Japan providing MPox vaccine to Africa

 LINK

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.

....

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.

nano spaghetti to the rescue

 

from PopSci: \

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti The 'nanopasta' is 200x thinner than a human hair. ]

This nanofiber is about 200 times thinner than a human hair and was created by a team at University College London (UCL). While it won’t be making its way onto the menu of an Italian restaurant anytime soon, this creation was cooked up in a lab because nanofibers have wide applications in medicine and industrial design.'' To do this, they used a technique called electrospinning. '

An electric charge pulls threads of flour and liquid through the tip of a needle. in the journal Nanoscale 

Advances.Earthcom article notes:The microscopic mats of nanofibers are permeable enough to permit the passage of water and moisture, while acting as a protective barrier against harmful bacteria.

anti worm and anti parasite medicines for cancer?

,,,

article one:Front Oncol. 2021 Apr 29;11:670804. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.670804 Repositioning of Antiparasitic Drugs for Tumor Treatment. table here is a summary

Antitumor mechanism of antiparasitic drugs us symmarized in the table

another article here on ivermectin. Ivermectin induces apoptosis and autophagy is mutually regulated. Interestingly, ivermectin can also inhibit tumor stem cells and reverse multidrug resistance and exerts the optimal effect when used in combination with other chemotherapy drugs.

the irony: These are medicines used in animals and also in humans and have few side effects, but often there is no money for expensive studies. (the articles tend to be from Asia). So will Trump pass a "Free to try" law?

one is reminded of the HIV treatment problems in the Dallas Buyer's Club.

Oreos or statins?

From Improbable research: full report here:

not for everyone, just for a subgroup of the population.

In this case study experiment on a lean mass hyper-responder on a ketogenic diet, Oreo cookie supplementation lowered LDL-C by 273 mg/dL over 16 days, a 71% drop, as compared to a smaller 137 mg/dL peak reduction, a 32.5% drop, with 6 weeks of high-intensity statin therapy. These findings are consistent with the lipid energy model and highlight the need for further studies on this unique lean mass hyper-responder population.

good or bad?

None of @RobertKennedyJr 's views "have any value whatsoever," say the media. But even the author admits RFK's right about fluoride, raw milk, and the danger of Big Pharma. Elites are freaking out because they know RFK will hold them accountable for their gross abuses of power. pic.twitter.com/wHFbRTzVC0

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 14, 2024

diabetes cure

Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55

— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024

simple things that save lives

 

Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55

— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024

Trump vs the corrupt WHO

 

The treaty is a fraud of course LINKThe proposed "Pandemic Treaty" is NOT designed to prevent the next pandemic. The World Health Organization has failed to address the obvious fact that regulatory agencies around the world have been captured by pharmaceutical interests. In fact, they are profiting from it. >LINK< It is designed to enable a small group of well-positioned people to profit from the next pandemic.

More here. The WHO's "Prequalification" and "Emergency Use Listing" Racket Are products that are approved, "Prequalified" or listed for emergency use (EUL) by the World Health Organization truly "safe and effective," or is this just another corrupt, money-making racket? James Roguski Nov 07, 2024 Share Leave a comment Type your email... Subscribe Are you aware that the World Health Organization has “prequalified” 272 vaccines? They charge over $100,000 per vaccine! In order for “health related products” to be part of the United Nations procurement system, they must be “prequalified” by the WHO, which charges substantial one-time and ongoing fees in return for their “prequalification.” A “racket” is defined as the act of creating demand for a “service” through extortion or intimidation when such a “service” would not have been needed otherwise. A “racketeer” is a person who engages in organized criminal activity, typically for financial gain.

 “Racketeering” is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. 

 Is the WHO ethically and financially liable for the harm that results from the products that they “prequalify?” Or does their money-making scheme enable them to create an illusion of safety and effectiveness while redirecting blame to the Responsible National Regulatory Agencies? Click on the links below for details: https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/fees-prequalification https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/prequalified-vaccines 

 If manufacturers want their products to be eligible for procurement by United Nations agencies, they must submit to the World Health Organization’s scheme to have their products “prequalified.” The “Pandemic Agreement” is NOT designed to improve health and there is absolutely no evidence that it will prevent future pandemics. 

 It is actually a corrupt business deal that is designed to dramatically expand the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex (PHEIC) around the world. It is simply NOT acceptable to spend tens of billions of dollars to increase Big Pharma’s profits under the guise of “sustainable financing” for “geographically diversified local production” to ensure “equitable access to pandemic related products” to combat “pathogens with pandemic potential.”

