We live in Virginia and are outdoors a lot. This year my wife and I have pulled over 30 ticks off of each other. Tweezers, a lighter and gone. We watch the bite area for reactions but it has never crossed our minds to worry about it or rush to medical care. Just a fact of life if you spend time outside. Spend time enjoying the grass rather than worrying about the latest nonsense. Please.
We are not worried about Gates dropping his tick boxes here. The four dogs and two donkeys would give us early warning. If the boxes did drop, it would give the possums something to do.
I grew up here and same here. We used to pull the ticks off the dogs same way.
My son said that the Alpha gal thing was real.. he knows a friend who pulled three off her neck and hair.. and she did have hives reaction from eating meat (hamburger) and that subsided. :) We all have had ticks on us. :)
That actually happened to a woman who does landscaping and property maintenance for me. She said she got extremely ill and at the ER they gave her a shot.
We wear long pants, sleeves when going through Mt pastures in Vt. Home tick check. Found one on stomach while in bathtub. Covered with Vaseline and it crawled out. Unfortunately my husband had a tick on his leg and did not realize for some days. Caused damage but has been about 3 years and healed up. We all had measles and lived to old age eighties. However, COVID vaccinations caused big problems Afib and hearing loss. I now have the attitude that docs have questionable “knowledge” if hypothetical advice for statins or vaccinations, whereas when we are physically injured such as broken bones or impaired organs or teeth and eyes they can really help.
Maybe there should be a Pestilence of the Month?? May was Flea Month. June is Tick Month. Maybe July will be Screwworm month. It will be like the Chinese Zodiac - people will say, her baby was born in the month of the screwworm or the month of the fluke. You can bet your Ivermectin that fluke month is fast-approaching.
Another "tick-ling" half-true newsreport from Faithless Farthling Newsrooms. Truth be told, the probable reason people are showing up at walk in clinics is that they called their real provider worried about a possible tick bite emergency and were given an appointment for three months down the line. Corporate America Conglomerate Hospital/Doctor associate offices are more interested in sucking new patients to fill their quotas and pay high entry "new patient fees", and then their real patients are pushed to the long wait list hoping they will just go away now. There is much more income in new patient first visits than in medical health care because no one really cares! Hope Kennedy doesn't get run over by the family remarks or the media remarks that also never stop sending poison darts his way. How did all the local hospitals who once cared for patients get forced into joining these Empire Medical Groups anyway? It seems to me that years ago the government broke up giant companies that were too big and squeezing out competitors. Why is no one doing anything about this? As a patient myself, I have no patience for them!!!!
I can tell you from 40 years of living near the woods in CT and being outside all the time , the ticks are no worse than any other year. Granted, during this time, all my horses and dogs have been treated for Lyme at least once. My wife is currently on 14 days of Doxycycline for her Lyme and my dog just came off 2 weeks of Doxy for his Lyme. Just another typical year in the backyard. Did I mention that we live only 20 miles away from Lyme.
Usually if you catch the symptoms early, it clears up nicely. I had a friend who must have missed the symptoms and a year later his knee swelled up. He was on three different antibiotics for 4 or 5 months before it got cleared up
I have never had it to my knowledge but I get bitten by ticks nearly EVERY year. Most often I never have them on but for a few hours, or less. However, for me, the infection and swelling and redness can last up to 9 mo before it is completely gone.
So, Aldo, with your obvious heightened experience with LYME disease, of all the potential symptoms, could you name the top three that are REALLY obvious that red flag Lyme's disease? Already aware of the red target rash. . .
I know that ticks can carry a bunch of different diseases as Dr. Malone mentioned. For Lyme disease, everyone I've known that recognized it early, all had a fever, headache, aches all over and tired. Flu like symptoms. A blood test is a good place to start to see if you have been exposed. Later on it seems to mimic arthritis in the joints.
