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Wilderness Medical Society Writes Clinical Practice Guidelines for TBI’s. They Also Are Wrong

https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(21)00163-0/fulltext

Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Tick-Borne Illness in the United States

Published:October 09, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2021.09.001
The Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and management of tick-borne illness (TBI). Recommendations are graded based on quality of supporting evidence according to criteria put forth by the American College of Chest Physicians. The guidelines include a brief review of the clinical presentation, epidemiology, prevention, and management of TBI in the United States, with a primary focus on interventions that are appropriate for resource-limited settings.
Strong recommendations are provided for the use of DEET, picaridin, and permethrin; tick checks; washing and drying clothing at high temperatures; mechanical tick removal within 36 h of attachment; single-dose doxycycline for high-risk Lyme disease exposures versus “watchful waiting;” evacuation from backcountry settings for symptomatic tick exposures; and TBI education programs. Weak recommendations are provided for the use of light-colored clothing; insect repellents other than DEET, picaridin, and permethrin; and showering after exposure to tick habitat. Weak recommendations are also provided against passive methods of tick removal, including the use of systemic and local treatments. There was insufficient evidence to support the use of long-sleeved clothing and the avoidance of tick habitat such as long grasses and leaf litter. Although there was sound evidence supporting Lyme disease vaccination, a grade was not offered as the vaccine is not currently available for use in the United States.  (See Link for article)
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**Comment**
Any document that refuses to include ILADS material is rigged.  In the conclusion the authors admit:
The recommendations presented in this CPG are largely consistent with those presented by the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/index.html)
In essence they are telling us they’ve used tax-payer dollars to tell us nothing new.
  • These guidelines are a regurgitation of the accepted narrative by a supposed “expert panel” whom were chosen based on interest or research experience.
  • They essentially sifted through The Cabal’s research with keywords, and then looked at existing guidelines and CDC references – all of which are stacked against patients, but of course were peer-reviewed.
  • They didn’t even address the polarity which exists in both Lyme/MSIDS research and clinical practice.
  • The first glaring misnomer & simplification is that they state the black-legged tick is only in the Eastern US, despite independent research showing migrating birds are spreading ticks globally and that patients are infected globally.
  • While there is a greater risk of being bitten at certain times of the year, you can be bitten 24/7/365.  Never forget that and never let your guard down.
  • They continue to downplay transmission if you remove the tick before 72 hours.  Don’t buy it.  I know too many who have defied this 4-cornered box, including myself.  Remove all ticks ASAP.
  • They continue to push the one-dose doxy prophylactic treatment which doesn’t work. Neither does two pills. Unfortunately, researchers still believe the EM rash is some magical symbol.  The EM rash comes and goes at will and should never be a marker for effectiveness of treatment.
  • The EM rash is a poor indicator of Lyme, and highly variable, although if you have it, you ARE INFECTED WITH LYME, no testing needed – start treatment ASAP.
  • Ironically, if the doctor can’t identify the tick, or if attachment time is unknown, they still recommend the “wait and see” approach, even though that particular refrain has caused untold damage.
  • The “experts” then give a complicated diagram showing a triage of events (many of which are faulty) leading to either remaining in the field or evacuating.  In other words, they are asking you to again trust the “experts” and their four-cornered box which has been defied again and again.
  • And lastly, and certainly expected is their belief in a Lyme vaccine as an “attractive option,” despite the fact patients have literally been maimed by it.

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Lyme, Prevention, research, Treatment

COVID Truth to Share

https://dailyclout.io/wp-content/uploads/COVID-Truths-You-Havent-Heard.pdf

This well written pdf guide is a collection of facts that have been peer-reviewed and triple checked by experts in their fields.  Since mainstream media, medicine, and our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ are not giving facts, we need to share this information with one another.

