IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS OF YOUR TIME AND SIGN THE PETITION AT THE LINK BELOW.

AS AN ADVOCATE, I HAVE SPENT MANY HOURS WRITING LETTERS AND ARTICLES AND TESTIFYING ON BEHALF OF THE LYME COMMUNITY, AND I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT.
 
IT IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. ALTHOUGH YOU MAY BE WORKING WITH YOUR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN A FAVORABLE WAY, THE CLIMATE REMAINS DIFFICULT IN OTHER STATES. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS ENDEAVOR BY CIRCULATING THE PETITION TO YOUR GROUP MEMBERS.
 
I ASKED A LEADER OF THE ARIZONA LYME DISEASE ASSOCIATION, WHOSE MEMBERS.ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE ARIZONA STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT BY CIRCULATING IT AMONG HIS MEMBERS. HE REFUSED TO SO SO. I FIND IT ALARMING THAT A SUPPORT GROUP LEADER WOULD DENY HIS MEMBERS THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR FREE WILL AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION AS TO SIGNING A PETITION THAT WOULD DIRECTLY IMPACT THEIR HEALTH.
 
THEREFORE, I AM CIRCULATING THE PETITION ONCE MORE TO GARNER MORE SIGNATURES AND AM REQUESTING THAT OTHER PATIENTS AND ADVOCATES SIGN THE PETITION IN SUPPORT.
 
PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ALL ON YOUR LISTS AND ON FACEBOOK, ALSO. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH THIS PROJECT AND A BIG THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY RESPONDED.
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/arizona-health-department-betraying-public-trust-with-false-and-misleading-statements/
 
SINCERELY,
TINA J. GARCIA
LYME EDUCATION AWARENESS PROGRAM
WWW.LEAPARIZONA.COM

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21282991&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

RESULTS:: The histological studies, electron microscopy, and the PCR
analysis confirmed the identification of the bacilli within the involved
tissues. Furthermore, molecular diagnosis by PCR allowed for speciation of
the infecting Bartonella organisms in 6 of the 8 cases and correlated with
the histological findings.

CONCLUSIONS:: The PCR-based
identification of Bartonella correlated well with the results of light
microscopy and TEM and provided a simple and rapid method of diagnosis to
the species level. The molecular analysis may prove to be beneficial in
enhancing the current diagnostic techniques for CSD and bacillary
angiomatosis.

Excerpt:

In this study we compared some common Bartonella culturing methodologies
using four diverse species causing human illnesses. Based on a review of the
literature, we focused on three major inconsistencies between protocols:
base media, cell co-culture and temperature. Our data showed that B. tamiae
demonstrated temperature-dependent growth limitations between common
culturing conditions only 2 degrees C apart. Additionally, growth of B.
quintana was significantly enhanced by the presence of mammalian cell
co-culture within mammalian culture conditions, however when the media was
modified to incorporate insect culture-based media, co-culturing with
mammalian cells was no longer needed. In this study, we were able to
overcome these temperature and cell dependent limitations and accommodate
all of the strains tested by combining mammalian culture-based media with
insect culture-based media.

Excerpt:

Human ehrlichiosis is the term for a collection of tick-borne diseases
caused primarily by obligate intracellular bacteria of the Ehrlichia
species.
Ehrlichiosis is characterized by a mild to severe illness, with
approximately 3-5% of cases proving fatal despite receiving appropriate
care. This report presents the case of a 60 year-old woman who was found
collapsed and unresponsive in her home after an indeterminate time; possibly
for up to 48 h.
Despite rigorous resuscitative care and antibiotic treatment, the patient
lapsed into multi-organ failure and died. Subsequent analysis by microscopic
examination, PCR and immunohistochemistry revealed the patient died from an
infection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Clinicians and pathologists must be
aware of this emergent disease in order to make a timely and appropriate
diagnosis.
Discussion of the patient’s clinical, laboratory and autopsy findings as
well as treatment of Ehrlichia chaffeensis infections is presented.

Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

By PETER WAYNER, The New York Times

One day Kathy Ceceri noticed a tick on her arm and started to worry that it was the kind that carried Lyme disease. So she went to her home lab, put the tiny arachnid under her microscope, which is connected to her computer through a U.S.B. cable, and studied the image.

“It was,” she said. “Then of course I Googled what to do when you’ve been bitten by a deer tick.”

Ms. Ceceri’s microscope, a Digital Blue QX5, is one of several pieces of scientific equipment that make up her home lab, which she has set up on her dining room table in Schuylerville, N.Y. Home labs like hers are becoming more feasible as the scientific devices that stock them become more computerized, cheaper and easier to use. 

Ms. Ceceri has several microscopes and a telescope. Other home laboratories have tools like infrared thermometers, which can be used in the kitchen, and kits to analyze DNA at home.

Many of these tools work closely with home computers and come with software that enhances their power. Others mix low-cost computers into the hardware to deliver more precise control.

Some people who set up home laboratories are serious hobbyists in search of better tools; others are home-schooling parents equipping their children; and others are just curious.

 Ms. Ceceri, a writer, seems to fall into all three camps because she teaches her sons Anthony, 15, and John, 18, at home, and then she writes about some of their discoveries for a number of blogs like geekdad.com, geekmom.com and homebiology.blogspot.com.

