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IDSA Extends Comment Period & Allows Downloads

https://www.lymedisease.org/idsa-extends-lyme-deadline/

TOUCHED BY LYME: IDSA extends comment period and allows downloads

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

Aug. 10, 2019

IDSA extends comment period

Hours before its self-imposed deadline of August 10, the Infectious Diseases Society has given a brief reprieve to frustrated patients trying to comment on the IDSA Lyme guidelines.

The new deadline is September 9.

Here’s some background on what transpired:

In June, the IDSA released a draft of its new Lyme treatment comments and supposedly invited the patient community to comment by August 10.

I say “supposedly,” because the organization devised a complicated procedure for reading and commenting that seemed designed to discourage people from even trying.

It was like requiring potential commenters to keep one hand tied behind their back while wearing a blindfold.

As Dr. Judy Stone, writing for Forbes.com, noted recently:

The IDSA has made review more difficult by only offering the draft online. It is “protected,” so one cannot even cut and paste lines into a reply or commentary, nor highlight passages for review. Nor can one search the document by keyword. Forbes and I have asked for a pdf that can be annotated, to make review and comment easier, and they have refused. Their refusal makes me feel they really don’t want people to comment on their 81-page draft and 203 page supplement.

And that’s only to READ the document. Submitting comments also requires an onerous process.

At the last minute, on August 7, volunteer Lyme activist Lucy Barnes expressed her frustrations in an email to the IDSA, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). (The three organizations sponsoring the guidelines.)

She called the “daunting task” of reading and commenting “unfair to all interested parties, especially the disabled.”

She also said:

Many patients across the country simply cannot participate in this process and complete the project on time due to the severity of their tick-borne disease related illnesses, their resulting disabilities and/or the effort and energy involved.

It places an undue burden on them, essentially silencing countless voices across the country and even worldwide…. [When copying comments into the IDSA’s required Survey Monkey form] the formatting becomes so jumbled (paragraphs pushed together, no center for titles, spacing problems, etc.) that it would take hours to try to correct it once inserted into the form and even then I am still not sure it will be readable.

My vision is too poor to be able to do this additional work in the tiny space allotted on the form in the small font that automatically appears, and my energy levels are already strained attempting to complete my project on time; therefore, I am not able to use the only option you’ve provided to submit comments.

Lo and behold, on August 9, the IDSA extended the cutoff date for comments–and decided to eliminate the “protections” on the document. An email to Barnes stated:

The deadline to submit comments is now Sept. 9, 2019.

In addition to the deadline extension, the format of the draft guidelines posted on the public comment website has been changed to allow readers to search, download and print the document, ensuring that anyone interested in submitting comments is able to access the draft guidelines and have appropriate time to review and comment.

So, there you go. After weeks of stonewalling anyone who complained about the process, finally the IDSA has agreed to lessen the burden a bit. However, the problematic commenting procedure remains unchanged.

LymeDisease.org and a coalition of partner organizations did submit comments yesterday, a day before the original deadline. Our response totaled some 50 pages—and took the team about three hours to upload via the Survey Monkey form.

We’ll be sharing that document with you, along with related analysis, in the coming days. Stay tuned.

Click here to read Lucy Barnes’ email exchange with the IDSA/AAN/ACR. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for most recent additions.)

Click here for the IDSA’s portal for Lyme comments.

Previous blog: The IDSA’s insincere request for guidelines feedback

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s Director of Communications. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/11/natcaplymes-response-to-updated-lyme-disease-guidelines-states-they-are-based-on-outdated-and-discredited-studies/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/09/idsa-lyme-disease-treatment-management-business-as-usual-leaves-those-with-persisting-symptoms-to-suffer-die/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/27/idsa-aan-acr-2109-draft-lyme-guidelines-public-comments-allowed-until-aug-10-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/22/idsas-insincere-request-for-guidelines-feedback/

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NatCapLyme’s Response to Updated Lyme Disease Guidelines States They are Based on Outdated and Discredited Studies

https://natcaplyme.org/psla/in-no-way-does-natcaplyme-endorse-the-adoption-of-the-idsas-updated-lyme-disease-guidelines/?

