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Scientists discover Pfizer COVID jab linked to major eye damage​

Scientists have discovered that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine may increase the risk of eye damage, leading to vision loss. The new study specifically examined how the vaccine affected patients' corneas, the clear front part of the eye that allows light to enter.

In 64 people, scientists in Turkey measured changes in the cornea's inner layer, called the endothelium, before taking the first Pfizer dose and two months after receiving the second. Results revealed that taking both doses of the vaccine led to thicker corneas, fewer endothelial cells in the eye and more variation in size of these specialized cells that form the endothelium.

In the short term, these changes suggest the Pfizer vaccine may temporarily weaken the endothelium, even though patients didn't suffer clear vision problems during the study. For people with healthy eyes, these small changes likely won't affect vision right away.

However, if scientists find that these changes last for years, they could lead to corneal swelling or blurry vision, especially in those with pre-existing eye problems or people who have had a cornea transplant.

A thicker cornea and reduced cell density could contribute to eye conditions like corneal edema, bullous keratopathy, or corneal decompensation, which can all cause permanent vision loss in severe cases, especially if left untreated.

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The true story of America's Wuhan lab: Crippling disease outbreak 'is linked to top secret island base'... amid claims it was weaponized on PURPOSE​

On a small dot of land, just a mile from the northeast coast of Long Island, New York, sits the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, an off-limits federal research facility established in 1954.

Operated by the Department of Homeland Security, the laboratory studies highly transmissible animal diseases that the government says are not a threat to human health. But fringe theorists, mainstream podcasters and even members of Congress have raised suspicions that the Plum Island facility is also ground zero for one of America's most pernicious illnesses: Lyme disease.

First diagnosed in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s, Lyme disease is a tick-borne bacterial infection contracted by an estimated 30,000 people per year in the US alone. And, left untreated, the disease can cause potentially fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Now, as summer-time tick populations skyrocket in the northeast and popstar Justin Timberlake reveals this 'relentlessly debilitating' Lyme disease diagnosis, the Daily Mail examines the true origins and conspiracies surrounding this dangerous bacterial infection.

'Turns out there's a lot of real evidence that Lyme disease was weaponized... It came out of a lab called Plum Island, which was close to Lyme, Connecticut,' claimed podcaster Joe Rogan during a March 14 interview with comedian Michael Kosta. 'What they were going to do is develop these fleas and ticks with a disease that spreads rapidly, wipes out the medical system of a community,' he alleged. 'So, you could dump them from a plane, everybody gets infected, overwhelms their medical system, and then they're more vulnerable if you want to attack them.'

Rogan's remarks appear to be a mash-up of two common, unproven and seemingly debunked claims about Lyme disease. The theory that the illness originated from Plum Island is most often attributed to Michael Carroll, author of the 2004 book 'Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory,' who spoke to the Daily Mail.

'I spent seven years digging through dusty boxes of documents and spent hundreds of hours interviewing past and present Plum Island employees,' he claimed. 'I found that in the mid-1970s, Plum Island was breeding hundreds of thousands of hard and soft ticks in a 'tick insectary' for its germ experiments.'

Carroll alleges that Lyme-infected ticks – which he claims were being used to test the effects of foreign disease on animals – escaped the Plum Island lab through small holes in the roof filters, latched on to migratory birds and spread. 'Plum Island is like a birding paradise,' he said. 'And then after that, the next stop on the flyway is the mouth of the Connecticut River, where Old Lyme is.'

The Department of Homeland Security has disputed claims that Lyme disease was ever researched at the Plum Island facility – but that has hardly kept conspiracists at bay.

Other claims have been made by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, who interviewed Kris Newby, author of 'Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,' on his podcast last year before he joined the Trump administration. In the episode, Kennedy claimed that Lyme disease was 'highly likely to have been a military weapon.' 'We also know they were experimenting with diseases of the kind, like Lyme disease, at that [Plum Island] lab, and putting them in ticks and then infecting people, testing them with bird vectors, et cetera,' he said.

