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Brand New Tick-borne Disease
Land sake’s, another mysterious new tick-borne disease!
This one is a new type of Ehrlichia bacteria, making its way through Wisconsin and Minnesota.
It matters not that media outlets call it rare. Lyme and Babesiosis were considered rare and continued under the radar for years. As with the other tick-borne diseases, Ehrlichia is not detected in blood supplies at blood banks.
If you are concerned about contracting any of the vector diseases, please have some MMS or Colloidal Silver on hand to use right away. They WILL DESTROY the bacterial spirochetes of relentless Lyme and the malaria-like parasitic Babesiosis, now rampant. Note: be aware that using these or antibiotics can affect the results of conventional medical tests for vector diseases.
~Health Freedoms
A previously unknown species of the tick-borne Ehrlichia bacterium was responsible for mysterious infections affecting four people in Wisconsin and Minnesota in 2009, researchers reported in the Aug. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Culturing, serological testing, and DNA analysis confirmed that the four individuals, all of whom recovered, were infected with a still unnamedEhrlichia species distinct from E. chaffeensis and E. ewingii, the most common pathogens responsible for ehrlichiosis in the U.S., according to Dr. Bobbi S. Pritt of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and colleagues.
Currently designated as Ehrlichia Wisconsin HM543746, the new species appears most closely related to E. muris, which until recently was thought to be confined to eastern Europe and parts of Asia. Pritt and colleagues found the two species to be 98 percent genetically similar.
However, another research group recently reported that E. muris, or a very similar bacterium, was present in Wisconsin deer ticks collected in the 1990s.
Pritt and colleagues said the discovery is significant because ehrlichiosis is rare in Wisconsin and Minnesota and the new species would not have been identified with conventional tests.
The four patients highlighted in the NEJM report had not been singled out for special investigation. Instead, they were discovered in the course of a larger study of suspected ehrlichiosis cases nationwide.
Pritt and colleagues had collected more than 4,000 blood samples from patients with suspected ehrlichiosis or anaplasmosis (a closely related infection) across the United States in 2009, including 1,519 from Wisconsin and Minnesota.
None of the samples from the two states were positive forE. chaffeensis or E. ewingii, although 163 contained DNA for Anaplasma phagocytophilum, which causes anaplasmosis.
But molecular testing showed that four of the samples were anomalous, prompting additional investigations that led to the new discovery.
The four patients contributing these samples — two of whom were organ transplant recipients taking immunosuppressants — had presented in the summer and early fall of 2009 with fever, headache, and fatigue; one patient also had nausea and vomiting. Blood tests showed low levels of lymphocytes in all patients and low platelet counts in three.
Because the symptoms and the patients’ previous travel had suggested possible tick-borne infections, they were treated with doxycycline or ceftazidime and all of them recovered.
Organisms were cultured from their blood, with DNA sequences that matched those obtained from the clinical specimens.
Besides analyzing the clinical samples, Pritt and colleagues also tested 697Ixodes scapularis ticks from the two states. They found that 17 (including seven nymphs and nine adults) carried organisms with the same sequences as the four patients.
That finding, too, was significant, Pritt and colleagues wrote, because the most common vector for pathogenic Ehrlichia species in the U.S. is a different tick species, Amblyomma americanum.
That species, however, cannot withstand the Upper Midwestern winters — perhaps one reason that ehrlichiosis is uncommon in the region.
I. scapularis, on the other hand, is “abundant” there, according to Pritt and colleagues.
They cautioned that their findings did not conclusively implicate it as the vector for the new Ehrlichia species. “Extended investigation and tick surveillance are required to understand the distribution of this agent in Wisconsin and Minnesota,” they noted.
In the meantime, Pritt and colleagues wrote, “physicians should be aware that a novel pathogenic Ehrlichia agent is present in Minnesota and Wisconsin and that organism-specific PCR [polymerase chain reaction] and serologic testing can be used to identify the cause of suspected infections.”
By JOHN GEVER, MedPage Today Senior Editor
Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tick-borne-disease-found-upper-midwest/story?id=14233404
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It is amazing how many doctors and vets (anamil MD) do not take tick disease seriously. It’s like, YO, you guys with the nice white jackets, ticks are real, how about testing for their diseases?
The government and the IDSA have been in denial about Lyme disease, Erlichiosis, Babesiosis, and other tick-borne diseases for years, probably due to “lobbying” from the insurance companies. Thousands suffer, some die, while the truth remains denied. Ask your friends and relatives if they know someone with a tick-borne disease such as Lyme. You’ll be surprised at how many are suffering, while others think they have M.S., A.L.S., fibromyalgia, chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or some other nebulous disease. They also probably have a tick-borne disease, but the medical establishment keeps the test inaccurate.
It is fantastic and this is a good article that I saw,thanks for sharing!