In no way does NatCapLyme endorse the adoption of the IDSA’s updated Lyme disease guidelines!

NatCapLyme Submitted Its Response to the IDSA Regarding Their Updated Lyme Disease Guidelines During the Public Comment Period

August 7, 2019

The National Capital Lyme Disease Association (NatCapLyme) is submitting this letter as the organization’s official response to the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) public comment period regarding its draft of their updated Lyme disease guidelines.

Before addressing the guidelines, we would like to comment on the format in which the IDSA provided access to the draft guidelines for review. Specifically, while the document was posted online, the IDSA restricted the ability to download or print the document, thereby requiring the reviewer to read the entire publication online. To expect a reader to fully analyze such a comprehensive and complex document ONLY online was an obvious ploy by the IDSA to make the review of this material as difficult as possible. The Lyme community sees through this disingenuous behavior, as did Forbes Magazine,which published an article on the proposed draft guidelines. After the IDSA denied a request from Forbes and the article’s author to receive a PDF version of the draft guidelines, the author wrote, “Their refusal makes me feel they really don’t want people to comment on their 81-page draft and 203 page supplement.”Engaging in such underhanded behavior distracts from their transparency and greatly harms the relationship with the Lyme community and reinforces the belief that the IDSA is not in touch with or cares about the growing number of patients suffering from Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Regarding the proposed updated guidelines, there appear to be only minor changes from the IDSA’s previously published and decades old guidelines.  The new draft is still based on outdated and, in some cases, discredited studies. Patient groups have clearly demonstrated that thousands who suffer from Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases are losing their battle for health and the pursuit of happiness due to the failure of our national and professional institutions to address this growing epidemic in any meaningful way. To paraphrase the great physician, philosopher and scientist Moses Maimonides: there is no point to science without progress.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) continue to divert their focus to the highly dubious goal of creating a vaccine before developing a reliable test for Lyme or classifying all the strains of the disease. Without these prerequisite measures, the production of an effective vaccine is significantly compromised. Of course, NatCapLyme would like to see a “safe and effective” vaccine brought to market. However, the current effort narrowly focuses on a few strains of Borrelia in a rush to certify a vaccine. This offers only a limited public-health benefit and harbors a serious potential health risk by suggesting to those vaccinated that they are protected from all strains of Lyme and co-infections.

NatCapLyme is a nationally recognized Lyme advocacy organization that continues to hold face-to-face support group meetings. We also have a telephone hotline to take calls from those seeking help regarding Lyme and tick-borne diseases, and each day we are on the phone for hours providing information, references and support.

While the IDSA continues to stand behind outdated and biased research, we see and hear what is really happening across America.

Standing on the front lines of this growing health epidemic, we are told the same story time and time again. At staggering rates, patients report being misdiagnosed, inadequately treated, or worst of all, dismissed by the medical community as “hypochondriacs.” In reality many of these individuals have real bacterial, viral, or parasitic infections ravaging their bodies resulting from a tick bite. Children, who are most at risk, are losing their childhoods and may spend their entire lives chronically ill, never to appreciate one day of good health or happiness. Once healthy adults are losing their livelihoods, because they are now too sick to continue working. Families are bankrupted by escalating medical costs as they try to find an answer to their multi-systemic symptoms and illness.

A 2015 research study published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. health care system between $712 million to $1.3 billion to treat each year.

Again, we are only talking about Lyme disease, not other co-infections. Add to that the indirect costs, such as lost wages and taxes, and the total cost of Lyme disease is in the billions each year.

NatCapLyme sees that the updated Lyme disease guidelines proposed by the IDSA are just status quo and woefully inadequate to address the true extent of the tick-borne disease epidemic reeking havoc across the U.S. With an estimated 427,000 new cases of Lyme disease contracted each year, as published by the CDC, and with little progress in the identification, diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne illnesses, NatCapLyme believes that an increasing number of people will become infected and may subsequently remain sick perhaps indefinitely. In reality, thousands of U.S. citizens are being stricken with a potentially life-long debilitating medical condition that is not, or is barely, recognized by the IDSA. Based on the proposed draft guidelines, we believe that the status quo will be perpetuated for years to come.

