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Patient Contracts Babesia From a Blood Donor: Only 14 States Test For It

January 27, 2023

https://danielcameronmd.com/patient-contracts-babesia-blood-donor/

PATIENT CONTRACTS BABESIA FROM A BLOOD DONOR

Babesia is most commonly transmitted through a tick bite but it can also be transmitted through a blood transfusion. To minimize the risk to the public, blood banks now screen donors for Babesia in endemic states.

By Dr. Daniel Cameron

In their article “Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a patient with sickle cell disease undergoing chronic red cell exchange,” Costa and colleagues describe a patient who contracted Babesia from a donor living in Ohio, a state that is not considered endemic for Babesia.¹

According to the authors, a 30-year-old man with sickle cell disease (SCD) required approximately 10 units of red blood cells every 3–4 weeks throughout his childhood.

Approximately 2 months after a red blood cell exchange, he presented with fever, neck pain, and photophobia. Several days later, he developed a persistent fever, chills, headache, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

He was diagnosed with Babesia through identification of parasites in his red blood cells and positive antibodies. He was also borderline positive on an antibody test for Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

“Prior to laboratory-based blood donor screening for Babesia, transfusion-transmitted babesiosis (TTB) was a leading infectious risk to the blood supply in the United States.”

The young man was treated for Babesia with azithromycin and atovaquone for 10 days with resolution of his symptoms. He was not treated for Anaplasma phagocytophilum or Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

The patient lived in a state endemic for Babesia but did not recall a tick bite.

“A donor lookback investigation was initiated with the blood supplier,” the authors wrote. They found that in the preceding 6 months, the patient had received 65 units of blood, with 58 units screened for Babesia.

Unfortunately, “One of the donors of the 7 untested units was B. microti seropositive,” the authors wrote. The donor lived in a state not requiring Babesia screening.

“Our case demonstrates the continued vulnerability of the US blood supply to Babesia.”

“The seropositive donor had not had any symptoms of babesiosis; he lived in Ohio and reported being very active over the past year, including hiking and camping in several states (Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina),” the authors wrote.

In 2019, the FDA recommended testing of blood donors for Babesia in the 14 states where almost all cases of Babesia have been reported. “The policy confined to 14 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin),” wrote the authors.

Authors Conclude:

“Heightened awareness and health care provider education are imperative, especially in non-endemic [states] where clinicians may not be accustomed to diagnosing community-acquired or TTB, placing transfusion recipients at risk of delayed diagnosis and severe disease.

References:

Costa V, Mercure-Corriveau N, Gourneau J, et al. Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a patient with sickle cell disease undergoing chronic red cell exchange. Transfusion. Jan 13 2023;doi:10.1111/trf.17244

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**Comment**

Once again, the madness of limiting potential infection to certain geographical areas despite the ability of people, animals, and bugs to move around is completely asinine. Yet, here we are – still in the madness.

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Heavily Criticized CDC Bounces Back & States Updated Boosters Cut Risk of COVID By Half ~ With No Clinical Trials

January 26, 2023

The CDC deserves street cred for being able to spin a horrifically deplorable situation into a positive, despite being one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet. Not willing to let criticism to get her down, Walensky informed staff of an internal “reorganization,” “merging their responsibilities,” and the creation of new offices, including the Office of Health Equity and the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology. All of which are buzz-words, including sustainable development: 21252030 Agenda for Sustainable Development web, created by unelected leaders in the WEF, WHO, and the UN – all of which will cost the taxpayers more money.

To make the CDC’s job easier and to avoid all that nasty criticism, the Biden admin and Big Tech are adapting military-grade AI to silence those nasty conspiracy theorists from spreading ‘misinformation’ about clot shot side effects.

Oh, and the Center for Preparedness and Response will now be renamed the Office of Readiness and Response.

I’m sure that will fix everything.

But, the CDC doesn’t have the corner on spin. Desperate to keep control in Canada, where over 90 doctors (required to get the jab to keep their job) have died suddenly and unexpectedly, a new report blames “vaccine hesitancy” and “COVD conspiracies” for thousands of deaths as well as the high cost of health care. This is the same place that is encouraging doctors to consider psychiatric drugs for those who don’t want the jab. COVID rule lunacy and blaming the unvaccinated for everything under the sun including adverse events after the jab continues to rule the day due to pure propaganda. Even Bill Gates predicted COVID shot adverse reactions will claim 700,000 victims.

