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Why is WHO vaccinating so many Gazans, multiple times?

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© EYAD BABA / AFPVaccination against polio, Gaza.
Information about covid vaccination programmes in Gaza is scant. The World Health Organisation ("WHO") doesn't provide clear data and available information often combines Gaza and the West Bank as "Palestine." In short, details of the aid being sent to Gaza is shrouded in mystery.

Before 7 October 2023, covid vaccination rates in Gaza were low; initially 5% and at the last count up to 40% of the population had been vaccinated while WHO said that at least 60%-70% of the population must be vaccinated.

From the scant information available, it is clear there has been a concerted effort, particularly by WHO, to push for covid vaccinations in Gaza, despite the population being vaccine-hesitant.

Following WHO's covid vaccine drive, there was a polio vaccine drive. The vaccines used are novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), which was developed with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to combat the polio emergency created by the previous oral polio vaccine.

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Patient defies genetic fate to avoid Alzheimer's disease

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© Megan FarmerDoug Whitney, who lives near Seattle, Wash., inherited a mutation that has caused many family members to develop Alzheimer's disease at about age 50, yet he shows no sign of the illness at age 75
Study offers clues to treatment, prevention

Doug Whitney, who lives near Seattle, Wash., inherited a mutation that has caused many family members to develop Alzheimer's disease at about age 50, yet he shows no sign of the illness at age 75. His case is the subject of a new study by WashU Medicine researchers that aims to identify potential routes to preventing or treating Alzheimer's based on Whitney's exceptional resilience to the disease.

Remarkably, Doug Whitney, 75, has escaped genetic destiny. Like many members of his family, Whitney inherited a rare genetic mutation that all but guarantees he would develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease. But Whitney, whose relatives first showed symptoms of cognitive decline in their early 50s, remains mentally sharp with no signs of the devastating disease, and a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain why.

Their findings, published Feb. 10, 2025, in Nature Medicine, point to potential therapeutic avenues to explore to help protect against the development of Alzheimer's.

Comment: Mr. Whitney is still actively exercising his cognitive faculties, as evidenced by his use of word puzzles games. This was noted as a positive factor in the famous 'Nun Study', begun in the early 1980s

His long-term exposure to a physically stressful environment also seems to be playing a part in his cognitive health. Wikipedia has this to say about heat shock proteins:
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions. They were first described in relation to heat shock,[1] but are now known to also be expressed during other stresses including exposure to cold,[2] UV light[3] and during wound healing or tissue remodeling.[4] Many members of this group perform chaperone functions by stabilizing new proteins to ensure correct folding or by helping to refold proteins that were damaged by the cell stress.[5] This increase in expression is transcriptionally regulated. The dramatic upregulation of the heat shock proteins is a key part of the heat shock response and is induced primarily by heat shock factor (HSF).[6] HSPs are found in virtually all living organisms, from bacteria to humans.



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Kentucky, Montana, Idaho among states looking to ban mRNA vaccines

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As calls to ban mRNA shots intensify worldwide, a growing number of U.S. states and communities are eyeing laws to prohibit or pause their use.

A bill introduced Tuesday in the Kentucky House of Representatives would ban until July 1, 2035, the administration of "any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether the administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term."

Lawmakers in Idaho and Montana recently introduced similar bills. Legislative initiatives are in the planning stages or have been passed at the county level in at least four other states, including Iowa, South Carolina, Texas and Washington.

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Study reveals direct gut-brain communication via vagus nerve

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© Credit: iScience (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111699The gut microbiota and lumenal microbial metabolites promote vagal afferent nerve activity.
A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain communication, addressing a critical gap in the field.'

The research โ€” led by Kelly G. Jameson, as a Ph.D. student in the Hsiao Lab at UCLA โ€” demonstrates a clear causal relationship between gut microbiota and vagal nerve activity. The work is published in the journal iScience.

While the vagus nerve has long been thought to facilitate communication between the gut microbiome โ€” the community of microorganisms living in the intestines โ€” and the brain, direct evidence for this process has been limited. Researchers led by Jameson observed that mice raised without any gut bacteria, known as germ-free mice, exhibited significantly lower activity in their vagus nerve compared to mice with a normal gut microbiome. Notably, when these germ-free mice were introduced to gut bacteria from normal mice, their vagal nerve activity increased to normal levels.

Comment: See also: Gut bacteria influence brain development


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New study finds entire spoonful of microplastics in people's brains โ€” and 3 times as much in those with dementia

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© University of New MexicoThe most common type of microplastic found in brains studied was polyethylene.
Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue โ€” but the rest? Plastic.

That's the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher levels than other organs. Even more troubling, these tiny particles are accumulating rapidly, having increased 50% over the past eight years.

"There's much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined or been comfortable with," said Campen, distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

On average, the brain samples studied contained about 7 grams of microplastics โ€” roughly the weight of an average plastic spoon.

