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A Bug for Alzheimer’s?

https://aeon.co/essays/how-microbial-infections-might-cause-alzheimers-disease

Please read the article above, written by Melinda Wenner Moyer, edited by Pam Weintraub.

A brief summary:

Robert Moir, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, believes that beta-amyloid, a key player in Alzheimer’s, might be a good guy who is actually protecting the brain from pathogens.

This idea is coming from numerous corners of the world and has been labeled ‘pathogen hypothesis.’ Others pointing this out are pathologist Alan MacDonald, neuropathologist Judith Miklossy, and microbiologist Tom Grier.

Moir has published mouse studies showing that their brains create amyloid plaques within hours of contracting infections and they actually kill pathogens.

This observation flies in the face of accepted dogma about beta-amyloid and it is rarely discussed in AD groups.

A meta-analysis of 25 published studies has shown that infected folks are 10 times more likely to develop AD, leading international researchers to co-sign an editorial begging others to consider pathogens in relation to AD.

But, the cabal isn’t having it. Moir’s 2016 paper was rejected six times without even a review before finally getting the nod.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/13/lyme-science-owned-by-good-ol-boys/

The author reminds the reader that infections in the brain are nothing new and a short list of them includes: Syphillis, Herpes simplex encephalitis, tick borne disease, HIV, Toxoplasma gondii, Chlamydia pneumoniae, HSV-1, and Zika.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/10/bugs-causing-alzheimers/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/06/03/borrelia-hiding-in-worms-causing-chronic-brain-diseases/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/08/09/dr-paul-duray-research-fellowship-foundation-some-great-research-being-done-on-lyme-disease/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-michael-conner/man-diagnosed-with-als-di_b_8891262.html

The journalist also points out that pathogen causation is not proven and that Alzheimer’s patients might be prone to infection but that some studies suggest the infections came first. She also says that the majority of folks suggesting the ‘pathogen hypothesis’ do not feel the infections work alone but rather can cause a domino effect that over time can accumulate causing AD.

And lastly, if beta-amyloid causes AD then removing these plaques should get rid of symptoms, but when 145 beta-amyloid-reducing drugs were tested, not one slowed progression of the disease.

Once again, proving a science cabal exists, Moir recounts how at a Korean conference, attendees were asked to raised hands if they thought infections played a part in AD and a majority of hands went up.

“Ten years ago, it would have been four guys in a corner, all huddled together, not talking to anyone else,” Moir says.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/02/fake-science/

Isn’t that sad?

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Alzheimer's, Lyme, research, Syphilis, Toxoplasmosis, Viruses, Zika

2016 Vaccine News

MSIDS patients are hit with an onslaught of vaccine messages, often from the very pharmacies they must call to order life-saving drugs for tick borne infections.  These messages are always one-sided, telling patients to get their vaccine(s) now.

MSIDS patients often feel so incredibly lousy that they literally have a challenge putting one foot in front of the other.  The very thought of needing to research vaccine information sends the very stoutest to bed for a nap, and even if they manage to do a little sleuthing, they can’t remember what they have read just 10 minutes later.

It is especially for you that this post is written.

Published on Dec 10, 2013
Doctors say the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, may prevent cervical cancer, but two sisters say they believe the drug made them infertile.  They are now suing the manufacturer.

For more on Gardisil:

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

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/

Deaths from live Polio Vaccine:

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/12/two-children-die-after-polio-vaccination-four-in-critical-condition-in-pakistan/

“Two children in the Tehsil Bara area of the Khyber Agency tribal region in Pakistan reportedly died last week ‘moments’ after receiving the live oral poliovirus vaccine. Another 11 children, who had been administered the vaccine in Tehsil Bara, fell unconscious and were taken to Hayatabad hospital in the city of Peshawar. Four of the 11 children remain in critical condition.  

OPV has long been known to actually cause vaccine strain polio paralysis in some individuals who get the vaccine, as well as cause paralysis in some who come in close contact with recently vaccinated persons shedding vaccine strain polio virus in saliva, urine and other body secretions. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis cases do occur in countries using oral poliovirus vaccine.”