 “This year we’re doing integrated science,” she said of her home science curriculum. “Anything we were looking at, we put under the microscope.”

 She explained that she and her children raised triops, tiny crustaceans, and examined the eggs under the microscope. “We took a really nice video of the paramecium and nematodes swimming around just holding a digital camera up to a microscope,” she said.

 Brian Haddock, a software developer from south of Fort Worth, who also writes about science topics on his blog, Reeko’s Mad Scientist Lab, particularly enjoys using a microscope with a computer.

 “Those U.S.B. microscopes are pretty cool,” he said. “They don’t magnify as much as one of those optical scopes would, but you can look at it on your computer screen. It’s got a big picture on your screen that’s easier to see instead of those little tiny images you squint at.”

 “Personally, I like the Carson zPix,” he said.

 The growth in home labs is helped by manufacturers who are building tools at affordable prices.

 ThinkGeek.com, an online store that sells items for home laboratories, among other things, offers three models of microscopes at various prices, said Scott Smith, a co-founder of the site.

Prices begin at $99, with models that offer 20x to 200x digital enlargements of whatever is being examined. The store’s high-end model costs $349, and it delivers what Mr. Smith characterized as sharper, better quality images for both hobbyists and businesses like jewelry shops.

Adding a computer interface to a telescope makes it possible to collect more detail than might appear to the eye looking through the optics. The computer can collect multiple images over time and combine the results, enhancing the appearance of the faintest items.

 “It isn’t just about capturing video or still images. It actually allows you to stack a whole bunch of still images to get those really beautiful, spectacular pictures of the night sky,” explained Timothy Burns, the director of marketing at Edmund Scientific, the scientific supplier, which stocks a wide range of telescopes for the casual and professional scientist.

The Mumps vaccine failure rate is reported to be 77% so for almost no benefits they want to continue to expose children. Even proponents admit it is a process with DOCUMENTED RISKS, although they blame many of the risks on anything but vaccine side effects. The CDC lists the proven side effects.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/028142_mumps_vaccines.html

Excerpt:

Mumps outbreak spreads among people who got vaccinated against mumps
Thursday, February 11, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com 

To hear the vaccine pushers say it, all the recent outbreaks of mumps and measles are caused by too few people seeking out vaccinations. It’s all those “non-vaccinated people” who are a danger to society, they say, because they can spread disease.

Reality tells a different story, however: It is the vaccinated people who are causing these outbreaks and spreading disease!

Just this week, an outbreak of mumps among more than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York has raised alarm among infectious disease authorities. The outbreak itself is not unusual, though. What’s unusual is that the health authorities slipped up and admitted that most of the people infected with mumps had already been vaccinated against mumps.

In Ocean County, New Jersey, county spokeswoman Leslie Terjesen told CNN that 77 percent of those who caught mumps had already been vaccinated against mumps.
77 percent of those infected had been vaccinated
Usually this information is censored out of the press. The vaccine industry wants the public to believe that vaccines are effective at preventing infection. So the media typically refrains from reporting what percentage of the infected people were already vaccinated against the infectious disease.

But in this case, the 77 percent figure slipped out. And now intelligent observers are increasingly seeing the truth about these vaccines:

Excerpt:

Lyme neuroborreliosis or “neurological Lyme disease” was evidenced in 2 of
23 patients submitted to strict criteria for case selection of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention employing a two-tier test to detect
antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi at a single institution. One patient had
symptomatic polyradiculoneuritis, dysautonomia, and serological evidence of
early infection; and another had symptomatic small fiber sensory neuropathy,
distal polyneuropathy, dysautonomia, and serological evidence of late
infection. In the remaining patients symptoms initially ascribed to Lyme
disease were probably unrelated to B. burgdorferi infection. Our findings
suggest early susceptibility and protracted involvement of the nervous
system most likely due to the immunological effects of B. burgdorferi
infection, although the exact mechanisms remain uncertain.

Excerpt:

Tick-borne pathogens such as Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes,
Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp. and Babesia spp. cause
a great variety of diseases in animals and humans. Although their
importance with respect to emerging human diseases is increasing,
many issues about their ecology are still unclear. In spring
2007, 191 Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks were collected
from 99 birds of 11 species on a bird conservation island in the
Baltic Sea in order to test them for Borrelia spp., A.
phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp. and Babesia spp. infections.
Identification of the pathogens was performed by polymerase chain
reaction (PCR), restriction fragment length polymorphism and
sequence analysis. The majority of birds with ticks testing
positive were European robins and thrushes. Borrelia DNA was
detected in 14.1%, A. phagocytophilum in 2.6%, rickettsiae in
7.3% and Babesia spp. in 4.7% of the ticks. Co-infections with
different pathogens occurred in six ticks (3.1%). The fact that
11 ticks (five larvae, six nymphs) were infected with Borrelia
afzelii suggests that birds may, contrary to current opinion,
serve as reservoir hosts for this species. Among rickettsial
infections, we identified Rickettsia monacensis and Rickettsia
helvetica. As we detected five Rickettsia spp.
positive larvae and two birds carried more than one infected
tick, transmission of those pathogens from birds to ticks appears
possible.