Hallucinogens the latest fad

 Hallucinogens; The latest fad.

the latest: Curing anorexia.

psychologically this is a way to cope when the environment is oppressive: an obessive compulsive behavior because by your diet you can at least control one thing in your life (see how both Sisi and Princess Diana's anorexia started because of the oppression not of their marriages alone but the court life pressures on them).

I posted this answer:

I always suspect these studies because they are done

to prove the hallucinogen works.

They also have selected participants:

For example, devout Christians would not take

hallucinogens, but might enter into a study of faith

healing for depression etc.

(for which there are a lot of anecdotes that it works).

So where are these studies?

Ironically, the advocates often cite AmerIndian healing

ceremonies, but ignore the ceremonies are about

communal prayer for the person.

And magic mushrooms don't make you hallucinate

like LSD but merely give you a mild high that makes

you feel like you are part of the entire world. For people

with existential loneliness, this might indeed help them,

but without helping them connect with their family and

society, other problems will result.

Mother Katherine Drexal, a nun who pioneered schools

for minorities, once participated and noted that

the mushroom gave her the same feeling as she

got in deep prayer after taking the Eucharist.

This needs to be examined but probably won't be. 

or as one commenter noted:

Golden Rule an hour ago

It the new "marijuana"; the recreational drug lobby has move on after their last victory.

inoculating smallpox

A film review noted Marie Antoinette had received variolation as a child so was not ar risk when Louis 15 died of that disease. Yet 2 of her sisters were so scarred that they were exiled to convents.

Something for me to .ook up at a later date since right now I am reading about epidemics in Heian Japan described in fictional storied

Cleaning up the junk food epidemic

TB in AmerIndian communities

 We saw TB in Africa, but it was still a major problem when I worked in the IHS. Mainly from poverty. this is a Canadian film 

Of course it spreads via close contact. When you read about deaths in boarding schools for the indigenous remember some are from TB.

TB in Georgia High school: checking if he spread it

from LegalInsurrection:

In a recent report on the respiratory disease tuberculosis (i.e., “TB”), an incident involving an illegal Chinese immigrant

with a rare form of tuberculosis sparked concern and legal action in Louisiana. Now approximately 200 students and staff members at a Georgia high school have undergone tuberculosis testing after a possible exposure on campus.

the article then quotes a local public health doc who says that TB is treatable, so hopefully it is not a case of drug resistant TB.

when I adopted my kids, my oldest had a chest x ray to check if he had TB  to be cleared for a visa. The youngest was exempt, because his tb skin test was weakly positive because he got a BCG immunization. However, years later when applying for a job at a nursing home, he was retested and the test was strongly positive. Chest X ray was negative so he was given a course of INH to lower the chance of relapse.

When I got back from Africa, my test was strongly positive, and my chest x ray was negative, and so I too had to take INH for a year. 

And our granddaughter Ruby tested positive here in the Philippines and it had to be verified she was on INH before she could get a visa to study in the USA. 

Heck, I was required to get a Chest X ray to get a long term visa for the Philippines too. So it's not just the USA, but good medical practice...

How serious could cases of undiagnosed Tuberculosis be?

in 1970, a worker in the US congress cafeteria was found to have open TB,

  NYTIMES

:WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) —Arrangements were made to day to test members of Con gress and about 14,000 Capitol employes for tuberculosis. The action was taken after health officials learned that two Senate restaurant workers died of TB in recent months and that four other active cases of the contagious disease had been found in the Capitol complex.

until HIV hit, few US doctors had seen cases of TB. 

I worked for the US PHS, and American Indians had a high risk because of poverty/crowded living conditions. So there was a debate if we should treat everyone with a positive TB test: The risk of hepatitis had to be weighed against the risk of TB relapse. We finally compromised: Treated the younger under 30s, but later we started treating those with diabetes, which also lowered their resistance to TB.

one of the problems with TB is that like other germs it is becoming resistant to medications: people inadequatly treated, people with HIV or poor immune systems who don't clear the germ with treatment etc..

And then there is the problem of seeing mild cases in people with TB scars: Often all you see is a subtle thickening of the cavity scar. I once picked up a case of this in Mescalero, and we transferred the lady for diagnostic bronchoscopy. Initial tests were negative, but the culture did grow multi drug resistant TB.

so we had to put her on a complicated regime. Luckily we were IHS so we arranged for a public health nurse to administer the medicines twice a week. Alas, after six months, the patient developed signs of liver toxicity, either from the drugs or because of alcohol/illicit drug ingestion (she was a known alcoholic but had been sober for a few years when all this happened), but before we could arrange a recheck to see if she still needed the drug, she disappeared.

