Asian Longhorned Tick Now in New Hampshire

November 18, 2018

https://www.vnews.com/new-species-of-tick-longhorned-nh-21351658

New Species of Tick Found in New Hampshire

By David Brooks

Concord Monitor

Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Asian Longhorn

Asian long horned tick.

Just what New Hampshire needs: A new species of tick has arrived.

The species is called Asian longhorned tick, although to the casual eye, it doesn’t seem to have any horns. It is the first new tick species found in the U.S. in half a century. It has been found in nine states along the Eastern seaboard.

In Asia, it is known to transmit a number of diseases, but according to reports it rarely bites humans. None of the Asian longhorned ticks found in this country have carried any human diseases. As a result, the tick is considered mostly a threat to livestock.

According to the state veterinarian, the tick was spotted in this state on a dog visiting from New York by “a particularly observant New Hampshire resident.”

“This is the first time the pest has been found in N.H., but it may be limited to the visiting dog,” officials said in a news release announcing the discovery.

Retrospective studies indicate the tick has been present in the United States since at least 2010.

Female longhorned ticks don’t need a male to reproduce. They can spawn asexually via a process known as parthenogenesis. After feeding, a single female can lay about 2,000 eggs.

Any unusual ticks should be submitted for identification through either a veterinarian or physician to the N.H. Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food using an online form at agriculture.nh.gov.

“This tick already appears to be established in the environment in a number of states, so eradication from the U.S. is unlikely,” said Steve Crawford, N.H. State Veterinarian. “We are asking everyone to not only protect themselves from tick bites but to pay close attention to their animals as possible transporters of this tick, or any other, into New Hampshire.”

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https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/08/an-invasive-new-tick-is-spreading-in-the-u-s/  “One tick can crank out females in fairly large numbers,” said Thomas Yuill, a retired pathobiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was one of the first to raise alarms about the invaders.

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UW Madison PhD in Ecological Climatology – Climate Change Computer Models ‘Fudged,’ Except Russian Model

November 17, 2018

**UPDATE**

This more recent interview (2022) with another weather expert completely corroborates everything Michaels states below.  Man has nothing to do with the weather, and blaming CO2 has no science behind it. He too states those who claim otherwise are simply trying to make money off of the ‘Climate Change’ narrative.  Further, a recent study shows there is ‘no evidence’ of a climate emergency.  The Corbet Report recently wrote an excellent article where he debunks the climate narrative point by painful point and how it’s being used for The Great Reset and Agenda 2030 – the push for global technocracy.

Globalists are reading from the same teleprompter and admit working with social media platforms and Google to censor searches on the climate issue.  A particularly chilling quote:

“We own the science.” ~ Melissa Ruth Flemming – UN Undersecretary for Global Communications

 Approx. 15 Min

Published on Oct 21, 2018
Dr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, provides insight into the debate over climate change and the political games played to create policy.

pmichaels

https://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels

Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

Michaels holds AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.

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For more on how Climate change has nothing to do with the spread of ticks and Lyme:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/  Warm winters are actually lethal to blacklegged ticks.  Migrating birds and photoperiod are moving ticks all over.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/14/canadian-tick-expert-climate-change-is-not-behind-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/07/08/global-warming-numbers-fudged/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/16/study-shows-lyme-in-15-species-of-canadian-ticks-6-of-which-bite-humans-numerous-new-bird-species-acting-as-hosts/  This study supports the fact that birds are the major transporters of ticks. Amblyomma longirostre ticks are typically in countries of South, Central and North America. The fact one was found in Canada is quite telling. The fact it was infected with Borrelia burgdorferi – even more telling. They’re known to transmit Rickettsia.

