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Rare Tickborne Disease Spreads – Not Lyme
A once rare disease for humans has been quietly, swiftly on the rise. Babesiosis comes from a parasite carried through deer ticks. Symptoms for this malaria-like infection may take weeks to manifest and progression of the disease can lead to organ failure and death. CDC is reporting increasing cases, 119 in 2008, but states that are tracking it are reporting as many as 1,000 annually. Some doctors and experts believe those are only a fraction of the actual amount
Since it is thought uncommon, it is being spread through blood donations and transfusions. Only one blood center is testing for it.
HFA is in the process of delivering more news on the Lyme cover up. While Lyme is warned and talked about, getting a diagnosis and treatment is almost impossible! HFA will explain why. If Babesiosis goes in the same direction, its spread and the fear of contracting will go on, but with no medical help. Good Naturopathic doctors (ND) are very aware of parasitic infections and how to treat them. There are other remedies available for prevention and victims stuck in this nightmare situation.
Many online Lyme support groups prefer treatments like Rife technology and MMS for successful healing. Babesiosis mimics Malaria – MMS was created for and successfully used to treat Malaria.
Related:
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/01/lyme-cover-up-rages-on/
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/01/why-doctors-cant-acknowledge-treat-or-cure-chronic-lyme/
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/01/what-you-can-do-about-tickborne-diseases-treatment/
~Health Freedoms
Once Rare, Infection by Tick Bites Spreads
A potentially devastating infection caused by tick bites has gained a foothold in the Lower Hudson Valley and in coastal areas of the Northeast, government researchers have found.The condition, called babesiosis, is a malaria-like illness that results from infection with Babesia microti, a parasite that lives in red blood cells and is carried by deer ticks. Though far less common than Lyme disease, babesiosis can be fatal, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Because there is no widely used screening test for babesiosis, its spread poses a particular threat to the blood supply, scientists said. “We are very worried about it and are doing everything in our power to address this,” said Sanjai Kumar, chief of the laboratory of emerging pathogens at the Food and Drug Administration.
According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were six cases of babesiosis in the Lower Hudson Valley in 2001 and 119 cases in 2008, a 20-fold increase. In areas where Lyme disease is endemic, like coastal Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island, babesiosis also is becoming very common, said Dr. Peter Krause, senior research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health.
In one study of residents of Block Island, R.I., Dr. Krause found babesiosis to be just 25 percent less common than Lyme disease.
Babesia microti. Giemsa stained slides from a fatal case on Fire Island, NY (1982).
Babesiosis also is spreading slowly into other regions where it did not exist before, like the Upper Midwest, said Dr. Krause.
Many people who are infected with the parasite have no symptoms at all, while others experience mild to moderate flu-like symptoms that may last for a few days or as long as six months. “But some people get so sick that they wind up hospitalized, put into an intensive care unit, or even dying,” said Dr. Gary Wormser, chief of infectious diseases at Westchester Medical Center in New York.
In states that track the disease, there are an estimated 1,000 reported cases a year, said Dr. Krause, but he and other experts believe this represents a fraction of the people who are infected. In the Block Island study, researchers tested about 70 percent of the islanders and found that about one quarter of adults and half of children who were infected had no symptoms and were therefore not reported. Even people with mild to moderate symptoms may never see a physician. Even if they do, the condition may not be accurately diagnosed.
Experts fear that many undiagnosed patients may be donating blood. Currently, blood banks do not screen for Babesia because the Food and Drug Administration has not licensed a test for this purpose. The only way to screen a patient is by using a questionnaire, which simply asks blood donors if they are infected.
Babesiosis already is the most frequently reported infection transmitted through transfusion in the United States, responsible for at least 12 deaths. In New York City, six transfusion-associated cases of babesiosis were reported in 2009. Infection by this route can be serious: One study found approximately 30 percent of people who were infected by a transfusion died.
Between 1999 and 2007, several infants in Rhode Island developed babesiosis following blood transfusions. The Rhode Island Blood Center has become the first in the country to use an experimental new test to screen blood for the parasite.
Experts urge blood transfusion patients and their doctors to be aware of symptoms of babesiosis, which can occur up to nine weeks after a transfusion.