There is a little bit of good news: a U.S. District Judge blocks California’s new “misinformation” law that would have allowed state regulators to discipline doctors who spread ‘misinformation’ about COVID due to being “unconstitutionally vague.” Unfortunately the UN, which is unhampered by the Constitution, is utilizing social media platforms to criminalize spreading ‘misinformation.” The CCP has submitted proposals criminalizing information that results in “social disorder.” The UN, the WHO, and other globalist organizations can override the sovereignty of countries by pushing governments to adopt specific policies about what constitutes “criminal” information shared by citizens. This appears to be their goal. And this, my friends, is how you take down nations.

Read on for more spin…..

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/health/bivalent-boosters-covid-xbb-protection/index.html

Updated boosters are cutting the risk of getting sick from Covid-19 by about half

The updated Covid-19 boosters are cutting the risk that a person will get sick from the coronavirus by about half, even against infections caused by the rapidly spreading XBB.1.5 subvariant.

New studies, conducted by researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are among the first looks at how the bivalent boosters have continued to work in the real world as the virus has evolved. The data shows that the boosters are continuing to offer substantial protection against currently circulating variants. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

There are NO clinical trials of the bivalent booster. NONE.

The CDC, which lives in a parallel universe, collected data from pharmacies. These pharmacies use the fraudulent COVID tests the CDC has the monopoly on, and found that 47% of those that tested positive had not been vaccinated or boosted. But, since they were tested incidentally it does not mean that they were sick or even had symptoms. It only means there was some virus present. Please remember that the FDA used the statistical trick of lowering the standard 50% threshold for blocking symptomatic infection to make the “vaccines” appear to work to begin with. Since then, efficacy has dropped to less than zero against recent variants, and the FDA only required later studies to show antibody levels, which are short-term, unreliable measures of immunity – again, to give the appearance the shots work at all. Then, despite a six month followup on the Pfizer jabbed, showing a 46% increase in mortality compared to placebo group, the authors concluded:

“Through 6 months of follow-up and despite a gradual decline in vaccine efficacy, BNT162b2 had a favorable safety profile“.

and then

“BNT162b2 continued to be safe and have an acceptable adverse-event profile.”

Huh?

The FDA also allowed Moderna to omit important data suggesting the updated booster might not be any more effective at preventing infection than the original shots, which rightly has spooked members of the COVID “vaccine” committee. For all intents and purposes it appears the committee is purely for appearance only.

Only the corrupt CDC & FDA could conclude boosters cut the risk of illness – by using nothing but smoke and mirrors.

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Pfizer Exposed Exploring “Mutating” COVID For ‘Vaccines” Via ‘Directed Evolution’ in Living Monkeys

**UPDATE**

Intelligence Analyst Brian O’Shea recently did this article on Jordon Rishton Walker, the “doctor” in the Verita’s video: https://brianoshea.substack.com/p/who-is-jordon-trishton-walker? O’Shea admitted that finding anything out about him was tough. In the comment section, a writer for Brownstone (Debbie Lerman) states that there are inconsistencies and a strangeness about the information, including that it all might very well be fake.

https://rumble.com/v274lsi-pfizer-exposed-for-exploring-mutating-covid-19-virus-for-new-vaccines-via-d.html Video Here (Approx. 10 Min)

Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a Pfizer executive, Jordon Trishton Walker, who claims that Pfizer is exploring a way to “mutate” COVID via “Directed Evolution” to preempt the development of future vaccines.

Walker says that Directed Evolution is different than Gain-of-Function, which is defined as “a mutation that confers new or enhanced activity on a protein.” In other words, it means that a virus such as COVID can become more potent depending on the mutation / scientific experiment performed on it.

The Pfizer executive told a Veritas journalist about his company’s plan for COVID vaccines, while acknowledging that people would not like this information if it went public.

“One of the things we [Pfizer] are exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses,” Walker said.

“From what I’ve heard is they [Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it [COVID mutation process], but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious — obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. I think they are also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations,” he said.

“Don’t tell anyone. Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them.”