Tick-borne illness, especially in the chronic form, will continue to be discounted by the vast majority of physicians, government policy makers and researchers as the IDSA clings to the belief that Lyme disease is hard to catch and easy to treat.

Unfortunately, the Lyme community’s past experience with the IDSA demonstrates the serious challenge of achieving significant change. Little progress is made when a professional medical society that promulgates guidelines to diagnosis and treat tick-borne diseases only recognizes and supports the same old cast of researchers who repeatedly test the same old ideas. In an article published by the Washington Post titled https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-we-shouldnt-take-peer-review-as-the-gold-standard/2019/08/01/fd90749a-b229-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html?noredirect=onWord did not find any entries for your table of contents. It states that,

“peer review can act as a shield to protect the status quo and suppress research viewed as radical or contrary to the established perspectives of referees.”  Moreover, “groundbreaking studies by Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, Rosalind Yalow, Baruch Blumberg and others were rejected by peer reviewers, yet later led to Nobel Prizes.”

We believe that the key to any progress lies in advancing research in all aspects of the diseases, especially in the development of better diagnostic tools for the detection of all tick-borne diseases. Clearly these guidelines do not do that. We appeal to the IDSA and the research community to expand its focus on emerging and promising research that comes from fresh and new perspectives. It should bring together the best minds and best theories of ALL parties, and require that ALL theories be examined and considered. NatCapLyme believes that true solutions to the dilemma of Lyme and tick-borne infections may be found only when all parties are willing to consider the view that each party holds. Perhaps if we all work together we can forever end this terrible pandemic.

In conclusion, NatCapLyme in no way endorses the adoption of the IDSA’s updated Lyme disease guidelines. The patient community is extremely angry about the lack of scientific and medical progress with respect to Lyme and our masses are growing by the tens-of-thousands each year. This problem is not going away until all parties are invested in creating real solutions that benefit all patients, and society as well. Despite being sick, in pain, exhausted, frustrated and financially drained, we are committed to this cause and will not stop until we regain our health, halt this epidemic, and ensure that these terrible tick-borne diseases do not burden future generations.

https://natcaplyme.org

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For more:  

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/27/idsa-aan-acr-2109-draft-lyme-guidelines-public-comments-allowed-until-aug-10-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/09/idsa-lyme-disease-treatment-management-business-as-usual-leaves-those-with-persisting-symptoms-to-suffer-die/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/22/idsas-insincere-request-for-guidelines-feedback/

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The Lyme Wars, Part 2: Which Way Should We Treat?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2019/08/03/the-lyme-wars-part-2-which-way-should-we-treat/#37e2f251d92a  Article found here

In this follow-up to Part 1:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/04/the-lyme-wars-major-organizations-arent-playing-nicely-together/, the author again points out the various sides of the Lyme war.

I disagree with the author on a number of points:

  1. She states that ILADS trained practitioners use “home brewed” tests, which is propaganda straight out of the CDC website. If you call CLIA-certified labs “home brewed,” then you are clueless that these labs undergo some of the most stringent lab requirements and that these labs specialize in bacteriology and virology.  It’s what they do. For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/20/review-of-lyme-tests-how-to-diagnose-lyme-dr-marty-ross-llmd/
  2. “Believing” in climate change is irrelevant here. It has nothing to do with tick and disease proliferation:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/, https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/07/ticks-on-the-move-due-to-migrating-birds-and-photoperiod-not-climate-change/, and in fact researchers have been called out on research bias in purposely creating a paradigm to prove a gradual northern tick expansion when in fact ticks already exist in those locations:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/17/ontario-public-health-officials-called-out-on-shoddy-biased-research-utilizing-an-erroneous-climate-change-model-to-program-a-futuristic-tick-problem/
  3. Taking a middle of the road between the CDC guidelines and the ILADS guidelines appears at first blush like a smart thing to do; however, it is short-sighted. It appears the author believes that ILADS allows patients to completely steer the ship and choose their own treatment. This is an inaccurate portrayal of the dynamic doctor, patient partnership.  While ILADS trained doctors listen to patients and work with them, it’s hardly the standard for the patient to choose their treatment. I know many ILADS trained doctors due to my role as a patient advocate. These are some of the most caring, intelligent, and savvy doctors I know. Many go all over the world to continue to add to their medical learning.
  4. While the author may hate the term “Lyme literate,” if the shoe fits then wear it. Mainstream medical doctors are woefully trained in tick-borne illness.  Woefully.  Instead of feeling threatened, why don’t you change that and get trained? I’ve attended ILADS conferences. The information is extremely scientifically based.
  5. The author desperately wants to put Lyme/MSIDS into a nice, neat box. It will never fit. Due to the high variability with what a person’s infected with, how the immune system responds, the life style choices a patient makes, environmental factors and so on, what works for one patient won’t work for another.
  6. I’d be careful about what you call “dubious” value with various treatments. I’ve seen patients improve on the wildest things and again much of this is due to individual response. As our grandmas used to say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” We are desperate patients working under doctors who are desperately trying to help us. We try many things in our journeys – some helpful, some not.  And while we must always remain vigilant to snake-oil salesmen, this isn’t a new problem. There are snake-oil salesmen all over the place – including in mainstream medicine. 
  7. Seemingly, the only way this doctor is going to change her opinion is by experiencing these things herself. But experience can change everything if you let it; however, there are mainstream doctors who are infected and see an ILADS trained practitioner, yet won’t treat patients the same way – showing the extreme disconnect some people choose to live with.
One thing’s for certain – the Lyme Wars are alive and well.

