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Vaccines Revealed #9

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Vaccines Revealed #9

20:00 Brian Hooker, Ph.D., states that Gardasil, the vaccine for HPV, is loaded with aluminum. It has upwards to 750 micrograms of aluminum per shot. They are giving it to children as young as 9 years old. It was never tested for children of that age group. It’s tied to amyloid plaques in the brain. The immune system doesn’t know with the aluminum atom. Through the series of 3 shots for Gardasil, people are getting milligrams of aluminum in total. It has the highest amounts of adverse reports of any vaccine. They are looking at trials to give it at birth.
Aluminum is an adjuvant to magnify the immune response by tricking the immune system into thinking it has a bigger problem than it really does which causes a prolonged response.

For more on Gardasil:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/02/16/gardasil-vasculitis-msids/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/19/motor-and-sensory-findings-in-girls-who-received-gardasil/

Vaccine manufacturers save money by adding aluminum.

25:25 In California they passed Assembly Bill 2109 which lowers the age of consent to 12 in regard to birth control and methods to reduce sexually transmitted diseases. This means children without parental consent can request birth control and Gardasil. Hooker tells of cases where children are being coerced into getting the vaccine out of fear. They are being told that if they get raped they will get cervical cancer and they need to the Gardasil vaccine.

28:05 California also passed SB277 mandating that all children in public or private schools get vaccinated. They have 10 vaccines in the schedule.   SB18 has not passed but is another assault on parental rights. Dr. Richard Pan claims the bill protects children’s rights, but it is really unrestrained authority of the government if parenting style and family life are not compliant with their “researched-based essential needs” of children. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB18

Pan is wholly controlled by the pharmaceutical industry and receives more money from big pharma than any other legislator in California. Pan has launched vicious attacks against anyone who questions either bill.

33:42 The Cochran Review has stated out of 100 who get the flu vaccine, 1 received benefit. Some flu shots contain 25 micrograms of Thimerosal. You would have to weigh 550 lbs or more for your body to metabolize that amount of mercury. 36:25 The flu shot is being given to pregnant women – scientists have said there is a 20% increase risk of autism for pregnant women in the 1st trimester who get any flu shot – even if it doesn’t contain Thimerosal.

37:40 Pregnant women are told to get the flu shot and Dtap – in combination this increases the mercury toxicity many fold. DTap contains microgram quantities of aluminum. When you put aluminum and mercury together there is synergistic toxicity.

39:39 Dr. Heather Wolfson, Chiropractor & Holistic Family Care Expert, was raised in a chiropractic home and was never vaccinated. Her husband, Dr. Jack Wolfson – a Board-Certified Cardiologist, learned about wellness from her and left a large cardiology group after realizing the pill and procedure paradigm did not prevent disease. It wasn’t until they had their own children that Dr. Jack Wolfson did the research on vaccines. He states they never studied the research in med school regarding vaccine. It was just accepted dogma.

49:00 Dr. Jack Wolfson was interviewed on CNN regarding vaccinations. He told how it’s important to avoid chemicals and build up the immune system to fight illness. Vaccines carry a risk. Injecting aluminum into babies will have long term cardiac ramifications. Childhood infections actually lower risk for cardiovascular disease.

53:00 The Scientific literature shows a connection between Gardasil and POTS. POTS is when you can pass out anytime. This leads to concussions and even brain damage if the person hits their head after they fall. Research also shows that women who get pap smears and early detection preventative measures have an extremely low risk of death due to cervical cancer.

55:30 There are no long term studies showing that preventing a virus will prevent cancer. In fact, viruses and bacteria are smart and mutate and adapt when pushed.

56:38 Hepatitis C vaccine is loaded with aluminum. Aluminum exposure increases cardiovascular disease risk.