During Kennedy's 2025 Senate confirmation hearings, he was asked about this claim and after initially conceding that he 'probably did say' that the spread of Lyme disease was a result of a government attempt to turn ticks and fleas into bioweapons, he later distanced himself from the belief, saying he 'never believed' the conspiracy.

While 'Lab 257' author Michael Carroll does not believe the disease was created by humans nor engineered as a bioweapon, he told the Daily Mail that Kennedy's comments on Lyme disease 'cannot and must not be dismissed.'

For years, New Jersey Republican Congressman Chris Smith has led a seeming one-man crusade to get the US Government to investigate these unsupported claims.

'Whether or not the DOD's bioweapons research on ticks from 1950 to 1977 was in any way responsible for Lyme disease and other pervasive tick-borne illnesses in the US, Americans need to know and absolutely deserve answers,' Smith told the Daily Mail. 'Investigations into the origins of Lyme will only strengthen our understanding of this debilitating disease and our search for a cure.'

Smith attached a 2019 amendment to a defense spending bill that would have triggered an inquiry into 'whether the Pentagon ever experimented with ticks and… insects regarding use as a biological weapon' between 1950 and 1975 and 'whether any ticks or insects used in such an experiment were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experiment design.'

The amendment was eventually removed by the Senate months later. Smith put forward a similar amendment in 2021 and it too never became law. In fact, while more research into Lyme disease is justified, much is known about the illness. Swiss researcher Wilhelm Burgdorfer first identified the bacteria that cause Lyme disease – and it was named after him: borrelia burgdorferi.

The disease is known for its hallmark bullseye rash. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, and muscle aches, but untreated cases can also lead to complications, such as joint pain or swelling, facial paralysis, heart palpitations, nerve pain, brain fog, or potentially fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Most patients – treated with antibiotics – can fully recover within two to four weeks, though some have reported prolonged symptoms that may take months to resolve. And, despite the possibility of severe illness, experts say the disease would make an ineffective bioweapon.

Sam Telford, a professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Tufts University, has said that Lyme disease is 'rarely lethal' and its 'week-long incubation period' is too slow to be effectively used in warfare. Rather, Telford noted, biowarfare research has focused on agents such as the plague, hemorrhagic fevers and encephalitis – diseases that are 'very debilitating' with a high fatality rate.

Burgdorfer was quoted in Newby's book, seemingly alluding to Lyme disease's use in biological warfare, but colleagues have said that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease at the time. 'Willy was not in his best mental health at that time, and there's absolutely no truth to the accusations that he was involved in any kind of biowarfare activity,' said his former colleague Durland Fish, a professor emeritus of epidemiology at Yale University, who worked at Plum Island in the 1990s.

Finally, a 2017 study from the Yale School of Public Health has established that the bacteria causing Lyme disease was likely present on the East Coast of the United States long before the Plum Island facility was built. Researchers sequenced the DNA of 148 samples of the bacteria and produced their entire genomes to 'piece together a more detailed history.' In doing so, they found evidence of the bacteria borrelia burgdorferi in the carcasses of long-dead animals, dating back to 1870, which had been preserved in museum collections.

That suggests, the study says, that 'the ongoing Lyme disease epidemic was not sparked by a recent introduction of the bacterium or an evolutionary change.'

New York Department of Health's Bureau of Communicable Disease Control has also said there were reports of Native Americans, hundreds of years ago, contracting a disease with symptoms resembling those of Lyme disease. The native populations called the illness 'Montauk knee.' Nevertheless, Carroll maintains that he has uncovered 'inescapable facts' that are 'too clear to ignore,' insisting that Plum Island's proximity to Old Lyme is too much of a coincidence.

'We need actual scientific investigators to take a look at this and actually say, hey, this may have happened this way, and that has been completely and entirely ignored for decades,' he said. For now, Carroll may benefit from consulting the existing evidence.

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Pandemic fears explode as virus rips through China: Xi Jinping imposes horror Covid-era rules and Trump's CDC issues warning​

Chinese officials have announced Covid-like quarantines as cases of a rare virus continue to increase, with thousands more being reported this week. Given the sudden increase in cases in China, the CDC has issued a travel advisory for Americans traveling to the country, urging them to exercise 'increased caution' following the outbreak.