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Fort Detrick Lab Shut Down After Failed Safety Inspection; All Research Halted Indefinitely

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/health/fort-detrick-lab-shut-down-after-failed-safety-inspection-all/article_

Fort Detrick lab shut down after failed safety inspection; all research halted indefinitely

By Heather Mongilio hmongilio@newspost.com

Updated

USAMRIID
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.  News-Post file photo

All research at a Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing material, such as Ebola, is on hold indefinitely after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the organization failed to meet biosafety standards.

No infectious pathogens, or disease-causing material, have been found outside authorized areas at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

The CDC inspected the military research institute in June and inspectors found several areas of concern in standard operating procedures, which are in place to protect workers in biosafety level 3 and 4 laboratories, spokeswoman Caree Vander Linden confirmed in an email Friday.

The CDC sent a cease and desist order in July.

After USAMRIID received the order from the CDC, its registration with the Federal Select Agent Program, which oversees disease-causing material use and possession, was suspended. That suspension effectively halted all biological select agents and toxin research at USAMRIID, Vander Linden said in her email.

The Federal Select Agent Program does not comment on whether a program such as USAMRIID is registered and cannot comment on action taken to enforce regulations, Kathryn Harben, a spokeswoman for the CDC, wrote in an email.

“As situations warrant, [Federal Select Agent Program] will take whatever appropriate action is necessary to resolve any departures from regulatory compliance in order to help ensure the safety and security of work with select agents and toxins,” Harben said in the email.

The suspension was due to multiple causes, including failure to follow local procedures and a lack of periodic recertification training for workers in the biocontainment laboratories, according to Vander Linden. The wastewater decontamination system also failed to meet standards set by the Federal Select Agent Program, Vander Linden said in a follow-up email.

“To maximize the safety of our employees, there are multiple layers of protective equipment and validated processes,” she said.

Vander Linden could not say when the laboratory would be able to continue research.

“USAMRIID will return to fully operational status upon meeting benchmark requirements for biosafety,” she said in an email. “We will resume operations when the Army and the CDC are satisfied that USAMRIID can safely and consistently meet all standards.”

USAMRIID has been working on modified biosafety level 3 procedures and a new decontamination system since flooding in May 2018. This “increased the operational complexity of bio-containment laboratory research activities within the Institute,” she said.

At the time of the cease and desist order, USAMRIID scientists were working with agents known to cause tularemia, also called deer fly or rabbit fever, the plague and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, all of which were worked on in a biosafety level 3 laboratory. Researchers were also working with the Ebola virus in a biosafety level 4 lab, Vander Linden said.

Of the pathogens, Ebola, bacteria Yersinia pestis (plague), and bacterium Francisella tularensis (tularemia) are on the list of the Health and Human Services select agents and toxins. The three are considered Tier 1 agents, which pose a severe public health and safety threat.