1:18:30 Dr. Dan Pompa, a Cellular Detox Expert, suddenly struggled with fatigue, anxiety/shyness, insomnia, allergies (food and environment), sound sensitivities, couldn’t heal, and was losing hair. Years later he discovered he had mercury toxicity. He read about Mad Hatter’s disease which was caused when people making felt hats used mercury to kill molds and other germs. He said he had the same symptoms as Mad Hatters. He had a blood test and it came back negative. An endocrinologist told him that blood tests only show acute mercury poisoning not chronic poisoning. He finally realized that days after he had dental fillings he came down with symptoms. Amalgam fillings are 50% mercury.

1:25:00 what Pompa learned himself is what he teaches today. (Beauty from ashes, from pain to purpose) 1:27:00 Just because you don’t have immediate symptoms from a vaccine doesn’t mean you haven’t been damaged. Every vaccine trains the body to overreact and to turn on an autoimmune reaction.

1:29:00 True detox has to happen at the cellular level.

1:33:50 Glyphosate (in Roundup, GMO’s) is the new toxin causing issues. There is a perfect storm of accumulative toxins causing autoimmune diseases.

1:39:40 Pompa emphasizes the importance of saturated fats which stabilize the cell membrane. Fish oil can be a good thing but without saturated fats, olive oil, and coconut oil to balance the equation people are becoming Omega3 dominant. Also, putting the body in a state of ketosis heals the brain. Ketosis can also turn off bad genes. Taking grains away helps lower inflammation.

Pompa wrote the book, From Pain to Purpose. http://drpompa.com For a free smoothie ebook to help detox and cellular healing go to: https://freesmoothieebook.com/free-smoothie-ebook

Vaccines Revealed #8 “Trace Amounts”

http://www.vaccinesrevealed.com/free/episode-8-watch-now/?em=Acashman%40charter.net&inf_contact_key=7e62ee44699fba2f8bfdd582bbfe00642c9b3ffa3146366262e71857e4ad975d

In this article, I’ve broken down the documentary Trace Amounts, which is a crucial documentary that exposes how even trace amounts of mercury is building up in peoples’ brains causing chronic illness – including mercury poisoning.  

Thimerosal (50% mercury by molecular weight) remains in many vaccines (another name for it is Merthiolate). The Autism rate was 1 in 10,000 for decades until 1998 when it changed to 1 in 500. In 2000 it was 1 in 250. In 2004 it was 1 in 166. In 2007 1 in 150. In 2009 1 in 110. In 2012 1 in 88. In 2014 1 in 68. 1 Million children in the US are diagnosed with Autism.

13:08 The movie Rain Man introduced the general public to the term Autism. Dr. Leo Kanner, psychiatrist discovered it almost 5 decades earlier it was extremely rare.

16:43 The debate began in 1998 when Dr. Wakefield published a paper hinting at a link between the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine and Autism. He learned the hard way to NEVER question the vaccine schedule. He was vindictively accused of fraud.

18:28 Many are questioning the mercury based preservative Thimerosal in the vaccines as the culprit. It was invented by Eli Lilly and Co. in the 1920s. It’s a cheap way to keep vaccines on the shelf. Thimerosal is not needed – it’s all about money.

In 2007 before the omnibus judgement was made declaring Thimerosal safe, a 9 year old girl’s case against Thimerosal was settled out of court, by the same court, and the records sealed. Also a CDC study in 1999, before the case, had found a major association with Autism. The words, “So we are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits if they were initiated and I am concerned,” were highlighted in a secret transcript from a meeting.

21:00 The film then declares that 911 in 2001 became an opportunity for the vaccine industry when Congress in 2002, late at night before the bill was passed, somebody had slipped in a secret rider that would have dismissed all lawsuits against Eli Lilly and all vaccine manufacturers for putting Thimerosal in vaccines. The same day the security act was signed the White House had the Justice Department file a motion to seal ALL documents related to 100’s of claims that Thimerosal in vaccines had caused Autism. Under pressure, the Bush Administration withdrew it. The deceptive acts were raising red flags everywhere.

22:02 A senior scientist at the CDC is on record stating they made a lot of mistakes, admitting there are a lot of documents they don’t want the public to see.