Walker drew parallels between this current Pfizer project and what may have happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

“You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus [COVID] that you mutate doesn’t create something that just goes everywhere. Which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It’s bullsh*t,” he said.

“You’re not supposed to do Gain-of-Function research with viruses. Regularly not. We can do these selected structure mutations to make them more potent. There is research ongoing about that. I don’t know how that is going to work. There better not be any more outbreaks because Jesus Christ,” he said.

Walker also told the Veritas journalist that COVID has been instrumental for Pfizer’s recent business success:

Walker: Part of what they [Pfizer scientists] want to do is, to some extent, to try to figure out, you know, how there are all these new strains and variants that just pop up. So, it’s like trying to catch them before they pop up and we can develop a vaccine prophylactically, like, for new variants. So, that’s why they like, do it controlled in a lab, where they say this is a new epitope, and so if it comes out later on in the public, we already have a vaccine working.

Veritas Journalist: Oh my God. That’s perfect. Isn’t that the best business model though? Just control nature before nature even happens itself? Right?

Walker: Yeah. If it works.

Veritas Journalist: What do you mean if it works?

Walker: Because some of the times there are mutations that pop up that we are not prepared for. Like with Delta and Omicron. And things like that. Who knows? Either way, it’s going to be a cash cow. COVID is going to be a cash cow for us for a while going forward. Like obviously.

Veritas Journalist: Well, I think the whole research of the viruses and mutating it, like, would be the ultimate cash cow.

Walker: Yeah, it’d be perfect.

Walker went on to explain how Big Pharma and government officials, such as at the Food & Drug Administration [FDA], have mutual interests, and how that is not in the best interest of the American people:

Walker: [Big Pharma] is a revolving door for all government officials.

Veritas Journalist: Wow.

Walker: In any industry though. So, in the pharma industry, all the people who review our drugs — eventually most of them will come work for pharma companies. And in the military, defense government officials eventually work for defense companies afterwards.

…

Veritas Journalist: How do you feel about that revolving door?

Walker: It’s pretty good for the industry to be honest. It’s bad for everybody else in America.

Veritas Journalist: Why is it bad for everybody else?

Walker: Because when the regulators reviewing our drugs know that once they stop regulating, they are going to work for the company, they are not going to be as hard towards the company that’s going to give them a job.

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**Comment**

Dr Robert Malone says this is ‘gain of function.’ No question. Ongoing serial passage leading to a little “directed evolution” is ‘gain of function.’

“Pfizer has completed regulatory capture. Is quite proud of it.” ~ Dr. Robert Malone

The corruption is prolific and seemingly everywhere.

Bring back the moratorium on gain of function research (serial passage, directed evolution, or any other made up euphemism).

Meanwhile in Boston, researchers have created a new version of the virus, combining the spike protein that studs the surface of omicron with the backbone of the ancestral strain yielding a “chimeric” virus only a little less deadly than the Wuhan strain, which killed 80% of the lab mice rather than 100%, but it’s still deadlier in the mice than omicron.

Mother Nature “is not being coy with us. She’s telling us exactly what she’s going to do. She says, ‘I’m hurling another coronavirus epidemic at you every 7 to 10 years. Mother Nature is the most advanced, sophisticated weaponeer ever invented.’” ~ Peter Hotez, vaccinologist at Baylor College of Medicine

I, for one, would rather take my chance with Mother Nature.

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Lyme Disease Misinformation Has Physicians Searching For Guidance Part 3

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/31256356

Lyme disease misinformation has physicians searching for guidance (Part 3)

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

JAN 25, 2023 —

This petition update is a continuation of the attempts to alert Dr. Arnold Chen, Senior Researcher at Mathematica that the CDC (Grace Marx, MD, MPH) is deliberately misrepresenting Lyme disease which will lead to inappropriate guidance for the medical community.