Topics covered:

  • Masks
  • Asymptomatic spread
  • The Great Barrington Declaration
  • Herd Immunity & how it is achieved
  • Outpatient COVID treatment protocols
  • How early treatments have been suppressed and denied
  • Testing
  • COVID Statistical Fraud
  • CDC data fraud
  • Vaccine trials
  • NIH & NIAID Corruption/Crimes
  • Adverse events on COVID shots
  • “Vaccine” Mandates
  • Numerous topics you can take action on

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Danish Researchers Discover New Hiding Place for Antibiotic Resistance

https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2021/danish-researchers-discover-new-hiding-place-for-antibiotic-resistance/

16 December 2021

Danish researchers discover new hiding place for antibiotic resistance

BacteriaGenes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics can persist longer than it was previously believed. This was recently shown in a new University of Copenhagen study that reports a previously unknown hiding place for these genes. The finding represents a new and important piece in the puzzle to understand how bacterial antibiotic resistance works.
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Antibiotic resistance is a race between us humans, who strive to find new antibiotics that can treat infectious diseases – and bacteria, which are becoming increasingly resistant. For now, bacteria are way ahead, which is why it is important for us to learn more about antibiotic resistance. A Danish research group has discovered a new piece of the puzzle that helps us better understand the ‘enemy’.

University of Copenhagen researchers have shown that the prevailing assumption that resistant bacteria lose their resistance capability when antibiotics are not present is a truth requiring significant modifications.

“One widespread strategy to combat antibiotic resistance has been to use antibiotics for a period of time and then take a break. The belief is that resistant bacteria will lose their resistance genes or be outcompeted during the break, after which the antibiotics will work again. But that approach doesn’t seem to hold up,” says one of the study’s senior authors, Associate Professor Mette Burmølle of the Department of Biology. Co-first author Henriette Lyng Røder elaborates:

“Our study demonstrates that resistance genes are able to hide in inactive bacteria, where they form a hidden reserve of resistance that bacteria can rely on. In other words, they don’t just disappear when antibiotics aren’t around.”  (See link for article)

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Summary:

  • The study, found in NPJ Biofilms and Microbiome, is called: “Biofilms Can Act as Plasmid Reserves in the Absence of Plasmid Specific Selection”
  • The article of course delves into biofilms, something every Lyme/MSIDS patient must quickly learn about.
  • It has long been thought that using antibiotics and then taking a break would eradicate any lingering bacteria either through losing resistance genes or being out-competed.
  • The study found that resistance genes hide in inactive bacteria and form a hidden reserve.
  • Inactive bacteria found in biofilm have this hidden reserve of resistance genes that can be drawn upon. (Think of it as a special army that can be called upon when other soldiers are killed or injured)
  • Plasmids, which allow resistance genes to occur, also steal energy from bacteria and cause it to grow more slowly, so the bacteria strike the perfect balance by having active bacteria do the heavy lifting while inactive (hibernating) bacteria in biofilm have the life-sucking plasmids slowing them down but make them antibiotic resistant which is imperative for survival.
  • Researchers believe that resistance/persister reserves in biofilms are primarily built up in environmental bacteria found in soil, air, and wastewater.
  • Different species of bacteria can transmit resistance to each other, which means environmental bacteria found in soil for instance can be transmitted to the types of bacteria (say staph, for instance) that make people ill.
  • A concern is that antibiotic-resistant genes from humans and animals that ends up in sewage for instance may spread into the environment and turn environmental bacteria pathogenic or disease causing.

Important quote:

“In the bigger picture, this means that if there are a lot of inactive bacteria in the environment, in soil for example, then resistant genes don’t just gradually disappear when antibiotics aren’t present. Therefore, we ought to consider abandoning the idea that we can get rid of resistance genes and instead assume that they are always present. Understanding these dynamics can better equip us to battle antibiotic-resistant bacteria.”

Could someone please send this to the IDSA?

When I first read this, I completely missed the “new hiding place,” as this has been discussed for years by Lyme/MSIDS researchers and doctors.

