Archive for the ‘Ticks’ Category

Diagnosing Lyme Disease: Dr. Klinghardt

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IcgYf2AZGfyu/  Video Here (Approx. 1 hour 30 min)

Diagnosing Lyme Disease

Interview with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt

First published April 2022

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Lyme, Testing, Ticks, Treatment

PBS Propels Lyme Myths

http://  Approx. 5 Min

What You Need to Know to Stay Safe From Ticks and Lyme Disease This Summer

PBS NewsHour

According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 476,000 people in the U.S. contract Lyme disease every year. Climate change and human encroachment into wilderness areas means ticks and the disease-causing bacteria they carry are becoming more common. Dr. Linden Hu, an immunology professor and co-director of the Lyme Disease Initiative at Tufts University, joins John Yang to discuss.

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**Comment**

Same old myths regurgitated due to either Hu’s ignorance (hard to believe), and/or conflicts of interest because he needs to obtain research grants from the government which continues to push a 40-year old false narrative.

  • Most never see the tick or have a rash.
  • Antibiotics are NOT effective for most as relapses have occurred in virtually every study done.
  • The percentages Hu states goes onto suffer with chronic Lyme are flat-out wrong and only include those diagnosed and treated early.  A far greater percentage are not included in this tally as they are diagnosed and treated late.  When combined together, a whopping 60% or more develop chronic symptoms.
  • Independent research has shown “climate change” is a nothing-burger regarding tick and disease proliferation.
  • While I agree that animals help propagate Lyme/MSIDS, let us never forget our own government experimented on ticks by infecting them with numerous pathogens and then dumped them out of airplanes.
  • Hu predictably pushes a Lyme “vaccine” in both humans and mice.  This is the big cash-cow for research institutions and the government which gives a huge financial return on investment.  Meanwhile, patients continue to suffer without answers or relief.
  • The only time our government is concerned about the increasing numbers of Lyme/MSIDS is when they are pushing a “vaccine.”  Nothing is ever done about the fact we still don’t have an accurate test.

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, Treatment, vaccines

Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes Scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada

https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1754.pdf

Primary Detection of the Establishment of Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia, Canada

John D Scott* and Catherine Scott

Upper Grand Tick Centre, 365 St. David Street South, Fergus, Ontario N1M 2L7, Canada

*Corresponding author(s) John D Scott, Upper Grand Tick Centre, 365 St. David Street South, Fergus, Ontario N1M 2L7, Canada Email: jkscott@bserv.com DOI: 10.37871/jbres1754 Submitted: 23 May 2023 Accepted: 30 May 2023 Published: 31 May 2023 Copyright: © 2023 Scott JD, et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 OPEN ACCESS

North America VOLUME: 4 ISSUE: 5 – MAY, 2023 BIOLOGY GROUP PARASITOLOGY

Abstract

Ticks transport and transmit microbial pathogens that inflict malevolent diseases on domestic and wildlife animals, and humans. We reveal the first-time record of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in British Columbia (BC) and, concurrently, far western North America. We unveil the primary tick-host record of I. scapularis parasitizing a Mallard duck, Anasplatyrhynchos. In our study, the most pronounced Ixodes species was I. scapularis (61%) followed by the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus (34%). The most frequently occurring mammalian host parasitized by I. scapularis was the eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus, a lagomorph of grassland habitats. Healthcare professionals must be aware that both I. pacificus, and I. scapularis bite humans in BC, and transmit at least six tick-borne human zoonotic pathogens that cause insidious diseases.

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**Comment**

Yet more proof ticks are everywhere and parasitizing virtually everything.  Continuing to regurgitate that patients can’t be infected with Lyme/MSIDS because ticks and disease don’t exist in certain geographical areas is foolishness that is killing people or dooming them to a life of misery.  Please educate others on this fact because mainstream medicine and the media are lying to the public and are not to be trusted.

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research, Ticks, Transmission

CDC’s New Online Tool Gives Useful, If Slightly Flawed, Information

https://www.lymedisease.org/cdc-tick-bite-data-tracker/

CDC’s new online tool gives useful, if slightly flawed, information

May 16, 2023

By Lonnie Marcum

The CDC has recently updated its website regarding ticks and their diseases.

The changes include a new online tool called the Tick Bite Data Tracker.  It allows users to track and visualize tick-borne disease data in the United States, advancing our ability to raise awareness.

The new tool provides information on diseases transmitted by ticks such as Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and ehrlichiosis.

The CDC webpage also gives information on the most common North American types of ticks and 16 known diseases transmitted by ticks such as babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi, Powassan virus, STARI, Colorado tick fever and more.

