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Are Current Tick Prevention Methods For Dogs Working?

https://globallymealliance.org/are-current-tick-prevention-methods-for-dogs-working/

WITH ALL THE PILLS, VACCINES, COLLARS, AND TOPICALS SPENT ON TICK PREVENTION METHODS FOR DOGS, WHY DO CASES OF LYME DISEASE AND OTHER TICK-BORNE ILLNESSES IN DOGS CONTINUE TO RISE?

It’s hard to miss all the tick prevention ads for dogs on TV, from pills to collars and everything in between. And if you’re a dog owner, you can’t leave the vets office without tick prevention being part of your dog’s preventative health plan. With the flea and tick product market estimated to hit $1.34 billion by 2025, it’s clear pet owners are taking disease prevention seriously. So why are more dogs getting Lyme disease now than ever before?

“Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is extremely common in dogs in North America, and is, unfortunately, becoming even more common every year,” said Global Lyme Alliance Scientific Advisory Board member Dr. Richard Goldstein, Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer of U.S. Diagnostics, Zoetis.

Why are tick-borne disease cases increasing in dogs despite a plethora of tick preventative measures, including collars, sprays, pills, powders, vaccines? The number of positive cases of canine Lyme disease has climbed by almost 40% in the last four years (from 245,971 in 2015 to 359,461 in 2019), according to the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing awareness of the threat parasites present to pets and family members.

Increases in the numbers of some other tick-borne diseases affecting dogs are even more alarming. These include canine anaplasmosis, which have nearly doubled from 117,203 in 2015 to 221,568 in 2019— and canine ehrlichiosis, up from 107,985 in 2015 to 200,410 in 2019. Keep in mind these numbers likely represent just a fraction of the actual number of cases.

TICKS ARE NOW A YEAR-ROUND THREAT

Dr. Mary Labato, veterinary internist and clinical professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, believes multiple factors such as climate change, reforestation, and new suburban developments that push into local fields and woods are playing a role in the increase of tick-borne diseases.

For one thing, not all pet-owners realize that black-legged ticks—the primary carrier of the Lyme disease bacterium—have become a year-round threat. Although winter is underway, ticks can still be found in leaf litter, brush and decaying vegetation—all areas where pets are at risk of picking them up and passing them on to you and your family.

Many people think that ticks die in winter and so they do not need to use tick-control medication during traditionally cold months, like January or February. But stopping anti-tick medications during the winter months is risky. Ticks are quite resilient and most manage to get through the winter just fine. All they need is one day with temperatures of 40 degrees or higher to emerge and begin searching for a blood meal. This past January, for example, in New York State alone more than a dozen days were sufficiently warm for ticks.

“In the past we didn’t expect to come across ticks in the dead of winter,” said Dr. Ann Hohenhaus, staff doctor at New York City’s Animal Medical Center. “But the past couple of winters have been mild, which means ticks are active for more months of the year, increasing the risk of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in pets.”

Moreover, Lyme disease is spreading to areas once not considered to be at high risk for tick-borne disease. Historically, ticks were mostly found in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. But starting in the second half of the 20th century, developers increasingly pushed into forested areas to build housing. Therefore, more homes and businesses now exist in previously forested areas, which are home to animals such as white-footed mice, deer, and chipmunks which host ticks. “Suburbia has now moved into fields and woods taking away wildlife-exclusive areas,” said Dr. Labato. “So people and dogs are spending more time together in areas where they come in contact with ticks both from the foliage and the wildlife.”

According to a new study from CAPC, Lyme disease prevalence has also been spreading in states not traditionally considered to be at high risk for the illness. These include regions in Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee. Two decades ago, you would never have seen ticks, for instance, in Northern Minnesota, and now you do.

TICK PREVENTION ONLY WORKS IF USED CONSISTENTLY

Dr. Goldstein emphasizes that in Lyme-endemic areas, every dog should be protected by their owner by “administering high-quality tick products and taking them [their pet] to their veterinarian to receive an annual Lyme vaccine.” However the use of the vaccines for dogs has been widely debated so talk to your vet about what’s best for your pet.