24:11 David Geier, VP Institute of Chronic Illnesses President, MedCom, states what’s important to know about Thimerosal is that Eli Lilly did an experiment on humans – there was an epidemic of meningitis in Indianapolis, where Eli Lilly is, where 144 people came down with bacterial meningitis in the brain. Eli Lilly took a subgroup of those people and exposed them to a 1% solution of Thimerosal intravenously, an extremely high dose, that was killing animals in the lab. Of the 22 people in this subgroup, ALL OF THEM DIED – many died within the day. They reported “no toxic effects” and presumed all died of meningitis. Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D., President, Institute of Chronic Illnesses states that this experiment is the only safety study ever done on Thimerosal.

25:33 Pittman-Moore bought Thimerosal from Eli Lilly as a preservative to be used for dogs and in 1935 they found it was unsafe for dogs and wrote Eli Lily stating, “Merthiolate is unsatisfactory as a preservative for serum intended for use on dogs” (p. 9) due to so many reactions in the dogs. In 1948 there were so many complaints the AMA put together a blue ribbon panel to discuss the problem. Frank Engley, Ph.D. Chairman, Dept. of Microbiology (retired) University of Missouri who was on that committee stated quite recently that they found that Thimerosal is toxic down to the nano grams parts per million. This was published in numerous publications and no one seemed to care.

27:07 Mercury is one of the most toxic elements on the planet – even worse than lead. Two parts per billion is the EPA’s toxic limit for drinking water. Two hundred parts per billion is what the EPA classifies as hazardous waste. Fifty-thousand parts per billion is what is contained in most Thimersal containing vaccines. Numerous studies show how unsafe Thimerosal is yet Eli Lilly does nothing.

29:40 Shows the vaccine schedule adds up to a total exposure of 237.5 mcg of Thimerosal.

30:20 At a rally Robert Kennedy Junior asks a very sound question – why aren’t unvaccinated children like homeschoolers and the Amish being studied? He states that 30,000 homeschooled children were studied by the UPI and there was not ONE case of Autism.

31:16 Dan Olmsted, Investigative Journalist and author of The Amish Anomaly, and Age of Autism, wanted to find out the Autism rate in the Amish. He found out that it is extremely rare.

32:22 Mayer Eisenstein, M.D., J.D. and Director of Homefirst Clinic (non-Amish practice), states that in a population of between 30,000 to 40,000 predominantly unvaccinated children he can’t think of any cases of Autism. He feels there is strong evidence that there is something in the vaccine causing Autism.

36:00 Dr. Paul Offit, the leading proponent of vaccination, has conflicts of interest up he whazzoo.
http://www.naturalnews.com/052686_Paul_Offit_vaccine_industry_conflicts_of_interest.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/049320_Suzanne_Humphries_Paul_Offit_vaccine_lies.html

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/drugs-medical/CDC_Big_Pharma-00285.html

36:40 The 2007 CDC study that Bill Thompson performed, Offit says, has definitively proven that Thimerosal is safe. According to Brian Hooker, that study eliminated all Autistic children and even eliminated those most likely to be vulnerable to Thimerosal from the group before the study even began. As seen in the other Vaccines Revealed posts, Hooker got Thompson on the record explaining how these studies were fudged. Thompson states that when the CDC sees an adverse reaction they don’t want to report they call scientists into a room to work for hours and hours so they can remove those associations. According to Thompson, research is set back 10 years due the CDC being paralyzed by anything related to Autism.

39:30 Boyd Haley, Ph.D. Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry (retired) University of Kentucky, states that everyone knows that genetics cannot cause an epidemic. Genetic susceptibility can but you have to have the toxin to trigger that susceptibility.

40:17 The amount of mercury in vaccines doubled from 1989-1992. The amounts are clearly way over the Federal guidelines for mercury.

41:00 Vas Aposhian, Ph.D. Toxicologist at the University of Arizona talks about how the vaccine guidelines actually are based on methyl mercury – the kind of mercury found in fish when eaten, whereas the mercury found in vaccines is an injection of ethyl mercury. An Italian study found that the type in vaccines is 50 times more toxic to cells than the kind found in fish. Andy Cutler, Ph.D. Author of Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment, states when you eat the mercury in fish, your body doesn’t absorb all of it however, when you inject ethyl mercury from a vaccine into the body, 100% of it is absorbed. Another study using monkeys showed the devastating ability of both types of mercury to get into the brain with ethyl mercury being the worst. Numerous scientists discovered and told the FDA about the unsafe levels of Mercury which resulted in the 1999 Joint Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the United States Public Health Service stating that thimerosal-containing vaccines should be removed as soon as possible. Vaccines were continued with no recalls until 2001.

46:45 Frank Engley, Ph.D., states that there is aluminum in vaccines as well and it works synergistically with mercury making it exponentially more toxic than if it was alone. The FDA has left out three crucial variables – 1) It’s Ethyl Mercury NOT Methyl mercury, 2) it’s injected not taken orally, and 3) the addition of Aluminum. Imagine what the math would show with all of these variables.

50:00 A CDC researcher found the Thimerosal link was very high (an 11.35 which is higher than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer) so the CDC began to stratify the data. The more you stratify you start to lose statistical power. They eliminated about half the population. The numbers still wouldn’t go away. They kept stratifying for 3 generations until they got a 1.69.

Dr. Verstraeten found a Thimerosal link between a whole list of disorders including ADHD, Autism ADD w/o hyper, tics, sleep disorders, speech/language, unspec’d devel. delays. He had 3 hypotheses: parental bias, he didn’t know, or it’s the Thimerosal.

52:25 There was a secret and closed meeting called Simpsonwood Conference where scientists and experts saw and agreed there was a linear connection with mercury and Autism but they kept quiet about it – even at a 2000 Government Reform Committee meeting.
http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/09/mercury-simpsonwood-2000-and-an-elementary-cover-up.html
http://vaccine-injury.info/vaccine-autism-link.cfm
http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/vaccine-autism-cover-up-exposed-by-fraud/

1:01:35 Verstraeten, immediately after presenting his data which lowered the risk by stratifying data again for a 4th generation, announced his resignation at the CDC and his new position at Glaxo Smith Kline at their Brussels’s office – a manufacturer of vaccines using Thimerosal and a defendant in many lawsuits.

1:02:15 The Senate was confronted with either voting down the Homeland Security Bill or accepting it with the secret rider making all pharmaceutical companies immune from being sued. They voted it in.

1:04:06 The public began a letter writing campaign, sending emails and faxes which brought the Senate to its knees. It forced an abrupt reversal. Congressman Dick Armey states admits he put the secret rider in and that he’s proud of the fact.

1:05:10 The CDC decided to do one more final generation of Verstraeten’s study without Verstraeten but they took the extremes and drove them toward the middle – and the closer to the middle, the smaller the relative risks. That’s what they published. To cap it off, the CDC LOST all of Verstraeten’s raw data.

1:08:20 The CDC uses Denmark as an example of how removing Thimerosal from vaccines did not lower the rate of Autism but in fact they continued to rise. According to Hooker, Ph.D., there were confounding factors that made it impossible to look at Thimerosal removal and Autism rates. Shortly after it was removed from vaccines in Denmark they changed Autism diagnostic criteria increasing the rates then they added in rates from outside those diagnosed at a hospital which accounts for the majority of cases nation wide. These factors easily explain why the Autism rates continued to rise. Once these changes stabilized the rates started going down. The CDC knew all of this. The principal investigator and coauthor of the CDC study exonerating Thimerosal, Poul Thorsen, now living in Denmark, is a wanted fugitive for stealing over a million dollars from the CDC.

1:11:00 The CDC calls for a halt on all further study of Thimerosal as they state it’s been proven to be safe. The May 2004 IOM report stating the safety of Thimerosal is settled science has been affecting the debate ever since.

12:00:00 There is hope according to Andrew Hall Cutler PhD. You have to find a chelator that goes into the brain for Mercury and then find out how much you need and how often. Alpha Lipoic Acid can be used but needs to be taken every 3-4 hours. One man with mercury poisoning was able to return to work after a few months of Dr. Cutler’s protocol.

