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.
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)
Every year, tens of thousands of new Lyme disease patients find that their symptoms persist even after the standard course of antibiotic treatment.
Instead of being cured, they find their lives upturned by chronic Lyme, also called persistent or post-treatment Lyme. Symptoms include bone-deep fatigue, cognitive difficulties, arthritis, muscle and joint pain and intermittent fevers, chills and sweats that can go on for months or years.
While medical solutions have proved elusive, a researcher at Northeastern University says he has developed a treatment for Lyme disease that could prevent chronic Lyme from developing in the first place.
Kim Lewis, distinguished professor of biology and director of Northeastern’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center, says human trials of his discovery may begin as early as next year.
Final toxicity trials will continue this summer, but so far the treatment—an antibiotic known as hygromycin A—has not been toxic in animals and has effectively cleared Lyme disease in mice, Lewis says.
He says the real promise of hygromycin A in preventing chronic Lyme is that it is a targeted antibiotic that selectively kills Lyme disease-causing bacteria without damaging the beneficial bacteria in the patient’s microbiome.
According to Lewis’ theory, the broad spectrum antibiotics traditionally prescribed for Lyme disease, doxycycline and amoxicillin, cause havoc in the gut by wiping out the healthy balance of bacteria.
“The microbiome has now been linked to almost every aspect of our health, especially the development of the immune system,” Lewis says.
(See link for article)
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A few points:
While Lewis regurgitates that only 10% go on to develop chronic Lyme, the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, states that it’s closer to 34%. Microbiologist Holly Ahern shows it may be 60% or more. This matters because the greater the number, the more research money will be designated for it.
Hygomycin A is found in the soil and it is weak against most bacteria but very potent against spirochetes.
The final stage of animal toxicity studies will take place this summer and human trials may start next year.
WHO to Use ‘Listening Surveillance Systems’ to Monitor Americans’ Speech for ‘Misinformation’
Frank Bergman
Congress is launching an investigation into the World Health Organization (WHO) after details emerged of the United Nations health body’s disturbing Orwellian plan to combat so-called “misinformation.”
The WHO’s pandemic prevention initiative, the Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET), pushes plans to use “social listening surveillance systems” to monitor the public’s speech for “misinformation.”
However, PRET has been met with a backlash as more people start to push back against unelected bodies who are trying to suppress speech and potentially override sovereignty.
PRET aims to “guide countries in pandemic planning,” according to documents from the UN agency.
(See link for article)
**Comment**
BTW: many in our own government want censorship and increased control of free speech.
Sky News host Rowan Dean says the World Health Organization is “desperate to have some kind of global pandemic treaty” to give them a greater say during a pandemic crisis. “At its worst the reality is, or the fear is that the World Health Organization will have the powers to be able to say ‘such and such state … is in a pandemic and situation and must be locked down’, even if that entity says, ‘no, we’re not’ or disputes it,” Mr Dean said.
PRET proves that desperation, along with the recent WHO warning that the public must prepare for a disease “even deadlier” than COVID.
Predictably, WHO mouthpiece, GPMD Co-Chair Joy Phumaphi says we need the next pandemic exercise:
“We … suggest that member states, together with other key stakeholders, carry out a simulation exercise based on the draft Accord and the draft IHR (International Health Regulations) amendments later this year before they are finalized and adopted,” urged GPMD Co-Chair Joy Phumaphi. “A simulation exercise beforehand and robust monitoring and accountability following their adoption are two ways you can ensure these important instruments fulfill their potential and that we are ready for the next pandemic.”
Metapneumovirus, like all viruses, can be dangerous for people with weakened immune systems as well as children and older adults. And, similarly to many respiratory viruses, it usually improves within 2-5 days, however, for the unlucky few it can turn into more serious conditions such as bronchitis and pneumonia.
The key point: there is no vaccine and antibiotics do not apply because it is not a bacterial disease, so naturally the CDC is all over this because “vaccines” and lucrative drugs are their business.
An infectious disease specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital told USA Today that this “uptick” could be because we have more ability to test for these viruses than ever before. Nobody at the CDC wants to talk about good hygiene, diet, immune supports, or simple at-home treatments. Source
Experts Predict Virus Will Be Airborne–Narrows Field Considerably
MAY 31, 2023
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
We are constantly being barraged by fear-mongering messages about a “next pandemic” as if new global catastrophes have been put on a schedule. I have remarked that it would be quite difficult to anticipate an organism arriving from nature and afflicting the entire world’s population of any mammal, let alone man.
Neumann and Kawaoka published a review of past pandemics, a broad list of viral threats, and then indicated that the likely winner would be a zoonosis (virus that jumped from a bat or rodent) to a human. Additionally, for human to human spread it would need to be airborne and highly contagious. We learned with the fizzled Monkeypox scare that homo-bi-sexual transmission from man to man was not enough the scare the world into mass vaccination or hold the public captive very long in the news cycle. President Biden dropped the US Monkeypox Emergency in January 31, 2023 with no press release.
The list of possibilities for future pandemics is listed in the table. Most have no antiviral therapy that is specific, however, the authors fail to mention viricidal nasal sprays/gargles, vitamin D, curcumin, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, favipiravir, famotidine, or other agents to mitigate viral specific inflammation such as maraviroc and nonspecific agents including corticosteroids and colchicine. (See link for article)
(This safe, cheap treatment can be used any time symptoms start. You simply need a nebulizer, distilled water, 12% food grade hydrogen peroxide, Himalayan sea salt, and a glass storage bottle that seals properly. Store in the refrigerator until needed. The final solution is a 3% hydrogen peroxide treatment. Details in link on how to use.)