Yet despite the many anti-tick products on the market, some pet-owners are reluctant to use those that contain pesticides. Instead they may opt for a natural remedy, such as a product with essential oils, whose efficacy is unproven. There is no proof, for example, that apple cider vinegar, which is recommended by a number of websites as a tick preventative, works at all.

For that matter, not even highly effective brand name products will stop or kill 100 percent of the ticks your pets encounter. A 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiative surveyed 2,727 households in three states where Lyme disease is endemic—Connecticut, Maryland and New York. More than half had a dog, cat or both in the residence and about 88% of those households reported using some form of tick control. Despite this about 20% of households with pets still found ticks on their animals.

Veterinarians are quick to point out, however, that preventatives only work if they are conscientiously used. “Market research indicates that pet owners are not 100% compliant,” said Dr. Hohenhaus. “Just because pet owners have the medication doesn’t mean they apply it on the schedule prescribed by their veterinarian.”

CHECK FOR TICKS DAILY

Moreover, Dr. Labato says: “With more options for prevention, we become complacent and rely on the sole activity of the tick preventative. But you still need to check each day for the presence of ticks on dogs, cats, and people.”

If a tick bites your dog, it can transmit Lyme bacteria, but only if it stays attached for more than 24 hours. That’s why Dr. Goldstein also stresses the importance of checking for ticks and removing them every day. “Go through your pet hair by hair,” he said. “Look at the paws. Look at the ears. Look around the muzzle, the face.”

Dr. Goldstein also suggests setting up perimeter boundaries in yards. “If you’re up against woods in your yard,” he explains, “a barrier of wood chips or pebbles will prevent ticks from going across your property. They can be carried across it by an animal, of course, but at least they won’t cross such a barrier like that without assistance.”

“The most important thing to stress is prevention.”

Additional Resources:

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**Comment**

Again, the climate doesn’t affect tick and Lyme disease proliferation:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/07/ticks-on-the-move-due-to-migrating-birds-and-photoperiod-not-climate-change/

It does not take 24 hours of tick attachment to transmit disease:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/14/transmission-time-for-lymemsids-infection/

Please beware that after receiving the Lyme vaccine animals, similarly to humans, have developed Lyme-like symptoms:  https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/lyme-vaccine-dogs/

The best advice I have is to talk to your vet about all the available products.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019 There’s much you can do to limit your pet’s exposure in your yard by effectively treating it. It becomes more difficult when you take your dog places that you don’t have control over.

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Flu & Viral Recommendations

https://foxvalleywellness.com

Flu and Viral Recommendations

With the World Health Organization (WHO) recently declaring COVID 19 (Coronavirus) a worldwide pandemic. I wanted to share my thoughts regarding what to do as we move forward with increasing infections. What can we do about decreasing our risk and what to do if we do become ill?

The concerning triad of symptoms are fever, cough and shortness of breath. Other symptoms include fatigue, muscle pain, sore throat and occasionally diarrhea. If you have those symptoms, have recently traveled from an area of infection concern or been exposed to someone with the virus, contact your provider for possible testing. The tests are becoming more available at The Public Health level and also from individual laboratories including LabCorp and Quest.  Contact your provider who needs to order the COVID 19 test from a local laboratory facility at this time.  In the near future, you might be able to get the test done without a provider order. We will not be doing the testing at Fox Valley Wellness Center but referring to your closest laboratory for testing.

What can we do about decreasing our risk and what to do if we do become ill?

1.      Wash your hands! Often!  For at least 20 seconds.

2.      Keep your hands away from your face-use tissue when sneezing or coughing and throw away after use. Or sneeze into your elbow. Do not hug or shake hands.

3.      Eat 2 Brazil nuts a day or take 200 mcg of Selenium (Energique) per day. A recent study from Harvard has shown enveloped viruses (like corona and influenza) will not grow in blood with higher levels of Selenium.
Take the Brazil nuts away from your Viral Packs or from Zinc as the Phytic Acid can interfere with absorption of Zinc.