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “achen@mathematica-mpr.com” <achen@mathematica-mpr.com>, “info@mathematica-mpr.com” <info@mathematica-mpr.com>, “pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com” <pdecker@mathematica-mpr.com>
Cc: “lwx1@cdc.gov” <lwx1@cdc.gov>, “frederick.chen@ama-assn.org” <frederick.chen@ama-assn.org>, “gmarx@cdc.gov” <gmarx@cdc.gov>, “acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com” <acoyne@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com” <jconstantine@mathematica-mpr.com>, “ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com” <ctrenholm@mathematica-mpr.com>, “tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com” <tbarnes@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com” <sboudreau@mathematica-mpr.com>, “jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com” <jdevallance@mathematica-mpr.com>, “sara.berg@ama-assn.org” <sara.berg@ama-assn.org>
Date: 01/24/2023 8:29 AM
Subject: Fwd: Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians -Grace Marx, MD, MPH

Mathematica
Princeton, NJ
Attn: Arnold Chen, Senior Researcher
Dear Dr. Chen,

Please see the email below dated one day before Dr. Marx presented her Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Webinar on May 20, 2021.

There are 9 important facts about Lyme disease missing from Dr. Marx’s presentation and I assume these facts will also be missing from the upcoming guidance created by Mathematica
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Email to Grace Marx, MD, MPH:

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “lwx1@cdc.gov” <lwx1@cdc.gov>, “coca@cdc.gov” <coca@cdc.gov>
Cc: Lynn Durand <ldurand@crhc.org>, Tricia Aiston <tricia@aiston.net>, “Dr. Frank Hubbell” <bearhubbell@aol.com>, Mary Mayville <mj4ok@aol.com>, “Dr. Rex Carr” <rcarrmd@comcast.net>, “benjamin.chan@dhhs.nh.gov” <benjamin.chan@dhhs.nh.gov>, “apara.dave@nhms.org Apara” <ApDave@ehr.org>, Charles McMahon <cmcmahon55@gmail.com>, William Marsh <wmarshmd@gmail.com>, Kathie Fife <kathie@kathiefife.com>, Christina Dyer <Christina.Dyer@leg.state.nh.us>, Jeb Bradley <Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us>, Mary Freitas <Mary.Freitas@leg.state.nh.us>, Tom Sherman <Tom.Sherman@leg.state.nh.us>, Jeb Bradley <jebebrad@metrocast.net>, Michelle Wagner <mwagner@naminh.org>, “yzhang@jhsph.edu” <yzhang@jhsph.edu>, “jc.salloway@unh.edu” <jc.salloway@unh.edu>, “barbarabuchman@ilads.org” <barbarabuchman@ilads.org>, “dandmhamp38@gmail.com” <dandmhamp38@gmail.com>, “killinger888@comcast.net” <killinger888@comcast.net>, “drhegnauer@h2health.org” <drhegnauer@h2health.org>, “Gary.Woods@leg.state.nh.us” <Gary.Woods@leg.state.nh.us>, “chris.smith@mail.house.gov” <chris.smith@mail.house.gov>, “Sununu.Press@nh.gov” <Sununu.Press@nh.gov>, “alexa011@mc.duke.edu” <alexa011@mc.duke.edu>, “governorsununu@nh.gov” <governorsununu@nh.gov>
Date: 05/19/2021 1:20 PM
Subject: Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians

Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2021/callinfo_052021.asp

During this COCA Call, presenters will review updates in Lyme disease epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention and share new educational tools for both healthcare providers and their patients.

“Planners have reviewed content to ensure there is no bias.”

May 19, 2021

Grace Marx, MD, MPH
LCDR, U.S. Public Health Service
Medical Epidemiologist, Bacterial Diseases Branch
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dear Dr. Marx,

As a member of the New Hampshire Lyme Disease Study Commission appointed by Governor Chris Sununu, I have some concerns/questions regarding your upcoming presentation.

If there is to be no “bias” in your presentation does that mean that the CDC will finally recognize persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment? Please take a moment to read my letter to the editor published in the BMJ as I have identified seven documented cases of treatment failure; there are actually hundreds.

Letter to the editor of the BMJ

Lyme borreliosis: diagnosis and management
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

Dr. Marx… will you be sharing the following facts/references with the intended audience?

