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CDC Identifies HIV in Cosmetic Needles While 30,000 in UK Infected with Tainted Blood

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/first-cases-of-hiv-transmitted-through-cosmetic-needles-identified-cdc

First Cases of HIV Transmitted Through Cosmetic Needles Identified: CDC

By Zachary Stieber, Senior Reporter
4/29/2024

Multiple people contracted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through cosmetic needles after receiving facials at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Three women who received platelet-rich plasma (PRP) microneedling facials, also known as vampire facials, at the spa contracted HIV and an investigation pointed to the facials as the method of transmission, a new paper from CDC scientists states.

The spa in question, the since-shuttered VIP Salon, was dubbed spa A in the paper.

“This investigation is the first to associate HIV transmission with nonsterile cosmetic injection services. A common exposure to spa A among clients without behaviors associated with HIV acquisition helped identify a possible cluster association, and analysis of additional data suggested that HIV transmission likely occurred via receipt of PRP with microneedling facial procedures,” said the scientists, who worked with New Mexico health officials.

The source of the contamination remains unknown, they said.  (See link for article)

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https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/thousands-infected-in-uk-tainted-blood-scandal/    15 Video Here

THOUSANDS INFECTED IN UK TAINTED BLOOD SCANDAL

In perhaps one of the largest medical scandals in the UK, thousands of hemophiliacs were given serious diseases when they unknowingly received tainted blood products. Without their knowledge, these people received blood from HIV positive, Hepatitis B,C and A positive donors who were sex workers and prisoners. We look into this rare moment where the public, legacy media, and over 180 politicians are aligned to bring justice for the victims.

AIRDATE: April 25, 2024

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**Comment**

While Jaxen states experimentation on the public like the Tuskegee experiment doesn’t happen anymore, I completely disagree.  Many feel that Lyme disease is part 2 of Tuskegee, as well as the fact they experimented on prisoners with a bioweaponized form of mycoplasma, and we are currently living through the COVID debacle in which hospital patients died from brutal experimental protocols and/or from an experimental mRNA gene therapy in which many have died  or are permanently maimed.

I would also include that “vaccines” are largely experimental that yearly leave thousands maimed for life.  Now we also have radiation sickness from wifi, cell towers, cell phones, and a host of technology that has had very little if any safety testing.  Then throw in the ineffective but dangerous “green” solutions and geoengineering for a climate narrative, and there are now so many variables it’s nearly impossible to determine what is causing what.

So no – the experimentation has not stopped.  

Further, an FDA rule change published on December 21, 2023 allows scientists to conduct human experiments without informed consent as long as the research poses ‘minimal risk’ and includes ‘appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects.’  Source

This isn’t shocking considering the FDA has waived clinical trials for COVID boosters, continuing the policy of ‘shots first, questions later,’ and the dwindling of informed consent.

The experiments continue.

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Activism, Transmission, Viruses

Leptospirosis on the Rise in NYC

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-17-leptospirosis-on-the-rise-in-nyc.html

Leptospirosis cases on the rise in NYC – symptoms include kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure and death

04/17/2024 // Ethan Huff
Article Excerpts:
People in New York City are reportedly getting sick with a disease called leptospirosis that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says “affects humans and animals.”An illness stemming from bacteria of the genus Leptospira, leptospirosis reportedly spreads through exposure to rat urine, rats being a prolific problem throughout the filthy Big Apple.Symptoms of leptospirosis are wide ranging, often being mistaken for other diseases. Such symptoms include everything from kidney damage and meningitis (inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord) to liver failure, respiratory disease and even sudden death.

Chief Nerd, citing an article from the Epoch Times, tweeted that the news about all these increasing leptospirosis cases in New York City comes exactly one year after Mayor Eric Adams appointed Kathleen Corradi as the city’s first-ever citywide director of rodent mitigation.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Leptospira is a genus of spirochaete bacteria with 64 recognized species and is thought to be the most widespread zoonosis in the world that occurs mostly in temperate regions. Similarly to Lyme disease, also a spirochaete bacteria, it is under-reported.  Synonyms for Lepto include Weil’s disease, Weil-Vasiliev disease, Swineherd’s disease, rice-field fever, waterborne fever, nanukayami fever, cane-cutter fever, swamp fever, mud fever, Fort Bragg fever, Stuttgart disease, Mgunda fever, and Canicola fever.