I agree 110%. My sister had it 25 years ago and the medical community let her down. Didn’t believe her. She died young at 60. She had MRI’s and was told it affected her brain later I. Life because it was left untreated.
Aldo, There are also alternative treatments available to supplement Doxy. Check with an herbalist or complementary doctor. Doxy is tough stuff for some people.
Aldo. I would check Zach Bush M.D. for the "ION Gut Support" he is triple board cert. and is a genius, IMO. His history is as impressive as Dr. Malone, in a different sense. My husband had intense reactions to doxy and we found a few other herbal and homeopathic uses.
I'm hiking all the time, and same as usual, I never see a tick. For the last 25years of hiking, I've seen one tick.
Link - IMAhealth's (aka FLCCC) weekly video update 2 weeks ago, was excellent for all things TICKS. Gotta love the many IMA docs! Ya just want to hug them!! 45mins. 1 dose of Doxycycline- is a good tip mentioned.
"Until public health officials can answer that question, a great many of the headlines should be read with considerably more skepticism than they currently receive."
Personally, I now treat all public health pronouncements with the assumption that they are just propaganda. That is the long-term effect of all the fear-mongering. Eventually, something of real concern will just be ignored due to that conditioning.
This is sheer, UNadulterated TICK PORN. I’m trying to wrap my vernacularly-challenged brain around the phrase, “culturally induced ignorance or doubt” - it sort of TICKS all the boxes.
Yep. I've learned the treatment for a tick bite is much WORSE than the bite itself. Not sure when, maybe early 1990's or so, I was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted fever living as I do in Western PA. I did have a very spotty red rash.
Nonetheless, the strength of the antibiotics given to me caused my rectum to prolapse from the poison contained in them. I subsequently had not one, but two treatments for the prolapse. You know that Frank Zappa song, "talking about your hemmeroids baby."
Sure ticks have moved into my surrounds. Last year I would find ten ticks at a time on my cats when they came indoors after a day with their paws on the ground. I've been giving them 50 cc's of coconut oil twice per day in their food for a few months now and have not yet found nary a nymph on either one. I suppose the lauric acid is the coconut oil is a deterrent.
This whole tick thing just better not become the next CV19, or Bill Gates (the former computer specialist) will come up with another vaccine that will be "mandatory."
The vax is ready to ship. They just need to gin-lather the public up a little more and get people like my sister scared to death, joining prayer chains and consulting online tarot card readers. These tarot card readers don’t actually shuffle, deal, and read your cards - you scroll through generic online tarot readings and choose the one you think best applies to you. You can’t make this stuff up.
Same thing with the measles outbreaks that the media blames on the current administration. If you look at the history of measles, this is not the worst year ever, contrary to the presentation. Of course, they blame it on "vaccine hesitancy" "caused" by "the current administration", especially blaming Kennedy. Nobody looks into the details of the situation. Who are the people getting infected and why? Are the people getting infected doing anything differently this year than they have done any other year? Did they decide to not get the MMR because Kennedy told them not to (which of course he isn't, but they insinuate he is). What is going on? Who knows. But this is all fuel for the mandates-in-all-situations crowd. We can't look at the current childhood vaccine schedule because measles is such a disaster according to some. It's all great for bad PR.
Deleted previous comment because I said Virginia Dept of Health but it is CDC monitoring wastewater for measles. With none detected in Virginia. None detected in most of the US according to their map.
No doubt in my mind that it's coming from illegals who haven't been vaccinated (and who, I would guess, are probably many of the patients too). There are a few vaccines that do work...or "seemed to.... I have read that some diseases weren't truly reduced or eliminated by a vaccine but were already dying out before the vaccine even came out....