Please know Ontario authorities have been called out in shoddy, biased research regarding “climate change” and tick/disease proliferation:  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/  Scott states that the authors completely ignore and dismiss previous published work and instead create their own reality to show a gradual tick expansion northward due to supposed climate change.  The problem is tick populations already existed in those locations. Scott’s most telling statement for patients to be aware of regarding research on climate change and ticks is this theory would,

“explain to the public a reason for not tackling this serious health care issue earlier. The tick problem was programmed for the future.Thus, ill-founded statistical analyses culminated in fabricated erroneous data and, ultimately, resulted in a series of maps that turned out to be flawed science.” John Scott

I think that about says it all.
Don’t be duped.

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Job Available for Tenure Track Position in Tick-Borne Disease Research

Assistant Professor

Required Qualifications

Ph.D. or M.D. and at least 3 years of postdoctoral experience.  Established research in the area of tick-borne diseases.

Preferred Qualifications

Candidates that demonstrate the ability to obtain extramural funding are preferred.

Responsibilities & Requirements

The successful candidate will establish a vigorous extramural research program in the area of TBD, participate in the Department’s educational mission of graduate and medical school teaching, and perform university and departmental service.

The Department:  https://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/mgm and the adjacent Center for Infectious Diseases:  https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/cid/ provide a highly interactive scientific community.  The Department and School of Medicine have been at the forefront of research on tick-borne diseases, including pivotal contributions toward discovery and characterization of the Lyme disease agent.

Details here:

Asst Prof Tick Borne (1)

 

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Canadian Sues Doctors Over Negligence Regarding Lyme Disease

https://canlyme.com/2018/11/12/canadian-frank-papineau-sues-physicians-dr-pablo-romero-sierra-dr-johnny-brisebois-and-kemptville-district-hospital-in-ontario-superior-court-trial-to-start-november-26th-2018/

Canadian Frank Papineau sues physicians Dr. Pablo Romero-Sierra, Dr. Johnny Brisebois in Ontario Superior court. Trial to start November 26th, 2018

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Nov. 12, 2018

Ontario, Canada resident Frank Papineau has had enough and is seeking redress from the courts alleging negligence against two physicians.

In the linked Statement of Claim it is stated that there was also a the claim against Kemptville District Hospital but the claim against the hospital was discontinued in early 2014.

The trial begins November 26th, 2018 and is slated to last 4 weeks indicating just how seriously this case is being taken.

Other Canadians with Lyme disease, their families, physicians, patient advocacy groups, and others not only in Canada but around the world will will be following this case with great interest to see if the courts can begin to offer protections for the abuse of thousands of patients by the current health care systems that have failed them so miserably.

Making this more significant is that it is taking place in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, Ontario, under the nose of the federal Public Health Agency of Canada, and federal legislators that to date have done little to bring ethical treatment of Lyme disease patients to the offices and hospitals of Canada.  Also situated in Ottawa is the multi-billion dollar Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), a non-for-profit deep-pocketed fund that physicians have access to for the legal woes and costs.

This is truly a David against Goliath case where the physicians have this access to mega-millions of dollars for their defence, as opposed to any individual.

One has to wonder where the CMPA was while almost 100% of Canadian physicians, who appropriately diagnosed and treated Lyme patients clinically, were forced out of business or forced to stop treating Lyme patients simply because they chose to not follow very-restrictive opinion based (not science-based) guidelines imposed upon Canadian doctors via the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Canada (AMMI).

Previously an Ontario physician was sanctioned by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for not following the terrible Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines imposed by AMMI.  He appealed the decision to the Ontario Health Professionals Appeal and Review Board who sided with the doctor stating he did not have to follow those [dangerous] guidelines …

“The Board also finds that the Committee reached an unreasonable decision when it decided to caution the Applicant for failing to document the rationale for not following the recommended guidelines for treatment of Lyme disease. The Board notes that the Applicant’s consultation letter to the patient’s family physician, dated December 10, 2010, contained a detailed explanation for the treatment recommended by the Applicant.”

It is hoped that the court-room for the Papineau case will be filled with patients and patient advocates.

You can read the now-public Frank Papineau Statement of Claim here.