According to Dr. Lee Merritt, patients should be taking the following supplements: vitamins D,C, NAC, zinc, quercetin, and selenium.
I personally had this spike protein illness (and my husband was coming down with it as well) which causes blood poisoning. It wasn’t fun. I was flat on my back for 12 days with an unstoppable fever and aches. It all began in my chest (pressure and tickling dry cough). I was weakening by the day due to nausea and the inability to eat or break the fever. What turned me around were
IVERMECTIN(I’ve heard ivermectin works on some 300 viruses & is an anticancer agent)
You must take Ivermectin on a full stomach to get it into the cells where the spike protein is. I’m happy to report that both my husband and I beat this with the appropriate treatment.
Marty Ross MD presents nine hacks for Lyme and tick borne disease. Watch this video and Powerpoint presentation to find real ways to improve your health.
This is a second recording of a video Powerpoint presentation first delivered to the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network Virtual 2023 Awareness Event on May 23, 2023.
Watch Dr. John Aucott’s update on latest Lyme disease research
Dr. John Aucott, Director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, recently delivered an overview of Lyme and other tick-borne disease research. You can watch a replay of his presentation below.
What follows is the introduction to Dr. Aucott by Shireen Rusby, one of the founders of Maryland’s Lyme Care Resource Center.
May is Lyme disease awareness month. Like any “awareness” effort, the intent is to increase the attention to and appreciation for the subject. In the case of Lyme disease there is a particularly powerful irony to the concept of awareness. Lyme disease is an illness that is often hidden and its symptoms unrecognized, yet the patient can be so overwhelmed that there is little reprieve from the self-awareness that dominates each day.
Those of us living with Lyme disease, as well as those living with many other long-term, hidden health conditions, have experienced very similar scenarios – the body’s natural inclination toward homeostasis is challenged.
Balance becomes harder to achieve and maintain. Lyme has imbalanced us, COVID has imbalanced us, ME/CFS has imbalanced us, dysautonomia and POTS have imbalanced us. So while our bodies, minds and spirits are making constant efforts to balance and rebalance physically, mentally and emotionally, what is the impact of stressors on a system that is already experiencing overload?
Well, that’s a whole thesis in and of itself and we’re not going to cover it tonight. But there is one stressor that we can increase “awareness” of this evening. For members of the Lyme community and those of other hidden illnesses, the challenges of dysfunctional homeostasis are compounded by the emotional strain of invalidation.
What interferes with healing
When we then begin to doubt our own reality, we make efforts to normalize the abnormal state of our being and that in turn leads to an even greater maladaptive response and further interferes with healing.
In his book, Conquering Lyme Disease, Dr. Brian Fallon states: “The experience of being disbelieved and misrepresented over and over is inherently traumatizing. Some patients…have identified this atmosphere of disbelief (and the resulting social isolation and self-doubt) as the single most stressful aspect of their illness experience.”
Some of you may have seen the movie Avatar. It is a futuristic story of human beings landing on another planet and attempting to conquer the native people of that land. When greeting each other, these natives to whom we are supposedly superior, look each other in the eye and say, “I see you.”
This simple phrase encapsulates much of our ongoing struggle in the medical world. It speaks to a fundamentally necessary component of the practitioner-patient relationship that is at times absent in this journey with invisible illness.
Many medical professionals may not know where to turn when blood work looks normal and verifiable analytical tools fail to provide objective evidence. The simple truth, however, is that an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That quote, often attributed to the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, can serve as an incredibly powerful guiding principle when it comes to illnesses like Lyme disease.
The art of inquiry
Our lack of comprehensive and neatly packaged scientific proof need not preclude our awareness and acknowledgement of the situation. Rather, this is an opportunity for us to practice the art of inquiry as the necessary first step on the path of healing.
And certainly, there is no one path of healing in illnesses as complex as Lyme disease, and that adds to the challenge for both the patient and the practitioner. The fractured Western paradigm of medicine, in its tendency to compartmentalize and classify health as black or white, present or absent, positive or negative often fails to recognize the holistic nature of human suffering.
But the path of healing is first paved with recognition of and respect for the imbalanced body, mind and spirit.
Our journey to regain and retain balance begins again each day. In paving this path let us remember to turn toward the light especially when it seems dark, and let us use the tools of compassion and understanding to help one another.
Fostering awareness of this hidden yet ever-growing health pandemic will increase the opportunities for healing, and will turn the tide against the history of glaring invisibility and deafening silence.
We have as our guest speaker tonight someone who has made it his mission to foster the awareness of Lyme disease. He has paved the path of healing for countless Lyme warriors with sound practices and with stellar science.
John Aucott and his amazing team at the Lyme Disease Research Center, have partnered with many, first and foremost with the patients they serve, to produce the scientific evidence necessary to authenticate many of our struggles – struggles which we have experienced for months, years or even decades, while seeking out the rare practitioner like him who looks at us and says “I see you.”
For your endless support, for your validation of what we endure, and for your ongoing efforts to find the evidence that may have once seemed absent –we offer our endless gratitude.
LCRC May 2023: Advances in Lyme Disease and Tickborne Disease Research
Dr. Aucott will be discussing research advances in Lyme Disease and Tickborne Diseases, including an update on diagnostics, potential biomarkers, advanced neuroimaging, and future treatments.