It looks like I now may have this new type of erlichiosis. In the past two years I have dealt with lyme, and babesia more than once. Now after months of getting weaker and feeling worse and after a trip to ER (which found nothing with all their tick borne tests)I may have the answer. My natural doctor checked me for erlichia and with all the many symptoms said he is sure of it. I only wish I had known sooner. I am a big gardener and do a lot of heavy physical labor so we thought it was adrenal exhaustion and just over doing it. It became much worse and I should have been in the hospital a week ago just before finding the answer. When you do not have health insurance you look for other alternatives or just stick it out at home. If anyone knows of someone becoming weaker and having some of the symptoms please encourage them to seek help. Unfortunately they will not get it from most medical doctors and the faulty testing. Thankfully I have a doctor who uses tinctures and natural methods and it has been very successful in the past. This erlichia is harder to kill off and I am on an antibiotic which I asked my medical doctor for. Thankfully he was willing even though the blood tests showed nothing. We live in a heavily wooded area of Wisconsin and have lots of deer so ticks are part of our life like it or not. Our dogs are covered with them at times. What do you do? We must keep up the good fight in these lyme wars and asked to be heard and acknowledged.
Hello people!
Empower yourselves, because the government won’t!
Try MMS!!!!
“Empower yourselves, because the government won’t!”
Not only will the “government” not help you with Lyme and other tick borne diseases. The “government” will do all it can to keep you ignorant of the source, etiology and treatment of this GROWING class of bio-weapons.
Yes Lyme is a bio-weapon and the Plum Island bio-lab has been breeding ticks for bio-weapons testing for many decades. So IMO all the new tick borne diseases are suspected bio-weapons.
Sorry but that is just how it is.
Lyme Disease is a Bio-Weapon
The [Lyme Disease] treatment denial experiment is being orchestrated on a daily basis on a grand scale in a sophisticated manner at a very high level through the enforcement of treatment guidelines33 and the selective NIH funding of guideline authors’ research. (This body of sponsored research gives the treatment guidelines undeserved credibility through an artificially contrived appearance of scientific consensus by manufactured thought-leaders34.) Through the increasing reliance on treatment guidelines, which often end up being “non-treatment” guidelines, the medical system can be used not only to conduct unethical experiments but also to wage biological warfare against an entire population through treatment denial. Indeed, it is not far-fetched to call this the “institutionalization of biological warfare35.” Biological Warfare Experiment on American Citizens Results in Spreading Pandemic
“Could the CDC really be conducting Phase II of the original Tuskegee Experiment? And could this explain the politics behind the non-treatment of the Lyme Epidemic?” Biological Warfare Experiment on American Citizens Results in Spreading Pandemic
“The connections between Lyme disease research and biowarfare are stunning11. A quick review: The bacterium that causes the disease is named after a biowarfare researcher who, decades previous in a biowarfare lab, injected Ixodid ticks-the same type of ticks that spread Lyme, with Borrelia bacteria-the same type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease 12. The first researcher to overcome the difficult process of culturing the Lyme bacterium worked in this same biowarfare lab and now directs his own biowarfare lab. The defense contractor researcher who ”discovered” the Ixodid tick vector that causes Lyme disease, and led the early efforts to deny victims treatment for it (under numerous, fraudulent pretexts), was then a recent graduate of the the CDC’s biowarfare defense unit (EIS).”
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” Joseph Mengele, conductor of Nazi medical experiments, Note Operation Paper Clip brought many of Mengele’s team to the good old USA. Lyme Disease is but one result.
“The number of Steere camp Lyme researchers with a background in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and/or biowarfare research is too numerous to be pure coincidence. Two scientists who have played a central role in the Lyme story, Barbour and Klempner, have been placed in charge of new biowar super-labs set up in the aftermath of 9-11, where they are aided by some of their Steerite colleagues. Others, while not in charge of super-labs, are nevertheless in receipt of substantial grants for biowarfare research.” Elena Cook, “Lyme Is A Biowarfare Issue”
In addition to weapons that could kill quickly, the Pentagon was interested in such weapons that could incapacitate57. The staggering benefits of Lyme disease as an incapacitating infection were summarized by researcher Mark Sanborne: “Lyme’s ability to evade detection on routine medical tests, its myriad presentations which can baffle doctors by mimicking 100 different diseases, its amazing abilities to evade the immune system and antibiotic treatment, would make it an attractive choice to bioweaponeers looking for an incapacitating agent. Lyme’s abilities as ‘the great imitator’ might mean that an attack could be misinterpreted as simply a rise in the incidence of different, naturally occurring diseases such as autism, MS, lupus and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME). Borrelia’s inherent ability to swap outer surface proteins, which may also vary widely from strain to strain, would make the production of an effective vaccine extremely difficult. … Finally, the delay before the appearance of the most incapacitating symptoms would allow plenty of time for an attacker to move away from the scene, as well as preventing people in a contaminated zone from realizing they had been infected and seeking treatment58.” Biological Warfare Experiment on American Citizens Results in Spreading Pandemic
“It’s possible to see the modern history of Lyme as a string of events with an EIS member at every crucial node.” Elena Cook, “Lyme Is A Biowarfare Issue”
“Never would I have deemed it possible that a group of medical people would work so vigorously and with such malice against a group of desperately ill people …. But, here it is.” Lyme victim/activist (requested anonymity for fear of reprisal)
“So the national agency that was supposed to be protecting the public from a deadly disease was actually in favor of letting it go untreated for experimental reasons and worked with prestigious medical societies to that end!” Biological Warfare Experiment on American Citizens Results in Spreading Pandemic