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Watch SKIN DEEP at home, then join us online for a live Question & Answer session! SKIN DEEP director Pi Ware and documentary participants will be there to answer your questions and have lively discussion.

Our Cleveland premiere was cancelled so we’re moving our Q&As online where we can engage the Morgellons community and documentary lovers alike.

Ask questions or “up-vote” the ones you’d like answered, and we’ll take them on. Whether it’s about making the documentary SKIN DEEP or about surviving Morgellons disease, let’s talk and celebrate the launch of the first feature length documentary about Morgellons disease, SKIN DEEP: THE BATTLE OVER MORGELLONS. See Less

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/05/19/skin-deep-the-battle-over-morgellons/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/15/morgellons-disease-foundation-goes-skin-deep-with-groundbreaking-documentary/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/11/skin-deep-movie-review-interview-with-director-pi-ware/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/11/20/interview-with-morgellons-expert-dr-ginger-savely/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/24/classification-staging-of-morgellons-disease-lessons-from-syphilis/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32186826

2020 Jan 24;164. pii: D4214.

Second-degree atrioventricular block caused by Lyme disease

[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease, are becoming increasingly common in Europe. Lyme disease has a wide variety of clinical manifestations, as a result of which physicians of diverse disciplines are coming into contact with such patients.

CASE DESCRIPTION:

A 58-year-old man was seen at the emergency room with a symptomatic Wenckebach-type second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block and periods of 2:1 AV block. Four weeks previously the patient had noticed a red skin lesion on his left lower leg. Under the working diagnosis of early disseminated Lyme disease with cardiac involvement, treatment with ceftriaxone was started. This diagnosis was supported by a positive Borrelia PCR and culture of a skin biopsy and positive Borreliaserology. The AV conduction disorders resolved completely after 2 weeks of treatment with antibiotics and it was not necessary to implant a pacemaker.

CONCLUSION:

A Borrelia infection is a reversible but rare cause of AV conduction disorders. In the event of sudden onset of symptoms or a severe or progressive AV conduction disorder, Lyme carditis should be considered, especially if the medical history or physical examination provides clues for Lyme disease.

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**Comment**

Due to the fact Lyme testing is so abysmal, stating that AV conduction disorders caused by Lyme is “rare,” is premature.  It may be true that reports in the literature are rare but nobody has a clue on prevalence due to underreporting & misdiagnosis. 

This patient needs extensive follow-up.  Two weeks of antibiotics is rarely sufficient.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/03/10/when-lyme-hurts-your-heart-warning-signs-solutions/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/03/heart-problems-tick-borne-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/22/new-lyme-cme-course-available-lyme-carditis-more-than-blocked-beats/  Course for doctors to become educated.

 Approx. 54 Min.

March 27, 2020

7 Doctors on Lyme/MSIDS & COVID-19

Listen to a panel panel discussion hosted by Dr. Sunjya Schweig, of the California Center for Functional Medicine.

He is joined by Dr. Steven Harris, Dr Jacob Leone, Dr Ilene Ruhoy and Dr. Richard Horowitz.

They discuss some of the basic science about the virus, whether patients with tick-borne infections are at higher risk of infection, and potential treatments based on the present scientific literature.

Dr. Horowitz also briefly recounts his experience treating three COVID-19 patients and what regimens have been working to date. 

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3077442/coronavirus-pathogen-could-have-been-spreading-humans-decades

Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for years, study says

Stephen Chen in Beijing

  • Virus may have jumped from animal to humans long before the first detection in Wuhan, according to research by an international team of scientists
  • Findings significantly reduce the possibility of the virus having a laboratory origin, director of the US National Institute of Health says (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Important quote:

The study, found here:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 is also a topic of Lyme advocate Carl Tuttle’s recent post titled, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2”:  https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/

Tuttle’s focus is on an article debunking the Nature article claiming COVID-19 definitely wasn’t from a lab.  Article found here:  https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/  (You can also sign a petition in the link asking for a moratorium on all dual-use gain-of-function research.)

The author debunking the Nature article asserts COVID-19 either –

  • “spontaneously mutated and jumped to humans at a wet market or deep in some random bat cave which just so happened to be 20 miles from China’s only BSL-4 virology lab, a virus with an unusually slippery never-before-seen genome that’s evading zoological classification….”

OR

  • “Chinese scientists failed to follow correct sanitation protocols…, something that had been anticipated since the opening of the BSL-4 lab and has happened at least four times previously, and accidentally released this bio-engineered Wuhan Strain – likely created by scientists researching immunotherapy regimes against bat coronaviruses, who’ve already demonstrated the ability to perform every step necessary to bio-engineer the Wuhan Strain COVID-19 – into their population, and now the world....this virus appears to have been bio-engineered at the spike-protein genes which was already done at UNC to make an extraordinarily virulent coronavirus. Chinese efforts to prevent the full story about what’s going on from getting out are because they want the scales to be even since they’re now facing a severe pandemic and depopulation event. No facts point against this conclusion.  

Supporting the second case are Chinese researchers:  https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/01/chinese-scientists-think-coronavirus-leaked-from-wuhan-lab.aspx

“In summary, somebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. Safety level may need to be reinforced in high risk biohazardous laboratories. Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away from city center and other densely populated places.”