It takes 4-6 weeks for humans to fully develop both IgM and IgG antibodies to Lyme disease in order to produce a positive Western blot test result. [1]
Treatment delay of over thirty days often leads to Chronic Lyme Disease. [2]
Bulls-eye rash has been recorded in less than 50% as reported by the State of Maine Department of Health. [3]
Seronegative disease has been identified [4] (no antibody production to infection producing a false negative lab result)
You can become horribly disabled or die [5] from Lyme disease and routinely denied Social Security Disability Compensation.
35% of acute Lyme disease patients (21out of 63) who were treated with the IDSA’s short course of antibiotics were found to meet the case definition of “Post Lyme Disease Syndrome” at six months. (Johns Hopkins) [6]
Single dose Doxycycline after tick bite as prophylaxis against Lyme disease failed 80% of the time in the mouse model so why would this be recommended in humans? [7]
There are hundreds of references to failed treatment of the one-size-fits-all IDSA Lyme treatment guideline. [8]
Congenital transmission of Lyme disease has been identified dating back to 1985 [9]

I want to make this perfectly clear Dr. Marx; The current dogma propagated for the last thirty years has misguided an entire medical community and misclassified Lyme as a simple nuisance disease; “hard to catch and easily treated.” [10] Take a moment and read the public comments from the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group website and you’ll see that we have a public health crisis on our hands with hundreds of thousands (if not millions worldwide) left in a debilitated state. The deliberate bias against persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment is 100% responsible for this unimaginable pain and suffering.

Will your presentation continue on this path of deception and omit the facts/references I have provided?
A response to this inquiry is requested. Please hit reply-all.

Respectfully Submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: All members of the NH Lyme Study Commission
Governor Chris Sununu

When “evidence-based medicine” has been spun to fit bias agendas and the patient voice has been intentionally ignored who investigates the dishonest science? -Carl Tuttle

References: Please read them!

1. Notice to Readers Recommendations for Test Performance and Interpretation from the Second National Conference on Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00038469.htm

2. Treatment Delays Increase Risk of Persistent Illness in Lyme Disease
https://www.hopkinslyme.org/news/treatment-delays-increase-risk-of-persistent-illness-in-lyme-disease/

3. State of Maine Department of Health has been tracking incidence of rash and found an average of under 50% for the four years listed below:

2011 42%
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/vector-borne/lyme/documents/2011-lyme-legislature.pdf

2012 49%
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/vector-borne/lyme/documents/2012-lyme-legislature.pdf

2013 51%
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/vector-borne/lyme/documents/2013-lyme-legislature.pdf

2014 57%
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/vector-borne/lyme/documents/2014-lyme-legislature.pdf

4. Seronegativity in Lyme borreliosis and Other Spirochetal Infections 16 September 2003
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d6m45jzlhhwalu/Seronegativity.pdf?dl=0

5. Deaths From Lyme Disease Compiled by: John D. Scott, Research Scientist 17 April 2018
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo794dx7zspc1ln/Ld%20deaths.doc?dl=0

6. Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome symptomatology and the impact on life functioning: is there something here?http://www.lymemd.org/pdf/aucott_et_al_qol_research.pdf

7. A sustained-release formulation of doxycycline hyclate (Atridox) prevents simultaneous infection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by tick bite
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc0h9g9arjhc8l1/Zeidner%202008.pdf?dl=0

8. 700 articles LYME Evidence of Persistence-V2
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n09sk90eo6xz7ua/700%20articles%20LYME%20EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0

9. Congenital Transmission of Lyme
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xlju8w25phkypy0/Congenital%20Transmission%20of%20Lyme.pdf?dl=0

10. Lyme Disease Is Hard to Catch And Easy to Halt, Study Finds

New York Times By GINA KOLATA Published: June 13, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/us/lyme-disease-is-hard-to-catch-and-easy-to-halt-study-finds.html

___________________________________________________________________________

Announcement of Dr. Marx’s Presentation:

Notice from the CDC

Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (ET)

From: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention < no-reply@emailupdates.cdc.gov>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 11:15 AM
Subject: Reminder: CDC COCA Call—Thursday, May 20: Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians

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The Many Presentations of the Lyme Disease rash

https://danielcameronmd.com/many-presentations-lyme-disease-rash/

THE MANY PRESENTATIONS OF THE LYME DISEASE RASH

The general public, as well as practicing clinicians often believe that the rash indicative of Lyme disease always presents in a bull’s-eye pattern. This is not correct. In this study, investigators sought to characterize various presentations of the rash in Lyme disease patients, in an effort to assist clinicians in recognizing the broad spectrum of EM lesions.

