Increasing Spread of Lyme Disease in Europe

February 17, 2023

https://danielcameronmd.com/increasing-spread-of-lyme-disease-in-europe/

INCREASING SPREAD OF LYME DISEASE IN EUROPE

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The number of Lyme disease cases continues to climb in the U.S. and Europe despite preventative measures. A new study examines the prevalence of Lyme disease in Greece, a country that has questioned its existence.

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The existence of Lyme disease in Greece remains controversial. In a recent study  “Serological evidence of possible Borrelia afzelii lyme disease in Greece,”  Karageorgou and colleagues examined patients throughout Greece suspected for Lyme disease by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and by western blotting for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species.

“We found one patient positive for Borrelia burgdorferi and two patients positive for Borrelia afzelii specific antibodies. Both B. afzelii patients were suffering with neurological manifestations and had never traveled abroad,” the authors wrote.¹

Their findings indicate evidence of two autochthonous Lyme disease cases in Greece, possibly caused by B. afzelii.

“Suggestions that Lyme disease exists in Greece remain controversial and no study to date has definitively identified the presence of a Borrelia spp. that infects humans.”

In another study, Olafsdotti and Askling reviewed the possible reasons behind the growing number of cases in the U.S. and abroad.² “Reasons for poor progress in limiting the disease are manyfold” and include:

  1. The surveillance system for Lyme disease remains highly variable, despite European Union surveillance to standardize definition.
  2. “There are still substantial diagnostic gaps for the disease given its varied and unusual presentation.”
  3. “Absence of reliable assays for acute infection.”
  4. “Difficulty in differentiating past disease from current disease.”
  5. “An inability to monitor treatment response.”

Furthermore, the poor prognosis in limiting the disease is expected to be worse with climate change, wrote the authors.

The authors stressed the need to overcome diagnostic challenges, develop better surveillance strategies and policies for Lyme disease, as well as identify a safe and effective vaccine against Borrelia burgdorferi.

Karageorgou et al. concludes, “We demonstrate the possibility of the presence of B. afzelii in Greece. Therefore, we need to raise awareness of Lyme disease among healthcare providers and ensure that B. afzelii, and possibly also other Lyme borrelia species must be taken into account. The true underlying rate of Lyme disease in Greece remains unknown.”

References:
  1. Karageorgou I, Koutantou M, Papadogiannaki I, Voulgari-Kokota A, Makka S, Angelakis E. Serological evidence of possible Borrelia afzelii lyme disease in Greece. New Microbes New Infect. Mar 2022;46:100978. doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2022.100978
  2. Olafsdottir B, Askling HH. Increasing spread of borreliosis in Europe. New Microbes New Infect. 2022 Aug 29;48:101022. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2022.101022. PMID: 36176541; PMCID: PMC9513809.

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**Comment**

The fact people are still quibbling over where and if Lyme exists should tell you everything you need to know about this very real plague, which the climate doesn’t affect one iota.

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Lyme Vaccine Testing Halted in Some Patients

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-valneva-discontinue-some-trials-vaccine-against-lyme-disease-2023-02-17/

Pfizer, Valneva to stop testing Lyme disease vaccine in some U.S. patients

By Bhanvi Satija
Feb. 17, 2023
Pfizer news conference in Puurs

[1/2] Pfizer company logo is seen at a Pfizer office in Puurs, Belgium, December 2, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Excerpts:

Feb 17 (Reuters) – Drugmaker Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and France’s Valneva (VLS.PA) will stop testing a Lyme disease vaccine in roughly half of U.S. patients in a late-stage study, the companies said, citing a breach of clinical trial guidelines by a third-party contractor.

The decision could delay the time to approval of a vaccine that Valneva expects could become a blockbuster shot as infections rise globally due to a burgeoning population of ticks, which usually cause Lyme disease.

Valneva has been pinning its hopes on the vaccine candidate, known as VLA15, to counter the impact of disappointing sales for its COVID shot.

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**Comment**

I’ll bet Valneva wants to counter the impact of disappointing sales of its COVID jab….

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Bill Introduced to Halt Hospital Funding For Those Denying Care to the Unvaxxed

February 16, 2023

https://summit.news/2023/02/16/rand-paul-introduces-bill-to-halt-funding-for-hospitals-denying-care-to-the-unvaxxed/

Rand Paul Introduces Bill To Halt Funding For Hospitals Denying Care To The Unvaxxed

After multiple cases of ‘no jab, no transplant’

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Senator Rand Paul has introduced legislation that would see federal funding stopped for health care facilities that choose to deny critical treatment to people who have chosen not to take COVID vaccines.

