Molecular Detection of Bartonellosis

March 1, 2023

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/3/22-1223_article

Bartonella spp. Infections Identified by Molecular Methods, United States

David W. McCormick, Sara L. Rassoulian-Barrett, Daniel R. Hoogestraat, Stephen J. Salipante, Dhruba SenGupta, Elizabeth A. Dietrich, Brad T. Cookson, Grace E. Marx1Comments to Author , and Joshua A. Lieberman1
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (D.W. McCormick, E.A. Dietrich, G.E. Marx); University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (S.L. Rassoulian-Barrett, D.R. Hoogestraat, S.J. Salipante, D. SenGupta, B.T. Cookson, J.A. Lieberman)
March, 2023

Abstract

Molecular methods can enable rapid identification of Bartonella spp. infections, which are difficult to diagnose by using culture or serology. We analyzed clinical test results of PCR that targeted bacterial 16S rRNA hypervariable V1–V2 regions only or in parallel with PCR of Bartonella-specific ribC gene. We identified 430 clinical specimens infected with Bartonella spp. from 420 patients in the United States. Median patient age was 37 (range 1–79) years; 62% were male.

We identified:

  • B. henselae in 77%
  • B. quintana in 13%
  • B. clarridgeiae in 1%
  • B. vinsonii in 1%
  • B. washoensis in 1% of specimens
  • B. quintana was detected in 83% of cardiac specimens
  • B. henselae was detected in 34% of lymph node specimens

We detected novel or uncommon Bartonella spp. in 9 patients. Molecular diagnostic testing can identify Bartonella spp. infections, including uncommon and undescribed species, and might be particularly useful for patients who have culture-negative endocarditis or lymphadenitis.

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Currently, 12 species of Bartonella genus are associated with human infection, but that number is constantly changing. Because Bartonella spp. infections are not nationally notifiable diseases, there is limited knowledge of the epidemiology of this disease in the US.  In my experience it is prolific.

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Study Examines Persistent Powassan in Mice

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03606-22

Of Murines and Humans: Modeling Persistent Powassan Disease in C57BL/6 Mice

Authors: Stacey L. P. Scroggs, Danielle K. Offerdahl, Philip E. Stewart, Carl Shaia, Amanda J. Griffin, Marshall E. Bloommarshall.bloom@nih.gov
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03606-22
Feb. 21, 2021
ABSTRACT
Powassan infection is caused by two closely related, tick-transmitted viruses of the genus Flavivirus (family Flaviviridae): Powassan virus lineage I (POWV) and lineage II (known as deer tick virus [DTV]). Infection is typically asymptomatic or mild but can progress to neuroinvasive disease. Approximately 10% of neuroinvasive cases are fatal, and half of the survivors experience long-term neurological sequelae. Understanding how these viruses cause long-term symptoms as well as the possible role of viral persistence is important for developing therapies.
We intraperitoneally inoculated 6-week-old C57BL/6 mice (50% female) with 103 focus-forming units (FFU) DTV and assayed for infectious virus, viral RNA, and inflammation during acute infection and 21, 56, and 84 days postinfection (dpi). Although most mice (86%) were viremic 3 dpi, only 21% of the mice were symptomatic and 83% recovered. Infectious virus was detected only in the brains of mice sampled during the acute infection. Viral RNA was detected in the brain until 84 dpi, but the magnitude decreased over time. Meningitis and encephalitis were visible in acute mice and from mice sampled at 21 dpi. Inflammation was observed until 56 dpi in the brain and 84 dpi in the spinal cord, albeit at low levels.
These results suggest that the long-term neurological symptoms associated with Powassan disease are likely caused by lingering viral RNA and chronic inflammation in the central nervous system rather than by a persistent, active viral infection. The C57BL/6 model of persistent Powassan mimics illness in humans and can be used to study the mechanisms of chronic disease.
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5G Can Make Healthy People Sick: Two Case Reports

February 28, 2023

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/5g-cell-towers-microwave-syndrome

5G Towers Can Make Healthy People Sick, Two Case Reports Show

A new case report on two previously healthy men who developed “microwave syndrome” symptoms after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office, and a similar report published last month, show that non-ionizing 5G radiation can cause health problems in people with no prior history of electromagnetic sensitivity.