While the US does not use the live polio vaccine any more, there has been an alarming increase in Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFM), a neurological disease that closely resembles the poliovirus in the U.S.  http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/11/mysterious-polio-like-illness-plaguing-children-stumps-cdc/.  Eighty-nine people across 33 states have confirmed AFM.

“AFM affects a person’s nervous system, particularly the spinal cord. Patients present with a fever or respiratory illness, then develop temporary paralysis. Among the 121 cases reported in 2014, only three children recovered fully, although 85 percent recovered partially.”

The question begging to be asked is does the shedding of the live polio vaccine actually cause the AFM we are seeing in the U.S.?

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/12/mercks-ebola-vaccine-a-christmas-gift-for-the-world-really/

Media claims “New Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection.”

What really happened:

**5,643 adults and 194 children in the West African country of Guinea were in contact with people with Ebola.

**65% were given a single dose of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine.  They reported no cases of Ebola after a designated window of 9 days.  Some did actually come down with Ebola but they weren’t counted because they assumed they were infected before vaccination.  (Remember the axiom, “Assuming makes an Ass out of u and me.”)

**35% were given the vaccine 21 days later.  These folks along with those who never received the vaccine had 23 cases of Ebola.

**The incubation period for Ebola is 2-21 days with an average of 8-10 days. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/.  Is it good science to stop observation after 9 days on a disease that has a 25%-95% fatality rate?

**Two different sized groups are being compared. The group with no Ebola contains 16% less people than the group with 23 cases and may actually be greater than that, given that an unknown portion actually came down with Ebola but were not counted.

This is reminiscent of how the CDC suddenly decided that two fetal samples proves that Zika causes microcephaly:https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/12/21/how-zika-got-the-blame/

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2016/12/20/anti-vax-movement-to-blame-for-quadrupling-of-mumps-cases-this-year/&refURL=  A recent article in Forbes blames those choosing to forego the Mumps vaccine with causing mumps outbreaks even though most that contracted it had been fully vaccinated!

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/12/scapegoating-anti-vaxxers-for-the-mumps-outbreaks-how-predictable/  Here’s a great article showing the Forbes author doesn’t present any facts to bolster his claim but in typical form belittles anyone who choses informed consent in regards to vaccinations.

The take home:  Do your reading.  You are chronically ill with pathogen(s) that are already giving your immune system a run for its money.  Consider carefully what you allow into or onto your body.  As Dr. Burrascano has stated, “Now is the time for the very best of health habits.”  http://www2.lymenet.org/domino/file.nsf/UID/guidelines

It’s your body.  You decide.

 

 

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vaccines, Viruses, Zika

How Zika Got the Blame

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/12/cdcs-rasmussen-paper-on-zika-and-microcephaly-poor-case-for-smoking-gun/ Article in link by Marco Caceres.

In early 2016, the CDC began to suspect a link between Zika and Microcephaly due to two placenta samples of babies who sadly died, but they admitted that additional studies with lab testing that may take years to complete was needed. As of April 1, 2016, the CDC, NIH, PAHO, and WHO, all agreed there was insufficient evidence to state that Zika causes Microcephaly.

Magically, in two weeks time, after numerous papers were published stating that large prospective studies following pregnant women infected with Zika were needed, they made an about face and stated emphatically that the existing evidence was now sufficient to state Zika causes microcephaly.

What happened in two weeks?

Were hundreds of thousands of hours spent in the lab testing women and babies?

No.

Here’s what happened.

They took one paper (Rasmussen, Jamieson, Honein & Petersen)  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1604338?query=featured_home&  and plopped it into a scientific formula called Shepard’s criteria which was developed by a pediatrician in 1994. Ironically, even Dr. Petersen, the director of the CDC’s division of vector-forne diseases, and one of the four authors in the paper initially denied a causal link.