  • Dr. Zhang calls them “persisters.”
  • Dr. Horowitz has had great success in a subset of patients using mycobacterium drugs and states: “the efficacy of dapsone combined with other antibiotics and agents that disrupt biofilms for the treatment of chronic Lyme disease/post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS)” [2] “decreased eight major Lyme symptoms severity and improved treatment outcomes among patients with chronic Lyme disease/PTLDS and associated co-infections.”
  • A study by Stanford Medicine suggests that the antibiotic azlocillin “completely kills off the disease-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi at the onset of the illness.” In addition, the authors say, azlocillin “could be effective for treating [Lyme disease] patients infected with drug-tolerant bacteria that may cause lingering symptoms.” [5]
  • Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found that a combination of antibiotics – daptomycin, doxycycline, and ceftriaxone − eradicated the slow-growing variant form (persisters) of the Lyme bacteria in a mouse model. Scientists believe persisters may be responsible for the chronic symptoms that some Lyme disease patients experience.  “There is a lot of excitement in the field because we now have not only a plausible explanation but also a potential solution for patients who suffer from persistent Lyme disease symptoms despite standard single-antibiotic treatment,” says Ying Zhang, MD, Ph.D., senior author on the study.
  • Dr. Mass has written that Disulfiram/Antabuse not only kills the active bacteria responsible for the disease but also a subpopulation of “persister-cells”.
  • This study shows how important it is to continue to play in the dirt and eat things from the ground.  Soil-based probiotics are bacteria naturally found in the earth. One of the most common types of soil-based probiotics (bacillus) has been used to ferment foods for hundreds of years.
  • Make sure you work with a reputable practitioner to become educated on the nuances of nutrition, probiotics, supplements, and other things that will help you
  • COVID has ignited a germ-fear panic which is unfounded and truly contrary to everything known about human health and germs/viruses.  The constant de-germing of every surface is killing beneficial bacteria and setting us up for illness. As with all things in life – it’s about balance.  When there’s too many bad-guys, your health will tip into illness, but when all is in balance, health is robust and stable.  Our job?  Try to find that proper balance, which is a lifetime work!  And, as with all things, looks slightly different on each individual, which is why allopathic medicine will never have the answers as it is a “one-sized fits all” approach where supposedly a singular pill will fix you and everyone else in exactly the same way.  Hopefully we can put that myth to rest once and for all, as this over simplification of health is leaving thousands in the dust – particularly Lyme/MSIDS patients.

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research, Treatment

Parvovirus B-19 or Fifth Disease & Lyme

https://sites.google.com/site/virginialyme/tick-borne-diseases/parvovirus-b19

Parvovirus B19

Parvovirus B19- Opportunistic, Chronic or Tick Borne?

Parvoviruses are some of the smallest viruses found in nature. Patients with chronic Lyme disease may test positive for parvovirus B19. Studies are needed to determine if parvovirus is reactivated after a Lyme infection in some people, if it is passed along by ticks with Lyme bacteria and many other known coinfections or if it is a chronic illness that can surface when the immune system is busy fighting new infections.

What is parvovirus B19 (aka “fifth disease or slapped-cheek syndrome)?”

Parvo B-19 is an illness that occurs most commonly in children. The child may have a “slapped-cheek” rash on the face and/or a lacy red rash on the trunk and limbs. Occasionally, the rash may itch. The child may have a fever, malaise, or a “cold” a few days before the rash breaks out. The rash may disappear on its own, with no treatment.

What causes parvovirus B19?

This particular virus (B19) infects humans. Pet dogs or cats may be immunized against “parvovirus,” but these are animal parvoviruses that are not known to infect humans. Therefore, a child cannot “catch” parvovirus from a pet dog or cat, and a pet cat or dog cannot catch human parvovirus B19 from an ill child.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Great reminder that COVID is not the only enemy out there.