Rodents are the most important reservoirs for maintaining transmission, but are asymptomatic carriers that shed the organism in their urine which can survive for days to months.  It infects both wild and domestic mammals and can either present asymptomatically or via clinical infection.

Humans are accidental hosts, becoming infected through cuts or abraded skin, mucus membranes or conjunctivae after coming in contact with contaminated soil or water.  It has also occurred via animal bites.

Human-to-human transmission is very rare but has been documented through sexual intercourse and breastfeeding.

Large outbreaks involving thousands of people have occurred after flooding – particularly in areas with poor sanitation.  Outbreaks have also occurred at athletic events where swimming was in fresh water.

For more:  https://www.uptodate.com/contents/leptospirosis-epidemiology-microbiology-clinical-manifestations-and-diagnosis

A reliable distinguishing feature is conjunctival suffusion (redness of the conjunctiva).

Please note the transmission via urine, mucus membranes, animal bites, sex and breast feeding because experts have said the exact same thing about Lyme disease.

Go here to learn about the 45 lab acquired infections with Lyme before 1975 which resulted in two deaths.  Infected guinea pig blood survived outside the host for 28-35 days at room temperature and it survives for short periods in URINE.  Source

SOURCES/SPECIMENS:  Clinical specimens – blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, skin scrapings, retinal and synovial specimens; naturally or experimentally infected mammals, their ectoparasites and their infected tissues

Yet the band plays on and the ‘powers that be’ insist you can only become infected by a black-legged tick bite.
Right.

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Transmission

Arkansas Boy Recovers From Tick Bite That Sent Him to ICU

https://www.lymedisease.org/arkansas-boy-ehrlichiosis-icu/  Go here for video

Arkansas boy recovers from tick bite that sent him to ICU

Last year, a six-year-old Arkansas boy had to be put into a medically induced coma–after a tick bite gave him ehrlichiosis.

At that time, according to his mom:

“He lost all motor skills, all function, he couldn’t speak.” He began to have daily seizures, some of which lasted for hours.

Now, a year later, young Aiden Debusk is doing much better.

Reporter Ashley Godwin of THV-11 News gives this update.

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New Testing Approach Improves Detection of Rare But Emerging Powassan Virus Spread by Deer Ticks

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/new-testing-approach-improves-detection-rare-emerging-powassan-virus-spread-deer-ticks

NEW TESTING APPROACH IMPROVES DETECTION OF RARE BUT EMERGING POWASSAN VIRUS SPREAD BY DEER TICKS

UMass Amherst-based NEWVEC developed method to monitor and prevent potentially deadly infections

Researchers at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive disease, including encephalitis and meningitis.

This robust, real-time approach reduces the incidence of false negative test results, the NEWVEC researchers found. The team describes the study in a special issue of the journal Viruses, titled “Tick-borne Viruses: Transmission and Surveillance.”

“Powassan has been a growing concern in New England for the past several years and false negatives can confound efforts to surveil,” says vector-borne disease expert Stephen Rich, professor of microbiology at UMass Amherst and principal investigator and executive director of NEWVEC. “The development of sensitive detection methods for diagnostics and surveillance is critical.”

Named after the town in Ontario, Canada, where it was first identified in 1958 in a 5-year-old boy who died from encephalitis, Powassan virus is a flavivirus related to West Nileand other mosquito-borne viruses.

Though still rare, Powassan virus is drastically increasing in incidence in the U.S., predominantly in the Northeast and Great Lakes region. More than 10% of the record 290 U.S. cases reported in 2022 (compared to only one case per year from 2004 to 2006) resulted in death, and half of the survivors suffered long-term neurological damage. The virus is transmitted to humans primarily by Ixodes scapularis, the same blood-sucking deer ticks that transmit Lyme disease, babesiosis and other tick-borne illnesses.

The team at NEWVEC – which brings together academic communities, public health practitioners and residents and visitors across the Northeast in an effort to reduce diseases spread by ticks and mosquitoes – developed a triplex real-time PCR test for the simultaneous and quantitative detection of the Powassan virus and Powassan virus lineage II (deer tick virus) in Ixodes scapularis, or deer ticks. (The prototype Powassan virus is found mostly in Ixodes cookei and Ixodes marxi ticks that feed almost exclusively on woodchucks in their burrows and rarely bite humans or human pets.)