Of interest is also the report submitted by representatives of many countries including Canada to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in June 20

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More on legal cases regarding Lyme/MSIDS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/03/aussie-widow-of-lyme-disease-victim-to-sue-nsw-health/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/11/15/lyme-patients-file-lawsuit-against-idsa-and-insurers-over-treatment-denials/

This is the inevitable outcome of ignoring and mistreating people for decades. This is not the only lawsuit brewing and I predict much more to come. People in Lyme-land are frustrated, suffering, and fed up.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/25/speaking-of-fake-science-fifty-seven-million-anti-trust-lawsuit-against-cdc-lyme-tests/ An unprecedented anti-trust law suit of $57 million is being prepared against the CDC. They are accused of deliberately suppressing the use of an accurate DNA direct diagnostics for Lyme disease.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/13/1st-officially-recognized-report-on-violations-of-lyme-patients-human-rights-is-released-updating-borreliosis-diagnostic-codes/ Human rights violation has been reported to the U.N. regarding the treatment of Lyme patients. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/11/14/thayer-interview-commentary-on-tick-borne-disease-working-group/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/06/remembering-dr-masters-the-rebel-for-lyme-patients-who-took-on-the-cdc-single-handedly/  This story should be made into a movie.  For real.  Way back in 2003 Weintraub interviewed Dr. Masters of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, about Lyme disease in the South, though the “powers that be,” continued to deny it (and still do).

The CDC shenanigans are completely outrageous and we must never forget what they have done through the years to very ill patients.

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Investigating Disease Severity in an Animal Model of Concurrent Babesiosis & Lyme Disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30367867

2018 Oct 24. pii: S0020-7519(18)30240-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.06.006. [Epub ahead of print]

Investigating disease severity in an animal model of concurrent babesiosis and Lyme disease.

Bhanot P1, Parveen N2.

Abstract

The incidence of babesiosis, Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases has increased steadily in Europe and North America during the last five decades. Babesia microti is transmitted by species of Ixodes, the same ticks that transmit the Lyme disease-causing spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. B. microti can also be transmitted through transfusion of blood products and is the most common transfusion-transmitted infection in the U.S.A. Ixodes ticks are commonly infected with both B. microti and B. burgdorferi, and are competent vectors for transmitting them together into hosts. Few studies have examined the effects of coinfections on humans and they had somewhat contradictory results. One study linked coinfection with B. microti to a greater number of symptoms of overall disease in patients, while another report indicated that B. burgdorferi infection either did not affect babesiosis symptoms or decreased its severity. Mouse models of infection that manifest pathological effects similar to those observed in human babesiosis and Lyme disease offer a unique opportunity to thoroughly investigate the effects of coinfection on the host. Lyme disease has been studied using the susceptible C3H mouse infection model, which can also be used to examine B. microti infection to understand pathological mechanisms of human diseases, both during a single infection and during coinfections. We observed that high B. microti parasitaemia leads to low haemoglobin levels in infected mice, reflecting the anaemia observed in human babesiosis. Similar to humans, B. microti coinfection appears to enhance the severity of Lyme disease-like symptoms in mice. Coinfected mice have lower peak B. microti parasitaemia compared to mice infected with B. microti alone, which may reflect attenuation of babesiosis symptoms reported in some human coinfections.

These findings suggest that B. burgdorferi coinfection attenuates parasite growth while B. microti presence exacerbates Lyme disease-like symptoms in mice.

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**Comment**

Now fathom for a moment adding Bartonella, Mycoplasma, and a few viruses into this lovely soup and it becomes evident why patients are so ill.

This is not the first time a published study has shown attenuated parasite growth with concurrent infection.

http://www.wildcondor.com/dr-horowitz-on-babesiosis.html Dr. Krause published in the New England Journal of Medicine that when a patient has Lyme and Babesia, Lyme is found three-times more frequently in the blood, proving Babesia suppresses the immune system. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/28/concurrent-babesiosis-and-lyme-in-patient/

I honestly can’t believe it’s taken this long for research to catch up with what all of us out here in Lyme-land have known for over 40 years.

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