A few points:

  • Adults can get B19 as well.
  • Patients with B19, as with any other virus, can also be asymptomatic (don’t have symptoms). About 20% don’t develop symptoms at all.
  • Besides the tell-tale facial rash, joint pain/swelling is also common.  Joints most affected are hands, wrists, and knees. Pain may resolve quickly or last months or even years.
  • B19 is contagious before the rash appears. It has been found in respiratory secretions and the patient appears to “just have a cold.”
  • Like most viruses, it takes 3-14 days to become infected and lasts up to 3 weeks.
  • Similarly to the EM rash being diagnostic for Lyme, the rash for B19 is also diagnostic. A blood test may be done to look for antibodies.
  • While B19 is typically mild, it can cause serious illness in those with sickle-cell or anemia (the rash rarely appears with these cases). Also, those with cancers, immune deficiencies, beneficiaries of organs, or who have HIV are also at risk for more severe illness.
  • While the article states that the only treatment is palliative care (aspirin, anti-itch medication, fluids, rest, etc.) there is also blood ozone, IV supplements, immune globulin, and anti-virals.

The article brings up a very important point: do ticks and other insects transmit these viruses (they are known to transmit many other viruses) directly or do they reactivate latent viruses within the body or both?  My wager is that both occur.

Lyme/MSIDS have been struggling with viruses due to tick-borne illness for decades. Here’s a list:

  • EBV(epstein-barr virus)
  • herpes
  • powassan
  • bourbon virus
  • deer-tick virus
  • heartland virus
  • Colorado tick fever
  • tick-borne encephalitis
  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
  • Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (caused by SFTS virus)

The best treatment is to treat the underlying tick-borne infections and strengthen the immune system with adjunctive therapies that support the body. Also, many find anti-viral agents very helpful.

For more:

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Lyme, Treatment, Viruses

Ivermectin Trial on Hold Citing ‘Supply Issues’ & Judge Holds Hospital in Contempt of Court: The Ivermectin Saga Continues

The ivermectin arm of the U.K’s PRINCIPLE trial is “currently paused due to supply issues,” according to the trial’s website. Guess who manufacturers ivermectin? Merck – the company that was accused of fraud, deceit, negligence, falsifying data, paid $4.85 billion settlement with injured plaintiffs over Vioxx when it did not disclose known heart attack risk in its clinical trial data, and who is in bed with our government, paying it royalties.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • The cost of a complete five-day course of Molnupiravir is $700 — or $70 per pill. That amounts to a 4,000% markup over what it costs Merck to make the drug.
  • Citing 2013 prices provided by the WHO, Campbell said a five-day course of ivermectin — 10 3mg pills — costs $0.53. (However, at today’s U.S. prices, 10 3mg pills cost about $39).

The company said that it has “concluded that the probability of ivermectin providing a potentially safe and efficacious treatment option for SARS-CoV-2 infection is low and have prioritized internal efforts towards the development of alternate candidates that provide a higher probability of success for the treatment of COVID-19.”

Ha, ha, ha….seriously, this is laughable if it wasn’t killing people.

OK, so you know ivermectin works and you are basically taking your marbles and going home to create your own game, a patented drug which will make you a whole lot more money. I get it, out with the old in with the new.

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-holds-hospital-in-contempt-of-court-for-refusing-ivermectin-covid-patient

Judge holds hospital in contempt of court for refusing ivermectin to COVID patient on ventilator, ignoring court order

Chris Enloe

December 14, 2021

A Virginia hospital was held in contempt of court Monday after refusing to administer ivermectin to a woman who has been battling COVID-19 since early October.

What are the details?

Kathleen Davies, a 63-year-old northern Virginia woman, became severely ill with COVID in October, and she has been on a ventilator since Nov. 3.

Davies was prescribed ivermectin by her family doctor, but she could not complete her regimen upon being admitted to the Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. That’s because the northern Virginia hospital refused to administer the drug, “citing medical, legal and practical concerns,” the Fauquier Times reported.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A family member who works at the hospital urged the hospital to give her ivermectin to no avail. Then in Dec. they took legal action and a circuit court judge ordered the hospital to give her the drug.  The hospital ignored the order.

The hospital is relying on “consensus” medicine and the fact the patient’s doctor does not have hospital privileges.

The judge then ruled that this is not state law and again ordered the hospital to permit giving ivermectin.

Hospital: “Talk to the butt.”