There are certain (vulnerable?) communities that do not wish to be vaccinated and would rather just be left alone that are not new to "vaccine hesitancy" or whatever you want to call it. Again, that's not new. Are they more at risk? There are groups of illegals with unknown vaccine status. Does any of this have anything to do with the increase or not? Measles is up in recent years in both Canada and Mexico. Is that a factor? How long has the current increase been going on in the United States? As usual, we don't have the numerators and denominators of relevant information. Who? Where? When? Prevalence? We don't know much about where the "outbreak" started; how it spread, details regarding the health status of anyone who died, significance of "outbreaks", etc etc. Death rate is low. How about any related disabilities? You can go to the CDC SchoolVaxView and see that the MMR vaccine coverage has been fairly consistent with ups and downs since 2011 with a slow and somewhat subtle decline since 2020. Much hullabaloo is being made out of the fact that the current national kindergarten rate is around 92.5% rather than the "required" 95%, although if you look at these statistics, you see that we have been here before. And all we have in these CDC SchoolVax Stats is since 2011. I'm pretty sure that uptake has not been over 95% a lot of years in the past. The 95% is also a theoretical threshold concept to start with. Somehow, the news sites get away with saying that the measles increase is sourced to the current administration "antivaxxers" and in classic psychological projection say that the current administration is solely responsible for politicizing the vaccine discussion. Even though recent outbreaks started before Trump and RFK came in, they are being blamed for the recent outbreaks in some online medical sites and certainly in a lot of the press. I haven't heard about any significant pushback. And the whole conversation is overfixated on the MMR, as if the only reason the rates ever dropped was the vaccines.
Many years ago there was a search for the Amblyomma tick from Africa on reptile imports into Florida. The tick can spread heartwater disease. Imagine the fear that would be caused today because of government and social media dissemblers. I was involved in the search as were others.
I think we need a major clarification here. Lyme Disease is a catastrophic illness! Trust me, I know. I've been struggling to recover for over ten years. Ten years, over 15 different practitioners, both mainstream and alternative,$100,000 spent out of my hard earned retirement fund, and i am still sick and disabled. like many 'Lymies' I never saw a tick, or felt a bite; this is, unfortunately, more common than not. After a vacation in North Carolina at a retreat center--in the woods--I came down with what seemed to be a simple, if unpleasant, flu. i recovered, but not completely. I sought acupuncture to treat the remaining symptoms. It worked, but not completely. I stumbled through 2 years of feeling lousy, with recurring bouts of bronchitis, and then a nasty case of shingles. More acupuncture, some improvement, but I was still depleted and exhausted. I finally went to a dr. specializing in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who FINALLY diagnosed me with late stage Lyme Disease. Unfortunately, this was at a time when the few Lyme-treating drs. here in the Northeast were being subjected to harassment, hauled before state medical boards and threatened with delicensing for treating Lyme patients with extended antibiotic therapy, for malpractice. Does this sound familiar? It should. THINK COVID! (New york State finally passed a law protecting physicians who treat this dreadful illness from professional and legal reprisal.)
Ticks are not no big deal! It is estimated that 500,000 people a year in the US are bitten by infected ticks and this may be a conservative estimate. And this is not just a national problem; an estimated 6% of the Chinese population--60 million people--have been exposed to tick-borne illness. Infected ticks are a global problem--and so is getting proper diagnosis and treatment (the reach of the CDC is international, and so is its malfeasance and misinformation--3 weeks of Doxycycline is the only allowable standard of care. Woe betide the doctor who steps out of this framework! Doctors in Europe have also faced, and experienced delicensing for attempting to treat Lyme aggressively. Sweden suspended the license of its only Lyme treating physician, leaving patients up the creek without a paddle! Lyme and its co-infections are not a minor inconvenience. It can upend a person's life, destroying finances, ending marriages, and sometimes (and too often) resulting in suicides of despair!
May I suggest that you check out Stanford science journalist Kris Newby's substack, where she draws from her superbly researched book "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons". Or Dr. Neil Spector's book "Gone in a Heartbeat", documenting his 5 year journey through the medical matrix to get a diagnosis. This is a Duke University Oncology professor and researcher! He was diagnosed with Lyme Carditis, in the nick of time, and required a heart transplant to save him! He then turned his experience in oncology to the study of Lyme disease and became a compassionate champion for Lyme patients. Unfortunately we lost him in 2018 from EBV complications--no doubt a result of the immune suppressing anti-rejection drugs required by his transplant.