Great video with Dr. Mikovitz explaining Coronavirus:  (She explains numerous issues raised in this article) https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/0yMvL7SaaePCh8raohYoxsp1MzZ6gHeT/series/2470/media/546082?

Circling back to the Nature article, one of the authors, Ian Lipkin, is known as “The Virus Hunter.”  He’s currently involved in a sex discrimination lawsuit alleging concerning issues that should cause us to question his credibility:  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/lawsuit-columbia-university-roils-prominent-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-research-lab (takes credit for others’ work, diverts and misuses funds which delays publication of others’ work, undermines relationships with a colleague’s collaborators and donors, wrongly adds himself as principle investigator to grants, and sex discrimination):  

Also, Lipkin, a staunch critic of Dr. Andrew Wakefield wrote this paper titled, “Anti-Vaccination Lunacy Won’t Stop”:  https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/wsj-040416.pdf

Any researcher biased enough to call those who dare to question vaccine safety lunatics has tipped his hand that he is not at all open to new scientific findings

Here, you can read an astute criticism of Lipkin’s CDC-AAP sponsored report, “Lack of Association between Measles Virus Vaccine and Autism with Enteropathy: A Case-Control Study,” and that it actually in the end validated Andrew Wakefield’s findings:  https://www.vaccinationnews.org/content/cdc-sponsored-mmr-study-supports-wakefields-findings

Please also remember that it was none other than NIH’s AIDS czar, Anthony Fauci, who asked his friend Ian Lipkin to settle the claim by microbiologist Judy Mikovitz on whether XMRV is behind chronic fatigue syndrome.  Lipkin blamed a man-made contaminant, despite Lo and Alter’s paper showing 6.8 percent of healthy controls were positive for MLV-related infection:  https://www.pnas.org/content/107/36/15874.short.

For the background:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/15/vaccines-and-retroviruses-a-whistleblower-reveals-what-the-government-is-hiding/

Similarly to how research for Alzheimer’s was hijacked for decades by the amyloid beta issue, ME/CHS research studying viruses was hijacked by Lipkin, despite this 2019 article stating that although XMRV has not been proven yet to cause CFS, it has not been ruled out, and that results of research shows that XMRV is a candidate for causing human disease:  https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2009/11/top_scientists_to_meet_at_clev.html 

Lipkin is directly involved with research involving cancer, Autism, and vaccines – hot topics tightly controlled by powers that have vested interests.
Hopefully it is clear from the numerous posts on this website that those who depart from the controlled narrative are skewered alive.

But, Lipkin never departs from the accepted narrative.

Tuttle has a valid point not trusting authorities on COVID-19 that have also been involved in a

“thirty-year deception on the American public that Lyme is a simple nuisance disease through its network of paid academics (now defendants in a racketeering lawsuit) [2] how much trust should we lend to your work Dr. Lipkin?”

If you haven’t signed Tuttle’s petition, please do so:  https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/

There is continued resistance by government agencies to acknowledge and provide information pertaining to chronic Lyme disease on their websites and in their programs despite Lyme disease being around 45 years. They also control all testing and suppress any other lab doing Lyme/MSIDS testing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32122915/

2020 Mar 2. pii: bjophthalmol-2019-315239. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315239. [Epub ahead of print]

Ocular complications of cat scratch disease.

Abstract

Cat scratch disease (CSD) in humans is caused by infection with Bartonella henselae or other Bartonella spp. The name of the disease reflects the fact that patients frequently have a history of contact (often involving bites or scratches) with infected cats. Patients with CSD typically develop lesions at the site where the skin is broken together with regional lymphadenopathy but may go on to exhibit systemic symptoms and with deep-seated infections at a range of sites including the eye. Patients with CSD may present with a range of inflammatory eye conditions, including Parinaud’s oculoglandular syndrome, neuroretinitis, multifocal retinitis, uveitis and retinal artery occlusion. Bartonella spp. are fastidious bacteria that are difficult to culture from clinical specimens so microbiological diagnosis is frequently made on the basis of positive serology for anti-Bartonella antibodies or detection of bacterial DNA by PCR. Due to the lack of clinical trials, the evidence base for optimal management of patients with CSD-associated eye infections (including the role of antibiotics) is weak, being derived from single reports or small, uncontrolled case series.

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**Comment**

This study states what the rest of us all know – there is a lack of research on Bartonella yet it is everywhere:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/19/bartonella-infection-everywhere-but-we-dont-know-about-it/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/24/human-bartonellosis-an-underappreciated-public-health-problem/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/category/bartonella-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/02/bartonella-in-entire-canadian-family/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/08/case-series-bartonella-ocular-manifestations/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/06/ocular-manifestations-of-bartonellosis/

And please know you don’t have to be exposed to cats to get it:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/10/bartonella-henselae-neuroretinitis-in-patients-without-cat-scratch/

You also don’t have to be immunocompromised to get it:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/12/18/multifocal-hepatic-abscess-in-immunocompetent-patient-due-to-bartonella-henselae-case-report-with-review-of-literature/