The judge finally held the hospital in contempt of court for “needlessly interposing requirements that stand in the way of the patient’s desired physician administering investigational drugs as part of the Health Care Decisions Act and the federal and state Right to Try Acts.” and imposed daily $10,000 fines retroactive to Dec. 9, 2021.

The judge gave the hospital until 9 p.m. on Monday to administer ivermectin, or he would levy additional fines.

Kathleen Davies was given ivermectin at 8:45 p.m.

And that is what it takes to save lives in the crazy, topsy-turvy world of COVID where experimental, fast-tracked, never approved for human use injections, that don’t stop transmission or infection, are ineffective, and which have caused more adverse reactions and death than any other “vaccine” in 30 years are accepted without hesitation and proven, cheap, effective drugs with decades of safety behind them are denied to dying patients. Please also read this important article on how hospitals get money for utilizing “consensus based” medicine even when it doesn’t work and costs lives.

The hospital payments include:

  • A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
  • Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
  • Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
  • A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
  • Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
  • More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
  • A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

Please see this article where ivermectin saved more patients from the jaws of death.

“Consensus based” medicine starts at the top with corrupt public health agencies, but 12,700 doctors and scientists have signed the Rome Declaration and have endorsed ivermectin as a COVID treatment.

An internist ultimately administered a five-day course of 24 milligrams of ivermectin, from November 8 through November 12.  The doctor stated: “Every day after ivermectin, there was accelerated and stable improvement,” said Dr. Bain, who administered the drug in two previous court cases after hospitals refused. “Three times we’ve shown something,” he told me. “There’s a signal of benefit for ventilator patients.”

  • With only a 10-20% chance of survival, the judge listed ivermectin’s possible side-effects from a government website: dizziness, pruitus, nausea/diarrhea, and stated that effects were so minimal that the patient’s condition outweighs risks by 100-fold.
  • A Kool-aid drinking doctor had the audacity to state that the risk of ivermectin gives no benefits.
  • This patient’s case is the costliest with three decisions, four court appearances, and now an appeal that is certainly moot. The attorney battled another case in the same health system that involved Nurije Fype, age sixty-eight. Her case inspired Dr. Ng to file suit. Fype, who is probably only alive today due to judicious treatment with ivermectin, is now four and a half months downstream and doing great.
  • Sun Ng, a 71-year-old man who spent 22 days on a ventilator with COVID-19, was discharged following a court-mandated successful treatment cycle of ivermectin.  Source

In other words, Ng made a FULL RECOVERY – and so did 80-year-old Judith Smentkiewicz, also on a ventilator with a 20% chance of survival. 

Also read this doctor’s experience with 0/2000 hospitalizations utilizing early treatment which includes ivermectin.  Here’s another doctor’s experience saving 1,700 utilizing HCQ, zinc, and azithromycin.

How many more cases must be presented before doctors smell a rat? 

Answer: cases don’t matter. 

All that matters is “consensus based” medicine (think Communism) where corrupt public health ‘authorities’ proclaim science, and Dr. Evil has been at it a long time.

And speaking of Communism, COVID investigator funded by Chinese Communist Party just removed from WHO team, is now calling on ‘Justice’ for online threats, and Dr. Evil, the doctor who has no qualms funding research that forced children to ingest harmful and dangerous chemotherapy drugs, on abominable experiments on dogs, and torturing monkeys, putting fetal scalps on rats, and taking American tax-dollars to fund illegal ‘gain of function’ research to make coronaviruses more virulent in humans is calling for his comrade’s protection. He also sees no problem with conflicts of interest.

 

Summary:

  • Koopmans was listed as one of 28 members on WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO)
  • SAGO’s updated member list fails to include Koopmans as a contributor to the effort to allegedly uncover the origins of COVID-19
  • The National Pulse unearthed her role on a scientific advisory board of the Centers for Disease Control of Guangdong China
  • She has also authored scientific research papers and journal articles supported by Chinese Communist Party grants

 

Category:

Treatment, vaccines, Viruses