The Lyme Community has fought for 40 long years for better diagnostics and treatment against a corrupt and intransigent CDC and IDSA. The importance of Kennedy's willingness to give us a seat at the table and make a serious commitment to bringing this long-simmering pandemic out of the shadows and giving it the recognition and funding for treatments and diagnostics that are so desperately needed, cannot be overstated!
The CDC and MSM no doubt are making hay out of the surge in Alpha Gal cases to their own advantage, by weaponizing fear. But public concern is justified. That one fact is true doesn't make the other false. The surge in this latest tick-borne illness should finally be a wake-up call to take the spread of ticks and tick-borne illness seriously, not by media-induced hysteria, but through a sober and clear-eyed acknowledgement of the risks to public health that this long-festering pandemic poses. And to respond accordingly.
What an excellent description of exactly what chronic Lyme patients experience. My good friend and also my daughter have had chronic Lyme for over a decade. My friend who was an active ranch wife and vet tech is now practically a zombie. My daughter struggles to get through the day every day. She has a couple of homeopathic practitioners that help her and if she does a strict diet and gets rest, she can survive the days. But she has a 15-year-old age an 8-year-old, so it is tough.
I have read Kris Newby 's book. When Covid hit, there was no doubt in my mind that it had been weaponized! When you live in a ranching community you know about Corona viruses because they have been around for ages. So, I am angry about Covid and the fact that Fauci had funded the weaponization of the corona virus, and then he's manufactured the Pandemic that destroyed our children's lives and our culture.
I realize that Dr. Malone is trying to stress that the tick porn is another attempt to start a panic. But I know about the terrible effects of Lyme and I am angry that it was weaponized, so I don't care if a little tick panic happens if it saves just one person from having to live with Chronic Lyme.
And I was grateful to RFK, Jr. for having the courage to address Lyme Disease in such a way as to make it acceptable for traditional medicine to acknowledge it's existence.
He was missed diagnosed and treated for multiple sclerosis and has been relentlessly searching for causes and cures when he discovered he never had multiple sclerosis… It was always lymes disease. I have followed his ActiveMSers website for years. He just wrote a letter to government agencies and HHS with his amazing discoveries about lymes disease. It is an extremely long letter but worth the read.
Amen and amen again. I did respond yesterday because our entire family suffered from Lyme, Bartonella and Babesia for many years undiagnosed. My daughter missed her entire high school years. These diseases are going undiagnosed and untreated.
It might have been mentioned, but if you have the tick that bit you, some states have labs to test the ticks, I have done this twice, the ticks were not infected. Also, another source of data, percent of tick bites which were infected.
I wish Dr. Malone would comment on the ongoing research that is being subsidized by NIH/CDC/GATES to do research on manipulating mosquitoes and ticks and what ever else the public has not been informed about. I read Jon Fleetwood who reports on where our tax dollars are going to manipulate life forms for what end point? My view we are DESTROYING THE BALANCE OF NATURE. It will not end well and the Covid con demonstrated this very well!
We live in Virginia and are outdoors a lot. This year my wife and I have pulled over 30 ticks off of each other. Tweezers, a lighter and gone. We watch the bite area for reactions but it has never crossed our minds to worry about it or rush to medical care. Just a fact of life if you spend time outside. Spend time enjoying the grass rather than worrying about the latest nonsense. Please.
Interesting, Greg. I'm not saying where I hike, cause I never see ticks and I suspect Gates is looking for places to drop his tick boxes.
We are not worried about Gates dropping his tick boxes here. The four dogs and two donkeys would give us early warning. If the boxes did drop, it would give the possums something to do.