Venezuelan equine encephalitis also falls under the Federal Select Agent Program, according to the Code of Federal Regulations.

The military research institute is looking at each of its contracts to see what will be affected by the shutdown. USARMIID work outside the lab is not expected to be affected, including on Ebola, Vander Linden said.

“We are coordinating closely with the CDC to ensure that critical, ongoing studies within bio-containment laboratories are completed under appropriate oversight and that research animals will continue to be cared for in accordance with all regulations,” she said in an email. “

Although much of USAMRIID’s research is currently on hold, the Institute will continue its critical clinical diagnostic mission and will still be able to provide medical and subject matter expertise as needed to support the response to an infectious disease threat or other contingency.”

According to the Code of Federal Regulations, which also lists required training, records and biosafety plans, Federal Select Agents Program registration can be suspended to protect public health and safety. It is not clear if this is why the USAMRIID registration was suspended.

The code also gives the Department of Health and Human Services, under which the CDC falls, the right to inspect any site and records, without prior notifications. Vander Linden said in the email that the CDC inspected USAMRIID several times over the past year, both unannounced and on a regularly scheduled basis.

USAMRIID will work to meet requirements set by the Army and the CDC and have its suspension lifted, Vander Linden said.

“While the Institute’s research mission is critical, the safety of the workforce and community is paramount,” she said.

“USAMRIID is taking the opportunity to correct deficiencies, build upon strengths, and create a stronger and safer foundation for the future.”

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And perhaps do a lot of paper shredding……

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/06/kris-newby-responds-to-telfords-criticism-of-bitten/  In this link, investigative journalist Kris Newby explains:

The Army explained:“In 1953, the Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick established a program to study the use of arthropods for spreading anti-personnel BW agents. The advantages of arthropods as BW carriers are these: they inject the agent directly into the body, so that a mask is no protection to a soldier, and they will remain alive for some time, keeping an area constantly dangerous.” Source: U.S. Army Chemical Corps, “Summary of Major Events and Problems (Fiscal Year 1959),” Rocky Mountain Arsenal Archive.

Burgdorfer, the discoverer of the Lyme bacterium, was a key member of this project team. He worked on weaponizing ticks and teamed up with fellow tick expert James Oliver at the Ft. Detrick bioweapons headquarters to develop ways to mass produce infected ticks so that they could be dropped from airplanes on enemy territory. These claims are backed up by interviews with these scientists, as well as with extensive government documentation from multiple reliable sources, all listed in BITTEN…

And after my interview, I verified his claims with recently released documents, including a 1962 Memorandum to the NIH Director that says that Dr. Burgdorfer, “was engaged for 3 years on classified projects (Army) from which findings could not be published because of their impact on national defense.”

The institute, which has about 900 employees, studies germs and toxins that could be used to threaten the military or public health. It also investigates disease outbreaks and carries out research projects for government agencies, universities and drug companies, which pay for the work.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/13/deadly-germ-research-is-shut-down-at-army-lab-over-safety-concerns/

Excerpt:

The select agents and toxins list is found here. According to the NBACC website, the facility conducts research on pathogens for which there is no vaccine or treatment.  https://www.selectagents.gov/SelectAgentsandToxinsList.html

INTERESTINGLY, THE FOLLOWING FROM THE LIST ARE TRANSMITTED BY TICKS:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/31/tick-expert-admits-to-working-on-ticks-dropping-them-out-of-airplanes/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/04/lyme-disease-amendment-passes-house-tells-dod-ig-to-investigate-the-bioweaponization-of-ticks/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/19/biological-warfare-experiment-on-american-citizens-results-in-spreading-pandemic/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/21/got-15-minutes-the-officially-ignored-link-between-lyme-plum-island/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/05/24/microbiology-professor-im-convinced-lyme-disease-is-transmittable-from-person-to-person/

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Fully Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated – A Summary of the Research

http://vaccineimpact.com/2019/fully-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-a-summary-of-the-research/

Fully Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated — A Summary of the Research

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By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman
Children’s Health Defense

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has repeatedly asked CDC to create studies which explain,

“How do child health outcomes compare between fully vaccinated and unvaccinated children?”

