Case Report: Powassan Virus

January 13, 2022

https://danielcameronmd.com/case-report-powassan-virus-meningoencephalitis/

Case report: Powassan virus meningoencephalitis

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Powassan virus (POWV) is a rare tick-borne infection which can lead to encephalitis, meningitis, and meningoencephalitis in humans. In this case report, the authors describe a 62-year-old man who developed “rapid deterioration of mental status including profound expressive aphasia and required intubation and high-dose steroids.” The man later tested positive for the Powassan virus. [1]

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The patient presented to the hospital with fevers, headaches, fatigue, and a history of night sweats, according to the case report, “Powassan Meningoencephalitis: A Case Report Highlighting Diagnosis and Management.”

He had a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Lyme disease, and reactive arthritis. He was not on any medication for Lyme disease or CLL. And had been treated for a year with methotrexatem, which had been stopped one week before admission.

The patient’s spinal tap was consistent with meningitis or encephalitis. The patient was treated with empiric antibiotics (vancomycin and ceftriaxone) and an antiviral (acyclovir). The diagnosis of CLL was confirmed but there was no evidence of bulky lymphadenopathy. His MRI showed mild generalized cerebral and cerebellar atrophy and a few small nonspecific hyperintensities.

Symptoms quickly worsen

“The patient’s mental status deteriorated over the hospital day 1-2 and he developed profound expressive aphasia and ataxia,” wrote the authors. “He was transferred to the ICU and intubated for airway protection on hospital day 6.”

CSF serologies returned positive for Powassan virus (POWV), which supported a diagnosis of Powassan meningoencephalitis.

“He was given a five-day course of IV methylprednisolone with gradual improvement in neurologic status,” wrote the authors. “The infectious diseases service was consulted and recommended no further treatment in the in-patient setting.”

The man was discharged to a skilled nursing facility after being hospitalized for 34 days.

On follow-up, he demonstrated significant left-sided ataxia, expressive aphasia, spasticity of both upper extremities and occasional pain in the left upper extremity.

He underwent physical and occupational therapy and was treated with gabapentin, baclofen 10 mg TID, botulinum toxin (Botox) injections, and received a baclofen pump.

“Neurologic symptoms seen in POWV include altered mental status, seizures, headache, memory impairment, blurry vision, diplopia, nystagmus, upward gaze palsy, dizziness, spastic and flaccid paralysis, and positive Babinski sign,” according to the authors.

Other findings have included upper and lower motor neuron involvement, focal deficits, such as hemiplegia and hemiparesis in the setting of intracranial bleeding, and neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anhedonia [the inability to feel pleasure] and depression.

The authors also highlighted the potential for long-term sequelae. “Long-term sequelae are variable, ranging from severe, disabling residual deficits to a return to near baseline function with a normal neurologic exam.”

“While rare, infections with POWV carry a 10-15% fatality rate, with some reports exceeding 20%,” the authors wrote.

No treatment for Powassan virus

There is no vaccine or treatment for POWV.

“Physicians should be prepared to recognize the common presenting symptoms of POWV, including fever, headache, confusion, encephalopathy, and neurological symptoms, and to provide both aggressive supportive care in the initial phases and appropriate management of long-term neurologic sequelae,” wrote the authors.

“It is important to have a broad differential diagnosis when evaluating patients presenting with symptoms of neuroinvasive infection. While rare, as demonstrated by our patient’s case, infection with POWV may lead to rapid clinical deterioration and long-term neurologic deficits.”

Editor’s perspective: I have not seen a case of Powassan virus meningoencephalitis at my practice. These cases would typically be evaluated in the ER or hospital. I refer my patients with significant neurologic findings to an ER, hospital, infectious disease specialist or neurologist.

I am concerned when doctors overlook other tick-borne infections during a POWV evaluation. An 18-year-old man believed to have the Powassan virus later died from Lyme disease.² Since Lyme disease tests were negative, the young man did not receive antibiotic treatment. An autopsy confirmed the presence of spirochetes in multiple body organs.