Oh, by the way, did I mention that all the authors are CDC employees?

What is Shepherd’s criteria? Glad you asked.

1) Proven exposure to the agent at one or more critical times during prenatal development.
2) Consistent findings by two or more high-quality epidemiological studies, with control of confounding factors, sufficient numbers, exclusion of positive and negative bias factors, prospective studies if possible, and relative risk of six or more.
3) Careful delineation of clinical cases; a specific defect or syndrome, if present, is very helpful.
4) Rare environmental exposure that is associated with rare defect.
5) Teratogenicity in experimental animals important but not essential.
6) Association should make biologic sense.
7) Proof in an experimental system that the agent acts in an unaltered state.

The researchers agreed that only 1, 3, and 4 of the criteria had been met.

There have been numerous Brazilian studies and reports questioning their conclusion.
http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/09/cdc-bets-farm-on-zika-based-on-conclusion-of-rasmussen-jamieson-honein-petersen-paper/

The Author of the opinion piece asks some important questions: should criteria from twenty years ago be used to prove causality when numerous other factors have been proven to cause birth defects, and why should a historically harmless virus become abruptly virulent?

I’d like to add to the list of questions: why is the CDC hellbent on whooping Zika up into a national health crisis when we have plenty of health topics that are far more prevalent (Lyme Disease/MSIDS, opioid addiction, and antibiotic resistant bacteria, for a start). How can the CDC on one hand determine causality from two fetal samples when there are literally 230 peer-reviewed studies that show borrelia persistence despite antibiotic therapy? http://norvect.no/230-peer-reviewed-studies-show-evidence-of-persistent-lyme-disease/  Why are ancient studies on everything from possible vectors/reservoirs to transmission times, to diagnostic myths such as mandatory EM rashes held in sacred honor and used to continually refute any new information to the contrary?

And when are scientists finally going to admit they are often being used to further agendas that are neither impartial nor transparent?

For more on Zika:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/08/fixation-on-zikapolio/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/07/17/zika-in-the-land-of-oz/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/10/26/zika-puzzling-scientists/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/04/health-policy-recap/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/08/zika-ebola-zombies-and-the-cdc/

 

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Activism, mosquitoes, Viruses, Zika

Naled Causes Microcephaly

Naled (trade name Dibrom), is being sprayed over Miami.  According to nospray.org not only is it the least effective mosquito control measure, it actually can cause the microcephaly they claim Zika causes.  Again, for those just tuning in, please read:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/03/08/fixation-on-zikapolio/

http://nospray.org/naled-insecticide-fact-sheet/  “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has written that “adulticiding, application of chemicals to kill adult mosquitoes by ground or aerial applications, is usually the least efficient mosquito control technique.

Naled is no exception. For example, researchers from the New York Department of Health showed that 11 years of naled spraying was “successful in achieving short-term reductions in mosquito abundance, but populations of the disease-carrying mosquito of concern “increased 15-fold over the 11 years of spraying.

Like all organophosphates, naled is toxic to the nervous system. Symptoms of exposure include headaches, nausea, and diarrhea. Naled is more toxic when exposure occurs by breathing contaminated air than through other kinds of exposure. In laboratory tests, naled exposure caused increased aggressiveness and a deterioration of memory and learning.

Special Susceptibility

Malnourished individuals may be particularly susceptible to naled poisoning. Researchers from the Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Health (Bulgaria) studied naled’s effects on rats that were fed a low-protein diet and found that naled was almost twice as toxic to them as it was to rats fed a normal diet. In addition, the rats fed a low-protein diet developed liver damage from their naled exposure.

Naled’s breakdown product DICHLORVOS (another organophosphate insecticide) interferes with prenatal brain development. In laboratory animals, exposure for just 3 days during pregnancy when the brain is growing quickly reduced brain size 15 percent.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8065512 

DICHLORVOS also causes cancer, according to the International Agency for Research on Carcinogens. In laboratory tests, it caused leukemia and pancreatic cancer. Two independent studies have shown that children exposed to household “no-pest” strips containing dichlorvos have a higher incidence of brain cancer than unexposed children.