“No American should be denied access to critical care based on a personal medical decision, yet tragically, many hospitals and other medical facilities continue to discriminate against those unvaccinated for COVID-19,” Paul said in a statement.

The Senator added that his bill titled The COVID-19 Vaccination Non-Discrimination Act “will protect the rights of vulnerable patients to make their own health care choices and ensure that federal taxpayer dollars do not support facilities that turn away patients based on their COVID-19 vaccination status.”

Paul points to a recent case where a 14-year-old girl was refused a kidney transplant by Duke University Hospital because her parents had chosen not to have her vaccinated.  The girl had already had a COVID-19 infection, had developed natural immunity, yet still the hospital refused to give her the critical care she needed.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

To date, patients requiring an organ transplant will not receive an organ if they have not gotten the ineffective gene therapy clot shot and they are also removed from the transplant list.

Many organ transplant patients who get the mandated shot reject the new organs and some have even died after getting the shot.

Never forget:

 

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Man Bitten By Tick in Scottish Highlands ‘Imprisoned’ in Mum’s Living Room For Four Years

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/man-bitten-tick-scottish-highlands-29213674

Man bitten by tick in Scottish Highlands ‘imprisoned’ in mum’s living room for four years

Keen outdoorsman Noah Greaves, 29, who was eventually diagnosed with Lyme Disease, was working outdoors near Inverness shortly before he fell ill and is now completely bed-bound.

Noah hopes the antibiotic treatment will help ease his Lyme Disease Symptoms
Noah hopes the antibiotic treatment will help ease his Lyme Disease Symptoms (Image: Sylvia Suddes)

A man has been left ‘imprisoned’ in his parents living room for four years after being bitten by a tick in the Scottish Highlands. Noah Greaves, who was eventually diagnosed with Lyme Disease, was working outdoors near Inverness shortly before he fell ill.

As his symptoms worsened, the 29-year-old eventually went to hospital where he was wrongly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. But after speaking to a specialist clinic, medics confirmed the keen outdoorsman is suffering from the bacterial infection.

Noah, who now experiences severe tremors and muscle weakness leaving him unable to walk, feed himself or even send a text message, relies on his family for care. His mum has had to retire to look after him.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Another maddening story of misdiagnosis, medical neglect, and non-answers from mainstream medicine which is content to leave its head in the sand.

A few points:

  • Like so many others, this man who worked outdoors was bitten by a tick.
  • Noah’s hands became “clawed” prohibiting him from using them at all.
  • His case is advanced and no one knows how much he can improve with treatment.
  • The “treatment” he is asking donations for (40,000 British pounds = 48,080 U.S. dollars) only lasts between 3-4 weeks, telling me all I need to know, and that this will most likely not be sufficient.  Why it costs this much for a month of treatment is beyond me unless he’s going to the St. George Lyme clinic in Germany which uses hyperthermia and antibiotics (which is not curative but has helped many).  Notice the clinic treats “acute” stage Lyme and states plainly on their website that after six months antibiotics don`t work anymore and even prolonged treatments useless.  I disagree with this entirely.  My husband and I and many others have achieved our health back after prolonged, judicial use of antibiotics and many other modalities, making sure to address all coinfections.
  • The article then goes on to regurgitate the same old crap about a rash, which many don’t get at all, as well as flu-like symptoms, headache, joint pain, and fatigue.  It’s become so predictable, yet so wrong,  I could personally write the script.

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Out With The Old In With the New: Sweden Throws Away 8.5M Doses of COVID Shots But WHO Still In Business With Warburg Virus & H1N1

February 15, 2023

https://petersweden.substack.com/p/throwing-away-doses

Sweden THROWS AWAY 8.5 million doses of covid vaccines

People don’t want this anymore.

Peter Imanuelsen
Feb. 13, 2023

Finally we have some good news, this time coming out of my home country of Sweden.

Just a few weeks after a massive conference in Stockholm where top doctors warned about the dangers of the mRNA shots, news is coming out that Sweden has thrown away almost 8.5 million doses of the covid shots.

That means that around 1/5th of all covid vaccines Sweden bought has been destroyed. The cost to the taxpayer of buying in these shots only to be thrown away was a whopping $144 million. That is money that went straight down the drain because the state bought something that people do not want.