4.      At the first sign of infection, do the following
-Take vitamin D3-1000 units for every pound body weight for 7-10 days.
I.e. 100# person = 100,000 units Vitamin D3
150# person = 150,000 units Vitamin D3
-Effective way to jump start your immune system.
-OrthoMolecular D3 50,000 Paks, One pill = 50,000

5. Vitamin A-an effective antiviral and immune booster. 50,000 units per day is good. Can also do a 3 day bolus; talk with your provider. Can use either liquid (Apex, Klaire) or pills (Xymogen).

6. Vitamin C-usual does of 4-8 gms/day, dependent on bowel tolerance.
-C RLA liquid, Buffered Vit C pills or powders
– IV Vitamin C will eliminate bowel issues. Doses of 30gm IV common.
– Can utilize Modified Myers Cocktail, Anti-viral IV with Vitamin C and Hydrogen Peroxide-talk with your doctor for IV therapy.

7. Herbal therapies
– Elderberry, Olive Extract, green Tea, L-Theanine, Androgaphis, Astragalus, Echinacea, Bilberry, Goldenseal, Garlic, Grapeseed extract, milk thistle, Olive Defense (Green Tea, Olive extract, and Elderberry, Astralagus, Echinacea with Vitamin C and A along with Lysine) Orthomolecular Biocidin- BioBotanical research, Mucan-Pekana, Paramicrocidin-Allergy Research Group.

8. Zinc– 50-mg pills Xymogen or Energique 2 or 3 tablets several times a day.

9. Colloidal silver.
-ACS 200, Angentyn 23.

10. Thieves, Melaleuca, RC Essentials- Young Living Essential Oils

11. Immune support- LDN effective prescription therapy, WHoleMune, NK Stim, SBI, (Orthomolecular), Transfer Factor Multilmmune, TF PlasMyc, TF L Plus, TF Enviro (Researched Nutritional), IgG 26DF, Oncoplex, Immunotix (Beta glycan)-Xymogen

12. L-Lysine

13. Garlic

14. Probiotics- As you always hear me say-“The Gut, the Gut, the Gut”.

15. Melatonin– Potent antioxidant spray sub-lingual.

16. If you feel sick, best to stay away from other people and events. Contact your provider for possible testing. Try to stay out of the ER/Urgent Care as that system will be needed for critically ill. If you feel critically ill, certainly utilize EMS/911.

Additional treatments require seeing your provider:
Hyperbaric Oxyen Therapy (HBOT) – oxygen is lifesaving. Stimulates stem cells.
WHO- “Oxygen therapy is the major treatment intervention in patients with severes COVID-19” THymosin a 1-FDA approved hormone derived from Thymus gland, anti-viral used for decades for Hepatitis C. Effective against viruses. Boost NK, B, T and stem cells, can be given SQ at 0.5cc or IV at 1.0cc daily. Can be given with Modified Myers/Ozone, etc.
Ozone-Immediate therapy to treat active viral syndromes.
Research from Dr. Rowen and Dr. Robbins showed effective therapy against Ebola patients IV (MAH), Hyperbaric 10 pass, Ear, rectal or vaginal insufflation.
IV Vitamin C, Modified Myers Cocktail with additional Zinc, Selenium, and minerals. Anti-Viral IV or NAD/Prescription anti-virals: Tamiflu (oseltamivir) Xofluz (Baloxvir), Alinia

There is very good data showing Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquin) helps facilitate the passage of Zinc across the cell membrane neutralizing the Replicase enzyme of the COVID-19 virus.

4 Products that show effectiveness against the virus includes:
-Chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Loperamide (immodium) and Lopinavir (HIV medication)

Be safe.  Be aware.  Use common sense.  If you have question-e-mail us! We are all in this together and will learn more everyday as we face these challenges. God bless

 

 

 

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Dear Lyme Warrior….HELP!

https://globallymealliance.org/dear-lyme-warriorhelp-11/

lyme warrior

By Jennifer Crystal

Every few months, Jennifer Crystal devotes a column to answering your questions. Below she answers some that she’s recently received. Do you have a question for Jennifer? If so, email her at lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com.