Aerial applications of naled can drift up to one-half mile. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, naled is moderately to highly toxic to birds and fish. It also reduced egg production and hatching success in tests with birds and reduced growth in tests with juvenile fish. convulsions, paralysis, and death.”

The nospray.org website above has much more on Naled than I copied here.  Please see the website for details.

https://www.sott.net/article/324189-For-your-Zika-protection-Florida-to-spray-neighborhoods-with-microcephaly-causing-insecticide  “As Activist Post’s Bernie Suarez has previously reported, it still has not been proven that microcephaly — a birth defect that causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and the new big concern from zika — is even officially caused by zika.  All evidence thus far is entirely circumstantial, as even Director-General Maraget Chan of the World Health Organization has gone on the record to state. In fact, decades of scientific literature show zika is largely benign…. Could this have anything to do with the fact that the GM mosquitoes purposefully released over Florida to combat Dengue fever aren’t dying off the way they were supposed to?”

https://www.sott.net/article/311265-Could-there-be-a-link-between-the-release-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-and-the-Zika-virus  The possible mosquito in the ointment (pun intended) could be the involvement of tetracycline.  The actual mechanism that kills larvae only works if tetracycline is not present during its development.  

“According to an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global antimicrobial consumption in food animal production” — meaning, Brazil is third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals.”  

A confidential 2012 internal Oxitec document divulged that survival rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress” the engineered lethality. The 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec:

“After a lot of testing and comparing experimental design, it was found that [researchers] had used a cat food to feed the [OX513A] larvae and this cat food contained chicken. It is known that tetracycline is routinely used to prevent infections in chickens, especially in the cheap, mass produced, chicken used for animal food. The chicken is heat-treated before being used, but this does not remove all the tetracycline. This meant that a small amount of tetracycline was being added from the food to the larvae and repressing the [designed] lethal system.”

Whoops.

While the exact relationship of GMO bugs and Zika is not known, there are many questions that remain.

 

Category:

Activism, mosquitoes, Viruses

Connection of Acute Flaccid Myelitis and Vaccinations

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/11/acute-flaccid-myelitis-and-routine-childhood-vaccinations-this-is-nothing-new/

Just two weeks after receiving a vaccination, Daniel Ramirez died after being hospitalized for paralysis.

The connection between vaccination and paralysis has been known since the 40’s and 50’s and was written about in The Lancet by Stephen Mawdsley in an article titled, “Polio Provocation: Solving a Mystery With the Help of History.” Mawdsley states:

“The application of epidemiological surveillance and statistical methods enabled researchers to trace the steady rise in polio incidence along with the expansion of immunization programs for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus. A report that emerged from Guy’s and Evelina Hospitals, London, in 1950, found that 17 cases of polio paralysis developed in the limb injected with pertussis or tetanus inoculations. Results published by Australian doctor Bertram McCloskey also showed a strong association between injections and polio paralysis. Meanwhile, in the USA, public health researchers in New York and Pennsylvania reached similar conclusions. Clinical evidence, derived from across three continents, had established a theory that required attention.”

So what happened to this theory that piercing the skin during injection drives the polio virus into deep tissue where it then enters the central nervous system where it ultimately leads to paralysis and even death?

Good question.

The theory was essentially proven in 1998 in an article titled, “Mechanism of Injury-Provoked Poliomyelitis,” in the Journal of Virology. Researchers state:

“Skeletal muscle injury is known to predispose its sufferers to neurological complications of concurrent poliovirus infections. This phenomenon, labeled ‘provocation poliomyelitis,’ continues to cause numerous cases of childhood paralysis due to the administration of unnecessary injections to children in areas where poliovirus is endemic. Recently, it has been reported that intramuscular injections may also increase the likelihood of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in recipients of live attenuated poliovirus vaccines. We have studied this important risk factor for paralytic polio in an animal system for poliomyelitis and have determined the pathogenic mechanism linking intramuscular injections and provocation poliomyelitis. Skeletal muscle injury induces retrograde axonal transport of poliovirus and thereby facilitates viral invasion of the central nervous system and the progression of spinal cord damage. The pathogenic mechanism of provocation poliomyelitis may differ from that of polio acquired in the absence of predisposing factors.”