During a November 2012 Congressional hearing on autism before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Dr. Coleen Boyle, the Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, gave evasive answers to lawmakers pressing her on this point. After considerable badgering, she finally stated,

“We have not studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated [children].”

That was perjury.

Boyle knew that CDC had commissioned an in-house researcher, Thomas Verstraeten to perform vaccinated/unvaccinated study on CDC’s giant Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) in 1999 (I summarize Verstraeten’s secret findings on slide 2).

Verstraeten found a dramatic link between mercury-containing hepatitis B vaccines and several neurological injuries including autism and prepared the study for publication. CDC shared Verstraeten’s analysis with the then four vaccine makers but kept it secret from the American public.

The data in CDC’s 1999 Verstraeten study clearly inculpated thimerosal as the principle culprit behind the autism epidemic.

Burying the results

The world’s largest vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) then whisked Verstraeten off to a sinecure in Brussels and CDC handed his raw data to his CDC boss Frank DeStefano and another researcher, Robert Davis who served as a vaccine industry consultant.

Those two men tortured the data for 4 years, removing all unvaccinated children, to bury the autism signal before publishing a sanitized version purporting to exculpate the vaccine. The CDC then cut off public access to the VSD and to this day aggressively blocks any attempts by researchers to study health outcomes in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations.

Contemporary emails among CDC officials— obtained under the FOIA— and the transcripts from a secret 2000 meeting between government regulators and vaccine makers at Simpsonwood, Georgia, show HHS officials plotting to create phony studies to exonerate vaccines.

CDC officials hired a Scandanavian, Poul Thorsen, giving him $10 million to create a series of fraudulent reports from Denmark. Thorsen dutifully produced the predetermined results but allegedly stole at least $1 million of the grant from CDC.

He is now an international fugitive under Federal indictment and on HHS’s “Most Wanted” list (scroll down to see Thorsen). CDC continues to cite Thorsen’s studies as the bedrock for its claim that vaccines don’t cause autism.

Attempting to debunk the link

CDC officials Frank DeStefano and Coleen Boyle knew they needed to study an American population to convincingly debunk the vaccine/ autism link.

They believed it would be safe to study the MMR vaccine because the MMR did not contain thimerosal. They assigned senior scientist and CDC whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, and three other researchers from the Immunization Safety Office to study the MMR vaccine in Georgia children.

Thompson worried about being dragged into another “circus” like the Verstraeten study. His bosses promised Thompson that this time there would be no mid-course shenanigans to bury unpleasant data. They would agree on protocols up front and stick to them no matter what the data revealed.

Nevertheless, when the data showed a shocking 364% increase in autism among African American boys given the MMR on time, Destefano ordered the four CDC scientists to destroy the damning information in large garbage cans. “I can’t believe we did what we did, but we did it”, recalls Thompson. That sanitized study is now cited in 97 subsequent publications as the proof that vaccines don’t cause autism.

“I have great shame now when I meet the parent of a child with autism because I have been part of the problem.”

Slide 12 shows the true results of Dr. Thompson’s original data.

Despite CDC’s efforts at suppression, independent scientists and research institutions (including UCLA) have managed to conduct and publish several additional vaccinated/unvaccinated studies since 1999. Those studies indicate high incidence of chronic diseases and brain and immune system injuries among vaccinated compared to unvaccinated cohorts. Some of those studies are summarize in this presentation.

See the 24 slides of the Vaxxed-Unvaxxed presentation.

Read the full article at ChildrensHealthDefense.org.

© 2019 Children’s Health Defense, Inc. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health Defense, Inc. Want to learn more from Children’s Health Defense? Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. Your donation will help to support them in their efforts.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/05/18/first-peer-reviewed-study-of-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-children/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/02/mic-drop-at-the-acip-cdc-meeting-vaccine-science-not-settled/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/08/acip-vote-yes-for-new-vaccine-despite-no-safety-studies-on-cumulative-effect-with-other-vaccines/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/08/vaccine-safety-efficacy-studies-that-are-the-bases-for-marketing-authorizations-are-a-complete-methodological-mess/

The elites refuse vaccines for their own children:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/22/bill-gates-former-doctor-says-billionaire-refused-to-vaccinate-his-children/

 

 

 

 

 

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