The flu shot contains Thimerosal.

1:14:00 They CDC recommends the flu shot for pregnant women even though they tell them not to eat certain types of fish while pregnant due to the mercury content. The flu shot has NEVER been tested on pregnant women. The package insert states they don’t know if it will harm the fetus, pregnancy, or cause birth defects. According to David Ayoub, M.D. Memorial Medical Center, that is an outright lie. There’s been 3 animal studies studying the effects of Thimerosal in developing animal fetuses which all showed increased Thimerosal caused increased abortion rate. It kills fetuses. It’s also more toxic to males than females.

1:17:00 Story of a woman who’s doctor persuaded her to get the flu shot while pregnant with twins against her better judgment. Within 5-6 hours of the vaccine she began cramping and losing blood. She went back to the doctor who told her she was miscarrying. She lost the boy and the girl was born with autism. Her doctor was horrified and decided to stop vaccinating pregnant women. She then checked her baby girl’s teeth for metals and she had enormously high mercury levels in them.

1:18:52 Schools that have a small mercury spill (thermometer breakage) have men in hazmat suits show up and the school is evacuated, yet these same schools inject it into the arms of every student.

1:19:50 Acrodynia (Pink Disease) in the 30’s-50’s was discovered to be a form of inorganic mercury poisoning due to a teething powder rubbed into the gums. Only 1 in 500 children exposed to mercury contracted Pink Disease showing once again a genetic susceptibility. The disease became more prevalent with commercial exposure of the product. When symptoms of mercury poisoning are compared to Autism, they are the same.

1:22:22 Florescent light bulbs contain mercury and if they break it goes into the air as a vapor. Dental Amalgams (silver fillings) are 50% mercury. Babies born with mothers that have mercury amalgams have more mercury in their tissues than the mother from the mother’s fillings. If a woman is toxic with mercury one of the biggest ways for her to detoxify is to have a baby because it will go into the baby. Coal fired power plants also emit mercury from the coal. Dr. Raymond Palmer found when 1,000 lb. of mercury was released into the environment there was a 61% increase in the Autism rate. Mercury builds up in rain, ocean, and rivers.

1:29:00 Testosterone makes mercury much more toxic. Estrogen protects neurons from mercury. Glutathione helps the body excrete mercury. Autistic children have less of this. When Autistic children’s hair was tested for mercury they had far less of it showing they were not excreting it. The lower the hair levels the more severe the autism. When Autistic children were given chelators to bind with mercury their urine levels were full of it. Autistic children have over two times more mercury in their baby teeth. Autopsies showed brains of people with Autism had almost twice the amount of mercury in them.

1:38:00 While Thimerosal has supposedly been taken out of the childhood vaccine schedule (except “trace” amounts), the flu shot still has it and they are recommending the flu shot for everyone, including children and pregnant women and the elderly.

1:39:00 If you get a vaccine you can request one without Thimerosal. Choose an LED bulb rather than a florescent one. Choose dental fillings without mercury. Request that power plants use mercury filtration systems. Write the president and request he immediately remove all Thimerosal from vaccines. traceamounts.com

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Microbiologist Tom Grier to Speak in April

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Interview with Dr. Wakefield

http://www.vaccinesrevealed.com/free/episode-1-watch-now/?em=Acashman%40charter.net&inf_contact_key=972aa0fefc90205de726b2f4f5634cb49393eb782959474fc9d5222ecf96ec17  Dr. Patrick Gentempo interviews Dr. Andrew Wakevield about Vaccines and Autism  (Link above only active for the next 9 hours)

Wakefield states he was taught old school in which the patient comes first, and the first things out of their mouths are the most important to hear.

At 5:43 in this episode, Dr. Wakefield tells the story of his son’s encounter with an orthopedic surgeon – and how the zeal to make money in medicine overrides the narrative and need of the patient.