The virus associated with the recent hospitalizations is Enterovirus D68, which is not polio per se, but is very similar and is in the same family of enteroviruses. Doctor Alan S. Cunningham, MD, a retired pediatrician wrote about his fear of the possibility of provocation of a polio-like virus due to vaccination in The BMJ in 2015:

“Since August 2, 2014, our Centers for Disease Control has received reports of 107 cases of ‘acute flaccid myelitis’ (AFM), a polio-like illness in children in 34 states. During the same interval there have been 1153 cases of respiratory illnesses associated with enterovirus D-68 (CIDRAP News 1/16/15. CDC update 1/15/15. Catherine Saint Louis, NY Times 1/13/15). AFM affects motor neurons in spinal cord gray matter, resulting in asymmetrical limb weakness; 34% of patients have cranial nerve motor dysfunction. Median age of patients is 7.6 years/range: 5 months-20 years (MMWR 63: 1243–January 9, 2015). So far only one child has fully recovered. EV-D68 is a suspected cause but, thus far, no viruses have been found in the spinal fluid of patients, and only a minority have had an antecedent illness associated with EV-D68. Case-control studies are planned to look for clues, but presently AFM is a mystery disease of unknown cause. It is taboo to suggest a role for vaccines, but some old-timers remember “provocation poliomyelitis” or “provocation paralysis.” This is paralytic polio following intramuscular injections, typically with vaccines. PP was most convincingly documented by Austin Bradford Hill and J. Knowelden during the 1949 British polio epidemic when the risk of paralytic polio was increased 20-fold among children who had received the DPT injection (BMJ 2:1–July 1, 1950). Similar observations were made by Greenberg and colleagues in New York City; their literature review cited suspected cases as far back as 1921 (Am J Public Health 42:142–Feb.1952). I first became aware of PP 10 years ago while browsing through “Krugman’s Infectious Disease of Children” (page 128 of the 2004 edition). AFM may result from a direct virus attack on the spinal cord, or by an immune attack triggered by a virus, or by something else. If a polio-like virus is circulating in the U.S., the possibility of its provocation by one or more vaccines has to be considered.”

Polio provocation resurfaced in the 80’s when vaccination programs in developing countries increased in tandem with more children becoming paralyzed.

The US government chose to continue vaccinating and stated,

“any possible doubts, whether or not well founded, about the safety of the vaccine cannot be allowed to exist in view of the need to assure that the vaccine will continue to be used to the maximum extent consistent with the nation’s public health objectives.”

This is important information to consider for MSIDS patients, since our immune systems are compromised and viruses often play a role in our illness, we need to consider the very probable connection with provoked viruses by vaccines along with our other tick borne infections.

For more information on vaccines, please read: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/06/19/a-word-on-vaccines/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/07/15/vaccines-continued/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/10/vaccines-made-in-china/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/

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

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/08/12/connecting-dots-mycoplasma/  Written by the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice and substantiating this further:  http://www.whale.to/vaccine/cantwell2.html “One factor common to all the troops is that they were given experimental and potentially dangerous drugs and vaccines employed to protect them against Iraqi chemical and biowarfare agents. As early as December 1990, there were warnings about using our servicemen as medical guinea pigs. In an unprecedented legal decision, the FDA allowed the Pentagon to give unapproved drugs and vaccines without requiring consent of the soldiers. Claiming security reasons, the Pentagon also refused to identify the types or the number of drugs and injections they forced the troops to take… Soldiers who rejected the injections were given them forcibly. Physicians who refused to cooperate with the military’s experimental vaccine program were treated harshly.”

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses