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Julie Hemmings's avatar

I’m confused. How would one benefit from a tetanus vaccine after getting a tick bite?

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James Lyons-Weiler, PhD's avatar

Likewise!

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

💥💥💥

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Kuno van der Post's avatar

The Trumpton Fire Brigade always got out their hoses even though they never once had to put out a fire. It's in the nature of the glory-chaser to want to do something.

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A Cashman's avatar

Every Lyme/MSIDS patient I deal with that gets a 'vaccine' suffers a relapse of symptoms. I've sat across the table from 20-somethings that were in remission, attending college, working, and living life, but then relapsed after a flu shot to the point they had to quit school and move back in with their parents. Seems I'm not alone: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/02/scottish-doctor-gives-insight-on-lyme-msids/. And within this article, Bartonella (a common Lyme coinfection as nasty if not worse than Lyme) was activated in asymptomatic girls after receiving Gardasil: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/04/24/gardasil-and-bartonella/.

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James Lyons-Weiler, PhD's avatar

Thank you!

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STH's avatar

My last tetanus shot (Dtap) was in 2010. Every three years I get a titer to shut up my GP. And it always comes back fine. They last far longer than ten years in my experience. One article I read said they can last a lifetime. What a ruse.

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Dingo Roberts's avatar

Why don't you just say "no" to your GP?

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STH's avatar

I actually fired her when she recommended the Covid shots.

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Hebrews 12:29's avatar

I fired mine too

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Mimi Alberu's avatar

I got a tetanus booster back in the 80s, when I had a GP and didn't know any better. No GP and no vaccines for many decades.

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Syd (is not my real name)'s avatar

For a tick bite??

Why would anyone even consider that as a good idea?

Tetanus is for the potential of an infection from an open wound that could potentially cause something like blood poisoning, is it not?

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Mike Williams's avatar

The "potential" is the bacterium.."they" consider it a great $idea$ ..for the usual clown like reasons..

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Syd (is not my real name)'s avatar

Well, holee hell, that bacterium is likely around every scratch gotten from stringing chicken wire, every pinch of a pair of needle-nose pliers that breaks the skin, every toe-stub gotten while in bare feet….yup, could be a darn good money-maker once they put the fear of God into everyone stringing chicken wire and pinching themselves with their needle-nose pliers. The toe-stubbers will dutifully fall into step…no pun intended.

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Xavier Figueroa's avatar

Jack, what kind of deranged, misinformation terrorist are you!? ALWAYS follow the protocol and never, ever rely on contradictory data, mechanistic immune science or clinical experience. Good Lord, can you imagine if all doctors did that!? Chaos would ensue!?

Bad Ph.D., bad!!!

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James Lyons-Weiler, PhD's avatar

I can't wait for Part 2!

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Laura's avatar

I would like an answer to a question that maybe doesn't seem relevant. Has anyone ever seen a dog with Lyme disease?

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Dingo Roberts's avatar

I don't know how one would tell be "seeing", but there's plenty of information that confirms that they do get Lyme. One example:

Regional and Local Temporal Trends of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma spp. Seroprevalence in Domestic Dogs: Contiguous United States 2013–2019

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7653440

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Laura's avatar

Has anyone here read the summary of Dr. Charles Richet's Nobel Prize of 1913?

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Mimi Alberu's avatar

All my dogs have tested positive and had symptoms at one time or another. Also, they will test positive if they've gotten the (useless) vaccine. My six-yr-old cattle dog most recently also tested positive for Anaplasmosis, so he has been on Baikal Skullcap (Huang Qi) and Chinese Red Sage (Danshen) to protect his spleen.

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

No one needs a Tdap for an insect bite as that is not how tetanus is spread. And there is evidence that immunity from DTaP lasts longer than 30 years so does anyone really need Tdap boosters at all? Studies conducted in 2016 and 2020 suggested that the vaccines generate at least 30 years of immunity against the life-threatening infections, far beyond the current 10-year booster recommendations. Adults do not need tetanus or diphtheria booster shots if they’ve already completed their childhood vaccination series against these rare, but debilitating diseases. https://smithvirologist.substack.com/p/tdap-for-insect-bites-tetanus-doesnt

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Crixcyon's avatar

No thanks. How are vaccine poisons any better than tick bites?

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Mike Williams's avatar

Great article!

Two excellent books on govts doing nasty (what could go wrong) things with ticks are

"Bitten, the secret history of Lyme disease and Biological weapons" Kris Newby

"Lab 257" Michael Carroll

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Yeowoman's avatar

Is this genuine ?? we get between 10 and 40 tick bites in one day in my region and it took about 30 years before anyone took lyme disease seriously, certainly nobody was ever offered tetanus boosters . I'm not sure if it's good or bad that my country is so remiss.

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Mimi Alberu's avatar

Has anyone looked into whether the individuals who develop a meat allergy have gotten one or more Covid shots?

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Eva's avatar

Sadly there were cases of meat allergy from tick bites in Scandinavia many many years before the covid jabs.

Although nothing to say they don’t cause more of them… ?!?

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Mimi Alberu's avatar

Huang Qi is Astragalus and Danshen is Red Sage, sorry for the typo. Baikal skullcap is Scutellaria baicalensis.

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Hebrews 12:29's avatar

I'm a physician. I have never heard of giving tetanus after a tick bite. I've searched the literature and it almost never happens. Talked to some er docs and nurses--they're wondering if it's a recent practice in order to upcode billing for an ER or urgent care visit after a tick bite?

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Hebrews 12:29's avatar

Also, I've tried to research it, but less than 1% of tick bites seem to be followed by a tetanus booster. Would that fit with the numbers of people developing alpha-gal allergies? Looking at another comment below asking whether dogs get Lyme--wonder if they get alpha-gal?

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Hebrews 12:29's avatar

You say it's "standard practice" to give the tetanus booster, but it's not.

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