And they even admit that the reason they have been forced to throw away all these doses is because people do not want them anymore. The people are sick and tired of these garbage and dangerous shots.  (See link for article)

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hopes-test-marburg-virus-vaccine-equatorial-guinea-outbreak-rcna70595

WHO hopes to test an experimental Marburg virus vaccine amid an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea

The World Health Organization convened an urgent meeting to evaluate vaccine candidates after nine deaths and 16 suspected cases were reported.
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Marburg virus particles (blue) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (yellow).

Marburg virus particles (blue) both budding and attached to the surface of infected cells (yellow).Image Point FR / NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

By Aria Bendix
Article Excerpts:

The World Health Organization hopes to test an experimental Marburg vaccine in Equatorial Guinea, which announced its first outbreak of the virus Monday.

Nine deaths have been confirmed, while 16 suspected patients are in quarantine. Health officials are also monitoring 15 asymptomatic close contacts of infected people.

On Tuesday, the WHO convened an urgent meeting to evaluate several possible vaccine candidates that could be administered during the outbreak. The meeting brought together a consortium of vaccine developers, researchers and government officials — a group the WHO created in 2021 to advance a Marburg vaccine.

Past outbreaks, mostly in Africa, have had death rates of 24% to 88%, depending on the virus strain and the strength of efforts to control transmission.

(See link for article)

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Vaccines Are “In.” Treatments Are So Pre-2020.

Important excerpts:

“….some at the meeting pointed out that there may not be enough cases in this outbreak to properly evaluate a vaccine.”

“If you look at the past history of Marburg outbreaks, they’re generally quite small, and the interventions that have been put in place have limited their size,” said John Edmunds, an epidemiology professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Somehow, I don’t think these little factoids will matter.

Worth pondering:

Some oral Poliovirus vaccines were contaminated with infectious simian virus 40 present in monkey kidney cells USED TO GROW the vaccine.  One of the many animal-derived ingredients used in vaccines and openly admitted by the CDC is African Green Monkey kidney cells.

Where does the Marburg virus originate from? Fruit bats, but the first ever patient group it was detected in had been exposed to African green monkeys.

I’m sure this is all purely coincidental.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11736753/US-test-avian-flu-shot-poultry-counter-record-outbreak

Vaccine mandates could be back… for CHICKENS: US will test first avian flu shot on poultry in years to counter record outbreak

  • Scientists will begin testing the first vaccines for birds in years amid 58mn dead
  • The avian flu is common in wild birds but most of the birds affected are domestic
  • Testing the vaccine in birds across the US is a massive undertaking for the USDA

By CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

UPDATED:

US health officials are gearing up to test a vaccine for poultry to combat the worst bird flu crisis on record — which is raising fears about human spillover.

The Department of Agriculture is involved in developing an updated shot and hopes to start trialing it soon, though it has not offered a timeline. The actual testing process, one it begins, would take at least three months.

While animal vaccines can take years to be licensed parts of the process can be accelerated in emergency cases.

Concerns about the avian flu strain currently circulating have risen in recent weeks after it became evident that it spread from birds to several mammals, including otters and foxes.

Excerpt:

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine for example are working on an avian flu vaccine that uses tiny particles even smaller than the width of a human hair to deliver immunity by sending pathogen-like signals to cells.

If an updated shot proves effective, that would open the door to USDA approval followed by a thorough vaccination campaign that seeks to reach the affected commercial poultry industry.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

All I’m saying is that there is a long gravy-train of vaccines in the works now that it is widely known that the COVID shots are worse than worthless.  They not only potentially change your genetic DNA, they are outright killing people.  Corrupt public health ‘authorities’ now feel the sharks circling in the water and are attempting to distance themselves, hoping we will all simply forget what they did to us for the past 3 years.

Nope.  Ain’t gonna happen.

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In truth, one month before the H1N1 “pandemic,” the WHO declared H1N1 a Level-6 “pandemic” based on 20 cases.  It also changed the definition of “Level-6 Pandemic” so that severe destruction and widespread human death were no longer required. The origins of H1N1 were found in an industrial pig farm in Mexico where there was pig feces all over the property.  When workers became ill, unknown chemicals were sprayed causing more workers to become ill. People were diagnosed similarly to how people are being diagnosed with COVID – by either “eyeballing sick people with ‘flu symptoms’” and automatically claiming Swine Flu was the cause, OR by PCR.

BTW: they’ve played the same games with Zika.

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