Japan providing MPox vaccine to Africa

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In response to the spread of mpox, WHO declared a state of emergency on Aug. 14. Soon after that, Keizo Takemi, health minister at that time, announced that the ministry was preparing to provide the vaccines. Sources related to the Foreign Ministry told Asahi Shimbun reporters that the vaccines would be sent to Congo by the end of October. However, according to sources related to the health ministry, it took time to clarify any compensation if adverse health effect were caused by the vaccine between the two countries.

faith and ethics

 

chronic fatigue after an illness: Psychological or physiological

Wikipedia page on chronic fatigue syndrome here. 

The illness can improve or worsen over time, but full recovery is uncommon.[12] No therapies or medications are approved to treat the condition, and management is aimed at relieving symptoms.[2]: 29  Pacing of activities can help avoid worsening symptoms, and counselling may help in coping with the illness.[8] Before the COVID-19 pandemic, ME/CFS affected two to nine out of every 1000 people, depending on the definition.[9] However, many people fit ME/CFS diagnostic criteria after contracting long COVID.[18] ME/CFS occurs more often in women than in men. It most commonly affects adults between ages 40 and 60 but can occur at other ages, including in childhood.[19]

My severe fatigue after having Dengue sounds like this.

I should note that I had severe muscular weakness (and low platelets etc) when I had Dengue, and indeed, the reason I went to the hospital was not pain (I had none) but because I fell and could not even lift up my arms so that my family could help me up, so we called an ambulance.

no, it was not covid (I tested negative) and my potassium was normal, which was what I had suspected was the cause.... 

I have had several checkups since then to find what is going on but after the tests were negative, the doctors all told me it was because I was old. Duh. 

Yet there might be a subtle immune problem too: Six months after Dengue I developed shingles without a rash. The internist thought I was crazy, and said it was muscle pain but pregabalin controlled the pain, so it was obviously a localized neuropathic pain that improved after three weeks (but is still sensitive in the areas).

so do I have long dengue? Chronic fatigue syndrome? Old age?

But I wonder if the post Covid (and maybe the post mRNA vaccine problems) might have something to do with an increase in interest with this problem.

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Memes and thoughts about what might be going on

 One of the minor stories that symbolized the way a faceless bureaucracy can terrorize normal people doing nothing harmful while ignoring the real problems is the story of PNut the squirrel being killed....

But since the election, it seems that the world is upside down, and things are changing. Hence the meme:

From that nasty modern Jeremiah Ann Barnhart.

so anyway, there seems to be pushback against this power grab, and it is coming from the grass roots, not from the experts.  

So will this result in the US cleaning up their house? Or will the MSM manage to destroy those trying to overturn what is called the Deep state? 

I am old enough to remember the Church committee, when this was a Democratic issue, and the problem of the FBI infiltrating anti war groups and environmental protests was a problem.

but this power grab is not limited to the unelected bureaucrats in the USA: the international types are involved. 

One reason for Brexit was that the European Union officials decided to regulate tea kettles in the UK. Alas the latest UK PM hasn't learned his lesson, and the farmers is acting up, led by a guy whose farm show opened the eyes of a lot of folks to how regulations make it difficult for farmers to grow food

   

 (and given how the EU and others are busy destroying farms under the guise of a global warming treaty, this is not the only farm protest in Europe).

 the way that Covid was used to limit people's freedom while covering up the source of the virus is a story breaking out of the censorship borg.

so was Ecohealth funding viral gain of function research in China? Attention: Stopping them from getting money from the HHS won't work 

I say this because some of these biolabs, such as one that they tried to build here in the Philippines, are funded by the US Dept of Defense 

why? to "REDUCING THE THREAT OF VIRAL SPILLOVER FROM WILDLIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES". 

Luckily one of our Solons noticed the source of funding was the DoD and not a health agency, and stopped this biolab from being built, 

but you know, there is a need for biolabs, but after the WUHAN debacle, one does wonder about these things.

 (the WMD of Saddam Hussein were things like biolabs and insecticide factories, both of which could easily be weaponized. But why would the US Dept of Defense want to seek out pathogens in the Philippines? We had an oubreak of Ebola Reston in our local pig farms awhile back, and foot and mouth disease and other pathogens are a danger to the food supply, but one still worries about seeking out germs to weaponize them.)

the covid response is now being recognized as a way to shut down the economy and to limit free speech...the problem was not the initial response: Yes, like in flu season localized shut downs etc might be warranted, but when we couldn't even deliver rice to Manila for a year without getting our drivers a 30 dollar test for covid, you can see the problem.

so the lesson was learned, right?
Right? 

Whoops.

There is a treaty being "negotiated" for the WHO to gain power to order every government to obey them when the next epidemic hits. 