The symptoms can be vague (there is no tell-tale rash as there may be with Lyme disease) and include fever, sweats, chills, headache, fatigue, and muscle aches and pains. In people who also have Lyme disease, doctors might suspect babesiosis if the symptoms are particularly severe or the antibiotics are not working, said Dr. Krause. A diagnosis can be confirmed through blood testing.
Infants and adults over age 50 are more likely to get moderate to severe symptoms if infected. People at increased risk of complications include patients with compromised immune systems (such as people receiving immunosuppressants), those who’ve had their spleens removed, and those with lymphoma or H.I.V. or who are being treated for cancer.
If not caught and treated early, babesiosis can lead to such complications as kidney, lung or heart failure. The infection can be treated with antimicrobial medications, but people with serious complications are less responsive to the drugs.
Why the parasite is spreading and why it’s spreading more slowly than Lyme disease are not well understood. One theory is that Babesia may be carried primarily in mice, which don’t tend to travel far afield. The bacterium causing Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, can be carried by birds.
By LAURIE TARKAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/health/21ticks.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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So is Plum Island dropping their inventory before they move to Lawrence, KS?
I wonder why these diseases seem to be appearing out of nowhere and why they are ignored/denied by mainstream medicine. This is all very strange.
Lyme Disease was first reported 10 Miles north of Plum Island NY in Lyme CT, and Babesiosis first reported on Block Island RI, 25 miles to the east of Plum Island?
After WWII, Nazi scientist, Erich Traub, had been brought to the US to continue his experiments on tick and mosquito borne diseases. Eastern Equine Encepahitis, while rare in New England, was another virus resurrected at Plum Island.
Do you ‘really think’ Plum Island is responsible for Babesia duncani, the ‘new’ “West Coast Babesia”? It was only identified as a new species in 2006 so is not well-known, yet.
Blogs online claim it to be ‘treatment resistant’ & it seems more virulent than B microti in that symptoms are more pronounced for many. It seems to be not uncommon here in Mendocino County where Lyme is rampant.
Babesiosis was first reported in the US on Nantucket Island in 1969 and was called “Nantucket Fever.” It is incresingly common in Lyme patients. LLMDs (Lyme-literate MDs) will often say that their patient has the 2 or 3 “Bs”: Borrelia (Lyme), Bartonella and Babesia, if that’s the case. Trouble is, babesia is NOT a bacterium like the others, and is a protozoan (single cell) parasite related to malaria. Drug treatment can take quite a while, and the meds can be quite harsh. Any suspicion of Lyme disease should always include testing for the tick co-infections that can naturally occur in ticks, and vice versa. Whether the ticks have travelled by deer or birds is really a silly statement: do you think a tick will hang out on a mouse forever or bird forever? They’ll feed, hop off and find their next meal, vermin or bird doesn’t matter to a tick. Lyme and its co-infections have been found in biting spiders, biting flies, fleas, chiggers, gnats, mosquitoes, not just ticks (even wood ticks can carry these infections). In the patients w/Lyme I’ve come across, it’s fairly common to see co-infections along for the ride. Babesia is surely one of them and the medical community has to wake up and start taking all of these infectious diseases VERY seriously on a national level.
I was able to be cured by using the MAGNA CHARGER an electromagnetic healing machine, within four hours of one treatment, the host (insect) came out and within a few weeks I finally ended the 3 1/2 year nightmare.
Re: “HFA is in the process of delivering more news on the Lyme cover up.” I wish I could sue Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources. “A bug” crawled “into” my leg at my boyfriend’s house. I clawed it out and it was “something round with my blood.” The now ex told me I was being over-dramatic, he didn’t even look at the insect. I thought it was horribly creepy, but forget all about it.
I did not get a Lyme rash I got a marble-sized lump under my arm. My then boyfriend – a former nurse – said it was nothing.
Within a few months I was hit with crushing illness. Lyme Disease was one of the first things I checked but the Michigan DNR site said Lyme did not EXIST in Michigan except for (if I remember correctly) small pockets in the UP. While that information sent me down other paths, the Lyme became impossible to diagnose. By the time I arrived at diagnosis, several years had passed and IV antibiotics only helped me think more clearly.