Related Articles:

What is Powassan virus?
Can Powassan virus cause encephalitis or other neurologic damage?
Maine woman dies from deer tick virus

References:
  1. Pach JJ, Zubair AS, Traner C, Falcone GJ, Dewey JJ. Powassan Meningoencephalitis: A Case Report Highlighting Diagnosis and Management. Cureus. Jul 2021;13(7):e16592. doi:10.7759/cureus.16592
  2. Young man dies from Lyme carditis. https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-podcast-17-year-old-young-man-dies-from-lyme-carditis/ Last accessed 10/10/21.

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According to this study by Coppe Labs, right here in Wisconsin, 85% of Powassan infected ticks come from Northern Wisconsin. Another study by Coppe showed that when 95 patients were tested for suspected tick-borne disease, 66% showed evidence of current or prior Lyme infection.  Of those patients, 17% had serologic evidence of acute POWV infection, demonstrating that POWV may affect more patients than we know.

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Dr. Klinghardt: Vaccine Syndrome & Long COVID – Tomorrow (Thurs. Jan 13, 2022)

January 12, 2022

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This Thursday Dr Klinghardt will be talking about post vaccine syndrome and long covid: the symptoms and his suggested options to help overcome it. 

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Gov. Oversight Publishes Fauci Aware of Lab Leak Evidence & May Have Manipulated Science to Cover it Up. Military Documents Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

**UPDATE**

Just today, ICAN previously reported that Dr. Barney Graham, Deputy Director of the Vaccine Research Center at Fauci’s agency – the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) within the NIH – stands to earn millions from sales of the Moderna vaccine, demonstrating a clear conflict of interest between his personal financial interest, and his role in developing safe and effective vaccines. When ICAN got Graham’s emails, many with Moderna’s CEO were redacted, as well as emails with Ralph Baric, a professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

http://  Approx. 12 min

Jan. 11, 2022

Emails Showing Fauci CONCEALED Lab Leak Info

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/government-oversight-committee-publishes  Video Here

Government Oversight Committee Publishes That Fauci Was Aware of Evidence of a Lab Leak – and May Have Manipulated Science to Cover Up Lab Leak Theory

It’s Now Official. It’s Time for Action.

Jan. 11, 2022

Even as Sen. Rand Paul calls Fauci out for spending his $480,000 per year income to call Harvard and Yale epidemiologists “fringe”

The GOP Oversight Committee has released a letter – and emails – asking tough questions about Fauci’s involvement in an alleged cover-up of evidence in support of a lab-leak origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Specifically, the letter states that he worked with Peter Daszak to side-step policies restricting gain-of-function research. Note they are not saying he “allegedly” did this.

“Despite Dr. Fauci claiming otherwise on multiple occasions, he was, in fact, aware of the monetary relationship between NIAID, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth), and the WIV by January 27, 2020. Dr. Fauci also knew that NIAID worked with EcoHealth to craft a grant policy to sidestep the gain-of-function moratorium at the time. This new policy, designed by EcoHealth and agreed to by NIAID, allowed EcoHealth to complete dangerous experiments on novel bat coronaviruses—with very little oversight—that would have otherwise been blocked by the moratorium. In January 2020, Dr. Fauci was also aware that EcoHealth was not in compliance with the terms of its grant that funded the WIV.4 EcoHealth was required to submit an annual progress report to NIAID by September 30, 2019, and had not yet done so.”

The letter also informs Becerra that they will be interviewing Fauci over this issue and over the issue of his secret phone call with 11 scientists – none of whom work for the US Government – to spin the evidence that showed that the mutational differences between SARS-CoV-2 and other betacoronaviruses were not consistent with evolutionary processes.