Did you stop your medication during a Herxheimer reaction?

There is no right or wrong answer to this question; it all depends what works best for you. A Herxheimer reaction occurs when antibiotics kill Lyme bacteria faster than your body can eliminate it, causing a build-up of dead toxins. The process can make you feel downright awful. Often a “Herx” involves an increase in symptoms such as fatigue, night sweats, migraines, and joint pain.

The body needs time to eliminate the killed bacteria, and for some patients the best way to do that is to give it a break from antibiotics, so that more build up isn’t happening while your system is working to detox. Some doctors advise a pulsing method, taking antibiotics for a certain period and then stopping them for a certain amount of time, for precisely this reason. Other doctors have patients push through the Herx with continued antibiotic treatment.

For me, I almost always stayed the course throughout my Herxheimer reactions, even though I felt terrible during those periods. When symptoms got unbearable, my doctor would advise me to take a one-or-two day break from antibiotics, and that helped. Talk with your Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) about the duration and severity of your Herxheimer reactions, and decide together on the best course for you. Your doctor can also advise you on ways to help your body with the detox process itself.

My child wants to go to college in the Northeast, but I’m nervous about sending her somewhere where Lyme is so prevalent. What do you advise?

Once you or a family member has been impacted by tick-borne illness, your whole perspective on the outdoors changes. Sometimes I want to wrap myself in a bubble and stay indoors. But I can’t live in fear—besides, ticks can come inside, too!.

What I can do is be vigilant. To deny myself time out of doors would be to deny myself that which brings me the most joy. However, I no longer go walking in the woods or running through high grasses. I stick to worn or paved paths, stay away from lawns when possible, and do activities that are on the water or in the snow. I always wear bug spray, and undergo a thorough tick check after returning inside.

Nevertheless, I still have fears about getting another tick bite, so I can understand why you have concerns about sending your child to a highly endemic tick area. While New England does have a great deal of infected ticks, there are now documented cases of Lyme in all 50 states. Your child could get a tick bite while walking through the woods in the Northwest or the Southeast; ticks are no longer limited to New England. And while ticks can live on campus lawns, it’s less likely that your child will get a tick bite there, no matter what part of the country it’s in, than if he or she went for an off-campus hike.

I went to school in Vermont. That rural college won my heart the minute I set foot on campus. I think it’s more important to go to a school you love, and take whatever health precautions you need to while there—prevention, bug spray, rigorous post-outdoors tick checks— than to go to a school that doesn’t feel right, just because you might have less chance of getting a tick bite there.

What type of brain scan did you get?

In some of my articles, I have mentioned having a brain scan that showed inflammation and a lack of oxygen on the left side of my brain. This was called a SPECT scan, which can show more than an MRI. But that was over a decade ago; there may be even better scans available today.

Related blogs:
What Does it Mean to Herx?
Dealing with Lyme-related Fear
Stop the Music! How to X Out the Songs and Words That Keep Playing in Your Head

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Opinions expressed by contributors are their own.

Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her at lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com.

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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Will End

https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2020/03/15/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-will-end/

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD – 3/15/2020

How this pandemic will end depends on how soon the medical community realizes that therapeutics are 100% essential this time.

NOW THAT SOCIAL DISTANCING is occurring in the US and other countries, and some countries are under general quarantine, what next? How long will social distancing and quarantine be in effect?

The promise of a vaccine against Coronavirus is too far off to play a role in ending the deadly and economy- smashing effects of our response to COVID-19. The move to start human trials of SAR-CoV-2 vaccines without proper animal safety studies has prompted outcries (See Moderna and US NIAID Poised to Endanger the World Population?) given the reality that SARS-CoV studies had unacceptable safety issues of pathgenic priming : animals vaccinated using Spike protein based vaccines against SARS and MERS – close cousin of SARS-CoV-2 – had worse outcomes when challenged with the virus that the vaccine was supposed to protect them against. Even the most vocal vaccine proponents such as Paul Offit and Peter Hotez now say skipping the animal studies could result in unacceptable risks.

I should point out that this week, they have joined the ranks of people using freedom of speech to “spread” vaccine skepticism.

Given the catastrophic outcomes in animal safety testing for the SARS coronavirus vaccine, we must understand that the current vaccine trials will likely fail. We must realize also that social distancing alone will be insufficient to bring a reasonably quick end to the need for social distancing and quarantine.

Here are some simulation result of the outcome of using either just social distancing to manage the spread of SARS-CoV-2 or combining social distancing with therapeutics:

Clearly therapeutics will be necessary to play a role in bringing about an end to this pandemic. Resources on this are listed at the end of this article.

Here I list feasible steps that are absolutely essential for the counties to end the pandemic as quickly as possible.

1. Testing. Develop local testing capacity. Avoid CDC’s flawed test until they produce data showing high sensitivity and specificity of their primer probe sets. Testing will be relevant towards effective resource use, but people should not wait until they have symptoms to take steps to reduce the severity of virus-related illnesses.

The utility of accurate testing should be a lesson for all respiratory virus-related illnesses and perhaps we will see a massive paradigm shift towards accurate testing and reporting of which respiratory virus individuals actually have and perhaps medicine will now abandon so-called “flu syndrome”.

2. Plasma convalescent therapy. Each test-positive patient who has recovered should be asked to donate a liter of blood from which antibodies can be harvested. The resulting product should be screened for other viruses and then administered to those on the front lines first – nurses, MDs, medical staff – EMTS, the military, all essential personel in the “infrastructure” industries and in the food industries.

3. Therapeutics (Prophylatic Treatments). Mass production and distribution of other therapeutics including antivirals that have shown to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 for prophylactic use in families and workplaces who have a members or co-workers who test positive for COVID-19. Herbal remedies that also show efficacy should not be discouraged – anything that might help but will not hurt should be used. A registry of treatment experiences and outcomes should be created to help identify the most efficacious treatment options.

4. True Immune Enhancement. Increase the use of supplements that enhance and strengthen the immune system. These include vitamins such as vitamin D vitamin A and large doses of vitamin C. Encourage the uptake of micronutrients including zinc and selenium which have specifically been shown to inhibit the entry of SARS and SARS-CoV-2 into human cells. An extract of licorice root appears to have some effect. (The phrase “immune enhancement” is being misused to refer to a dangerous outcome due to exposure to the virus following vaccination, which should be referred to as “Pathogenic Priming”.

5. Wellness. Increase life a affirming and healthy lifestyle choices including exercise, exposure to sunlight, daily air exchange of the home and healthy avocational activities. People should be encouraged to take the time for early spring cleaning, take up a new exercise regime such as thai chi, to learn a new language or to learn a new musical instrument.

Use this time to exercise to reduce metabolic syndrome and diabetes is essential to reduce your risk of mortality. Diabetics have a 6% fatality risk. People with cardiovascular illness including hypertension have a 10% case fatality risk. Talk to your doctor about moving from ACE inhibitor blood pressure management to other options. Also talk to your doctor about adding exercise to your lifestyle to help control your diabetes.

I applaud the move taken by the banking and and finance industries to help stabilize hardships visited upon families by loss of work including interest forgiveness on loans, tolerance of delayed, late or skipped payments. Mental wellness is essential for making optimal life choices.

It is time to re-discovery the best part of ourselves. Engage in charitable acts to aid the elderly and those at most risk of serious illness.

Resources on Therapeutics

Antivirals

Treatments under study include nutriceuticals and supplements; ” and antiviral drugs such as Disulfiram and Chloroquine Phosphate.

Potential Inhibitor of COVID-19 Main Protease from Several Medicinal Plant Compounds by Molecular Docking Study. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202003.0226/v1/download

See: “Disulfiram can inhibit MERS and SARS coronavirus papain-like proteases via different modes“.