5g cell towers microwave syndrome feature

A new case report shows that two previously healthy men rapidly developed typical “microwave syndrome” symptoms shortly after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office.

According to the report, published Feb. 4 in the Annals of Clinical Case Reports, the men experienced headaches, joint pain, tinnitus, abnormal fatigue, sleep disturbances, burning skin, anxiety and trouble concentrating.

The findings match the results of a similar case report published last month in the same journal — that appeared earlier in the Swedish journal Medicinsk Access — showing a previously healthy man and woman developed similar microwave syndrome symptoms soon after a 5G tower was installed on top of their apartment. (See link for article)

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http://  Approx. 6 Min

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Please note how these symptoms mimic Lyme/MSIDS, further complicating the ability to get an accurate diagnosis.

Case Report here

Second Cast Report here

Important excerpts:

Hardell told The Defender the two case studies are likely just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to 5G’s impact on people’s health.

Because research on the health effects of exposure to 5G is lacking, Hardell said, we don’t know how many people get sick from 5G.

Mona Nilsson — managing director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation and co-author of the case reports — said it was a “great scandal” that “5G has been rolled out for several years now in Sweden and in the U.S. without any study at all being performed about the health effects.”

Also important to note: after the 5G tower was installed, the two residents developed acute symptoms causing them to move out.  The symptoms quickly decreased or disappeared altogether after they moved to a building with lower radiation levels.

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Doctors Apologizing for Their Profession Which Refuses to Listen To Patients & Kills 15,000 Medicare Patients a Month

https://rumble.com/v29zr34-california-physician-says-he-has-treated-hundreds-of-covid-vaccine-related-.html  Video Here (Approx. 4 Min)

Dr. Michael Huang:

“I have to apologize on behalf of my profession, physicians have really fallen on our face. They have refused to listen to patients when they come in with vaccine injury symptoms.”

“Governments should let doctors practice medicine.”

Dr. Huang states the health alert put out by the Florida Surgeon General stating there’s been a 1,700% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the COVID gene therapy injections, compared to an increase of 400% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period is true. The reporting of life-threatening conditions increased over 4,400%. This is a novel increase and was not seen during the 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign which was stopped after only a few deaths were reported after  vaccine administration, which was linked to narcolepsy, brain damage, and other side-effects.

Huang states there should be no “vaccine” mandates and they shouldn’t even be available to people any longer.

https://brightlightnews.com/the-house-of-medicine-is-corrupt-peter-mccullough/

The House Of Medicine Is Corrupt – Dr. Peter McCullough, MD

By / February 17, 2023

Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, is one of the few doctors in the world today who remains loyal to the scientific paradigm of objective observation of reproducible results. And for his strict adherence to science, a now co-opted term trademarked by Big Pharma and bought govts and institutions around the world, Dr. McCullough is paying the price and discovering a lot more than he bargained for in the corrupt house that is medicine.

Dr. McCullough’s data-driven and ethical journey into the very medical system where he is one of the most cited and credentialed physicians has now led him down the path of mainstream infamy for questioning the Covid and mRNA vaccine narrative. Critically and a testament to his ability to doff the indoctrination that is the allopathic medical system, Dr. McCullough is now investigating all vaccines.  (Go to link for hear 20 min interview)

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Dr. Peter Glidden states that the third leading cause of death in the USA is MD directed treatments.

  • According to Journal of the American Medical Association, MD directed treatments are the 3rd leading cause of death.
  • According to HHS, 15,000 Medicare patients a month are killed by MD treatment.
  • The medical profession in the early 1900’s was a relatively level playing field between chiropractors, osteopaths, homeopaths, and the MDs, but from 1915-1920 the Carnegie Corporation funded Abraham Flexner to go around the country to take an inventory of all the medical schools that prescribed drugs, creating the Flexner Report. The Carnegies and the Rockefellers then gave millions of dollars to these medical schools and hospitals, which put them in the driver’s seat not because of effectiveness, but because of political and financial coalitions. The playing field has never been the same since.
    • In 1975 a whistleblower exposed how the American Medical Association (AMA) conspired to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession.
    • A powerful private, nonprofit mob called the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) controls the AMA and state medical boards, which exerts its influence through lobbying to censor and punish doctors who don’t toe the official party line or “medical consensus.”  Lyme literate doctors continue to be persecuted for this very reason.
    • The AMA, FDA, and FSMB vilify anything they deem competition such as homeopathy, naturopaths, compounding pharmacies, herbalists, and particularly anything that defies “medical consensus.”
    • Until this monopoly ends, patients will never get the help they need and thinking doctors will be persecuted.