To make matters worse, the study also found up to 10 times the amount of microplastics in the brains of 12 dementia patients compared to healthy brains. While the correlation is clear, researchers cautioned that further study is needed to establish a direct link.

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UK VACCINE SCANDAL! GPs Took Pfizer Money to PUSH Kids' Vaccines!

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Neil Oliver and guest Molly Kingsley from the lobby group 'UsForThem', reveal the absolutely shocking truth behind the UK's vaccine scandal.

The Royal College of GPs has been exposed for failing to declare Pfizer payments while advocating for COVID jabs for children, despite the JCVI's firm refusal to recommend the rollout.

This shocking betrayal of public trust highlights how Big Pharma's influence has infiltrated critical health decisions.

In a blatant disregard for children's health and public trust, can the situation even be rectified, or do we need to 'drain the swamp' just like the US?


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Household mold: A potential trigger for Alzheimer's disease

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An Australian nutritionist began experiencing symptoms of fatigue and dementia after moving to a new house and was later diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's disease. Eventually, it was discovered that her symptoms were linked to severe mold growth caused by water leaks in the house. This case was reported by Australian media in 2022.

Mold in the house may act as a potential trigger for Alzheimer's disease, though this claim remains a topic of debate among experts. Some microbiology researchers suggest that untreated mold infections in their early stages could impair brain function.

On the program "Health 1+1," Professor Shao-Hung Wang, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biopharmaceuticals at National Chiayi University in Taiwan, discussed the dangers of household mold, methods for checking indoor humidity and preventing mold, and important considerations when using disinfectants.

Comment: Check out these two videos for more information on mold toxicity:


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Opinion: Invalidity of Counterfactual Models of Mortality Averted by Childhood Vaccination.

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I express and support the opinion that all models that purport to calculate the mortality (infant mortality in particular) averted by vaccine programmes are invalid because they are based on inputs of vaccine efficacy and pathogen prevalence and virulence that are themselves invalid.

Even with ideal testing, the counterfactual number of deaths from a presumed pathogen if the targeting vaccination programme was not implemented is impossible to calculate reliably because it is contrary to biological reality: the deaths of concern are always complex non-linear events that involve several interacting contributing factors that do not have additive effects.

Furthermore, infant mortality factors other than vaccination are highly variable and overwhelmingly more important than any presumed vaccine benefit; predominantly, deleterious effects of nutritional deficiencies and of relentless exposures to challenges from toxic living environments. The underlying cause is so-called failed-state extreme poverty due to structural financial exploitation that is not being addressed. There is no known example of a drop in measured infant or child mortality temporally associated with the rollout of a childhood vaccination programme.

Independent studies suggest that, contrary to dogma, excess infant mortality (not averted infant mortality) is associated with vaccine programme rollouts and maintenance. Using yearly infant all-cause mortality rate directly, I estimate approximately 100 million vaccine-rollout-associated infant deaths 1974-2024 worldwide, with the caveat of concomitant largescale economic transformations.

I conclude, overall, that the longstanding industry of infant vaccination programmes is a baseless fraudulent enterprise of exploitation.

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Best of the Web: 'No Consistent Patterns:' Scientists Find No Evidence that Closing Schools Materially Reduced Covid Transmission

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For years, scientists and commentators who questioned COVID policies were censored, blacklisted, and canceled across the country. Many of these dissenting views have since been vindicated from the lab origins theory to the lack of efficacy of surgical masks to the opposition to the closure of schools.

Now, a new study in the Journal of Infection further undermines the once orthodox views of the pandemic, concluding that "reopening schools did not change the existing trajectory of COVID-19 rates." In other words, we shut down our schools, without any demonstrable benefit to the country. We did, however, succeed in reducing free speech in the name of combating "disinformation."

The report is based on one of the comprehensive studies to date on the pandemic:
"Data were extracted from government websites. Cases and COVID-19 hospitalization and death incidence rates were calculated during the Delta and early Omicron periods in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom, for two weeks preceding and six weeks after schools reopened. We summarized stringency of public health measures (GRI), COVID-19 vaccination rates by age and SARS-CoV-2 testing rates."

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'Jaw-dropping' study finds vaccinated children have 170% higher risk of autism

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Vaccinated children have a 170% higher chance of being diagnosed with autism compared to unvaccinated children, according to a new peer-reviewed study.

The study also found that vaccinated children had a 212% greater likelihood of developing a range of other neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy/seizures, brain inflammation and tic and learning disorders.

According to the study, the childhood vaccination schedule is likely a significant contributor to the higher rate of autism and neurodevelopmental conditions in vaccinated children.

Comment: These findings are tragic but not at all surprising. The responsible thing to do would be to suspend all vaccination programs until their safety and effectiveness can be clearly demonstrated, but we know that won't happen.