See “Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro“.

See “Expert consensus on chloroquine phosphate for the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia“.

The race to find a coronavirus treatment: One strategy might be just weeks away, scientists say https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/15/coronavirus-treatment-could-coming-doctors-say-still-no-vaccine/5052788002/

Chloroquine Confirmed Effective as Coronavirus Cure https://www.hngn.com/articles/228138/20200223/coronavirus-cure-chloroquine-confirmed-effective.htm

Vitamins and Minerals

See: How doctors say you can boost your immune system to protect against flu, coronavirus https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/coronavirus/how-doctors-say-you-can-boost-your-immune-system-to-protect-against-flu-coronavirus

Herbals and Supplements

Selenium and other micronutrient deficiency is considered to play a role in severity of a coronavirus infection (See: “Micronutrient Selenium Deficiency Influences Evolution of Some Viral Infectious Diseases“). Glycyrrhizin, an active component of liquorice roots, has been found to have few toxic effects and to be clinically effective against SARS-associated coronavirus. (See: See “Glycyrrhizin, an active component of liquorice roots, and replication of SARS-associated coronavirus“)

Supplements that might have a positive effect include N- acetyl cysteine, selenium, spirulina and high dose glucosamine (See “Nutraceuticals have potential for boosting the type 1 interferon response to RNA viruses including influenza and coronavirus

Colloidal Silver Nebulizer

See drpaulapproved.com for info on colloidal silver nebulizer.

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**Comment**

Please know that antivirals are not without risk.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/15/corona-virus-common-sense/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/15/herbal-treatment-for-coronavirus-infections-buhner/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/10/corona-virus-lyme-disease-drs-bock-rawls/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/28/combating-viruses/

 

 

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TBDWG – Dr. Dixon Stuck in the Year 2001

Lyme patient and advocate Carl Tuttle tuned into the Tick-borne Disease Working Group Meeting on March 3 & 4 and listened with dismay as Chief of the Bacteriology and Mycology Branch NIAID, NIH – Dr. Dixon referenced the unscientific Klempner Trial that has been used for decades against using further treatment for Lyme/MSIDS patients with remaining symptoms. 

He sent the following to Dixon:  https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/25847056?

700 articles LYME Evidence of Persistence

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n09sk90eo6xz7ua/700%20articles%20LYME%20EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0

The most disturbing reference for persistent infection originates from the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins, Colorado where Borrelia burgdorferi, was grown from the cerebrospinal fluid of Lyme patient Vicki Logan despite prior treatment with intravenous antibiotics.  Her case made the front page of the New York Times Science Times in August of 1993.

Logan’s positive culture and autopsy report were forwarded to past CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald, MD.

Letter to Brenda Fitzgerald, MD

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaul84dqmqgbre0/Brenda%20Fitzgerald%20MD%20Director%20CDC.docx?dl=0

In contrast, the Klempner antibiotic trials found no evidence of B. burgdorferi in a total of more than 700 different blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples from 129 patients. That’s not statistically possible Dr. Dixon!

I reached out to Dr. Klempner in 2018 and of course there was no response.

Letter written by Tuttle in 2018 to Dr. Klempner:

Dr. Klempner,

I would like to call attention to the attached study recently identifying chronic Lyme disease in twelve patients from Canada.

Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease

http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33

All of these patients were culture positive for infection (genital secretions, skin “Morgellons” and blood) even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.

In contrast, your 2001 antibiotic treatment study found; “no evidence of B. burgdorferi in a total of more than 700 different blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples from the 129 patients in these studies.”

Two Controlled Trials of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Persistent Symptoms and a History of Lyme Disease

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200107123450202#article_references#t=references

Not a single positive Dr. Klempner? Doesn’t this statistically prove that your methodology was fatally flawed?

Did you culture skin and genital secretions as the Middelveen paper reports? It would appear that you conveniently stopped looking after your results supported the existing thirty year dogma; chronic Lyme does not exist.