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https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-premature-use-of-mechanical-ventilation?

The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation In The First Wave Of The Covid Pandemic

The widespread and unprecedented initiation of mechanical ventilation early in the hospital course of Covid patients caused great harm. I am proud that I was able to block the practice at UW.

Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

I would say that in all the Covid “rabbit holes” I have gone down, each one then led to me entering an often public “science battle,” only some of which I have “won.” But I did win a few, none more successful than when I immediately shut down the shocking and rapidly spreading obsessive practice by ER and ICU doctors with putting Covid patients on ventilators “early.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Kory, chief of the Critical Care Service and Medical Director of the Trauma Life Support Center at the UW ICU was known as a “vent geek” and long taught the management of acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation to med students, residents, and fellows.  Let’s just say, if anyone is qualified to speak about ventilation, it’s Dr. Kory.
  • Kory is an expert in understanding the optimal timing to put a patient on mechanical ventilation.
  • Similarly, knowing when to intubate someone is also tricky because if a supportive airway isn’t established quickly a patient can go into cardiac arrest.
  • Kory detected early on that doctors advocating for early intubation could spell disaster if the practice became standard.
  • Kory argued rather than setting arbitrary oxygen requirement limits for intubation, it should be based on an assessment of the patient’s “work of breathing” and their ability to sustain that work of breathing.
  • Kory feels that the choice to set arbitrary limits led to the widespread need for additional ICU rooms as well as ventilator shortages.
  • Once doctors gained more experience, they began using heated high flow oxygen devices that saved many lives. Ironically, it was originally developed for use in racehorses and has only been used in humans since 1999.  Notice that the FDA didn’t single this out and call it a horse oxygen device and prohibit it for humans – like they did for ivermectin.

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Speaking of arbitrary limits, as well as faulty testing, Lyme/MSIDS have fought these things as well:

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New Bill Introduced Requiring Senate Approval For WHO Takeover & Who Owns The WHO?

“No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval” Bill

The bill, introduced by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, is in response to the Biden Administration’s negotiations to give WHO authority over US pandemic policies.  The bill would prevent the President from handing the WHO absolute authority over pandemics without a supermajority vote in the Senate.

“The WHO, along with our federal health agencies, failed miserably in their response to COVID-19. This failure should not be rewarded with a new international treaty that would increase the WHO’s power at the expense of American sovereignty,” said Senator Johnson. “I’m proud to reintroduce this legislation to hold the WHO accountable for their failures and increase transparency for the American people. The sovereignty of the United States is not negotiable.”

If you are unfamiliar with the pandemic treaty, please educate yourself to learn &  then contact your representatives to protect doctor and patient choice or you will be bound by this international treaty:
  • the agreement calls for “One Health Surveillance,” (also embraced by the UN, CDC, World Bank, WEF, and other globalists) which now includes all human activities and includes all the popular buzz words: climate, racism, carbon emissions, etc. The definition of this little ditty will be pounded out in the future but member states are required to invest, implement, and strengthen it.
  • member states agree to support the official narrative and will counteract ‘misinformation.’
  • the agreement redefines sovereignty and human rights from individual rights to collective rights as can be seen in countries like Austria who criminalized the refusal to take the COVID shot, and states like NY that mandated “vaccine” passports, segregating residents into a privileged class and a second-tier unvaccinated class.
  • despite admission from the WHO’s Independent Panel on the “toxic cocktail” of bad decisions regarding the COVID pandemic made by the WHO, their answer is greater centralization, more power, and more money to the corrupt WHO.
  • zero draft would require nations to monitor and regulate against “substandard and falsified pandemic–related products,” which simply means they tell doctors what they can use. Period. 
  • Under the banner of “equity,”everyone in the world gets vaccinated, whether or not you need it, whether or not you’re already immune, because the WHO quietly changed the definition of “herd immunity” to now only be acquired through “vaccination,” rewriting hundreds of years of scientific understanding to push lucrative injections.
  • the zero draft grants the WHO the power to declare and manage a global pandemic emergency. Once a health emergency is declared, all signatories, including the United States, would submit to the authority of the WHO regarding treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations.
  • all of this gives the WHO their long sought after highly restrictive centralized, vaccine and medication-based response to control populations.
  • the zero draft is part of a two-track effort with an initiative by the World Health Assembly to create new global pandemic regulations that would supersede the laws of member states.
  • there’s a clause in the draft to make it legally binding without being ratified by legislatures, which simply means :