By Dr. Daniel Cameron

In the study “The Spectrum of Erythema Migrans in Early Lyme Disease: Can We Improve Its Recognition?,” investigators examined images of lesions from 69 participants, including 43 men and 26 women, suspected to have early Lyme disease. The majority of participants (83%) presented with a single lesion.¹

The images were retrospectively evaluated by a dermatologist and a family practitioner with expertise in early Lyme disease.

The authors found that 35 lesions (51%) were erythema migrans (EM); 23 lesions (30%) were considered to be possible early EM or tick bite reactions, and 11 (16%) were thought not to be EM, but rather other diagnoses, including ringworm, allergic contact dermatitis, and mosquito bites.

“Only two lesions (6%) were observed with a classic bull’s eye or ring-within-a-ring pattern.”

EM rashes were reported most frequently to appear on the abdomen, thigh, back and hip.

Participants with an EM rash reported the following symptoms: chills, fever, night sweats, headache, fatigue, body aches, nausea and neuralgia.

Most EM lesions appeared:

Uniform (51%)
Pink (74%)
With an oval shape (63%)
Well-defined borders (92%)

What did early EM or tick bite reactions look like? They “were typically <5 cm in size (74%), red (52%), round lesions (61%), with a punctum present (100%),” according to the authors.

Lesions that were not EM rashes appeared: pink or red (64%), round (55%), or uniform (45%) lesions, but also had raised (25%) or irregular borders (33%).

“EM commonly occurs in forms that are not the classic bull’s eye.”

“Only 14 (20%) participants overall had positive laboratory evidence for LD; these included 13 (37%) of the participants with EM-classified lesions,” the authors wrote.

VIEW PHOTOS OF EM RASHES

The authors suggest that “education should deemphasize the bull’s eye form and stress the wide variability in EM instead and the fact that many of them present as a uniform, homogeneous lesion.”

The authors conclude:

“Patients often present with lesions that may represent the very early stage of EM or tick bite reactions, and most patients will test negative on currently available laboratory tests…”
“Clinicians may not be aware of all existing variations, such that some LD patients with EM may not be immediately recognized and promptly diagnosed and treated. Hence, further improvements in terms of clinician awareness and recognition of EM are needed.”

What does a Lyme disease rash look like?

Lyme disease rash puzzles doctors, leads to misdiagnoses

Erythema migrans rash doesn’t always have Bull’s eye appearance

References:

Schotthoefer A M, Green C B, Dempsey G, et al. (October 25, 2022) The Spectrum of Erythema Migrans in Early Lyme Disease: Can We Improve Its Recognition? Cureus 14(10): e30673. doi:10.7759/cureus.30673

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Patient Contracts Babesia From a Blood Donor: Only 14 States Test For It

PATIENT CONTRACTS BABESIA FROM A BLOOD DONOR

“Prior to laboratory-based blood donor screening for Babesia, transfusion-transmitted babesiosis (TTB) was a leading infectious risk to the blood supply in the United States.”

“Our case demonstrates the continued vulnerability of the US blood supply to Babesia.”

References:

Heavily Criticized CDC Bounces Back & States Updated Boosters Cut Risk of COVID By Half ~ With No Clinical Trials

Oh, and the Center for Preparedness and Response will now be renamed the Office of Readiness and Response.

I’m sure that will fix everything.

Updated boosters are cutting the risk of getting sick from Covid-19 by about half

There are NO clinical trials of the bivalent booster. NONE.

Huh?

Only the corrupt CDC & FDA could conclude boosters cut the risk of illness – by using nothing but smoke and mirrors.

Pfizer Exposed Exploring “Mutating” COVID For ‘Vaccines” Via ‘Directed Evolution’ in Living Monkeys

Walker drew parallels between this current Pfizer project and what may have happened at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

The corruption is prolific and seemingly everywhere.

I, for one, would rather take my chance with Mother Nature.

Lyme Disease Misinformation Has Physicians Searching For Guidance Part 3

Lyme disease misinformation has physicians searching for guidance (Part 3)

The Many Presentations of the Lyme Disease rash

THE MANY PRESENTATIONS OF THE LYME DISEASE RASH

“Only two lesions (6%) were observed with a classic bull’s eye or ring-within-a-ring pattern.”

“EM commonly occurs in forms that are not the classic bull’s eye.”

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