I grew up here and same here. We used to pull the ticks off the dogs same way.
My son said that the Alpha gal thing was real.. he knows a friend who pulled three off her neck and hair.. and she did have hives reaction from eating meat (hamburger) and that subsided. :) We all have had ticks on us. :)
I have Alpha Gal.
😎👍🏽
Now I have to go to the ER to see if I have been bitten by a tick!
That's funny but it is very hard to get an appt. with a Drs. office in a timely matter. Thus the ER visit.
you know it, you could be in the Morgue first - LOL
Oh please, nooooo! 🤣
That actually happened to a woman who does landscaping and property maintenance for me. She said she got extremely ill and at the ER they gave her a shot.
We wear long pants, sleeves when going through Mt pastures in Vt. Home tick check. Found one on stomach while in bathtub. Covered with Vaseline and it crawled out. Unfortunately my husband had a tick on his leg and did not realize for some days. Caused damage but has been about 3 years and healed up. We all had measles and lived to old age eighties. However, COVID vaccinations caused big problems Afib and hearing loss. I now have the attitude that docs have questionable “knowledge” if hypothetical advice for statins or vaccinations, whereas when we are physically injured such as broken bones or impaired organs or teeth and eyes they can really help.
I ain't a-skeered.
Maybe there should be a Pestilence of the Month?? May was Flea Month. June is Tick Month. Maybe July will be Screwworm month. It will be like the Chinese Zodiac - people will say, her baby was born in the month of the screwworm or the month of the fluke. You can bet your Ivermectin that fluke month is fast-approaching.
I have read all the hype. Thank you for this information
Another "tick-ling" half-true newsreport from Faithless Farthling Newsrooms. Truth be told, the probable reason people are showing up at walk in clinics is that they called their real provider worried about a possible tick bite emergency and were given an appointment for three months down the line. Corporate America Conglomerate Hospital/Doctor associate offices are more interested in sucking new patients to fill their quotas and pay high entry "new patient fees", and then their real patients are pushed to the long wait list hoping they will just go away now. There is much more income in new patient first visits than in medical health care because no one really cares! Hope Kennedy doesn't get run over by the family remarks or the media remarks that also never stop sending poison darts his way. How did all the local hospitals who once cared for patients get forced into joining these Empire Medical Groups anyway? It seems to me that years ago the government broke up giant companies that were too big and squeezing out competitors. Why is no one doing anything about this? As a patient myself, I have no patience for them!!!!
I can tell you from 40 years of living near the woods in CT and being outside all the time , the ticks are no worse than any other year. Granted, during this time, all my horses and dogs have been treated for Lyme at least once. My wife is currently on 14 days of Doxycycline for her Lyme and my dog just came off 2 weeks of Doxy for his Lyme. Just another typical year in the backyard. Did I mention that we live only 20 miles away from Lyme.
I hope that your Doxy treatments are enough to combat your Lyme exposure. Chronic Lyme is terrible and eventually ruins your life completely.
Usually if you catch the symptoms early, it clears up nicely. I had a friend who must have missed the symptoms and a year later his knee swelled up. He was on three different antibiotics for 4 or 5 months before it got cleared up
I have never had it to my knowledge but I get bitten by ticks nearly EVERY year. Most often I never have them on but for a few hours, or less. However, for me, the infection and swelling and redness can last up to 9 mo before it is completely gone.
So, Aldo, with your obvious heightened experience with LYME disease, of all the potential symptoms, could you name the top three that are REALLY obvious that red flag Lyme's disease? Already aware of the red target rash. . .
thanks.
I know that ticks can carry a bunch of different diseases as Dr. Malone mentioned. For Lyme disease, everyone I've known that recognized it early, all had a fever, headache, aches all over and tired. Flu like symptoms. A blood test is a good place to start to see if you have been exposed. Later on it seems to mimic arthritis in the joints.