“Whoever drafted this clause knew as much about U.S. constitutional law and international law as I did, and deliberately drafted it to circumvent the power of the Senate to give its advice and consent to treaties, to provisionally bring it into force immediately upon signature,” Boyle said. In addition, “the Biden administration will take the position that this is an international executive agreement that the president can conclude of his own accord without approval by Congress and is binding on the United States of America, including all state and local democratically elected officials, governors, attorney generals, and health officials.” ~ Dr. Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law

As with all things that are important, one must drill down to find OZ behind the curtain.

https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/who-owns-the-world-health-organization-and-their-plan-to-vaccinate-and-digitally-track-every-human-being-on-the-planet/

Who Owns the World Health Organization and Their Plan to Vaccinate and Digitally Track Every Human Being on the Planet?

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Feb. 24, 2023

It has been widely reported in the Alternative Media this past week that the World Health Organization (WHO) is drafting a new “Pandemic Agreement” that would turn over all future pandemic responses to the WHO and would be legally binding worldwide.

The New American (among others) covered this with two articles this week:

U.S. to Negotiate Accord to Transfer Pandemic Management to WHO
WHO Calls for Global Surveillance to Ensure No One Escapes Vaccination (apparently they removed this article from their site??)

The WHO, however, is simply a puppet organization that is funded by Globalist Billionaires, so let’s put some faces to this organization and reveal who is really behind this effort to vaccinate every single person on the planet, and then track everyone via digital IDs.

It is commonly reported in the media that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest contributors to the WHO, second only to the United States, and outspending all other nations of the world.

But this is not entirely correct. The actual truth is that Bill Gates, along with the organizations he controls, is, by far, the LARGEST contributor to the WHO.  (See link for article)

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A few points:

  • The WHO budget for 2022-2023 has been set at $6.12 billion, but the WHO’s actual revenue and expenditures can deviate from the budgeted amount, such as when additional resources are received and directed in response to health emergencies, including COVID-19. (Source.)
  • GAVI took in over $8.8 billion of revenue from 2016 to 2020, and the budget for 2021 to 2025 is over $21.4 billion, of which $9.75 billion is for COVAX AMC, the COVID-19 Vaccines Advance Market Commitment. (Source.)  GAVI actually brings in more revenue for vaccines than the entire WHO budget. To see a list of donors, which includes both the private sector and national governments, go here.
  • Warren Buffett took Bill Gates under his tutelage and educated him on philanthropy using the Rockefeller Foundation as a guide, and the Carnegie “gospel of wealth” philosophy. According to their beliefs, “global health” and education are the means to effect change in society. Global health is defined as focusing on vaccines, family planning, “reproductive rights,” and population control. They then appealed to other billionaires around the world to join them in The Giving Pledge.
  • Here is an 8-minute video that Spiro Skouras produced in March of 2020, just as the COVID scam was being introduced, about what Bill Gates’ plans were in regards to the “the new digital financial system” and the “international surveillance state.”  This plan has been in the work for years now, and everything that Spiro discussed in this video from 2020 is exactly what the WHO is now planning, except that Spiro attributed it to Bill Gates, not the WHO.
And that’s because they are one and the same.
So who owns and controls the WHO? Bill Gates and his billionaire friends.

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