6:20 The Patient History reveals what tests to take

8:90 My child was fine then got the MMR (Child lost ability to talk but showed behavior he was in pain such as hitting himself, banging his head, etc). Connection between what he was eating and his behavior (gut/brain).

10:50 There was great support in the beginning looking at this gut/brain issue and considering the vaccine.

11:20 People believe in a religious way in vaccines and folks are making a fortune off of them and folks have invested into careers around them.

12:50 What is the science behind vaccines? Wakefield went back and reviewed all the details and science (safety studies) and was appalled. Wrote a 250 page report.

13:25 MMR came out in 1989. Patients were reporting all along that the MMR was causing Autism. 14:40 – Authorities did nothing about the reports. 15:20 Get informed and read the inserts. Go to the CDC website and the NVIC and learn.

16:07 Without maternal instinct we would not be here. Medicine has tried to usurp that instinct with public health being around for about 150 years.

17:25 Autism is an epidemic. 1 in 25 children have it. If it doesn’t affect you now it will. Wakefield states it can be stopped 18:20 feels there is a common set of denominators and we can identify, eliminate, and prevent the epidemic.

18:43 The most important variable is childhood vaccines. Wakefield is not sure which ones. MMR, mercury, aluminum, viruses and viral components are all culprits.

19:50 Don’t even have baseline safety studies on vaccines.

20:24 Study coming out of India saying, “Please Stop,” in regard to the Polio vaccine due to damage it has caused.

Wakefield feels that clean water, sanitation, and other means are far more beneficial to countries like Africa and will help the immune system in a better way.

22:20 Philanthropy and the pharmaceutical agendas are in conflict. (Helping vs business)

35:15 When scoped, the children had inflamed bowels.  When they treated this, the children got better.  They began smiling and speaking.  Treat the bowel and the brain gets better.

38:30  Wakefield was presented with a choice.  Go down the vaccine road and suffer the consequences of the loss of career, position, license, fellowships, have papers retracted, and lose your country.  Wakefield chose to listen to patients and has lost it all.

40:00 He reveals how it all went down.

47:00 Suing in Texas court – the outcome will be important.

44:00 Mumps vaccine doesn’t work.  Outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations.  The vaccine has taken a mild disease in children and turned it into a severe issue (testicular inflammation and possible sterility) for adults.

45:10: Whistleblowers at Merck revealed that the efficacy of the mumps vaccine was faked because they altered the assay measuring the potency of the vaccine by using rabbit blood to give an artificial result. The whistleblowers told the FDA. The FDA told Merck they were coming to investigate giving them time to destroy all results.

50:02 Now it’s up to the public to say, “Enough is enough. We trusted you and you failed us.” The public needs to vote for politicians who listen to their voice to change this.

51:40 A Recent study from the University of Michigan showed 87% of parents put vaccine safety science as their #1 medical research priority. They want more information. Over 50% of Americans believe vaccines can cause serious injury including Autism.

Next, you’ll hear from Gary Goldman. Gary was a CDC Researcher, and the things he has to say about his experience there will help you understand what is going on in the darker corners of the industry.

Why does a decrease in Chicken Pox directly link to an increase in the painful disease Shingles? See exactly how this occurs at 1:01:27 in this episode. You’ll also hear how he resigned because he did not want to be part of research fraud.

Lastly, this episode introduces you to Dr. Toni Bark. Hear her comments about the wildly controversial vaccine, Gardasil at 1:28:28.

Bark at 1:36:23 states the placebos in vaccines are dangerous adjutants and/or experimental vaccines.  They are supposed to be inert substances.  The FDA is complicit in this because they help vaccine companies by designing the studies.  

1:39:15  Media won’t cover this because their major advertisers are pharmaceutical companies.  Academic researchers are vilified & lose funding.  There are NO whistleblower protections.  Can’t sue pharmaceutical manufacturers.  Vaccines have a tax on them which pays the vaccine court cases.  The DOJ will not get involved in vaccine cases.  No incentive to create a better product.  It’s status quo and business as usual.