Finally, one more TB story: Tuberculosis killed several of our relatives including Lolo's father. When he started medical school he was found to have active tuberculosis. Luckily for him, streptomycin had been found to cure TB, and he got some from the local Americans (Legally because he was a veteran, or on the black market? I never asked) and his TB was cured. The bad news? Streptomycin is toxic to hearing, and he had to wear hearing aids.

some educational lectures here: First the history of TB, the second on treatment.

recovery from a stroke: Fetterman on Joe Rogan

Failing to scan for TB will cause an upsurge in cases

 Via Instapundit:

Yahoonews:

A student sick with tuberculosis could have exposed hundreds at a Georgia high school, amid an alarming global spread of the disease. Local public health officials identified the infected student at Walton High School, in Marietta, the Cobb County School District told USA TODAY in an email. The student with the bacterial disease had contact with about 200 students and faculty, prompting public health officials in Cobb and Douglas counties to conduct tuberculin skin tests Tuesday, according to Valerie Crow, a spokesperson for the local public health department, said.

article notices an upsurge since Covid hit: But doesn't ask two questions: How much is from immune supression from covid or covid vaccine, and how many cases are in migrants who never were screened for TB (required for immigrants).

this article notes that a lot of the upsurge is from unscreened migrants.

this PLOS article is about TB in various migrant populations.

the elderly in need

turbo cancers?

  

Catholic hospitals going woke, mutilating children

 

Dr Jay fought the sytem over Covid

LINK

Stanford doctor hailed as ‘intellectual freedom’ leader for challenging gov’t on COVID-19

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya received the American Academy of Sciences and Letters’ top intellectual freedom award on Wednesday for resisting attempts to politically control his scientific work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The academy presents its annual Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom to a scholar “who displays extraordinary courage in the exercise of intellectual freedom,” according to its website.

when Covid hit, I watched numerous government news conferences by Dr Blix et all, but this wasn't mentioned. The disturbing part of these conferences is when Trumpieboy suggested stuff (UV light to disinfect stuff, using antiseptics became the drinking bleach hoax, ignoring that certain mouthwashes did cut your risk of covid, HCQ and Ivermectin which was quickly debunked and he was ridiculed) but I never heard about the questioning of the shutdown, which was proposed by Dr. Jay..... More shame me.

mosquito borne illnesses in USA Malaria and Dengue

 Malaria Vivax acquired in Arkansas.

In September 2023, a 10th U.S. case of locally acquired malaria was diagnosed, in Arkansas. ...This represents the 10th autochthonous case identified nationally in 2023, after 20 years without recorded local mosquitoborne malaria transmission in the United States. ...The patient had no reported history of international travel, blood transfusion, organ transplant, or other bloodborne pathogen exposure

this type of malaria, unlike the more dangerous Falciparum Malari, can be dormant for years. The original source was not found. Of course, a person with a fever and symptoms might not go to the doctor, and one wonders if it was in a local who traveled in a malaria area, or in the unscreen migrants who are entering into the USA en mass.

P. vivax and P. ovale are traditionally thought to occupy complementary niches, with P. ovale predominating in Sub-Saharan Africa and P. vivax in the other areas; but their geographical ranges do overlap.

Countries where refugees arrived from in September To Arkansas: #1. Venezuela: 27 #2. Nicaragua: 14 #3. Guatemala: 8 #4. Myanmar: 4 #5. Iran: 2 #6. Colombia: 1 #6. Congo: 

Refugees that arrived from Congo since October 2023  To Arkansas: 108

the southern USA was a malaria area in the past, so those mosquitoes are still there. The local public health dept did start spraying in the area where this case was found.

The real danger might be seen in this case: Dengue Fever in California.

Dengue has an incubation period of 4 to ten daysand is spread by a different mosquito.

Most cases are mild or subclinical, so may not be seen by a physician.

in the recorded case, another asymptomatic case in the same neighborhood was detected. And they swifty started to do anti mosquito spraying etc.

The real danger is that it could continue to spread via asymptomatic or mild cases.

mosquito eradification is especially important since the same mosquito spreads Zika virus and yellow fever.

and remember: one reason for the establishment of the US Public Health Service was the Yellow Fever epidemic that killed thousands in Philadelphia in 1793

history: https://careers.publichealth.iu.edu/blog/2018/10/12/a-brief-history-of-the-public-health-service/

PHS had its origins in the system of marine hospitals to treat sick sailors: In July 16, 1798 the fifth congress passed an Act which was signed by the second President of the United States John Adams. Signed into law the “Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen”. The Act authorized the deduction of twenty cents per month from wages of seamen, for the sole purpose of funding medical care for sick, and disabled seamen, as well as building additional hospitals for the treatment of seamen.This originated in 1798.