The NEWVEC team conducted a tick survey in coastal and offshore Massachusetts, focusing on 13 sites from the highly endemic regions of tick-borne diseases in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. They tested the ticks for Powassan virus, comparing  their new triplex PCR method to the standard, commercially available Luminex xMap technology.

“The good news is that ours works as well as the other one. So, in other words, everything that the other one could detect, we could detect,” Rich explains. “The great news is that we also overcame the problem of false negatives, which is what happens when a sample is not of sufficient quality that any test would ever be able to detect the virus in it.”

The new triplex method accomplishes a reduction in false negatives by using a “clever” quality control. Both tests seek to detect the presence of Powassan virus RNA. “But we also had a paired search for the RNA from the tick, which is present in every tick regardless of whether it has the virus or not,” Rich says. “And what that tells us is, if we can amplify tick RNA, then we have some hope of being able to detect the virus RNA. If we don’t detect the tick DNA, then we have no hope of being able to detect the virus RNA.

“And before we developed that method, people would be left to wonder – if they were inquisitive – whether a negative result meant that the virus wasn’t there or that the sample wasn’t testable. So, we’ve ruled out that latter possibility. And now we know with some assurance that when a tick tests negative, it’s a true negative. It’s not that the sample just isn’t good enough.”

In the areas surveyed, “We found pockets of high incidence of this virus,” Rich says.

Powassan virus was detected at four of six sites in Cape Cod and two of seven sites in Martha’s Vineyard. Of 819 ticks collected, 33 (4.03%) tested positive for Powassan virus and 752 tested as Powassan negative, using the new triplex method. Thirty-four ticks (4.15%) failed the quality control tick RNA test. That showed that the standard Luminex method underestimated the overall prevalence of Powassan virus because those 34 ticks were found Powassan negative. And only 30 ticks tested positive using the Luminex method, demonstrating that the triplex technique has a higher sensitivity to detect the virus RNA.

Infection rates reached as high as 10.43% at one site in Truro on Cape Cod, and were completely absent at seven other sites. All the ticks that tested positive for the Powassan virus also were positive for the lineage II deer tick virus.

The researchers say they hope this improved triplex PCR test will be useful in transmission studies and as a tool to monitor and prevent Powassan virus infections in Massachusetts and other areas where the virus has been reported.

“Powassan virus is only a threat to people through the bite of tick,” Rich says. “That’s why these highly accurate and sensitive tests of the tick are so valuable in assessing where and when risk of exposure is highest.”

Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly used the term “false positives” instead of “false negatives” in multiple instances, including in the quote by Stephen Rich. These errors have been corrected.

March 26, 2024

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**Comment**

It’s been a while since I’ve seen information on Powassan; however, one thing I know: it’s not rare.

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research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission, Viruses

Obstetrical and Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Gestational Lyme Disease

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.15380

Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational Lyme disease

First published: 21 January 2024
https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15380
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Abstract

Objective

The incidence of Lyme disease (LD) infections has risen in recent decades. Gestational LD has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes; however, the results have been contradictory. The study objective was to examine the effects of gestational LD on obstetrical and neonatal outcomes.

Methods

Using the Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample from the United States, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of pregnant patients admitted to the hospital between 2016 and 2019. The exposed group consisted of pregnant patients with gestational LD infection (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision [ICD-10] code A692x), while the comparison group consisted of pregnant patients without gestational LD. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression models, adjusted for baseline maternal characteristics, were used to determine the associations between gestational LD and obstetrical and neonatal outcomes.

Results

The cohort included 2 ,943, 575 women, 226 of whom were diagnosed with LD during pregnancy. The incidence of LD was 7.67 per 100, 000 pregnancy admissions. The incidence of gestational LD was stable over the study period. Pregnant patients with LD were more likely white, older, to have private health insurance, and to belong to a higher income quartile. Gestational LD was associated with an increased risk of placental abruption (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.45 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.53–7.80]) and preterm birth (aOR, 1.58 [95% CI, 1.03–2.42]).

Conclusion

Gestational LD is associated with a higher risk of placental abruption and preterm birth. Pregnancies complicated by LD, while associated with a higher risk of certain adverse outcomes, can be followed in most healthcare settings.

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Lyme, Pregnancy, research, Transmission