In addition, the CDC offers an updated page on Alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to red meat and products derived from mammals. The condition is triggered by the bite of a tick.

National collaboration

The Tick Bite Data Tracker is part of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) which is a collaboration among the CDC, local health agencies, state health departments and private sector partners. The NSSP allows these partners to collect, share and analyze electronic healthcare data in near real-time as it is processed.

Because there is no medical diagnostic ICD code for “tick bite,” the emergency department visits for tick bites are identified by specific words used in the medical record. For example, “tick” or “tick” and “bite.”

The Tick Bite Data Tracker includes interactive maps, graphs and tables that allow users to explore the data in different ways. Users can view data on a national or state level, as well as by county or even zip code in some areas.

One of the most interesting aspects of this new site is the ability to track emergency department visits for tick bites by week and month. This eliminates the strict reporting criteria that adversely affects statistics in lower incidence states like Florida, Texas and California.

What we see on the Tick Bite Data Tracker is simply the number of persons per 100,000 with reported tick bites who sought care in an emergency room. The new data can indicate when tick bites are most common in a region, and unlike other CDC surveillance data, it is updated weekly, rather than annually.

Tick bites peak in Spring

You can clearly see in the graph below how tick bites peak in the spring in almost all regions of the United States.

Unfortunately, the CDC lumps every state west of Nebraska as the “West.” Therefore, areas with higher incidence of tick bites, like California, are averaged with areas of lower incidence like Wyoming—giving an inaccurate picture.

In my opinion, at the very least, the CDC should have divided this huge region into the southwest and northwest to offer better representation of what is happening in those zones—but that’s another topic.

The site also points out several limitations of the tracker tool: “Results might not be generalizable to emergency departments that are not contributing data to the BioSense Platform. The keywords used to identify tick bite visits may under- or overestimate emergency department visits related to tick bites because of differences in coding, reporting, and availability of chief complaint text data between jurisdictions or over time. Finally, aggregated data by region might be less useful than state or local data.”

So essentially, you have to take this data for what it is: a slightly flawed tool that gives us a glimpse into what is happening in the tick-borne disease world.

Lyme Awareness Month is an opportunity to educate the public about the risks of Lyme disease and promote strategies for prevention and early detection. I hope you’ll use the Tick Bite Data Tracker, as well as additional information spread throughout the pages of our website to spread awareness.

LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a Licensed Physical Therapist and mother of a daughter with Lyme. She served two terms on a subcommittee of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Follow her on Twitter: @LonnieRhea  Email her at: lmarcum@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

A flawed tool that will  continued to be used against patients like the Iron Curtain.

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Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Anaplasmosis, Babesia, Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Viruses

Vaccinating Mice to Protect People?

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-shield-vaccine-mice/

Vaccinating mice to protect people from Lyme disease

The US Department of Agriculture has conditionally licensed an oral Lyme vaccine that targets mice.

The substance is sprayed onto pellets and distributed in natural settings to be consumed by mice in the wild.

That vaccinates the mice against Lyme bacteria, so they will not pass the infection to ticks, which in turn cannot pass it to people and pets.

According to US Biologic, the maker of the vaccine, “We’ll distribute the pellets in different ways to residences, public lands, and commercial properties. At residences, we will use the LymeShield System, which is an integrated tick-management program offered by pest-management professionals and includes the timed-application LymeShield Station. “

The vaccine is called Borrelia Burgdorferi Bacterin. The product, called LymeShield, includes a device or “station” that holds and applies the pellets.

SOURCE: US Biologic

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**Comment**

Sorry, just not excited about this at all.

There’s this thing called the law of unintended consequences and the past three years have demonstrated it perfectly.  Researchers and public health ‘authorities’ are typically very myopic and do not factor in variables that happen in real life that can affect the outcome of studies done in a lab in a petri dish.  The human body and the environment are complicated worlds where many things affect them.

For instance, what will these sprayed pellets do to other species that eat them?  What will this do to species that eat mice that have eaten these sprayed pellets?  What will this do to the groundwater that surrounds the area of these pellets and how will this affect wild-life and humans?  I mean, the questions abound here and no answers are forthcoming because we are all living in a continual experiment where we simply find out through the course of events.  Kind of like passing a bill before you read it.  (That actually happened)

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Research has become a run-away train with zero oversight and zero ethics.  The world will suffer.

Please note that Lyme/MSIDS research always focuses on “vaccines” and never upon effective tests or treatments.  Coincidence?  I think not.

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Activism, Prevention, Ticks, Treatment