Lots of talk about that on conspiracy sites. But do you trust them?

maybe tit is time to reform that office too

hopefully placing new leaders in charge of health might improve things.

and then we have the repeated claims of Russia gate: Which was later discovered to be a plot by Hillary to destroy Trump, yet no one behind this fake story has been punished.

and the lies continue. And the reason I mention Russiagate lies is this Question: How much of the pushback against Tulsi Gabbard is because she investigated the biolabs in the Ukraine?

well someone needs to monitor biolabs. 

Yes they are needed in places where animal pathogens are a danger. But why is this being done by the US Dept of Defense? 

Like Sadam's WMD, the dirty little secret is that biolabs can quickly develop bioweapons... and usually US citizens have trusted the government agencies to do this. But after hiding the origin of the Covid virus, that trust is eroding. 

Hence the reason that Trumpiboy is appointing a sceptics to run these agencies.

Some of the gain of function research is needed to figure out if a pathogen might morph into an epidemic. But the lesson of Wuhan virus is that labs leak. 

In Wuhan, the US NIH was hiding their involvement by channeling the money through a non government agency like EcoHealth

But who is investigating these labs when the funding is coming from the Dept of Defense? 

No, not Wuhan Lab (that money was from the NIH via Ecohealth, in order to hide that it was funding gain of function research that is forbidden in the USA) 

but I am talking about the attempt to fund a biolab

and no, not the involvement of the Dept of Defense in the biolabs of the Ukraine. Long nuanced discussion of that here.

But what about here in the Philippines? 

 the US Dept of defense money sent to EcoHealth to look for animal pathogens that might be a spillover into humans. One of our Senators stopped that, but with Marcos being so friendly with the US, one does worry.

the healer

 I avoid reading about disease etc. because in some ways I have PTSS about my years in practice, and it triggers me into depressive thoughts.Yes, I have treated thousands of people, and yes most of them I have helped, but at times the memories that haunt me are the few where something went wrong, and I blame myself (even though most of the time, it was not my fault).

This is, of course, a sign of depression. And the only way to get over it is to balance the accusing thought with another thought, of someone who one helped.

and I   pray for those involved

So on a chat site, someone put up a bible verse that said believe in Jesus and be saved (or go to hell)? As if it was that easy. Yes it is that easy, but it is the milk for babies level of faith, and one needs to grow and mature in God's care.

So I answered with two other verses that remind one that it is our deeds that prove our faith, and posted this picture.

yes that is one of those pictures by Filipino artist Joey Velasco.

And after I posted it, I felt peace: Because the painting summarizes why I became a physician: To help those who were sick, to bring comfort and relieve pain.

 Because in 50 years of being a healer, although the memories often accuse me of mistakes or to see only when unforseen things went wrong, nevertheless, I did help most of those I treated. And that is a comfortable thought.

the latest cancer cure: Hype or true?

this is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt. But there are a few medical articles that suggest this might work with some cancers.

fenben article.

Intensive treatments with fenbendazole were toxic to EMT6 cells in vitro; toxicity increased with incubation time and under conditions of severe hypoxia. Fenbendazole did not alter the dose-response curves for radiation or docetaxel; instead, the agents produced additive cytotoxicities. Febendazole in maximally-intensive regimens did not alter the growth of EMT6 tumors, or increase the antineoplastic effects of radiation. Conclusion These studies provided no evidence that fenbendazole would have value in cancer therapy, but suggested that this general class of compounds merits further investigation.

this article from 2020 suggests that Ivermectin might work too.

Recently, ivermectin has been reported to inhibit the proliferation of several tumor cells by regulating multiple signaling pathways. This suggests that ivermectin may be an anticancer drug with great potential. Here, we reviewed the related mechanisms by which ivermectin inhibited the development of different cancers and promoted programmed cell death and discussed the prospects for the clinical application of ivermectin as an anticancer drug for neoplasm therapy.

So what is holding up the research?

Dr Jay to the NIH?

from RedState:

Trump Nominates Stanford Professor Who Sounded Alarm on COVID Lockdowns—and Was Censored—for Dir. of NIH

IndiaToday article: Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University Was a staunch critic of the US government's Covid policies Faced social media restrictions over his viewsAs the NIH director, he will oversee 27 institutes and centres that conduct early-stage research, spanning areas such as developing vaccines for emerging pandemic threats and identifying targets for new drug therapies.

and yes, he was censored.

why is this important? Because he was ceonsored, but he was pointing out problems since almost the start of the epidemic. This is from October 2021.

the economic pressure here was severe: we had to have our drivers get a thrity dollow covid test to deliver rice to Manila, and the mail was not always picked up, so I had trouble depositing checks from my US accounts.

The good news: Farmers didn't pay a lot of attention. The second good news: I did get a AZ shot late in the year, but it was known to cause blood clots so it was limited to those of us high risk. The mRNA came later, mainly because the DOH refused to sign a no liability clause. They later agreed to give out the vaccine, but I suspect it was because all the earlier studies showed few problems (something that turned out to be a lie, in both efficiency and in side effects especially with repeated shots). Once Omicron hit, we stopped getting shots.