I agree 110%. My sister had it 25 years ago and the medical community let her down. Didn’t believe her. She died young at 60. She had MRI’s and was told it affected her brain later I. Life because it was left untreated.
Aldo, There are also alternative treatments available to supplement Doxy. Check with an herbalist or complementary doctor. Doxy is tough stuff for some people.
D D how correct you are. It's bothering my wife's stomach right now. Not to the point of not taking it, but definitely not pleasant.
Aldo. I would check Zach Bush M.D. for the "ION Gut Support" he is triple board cert. and is a genius, IMO. His history is as impressive as Dr. Malone, in a different sense. My husband had intense reactions to doxy and we found a few other herbal and homeopathic uses.
Thank you DD for the information.
I'm hiking all the time, and same as usual, I never see a tick. For the last 25years of hiking, I've seen one tick.
Link - IMAhealth's (aka FLCCC) weekly video update 2 weeks ago, was excellent for all things TICKS. Gotta love the many IMA docs! Ya just want to hug them!! 45mins. 1 dose of Doxycycline- is a good tip mentioned.
https://imahealth.org/alpha-gal-syndrome-tick-borne-illness/
"Until public health officials can answer that question, a great many of the headlines should be read with considerably more skepticism than they currently receive."
Personally, I now treat all public health pronouncements with the assumption that they are just propaganda. That is the long-term effect of all the fear-mongering. Eventually, something of real concern will just be ignored due to that conditioning.
This is sheer, UNadulterated TICK PORN. I’m trying to wrap my vernacularly-challenged brain around the phrase, “culturally induced ignorance or doubt” - it sort of TICKS all the boxes.
So tick bites man not big news but if man bites tick...
Yep. I've learned the treatment for a tick bite is much WORSE than the bite itself. Not sure when, maybe early 1990's or so, I was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted fever living as I do in Western PA. I did have a very spotty red rash.
Nonetheless, the strength of the antibiotics given to me caused my rectum to prolapse from the poison contained in them. I subsequently had not one, but two treatments for the prolapse. You know that Frank Zappa song, "talking about your hemmeroids baby."
Sure ticks have moved into my surrounds. Last year I would find ten ticks at a time on my cats when they came indoors after a day with their paws on the ground. I've been giving them 50 cc's of coconut oil twice per day in their food for a few months now and have not yet found nary a nymph on either one. I suppose the lauric acid is the coconut oil is a deterrent.
This whole tick thing just better not become the next CV19, or Bill Gates (the former computer specialist) will come up with another vaccine that will be "mandatory."
The vax is ready to ship. They just need to gin-lather the public up a little more and get people like my sister scared to death, joining prayer chains and consulting online tarot card readers. These tarot card readers don’t actually shuffle, deal, and read your cards - you scroll through generic online tarot readings and choose the one you think best applies to you. You can’t make this stuff up.
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Same thing with the measles outbreaks that the media blames on the current administration. If you look at the history of measles, this is not the worst year ever, contrary to the presentation. Of course, they blame it on "vaccine hesitancy" "caused" by "the current administration", especially blaming Kennedy. Nobody looks into the details of the situation. Who are the people getting infected and why? Are the people getting infected doing anything differently this year than they have done any other year? Did they decide to not get the MMR because Kennedy told them not to (which of course he isn't, but they insinuate he is). What is going on? Who knows. But this is all fuel for the mandates-in-all-situations crowd. We can't look at the current childhood vaccine schedule because measles is such a disaster according to some. It's all great for bad PR.
Measles outbreak due to illegal alien infestation.
A yet different kind of bug.....however still very unwanted and unloved!
Sneaky creepy lil buggers.....them illegal aliens! Hahaha
yes.
Deleted previous comment because I said Virginia Dept of Health but it is CDC monitoring wastewater for measles. With none detected in Virginia. None detected in most of the US according to their map.