Monkeys, Men, and Why Lyme/MSIDS Research Isn’t Getting Anywhere

http://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/3/8/orangutan-death-sparks-fear-about-greater-threat.html   Article by Mark Johnson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 9, 2017

Why Lyme/MSIDS Research Isn’t Getting Anywhere…..

In 2012 a 5 year old orangutan named Mahal died a mysterious death. He had an enlarged spleen and liver overrun with small gray bubbles. This death led to a three year investigation that included intricate pathology work with a full necropsy with microscopy.

The need for this work was seemingly propelled by the fear of zoonotic infection which is a disease that jumps from the primate to humans. According to Johnson 60% of the emerging infectious diseases identified since 1940 are zoonotic accounting for 2.5 billion cases of human illness and 2.7 million deaths.

Veterinary pathologist at UW Madison, Annette Gendron, performed the necropsy. She’s the one who discovered numerous organs were overrun by cysts, as well as the lungs causing an official death of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Hitting a dead end, she contacted a fellow UW colleague, Tony Goldberg due to his work on hepatocystis, a single-cell parasite transmitted by midges.

For Lyme/MSIDS patients, this is where the story gets interesting….

Six months before Mahal died and after returning home from working in western Uganda, Goldberg struggled with a dull ache in his nose that became excruciating. Finally looking into a mirror, he discovered a fully engorged tick. DNA testing revealed a new species of tick of which Goldberg co-authored, “Coincident Tick Infestations in the Nostrils of Wild Chimpanzees and a Human in Uganda,” published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Onto the orangutan’s death…

What finally led Goldberg to the guilty pathogen was by subtracting Mahal’s genetic sequence from that of another orangutan’s. What remained was the genetic signature of the culprit – a cestode, or tapeworm, but the sequence revealed it was a brand new tapeworm.

The discovery explained the little gray bubbles – tapeworms in the larval stage.

And the very day Goldberg got his answer he also discovered that scientists found the tapeworm group, Versteria, inside bodies of weasels in Japan and Finland. In 2014 Goldberg and co-authors published that Mahal died from a new species of tapeworm in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The story didn’t end there – they had to find out how Mahal managed to contract a tapeworm from around the globe. Through a bizarre set of circumstances a student in Colorado (where Mahal came from originally) found tapeworms resembling Versteria in an ermine, and researchers in Oregon found similar tapeworms in a mink. Once again DNA sequencing revealed Mahal likely ingested genetically similar tapeworms in Colorado before he was transited to the Milwaukee Zoo.

Three and a half years after Mahal’s death, Goldberg and colleagues wrote a second paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases telling the origin of the tapeworm larvae.

The Sentinel article shows graphics of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and the various diseases it carries – all of which are rare to nonexistent in Wisconsin. It lists major outbreaks going all the way back to the Spanish flu up to the recent Zika Virus – which WI mosquitos can’t carry. It shows graphics on West Nile with information on transmission, geographical regions, symptoms, and that 44,000 cases have been reported in the U.S. since 1999, but few mosquitos actually carry the virus & 80% of the infected never experience symptoms & the remaining 20% have mild illness
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/arboviral/westnilevirus.htm. It shows “outbreaks with little attention” including Yellow Fever, Cholera, Measles, and Dengue – all rare to nonexistent in Wisconsin. There were also graphics of tapeworms, diseases they carry, with graphics showing no cases in North America.

But the elephant in the room, Lyme Disease/MSIDS, the most common vector borne illness in the U.S., with Wisconsin 6th in the nation, is only mentioned as an afterthought when a researcher got a tick in his nose.

The Lyme Disease Association is stating that yearly new cases of Lyme Disease are approaching 400,000 in the U.S. That’s new cases. Wisconsin and other states are filled with folks who are chronically infected, yet the CDC denies it all – which means most of these people don’t even make into the statistics.

I love monkeys as much as the next person, but if one-fourth of the resources spent on this monkey were spent on Lyme/MSIDS patients, we’d have some answers.

Please, I beg, start doing meaningful research on a disease(es) you can get in your backyard that is causing thousands of Wisconsinites untold pain, suffering, and yes, even death.