With the prevalence of ticks like I’ve never seen before, I started researching Lyme disease. This was never a concern when I was a kid; we played in the woods and tall grass all day without an issue. No one knew what a tick was.
I’m suspicious that disease carrying ticks have risen to the level they are at seemingly out of nowhere, but I have no proof other than my own speculation.
I did, however, discover some interesting parallels in my research about the disease. There was a vaccine that was released sometime in the late ‘90s and pulled from the market in 2002. It was called LYMERix. They site insufficient consumer demand as the reason for discontinuation. Interestingly, news articles from the time read almost identically to todays stories about antivaxxers spreading disinformation and that LYMERix was safe and effective. The so called disinformation spreaders were blamed for the lack of demand, when in reality people were having bad reactions to it just like today.
Here’s the kicker…the CDC’s website says Pfizer and another company are currently developing a new vaccine. Interesting when you reference that with the steep rise in disease carrying ticks over the last 5 - 10 years.
What is Lyme disease? Where did all the ticks come from? How do you treat Lyme disease? Antibiotics? Why is a vaccine needed for a treatable condition? Why do some people suffer long term, while others are cured? Why do the blood tests for Lyme disease often yield both false positive and negative results? Why are most doctors very poor at diagnosing and treating this disease?
I’d love to hear everyone’s collective knowledge on this.
Germ theory discussions brought several interesting facts to my attention years ago, such as virology is smoke and mirrors. Subjecting any samples to the virus isolation protocols give the same results whether or not the sample source was ill. Sorry of like getting a bottle of cola to test positive on live television.
Illness from germs, toxins or parasites is measurable in repeatable and transparent testing; not so viruses. The PCR tests cannot confirm a thing, sorry. He had an illness and probably could have been tested with ivermectin or any of the other combinations from the FLCC website. In fact at this point I'm starting to feel that cancer and nearly everything can, with maybe a tweak or two.
No PCR for him. He went in with suspected covid, and ended up with a spinal tap. Hence the confirmation of west nile.
Sorry, biochemist here. Spinal fluid extractions are ridiculously painful and costly on many levels... but they are taken and run through a PCR test. The same tests that have been fully debunked by to scientists who then get blacklisted, defunded or disappeared. If they wanted cerebrospinal fluid, then it should have only been because there were indications of encephalitis or meningitis, not "COVID" respiratory infection symptoms.
ELISA (Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay) tests for alleged antibodies are also non-specific and difficult to to interpret. On top of that, there's no treatment for this WNV. No vaccine, no treatment even though they claim to have described a virus by dna and antibodies. Weird, right?
However, like COVID, apparently symptoms can mysteriously range from asymptomatic to deadly meningitis. Doctors are instructed to take careful history of all possible mosquito, flea or tick bites, even though they don't think transmission is through anything but mosquitoes, because, power the literature, symptoms of WNV can be anything, indistinguishable from herpes simplex, varicella zoster, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, LYME disease and more. Again, really weird, right?
Is there anything all these have in common? Without honest lab results (whistleblowers have called out labs for purposely removing parasite evidence from final reports), it's hard to say, but as for my family, we keep antithelminics handy, you know, for the livestock.