No doubt in my mind that it's coming from illegals who haven't been vaccinated (and who, I would guess, are probably many of the patients too). There are a few vaccines that do work...or "seemed to.... I have read that some diseases weren't truly reduced or eliminated by a vaccine but were already dying out before the vaccine even came out....
There are certain (vulnerable?) communities that do not wish to be vaccinated and would rather just be left alone that are not new to "vaccine hesitancy" or whatever you want to call it. Again, that's not new. Are they more at risk? There are groups of illegals with unknown vaccine status. Does any of this have anything to do with the increase or not? Measles is up in recent years in both Canada and Mexico. Is that a factor? How long has the current increase been going on in the United States? As usual, we don't have the numerators and denominators of relevant information. Who? Where? When? Prevalence? We don't know much about where the "outbreak" started; how it spread, details regarding the health status of anyone who died, significance of "outbreaks", etc etc. Death rate is low. How about any related disabilities? You can go to the CDC SchoolVaxView and see that the MMR vaccine coverage has been fairly consistent with ups and downs since 2011 with a slow and somewhat subtle decline since 2020. Much hullabaloo is being made out of the fact that the current national kindergarten rate is around 92.5% rather than the "required" 95%, although if you look at these statistics, you see that we have been here before. And all we have in these CDC SchoolVax Stats is since 2011. I'm pretty sure that uptake has not been over 95% a lot of years in the past. The 95% is also a theoretical threshold concept to start with. Somehow, the news sites get away with saying that the measles increase is sourced to the current administration "antivaxxers" and in classic psychological projection say that the current administration is solely responsible for politicizing the vaccine discussion. Even though recent outbreaks started before Trump and RFK came in, they are being blamed for the recent outbreaks in some online medical sites and certainly in a lot of the press. I haven't heard about any significant pushback. And the whole conversation is overfixated on the MMR, as if the only reason the rates ever dropped was the vaccines.
Many years ago there was a search for the Amblyomma tick from Africa on reptile imports into Florida. The tick can spread heartwater disease. Imagine the fear that would be caused today because of government and social media dissemblers. I was involved in the search as were others.
I think we need a major clarification here. Lyme Disease is a catastrophic illness! Trust me, I know. I've been struggling to recover for over ten years. Ten years, over 15 different practitioners, both mainstream and alternative,$100,000 spent out of my hard earned retirement fund, and i am still sick and disabled. like many 'Lymies' I never saw a tick, or felt a bite; this is, unfortunately, more common than not. After a vacation in North Carolina at a retreat center--in the woods--I came down with what seemed to be a simple, if unpleasant, flu. i recovered, but not completely. I sought acupuncture to treat the remaining symptoms. It worked, but not completely. I stumbled through 2 years of feeling lousy, with recurring bouts of bronchitis, and then a nasty case of shingles. More acupuncture, some improvement, but I was still depleted and exhausted. I finally went to a dr. specializing in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who FINALLY diagnosed me with late stage Lyme Disease. Unfortunately, this was at a time when the few Lyme-treating drs. here in the Northeast were being subjected to harassment, hauled before state medical boards and threatened with delicensing for treating Lyme patients with extended antibiotic therapy, for malpractice. Does this sound familiar? It should. THINK COVID! (New york State finally passed a law protecting physicians who treat this dreadful illness from professional and legal reprisal.)
Ticks are not no big deal! It is estimated that 500,000 people a year in the US are bitten by infected ticks and this may be a conservative estimate. And this is not just a national problem; an estimated 6% of the Chinese population--60 million people--have been exposed to tick-borne illness. Infected ticks are a global problem--and so is getting proper diagnosis and treatment (the reach of the CDC is international, and so is its malfeasance and misinformation--3 weeks of Doxycycline is the only allowable standard of care. Woe betide the doctor who steps out of this framework! Doctors in Europe have also faced, and experienced delicensing for attempting to treat Lyme aggressively. Sweden suspended the license of its only Lyme treating physician, leaving patients up the creek without a paddle! Lyme and its co-infections are not a minor inconvenience. It can upend a person's life, destroying finances, ending marriages, and sometimes (and too often) resulting in suicides of despair!