They want to know if Fauci or Collins personally edited the cover-up piece, published in Nature Medicine. If they did, they are guilty of conspiring to mislead other government officials.  (See link for article as well as letter to Becerra)

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/military-documents-about-gain-of-function-contradict-fauci-testimony-under/  Video Here if they scrub the Youtube video

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Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath

  • Military documents state that EcoHealth Alliance approached DARPA in March 2018 seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the gain of function research moratorium.
  • The main report regarding the EcoHealth Alliance proposal leaked on the internet a couple of months ago, it has remained unverified until now. Project Veritas has obtained a separate report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow.
  • “The proposal does not mention or assess potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research,” a direct quote from the DARPA rejection letter.
  • Project Veritas reached out to DARPA for comment regarding the hidden documents and spoke with the Chief of Communications, Jared Adams, who said, “It doesn’t sound normal to me,” when asked about the way the documents were buried.

[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jan. 10, 2022] Project Veritas has obtained startling never-before-seen documents regarding the origins of COVID-19, gain of function research, vaccines, potential treatments which have been suppressed, and the government’s effort to conceal all of this.

The documents in question stem from a report at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, which were hidden in a top secret shared drive.

DARPA is an agency under the U.S. Department of Defense in charge of facilitating research in technology with potential military applications.

Project Veritas has obtained a separate report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow.

The report states that EcoHealth Alliance approached DARPA in March 2018, seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the basis gain of function research moratorium.

According to the documents, NIAID, under the direction of Dr. Fauci, went ahead with the research in Wuhan, China and at several sites across the U.S.

Dr. Fauci has repeatedly maintained, under oath, that the NIH and NAIAD have not been involved in gain of function research with the EcoHealth Alliance program. But according to the documents obtained by Project Veritas which outline why EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal was rejected, DARPA certainly classified the research as gain of function. 

“The proposal does not mention or assess potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research,” a direct quote from the DARPA rejection letter.

Major Murphy’s report goes on to detail great concern over the COVID-19 gain of function program, the concealment of documents, the suppression of potential curatives, like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, and the mRNA vaccines.

Project Veritas reached out to DARPA for comment regarding the hidden documents and spoke with the Chief of Communications, Jared Adams, who said,

“It doesn’t sound normal to me,” when asked about the way the documents were shrouded in secrecy. “If something resides in a classified setting, then it should be appropriately marked,” Adams said. “I’m not at all familiar with unmarked documents that reside in a classified space, no.”

In a video breaking this story published on Monday night, Project Veritas CEO, James O’Keefe, asked a foundational question to DARPA:

“Who at DARPA made the decision to bury the original report? They could have raised red flags to the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress, which may have prevented this entire pandemic that has led to the deaths of 5.4 million people worldwide and caused much pain and suffering to many millions more.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci has not yet responded to a request for comment on this story.

READ THE DOCUMENTS

REJECTION OF DEFUSE PROJECT PROPOSAL

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: DEFUSE

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats(PREEMPT)

U.S. Marine Corp Major Joseph Murphy’s Report to Inspector General of DoD

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Justices Hear Arguments on “Vaccine” Mandates As Data From 145 Countries Show Shots INCREASE COVID Illness & Death

https://www.lifezette.com/2022/01/supremes-hear-biden-case-for-vaccine-mandates

Supremes Hear Biden Case For Vaccine Mandates

This one will be close.

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Justices are hearing arguments on vaccine mandates. It could go either way, with smart money against Biden. But watch Roberts, he’s gone south on important health issues before.

FNC: “The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in a high-stakes public session to decide whether the U.S. government can begin enforcing sweeping COVID 19 vaccine requirements affecting nearly 100 million workers.