Persistent Lyme disease is not new and has been intentionally/deceitfully suppressed for decades as described in the Vicki Logan case identified in the following letter to past CDC Director Barbara Fitzgerald:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaul84dqmqgbre0/Brenda%20Fitzgerald%20MD%20Director%20CDC.docx?dl=0

In 1991 B. burgdorferi had been isolated in culture from Vicki Logan’s CSF (CDC’s laboratory in Fort Collins CO.) despite prior treatment with 21 days of IV cefotaxime and 4 months of oral minocycline.

The dishonest science here in the U.S. has denied chronic Lyme which stifled research to find a curative approach. Now the rest of the world is suffering.

We have lost nearly four decades to this 21st century plague due to the racketeering scheme identified in the RICO lawsuit filed by SHRADER & ASSOCIATES, LLP against the Infectious Disease Society of America, seven IDSA Panelists and eight insurance companies. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has aligned itself with the seven IDSA Panelists identified in this lawsuit.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LymeDisease.pdf

Lyme is an incurable disease when not treated immediately which is spreading across North America and deceitfully misclassified as a low-risk and non-urgent health issue. Patient experience is describing a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers, causing death and disability while leaving victims in financial ruin. Current antimicrobials are ineffective for eradicating all forms of the Borrelia spirochete.

Public outcry has been ignored for decades while the Centers for Disease Control sat on evidence that this infection was not easily treated with a one size fits all treatment approach as dictated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Once again your studies were fatally flawed while supporting the controlling dogma leaving hundreds of thousands if not millions worldwide with a persistent infection and absolutely no relief. We have another AIDS on our hands.

Carl Tuttle

Independent Researcher

Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH

Cc: Michael F. Collins, Chancellor

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**Comment**

Some of you may be wondering about the Klempner trial, which can be found here:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11450676

Countering the Klempner Trial, here is a 2012 Study showing retreatment can be beneficial:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1551714412002030

Article explaining flaws in the Klempner Trial:  https://www.lymedisease.org/lymepolicywonk-new-study-reveals-fatal-flaws-in-nih-klempner-trial-statistical-analysis-is-this-error-human-incompetence-or-worse/

Excerpt:

Clinical trials usually require that patients improve, but not that they return to perfect health.  DeLong found that the Klempner trial set the level for determining treatment success excessively high. For instance, in the seronegative arm of the trial, treatment success required that patients not simply return to the norm for the general population, but instead surpass the norm by essentially one full standard deviation.  That type of success is unheard of in clinical trials.

Many researchers say that small sample size trials are unethical because they can literally steer scientists down the wrong path.  That’s what the Klempner study did.  It was a waste of money, a waste of time, and it has led research down the wrong path for the last 10 years.

Second, the Klempner team could have avoided “overstating” its findings and highlighted the potential for error.  The ethical implications of exaggeration in science are understood by other scientific societies.  For example, the code of conduct for the American Chemical Society states: “Public comments on scientific matters should be made with care and accuracy, without unsubstantiated, exaggerated, or premature statements.”

Instead, the Klempner study concluded flatly that retreatment was ineffective. 

Also, Embers et al. found Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029914

For fun, I did a little sleuthing on Dr. Klempner (who is behind the new Lyme vaccine)

Klempner was optimistic. “We’ve learned some very important lessons from the LYMErix debacle, as I think some people would categorize it,” he said. “It certainly remains the only safe and effective vaccine that’s been pulled from the market.”

During LYMErix’s brief stint on the market, Clarke was among the recipients. Having had Lyme disease twice, she decided to try the vaccine. Even after receiving the final LYMErix shot, Clarke said she got Lyme disease for a third time.

So Dr. Klempner, a man with rife conflicts of interest, states emphatically that LYMErix was “safe and effective” despite the plethora of people & dogs who developed Lyme-like symptoms.

 

 

 

 

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Activism, Lyme, Lyme Vaccine, Treatment