May I suggest that you check out Stanford science journalist Kris Newby's substack, where she draws from her superbly researched book "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons". Or Dr. Neil Spector's book "Gone in a Heartbeat", documenting his 5 year journey through the medical matrix to get a diagnosis. This is a Duke University Oncology professor and researcher! He was diagnosed with Lyme Carditis, in the nick of time, and required a heart transplant to save him! He then turned his experience in oncology to the study of Lyme disease and became a compassionate champion for Lyme patients. Unfortunately we lost him in 2018 from EBV complications--no doubt a result of the immune suppressing anti-rejection drugs required by his transplant.
The Lyme Community has fought for 40 long years for better diagnostics and treatment against a corrupt and intransigent CDC and IDSA. The importance of Kennedy's willingness to give us a seat at the table and make a serious commitment to bringing this long-simmering pandemic out of the shadows and giving it the recognition and funding for treatments and diagnostics that are so desperately needed, cannot be overstated!
The CDC and MSM no doubt are making hay out of the surge in Alpha Gal cases to their own advantage, by weaponizing fear. But public concern is justified. That one fact is true doesn't make the other false. The surge in this latest tick-borne illness should finally be a wake-up call to take the spread of ticks and tick-borne illness seriously, not by media-induced hysteria, but through a sober and clear-eyed acknowledgement of the risks to public health that this long-festering pandemic poses. And to respond accordingly.
Amen sister.
Thanks, Louise. I'm glad someone is listening!
What an excellent description of exactly what chronic Lyme patients experience. My good friend and also my daughter have had chronic Lyme for over a decade. My friend who was an active ranch wife and vet tech is now practically a zombie. My daughter struggles to get through the day every day. She has a couple of homeopathic practitioners that help her and if she does a strict diet and gets rest, she can survive the days. But she has a 15-year-old age an 8-year-old, so it is tough.
I have read Kris Newby 's book. When Covid hit, there was no doubt in my mind that it had been weaponized! When you live in a ranching community you know about Corona viruses because they have been around for ages. So, I am angry about Covid and the fact that Fauci had funded the weaponization of the corona virus, and then he's manufactured the Pandemic that destroyed our children's lives and our culture.
I realize that Dr. Malone is trying to stress that the tick porn is another attempt to start a panic. But I know about the terrible effects of Lyme and I am angry that it was weaponized, so I don't care if a little tick panic happens if it saves just one person from having to live with Chronic Lyme.
And I was grateful to RFK, Jr. for having the courage to address Lyme Disease in such a way as to make it acceptable for traditional medicine to acknowledge it's existence.
Thank you for your very excellent information.
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He was missed diagnosed and treated for multiple sclerosis and has been relentlessly searching for causes and cures when he discovered he never had multiple sclerosis… It was always lymes disease. I have followed his ActiveMSers website for years. He just wrote a letter to government agencies and HHS with his amazing discoveries about lymes disease. It is an extremely long letter but worth the read.
Amen and amen again. I did respond yesterday because our entire family suffered from Lyme, Bartonella and Babesia for many years undiagnosed. My daughter missed her entire high school years. These diseases are going undiagnosed and untreated.
It might have been mentioned, but if you have the tick that bit you, some states have labs to test the ticks, I have done this twice, the ticks were not infected. Also, another source of data, percent of tick bites which were infected.
I wish Dr. Malone would comment on the ongoing research that is being subsidized by NIH/CDC/GATES to do research on manipulating mosquitoes and ticks and what ever else the public has not been informed about. I read Jon Fleetwood who reports on where our tax dollars are going to manipulate life forms for what end point? My view we are DESTROYING THE BALANCE OF NATURE. It will not end well and the Covid con demonstrated this very well!