For three hours and 40 minutes, the justices heard oral arguments over federal vaccine and testing rules for businesses with 100 employees or more, and on vaccine mandates for health care workers at facilities receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Unfortunately, the author of the article didn’t utilize facts & data that are now available:

  • Nobody has a clue what’s in these injections and this should alarm everyone.
  • Independent researchers from across the globe are finding frightening contaminants.
  • Independent researchers are finding frightening objects in the blood of the “vaxxed”.
  • These injections have caused more adverse reactions & death than any other vaccine in VAERS history.
  • An American Heart Association study shows a link between the shots and heart attacks and the data has been confirmed by others.
  • Even the CDC admits the shots are causing heart disease.
  • A large Israeli study shows the Pfizer shot increases myocarditis three-fold.
  • None of these injections stop transmission or infection so the argument that lives are being lost daily due to dropping the “vaccine” mandate is completely false.
  • Although there are obvious holes in ‘breakthrough’ case reporting, data on the “vaccinated” shows many things:

The following data completely dismantles the narrative that these fast-tracked, experimental, unproven injections which aren’t vaccines, do not stop infection or transmission, have a boat-load of contaminants, and have caused more sickness and death than any vaccine in the history of VAERS, reduce hospitalization & death.  That is a lie.

The following independent analysis has been ignored by the CDC, the FDA and the NIH since October of 2021.

https://vector-news.github.io/editorials/CausalAnalysisReport_html.html

Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries

2021-11-15

Abstract

Policy makers and mainstream news anchors have promised the public that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout worldwide would reduce symptoms, and thereby cases and deaths associated with COVID-19. While this vaccine rollout is still in progress, there is a large amount of public data available that permits an analysis of the effect of the vaccine rollout on COVID-19 related cases and deaths. Has this public policy treatment produced the desired effect?

One manner to respond to this question can begin by implementing a Bayesian causal analysis comparing both pre- and post-treatment periods. This study analyzed publicly available COVID-19 data from OWID (Hannah Ritchie and Roser 2020Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Edouard Mathieu, and Max Roser. 2020. “Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19).” Our World in Data.) utlizing the R package CausalImpact (Brodersen et al. 2015Brodersen, Kay H., Fabian Gallusser, Jim Koehler, Nicolas Remy, and Steven L. Scott. 2015. “Inferring Causal Impact Using Bayesian Structural Time-Series Models.” Annals of Applied Statistics 9: 247–74. https://doi.org/10.1214/14-aoas788.) to determine the causal effect of the administration of vaccines on two dependent variables that have been measured cumulatively throughout the pandemic: total deaths per million (y1) and total cases per million (y2). After eliminating all results from countries with p > 0.05, there were 128 countries for y1 and 103 countries for y2 to analyze in this fashion, comprising 145 unique countries in total (avg. p < 0.004).

Results indicate that the treatment (vaccine administration) has a strong and statistically significant propensity to causally increase the values in either y1 or y2 over and above what would have been expected with no treatment. y1 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+115/-13), which means

  • 89.84% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total deaths per million associated with COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment (vaccine) initiation.

y2 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+105/-16) which means

  • 86.78% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total cases per million of COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment (vaccine) initiation.

Causal impacts of the treatment on y1 ranges from -19% to +19015% with an average causal impact of +463.13%. Causal impacts of the treatment on y2 ranges from -46% to +12240% with an average causal impact of +260.88%. Hypothesis 1 Null can be rejected for a large majority of countries.

This study subsequently performed correlational analyses on the causal impact results, whose effect variables can be represented as y1.E and y2.E respectively, with the independent numeric variables of: days elapsed since vaccine rollout began (n1), total vaccination doses per hundred (n2), total vaccine brands/types in use (n3) and the independent categorical variables continent (c1), country (c2), vaccine variety (c3). All categorical variables showed statistically significant (avg. p: < 0.001) postive Wilcoxon signed rank values (y1.E V:[c1 3.04; c2: 8.35; c3: 7.22] and y2.E V:[c1 3.04; c2: 8.33; c3: 7.19]). This demonstrates that the distribution of y1.E and y2.E was non-uniform among categories. The Spearman correlation between n2 and y2.E was the only numerical variable that showed statistically significant results (y2.E ~ n2: ρ: 0.34 CI95%[0.14, 0.51], p: 4.91e-04). This low positive correlation signifies that countries with higher vaccination rates do not have lower values for y2.E, slightly the opposite in fact. Still, the specifics of the reasons behind these differences between countries, continents, and vaccine types is inconclusive and should be studied further as more data become available. Hypothesis 2 Null can be rejected for c1, c2, c3 and n2 and cannot be rejected for n1, and n3.

