allergy extends to beef, pork, gelatin and products that contain mammalian ingredients.  “That includes dairy products,” Burton said. “Mammal biproducts are in everything — daily vitamin supplements, shampoo, conditioners, hand and body lotions … all those things were keeping my system agitated. Pork or beef would just put it over the edge.”
A lot of vaccines are either made with animal products or have gelatin in it.

Category:

Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, research, Ticks