Which almost makes me wonder if I have this other Lyme-like derivation.
A friend who works for a pharmacy asked the pharmacist about Lyme Disease, since it was like Michigan’s “big secret”. He basically told her the state didn’t want information to get out because it would hurt tourism.
After nearly four years I was sick of being sick, sick of doctors and prescriptions and chose a more natural path to healing; it worked.
At any rate, thank you healthfreedoms.com for being on this stuff like white on rice. It ruins lives. (I wrote a book and I hear from chronically ill individuals who read it and realized their extreme illnesses are in fact Lyme.) Lyme took four years of my life – it could have easily taken more if I hadn’t gotten so darned angry.
Sometimes anger is a good thing.
I know someone who has been recently diagnosed with Babesiosis in the Catskills. A lab called GENEX teats for this disease; get a kit from them sent to your doctor, so your blood can be tested.
“Do you ‘really think’ Plum Island is responsible for Babesia duncani, the ‘new’ “West Coast Babesia”? It was only identified as a new species in 2006 so is not well-known, yet.”
What do AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s colitis, Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Wegener’s disease and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer’s and Lyme Disease all have in common OFTEN?
“Mycoplasma is the co-factor that alters the human immune system and opens the door for the autoimmune degenerative diseases such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, Bi-Polar Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chronic Fatigue/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Diabetes Type One, Fibromyalgia, Huntington’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease.” Doctor Harold Clark
“According to Dr Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and one of America’s top mycoplasma researchers, this disease agent causes many illnesses including AIDS, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s colitis, Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Wegener’s disease and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer’s. I have all the official documents to prove that mycoplasma is the disease agent in chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia as well as in AIDS, multiple sclerosis and many other illnesses.” Donald W. Scott MA
“Sometime over the past 30 years, the organism has been altered to become more lethal. The Mycoplasmas found by the Nicolson’s, in their lab, contain unusual gene sequences that were probably inserted into the Mycoplasma by a specific laboratory procedure. This discovery has led them to conclude that the new forms of mycoplasma were specifically engineered for germ warfare. (9) In it’s laboratory evolution, the Mycoplasmas have became more invasive, more difficult to find, and capable of causing severe diseases in humans. Diseases, like Gulf War Illness, CFS, FMS, MCS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and AIDS, for instance.” Mycoplasma made in a lab
“Dr. Lo has been credited with discovering the new pathogenic form of Mycoplasmas, and he currently holds several patents on methods for special handling of the organisms for study and development. (10) In one of his patents (in 1991), Dr. Lo lists the following diseases that are caused by Mycoplasma: HIV infection, AIDS, Aids Related Complex (ARC), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Wegener’s Disease, Sarcoidosis, Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Kibuchi’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Lupus. (10) In addition, Baseman and Tully have reviewed the literature on the role of Mycoplasmal infections in human disease and have concluded that they are important factors or co-factors in a variety of chronic illnesses.” Mycoplasma made in a lab
WEAPONIZED mycoplasma is OFTEN a co-factor in MANY of the strange new diseases which have sprung up like mushrooms after the great national search for the “virus” which causes cancer. Much of this research was used to develop bio-weapons and mycoplasma is perhaps its greatest achievement (sic.)
Mycoplasma could be mated with an organism yet to be discovered and it could be killing people in months.
The mycoplasma softens up your immune system and renders it ineffective. Normally innocuous organisms then grow out of control as well as other bio-weapon organisms.
http://healthyprotocols.com/2_mycoplasma.htm
Plum Island did a LOT of the late stage work (bio-weaponizing IMO) on mycoplasma.
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This disease just does not infect people with comprimised immune systems. It is infecting healthy people and causing severe symptoms. I was just recently diagnosed after 1st being diagnosed with an URI. I am currently being treated by an infecticious deisease dr. who has no experience treating this disease and now is on vacation. Two anitbiotics, Mepron and azithrymicin. Started Fri evening, it is now Monday, none of my sysmptoms have gone away. It’s getting worse.. Sitting here typing and I am in excruiating pain. Please does anyone know of a Dr. who has experieince in treating this illness?
Lisa,
My mom was just diagnosed with it and she is in ICU, been treated with heavy antibiotics for four days and the parasite is still active.