The statistically significant and overwhelmingly positive causal impact after vaccine deployment on the dependent variables total deaths and total cases per million should be highly worrisome for policy makers.

They indicate a marked increase in both COVID-19 related cases and death due directly to a vaccine deployment that was originally sold to the public as the “key to gain back our freedoms.” The effect of vaccines on total cases per million and its low positive association with total vaccinations per hundred signifies a limited impact of vaccines on lowering COVID-19 associated cases. These results should encourage local policy makers to make policy decisions based on data, not narrative, and based on local conditions, not global or national mandates.

These results should also encourage policy makers to begin looking for other avenues out of the pandemic aside from mass vaccination campaigns.

Some variables that could be included in future analyses might include vaccine lot by country, the degree of prevalence of previous antibodies against SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-2 in the population before vaccine administration begins, and the Causal Impact of ivermectin on the same variables used in this study.

“Untruth naturally afflicts historical information. There are various reasons that make this unavoidable. One of them is partisanship for opinions and schools. If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment’s hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The result is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted” — Ibn Khaldun, 1379 A.D.

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You Know It’s Bad When Even CNN Calls CDC Out For ‘Misleading’ COVID Hospitalization Data

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cnn-anchor-calls-out-cdc-for-misleading-covid-hospitalization-data-and-dr-sanjay-gupta-agrees

CNN anchor calls out CDC for ‘misleading’ COVID hospitalization data, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta agrees

Chris Enloe

January 11, 2022

CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network’s top medical correspondent, agreed Monday the method being used by the government to report COVID-19 hospitalizations is explicitly “misleading.”

What is the background?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which manages COVID data reporting, does not distinguish between people hospitalized for COVID (meaning complications from the virus caused them to be hospitalized) or people hospitalized with COVID (meaning people who test positive for COVID after being admitted for reasons unrelated to the virus).

(See link for article)

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In a rare moment of lucidity, mainstream media gets something correct. Everyone pause for a moment of thanks.

Highlights:

  • CDC’s Walensky was confronted “for COVID” numbers versus “with COVID” numbers, but she couldn’t give them.  Supposedly, that data is forthcoming.  (Don’t hold your breath)
  • NY data show that more people were hospitalized for reasons not related to COVID but then tested positive for COVID after being admitted.
  • CNN managed to cough up that COVID hospitalizations are likely inflated and are therefore ‘misleading.’
  • CNN’s Dr. Gupta even agreed stating there needs to be transparency.
  • Walensky faces increasing criticism over CDC-waffles.  Recently, she reported a CDC study that showed 75% of COVID deaths after “vaccination” have ‘at least four comorbidities.’ 

“Contrary to popular belief, CDC Director, disabled people aren’t just data points … How callous to say you’re encouraged by the prospect of their deaths,” Imani Barbarin, a disability rights activist, wrote.

Matthew Cortland, a lawyer who suffers from a chronic illness, tweeted: “It is ‘encouraging’ to [Walensky] that chronically ill and disabled Americans are dying … our deaths clearly don’t count.”

And these sentiments exemplify what this website has been desperately trying to highlight: human health is individual and highly complex. Medicine should never be a “one-size fits all” box where human beings are given the same exact formula. Time for real medical professionals to stand up for what is common, logical knowledge in the real world of facts.

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And can we please quit talking about these shots as anything other than fast-tracked gene–modifying medical devices that don’t stop transmission or infection, have caused more death and adverse events than any other vaccine in the 30 year history of VAERS, and whose contents are completely unknown and unproven?

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