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Pandemic fears explode as virus rips through China: Xi Jinping imposes horror Covid-era rules and Trump's CDC issues warning​

Chinese officials have announced Covid-like quarantines as cases of a rare virus continue to increase, with thousands more being reported this week. Given the sudden increase in cases in China, the CDC has issued a travel advisory for Americans traveling to the country, urging them to exercise 'increased caution' following the outbreak.

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I created a new thread for this here:

Chikungunya Virus Outbreak

Pandemic fears explode as virus rips through China: Xi Jinping imposes horror Covid-era rules and Trump's CDC issues warning Chinese officials have announced Covid-like quarantines as cases of a rare virus continue to increase, with thousands more being reported this week. Given the sudden...

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This is the covid variant my wife and I have been sick with, the Razor Blade Covid...Extremely sore throat for at least 3 days with inconsistent coughing and congestion...Then it switches up and turns into joint pain and fatigue, sometimes the pain is arthritis level pain...The sore throat is virtually gone in three days but a part of it lingers on the entire week...

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Razor Blade Throat Covid Variant: What it is and How to Stay Safe​

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You've had several rounds of covid haven't you ?

We were 'fortunate' to have just one extremely nasty dose of it in January 2021 and not since. Sorry to hear that, especially for your pregnant wife. (and Aven too)

 

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You've had several rounds of covid haven't you ?

We were 'fortunate' to have just one extremely nasty dose of it in January 2021 and not since. Sorry to hear that, especially for your pregnant wife. (and Aven too)

Yes because of the company I work for keeps bringing in new people, they keep cycling through people and covid keeps making its rounds through my workplace...We are sure Aven was sick with covid too, his nose was running pretty good for a few days and he slept a lot more than normal...He seems to be better now but my wife is still testing positive and she's slow to recover...I hope the baby gets a good immunity built up after this and maybe after he's born covid won't affect him as much...

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I suspect that immersion in the filth of the general public has my immune system on its game.

Heard a piece on NPR a long time ago about ancient wells in India that are beautifully carved and deep and big enough for many people to go down and wash, bathe, anything else in the water they drink from and not not appear to get sick from the practice. They are fine but I remember them commenting that a cupful of that water would put the rest of us in the hospital.

 

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Multiple people at work calling out sick today with Covid, my department is suffering too, I have three of my team out sick and my boss called out sick...Its still lingering on with me, I still have back and body aches and mild congestion...My wife is still testing positive...

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I have two days off now, my usually scheduled time off...Feeling much better and my wife is recovering well...No major issues with her at 24 weeks pregnant...Going to relax and enjoy the time off together...

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New Covid variants with unusual symptoms sweep the US amid chilling warning that even very mild cases now risk 'lasting effects'​

A croaky voice and a sharp, 'razor blade' sore throat are emerging as tell-tale signs of the latest Covid variants now sweeping the US.

The strains, XFB, dubbed Stratus, and NB.1.8.1, known as Nimbus, are fueling a surge in infections, with cases spiking specifically in the northeast in the last several weeks.

In the US, nationwide Covid wastewater levels, used to measure the community spread of a virus, are 'moderate,' according to the CDC, but four states are recording 'very high' levels and levels in the northeast region are on the rise. Dr Aaron Glatt, an infectious disease expert from Mount Sinai hospital in New York, told Today.com that patients were complaining of 'severe pain, as if their throat is covered with razor blades'.

He added: 'While not specific to Covid-19, this expression has been used to describe sore throat symptoms in some patients with the most recent Covid-19 variant.' While many experts urge Covid vaccination to prevent infection, they warn that confusion over who is eligible for the Covid vaccine could lead to declining vaccination rates and an increase in Covid cases.

Officials placed more restrictions on Covid vaccines, with a CDC vaccine panel voting against recommending the shots in favor of 'individual decision-making.' Dr Tyler Evans, an infectious diseases expert who was New York City's chief medical officer during the pandemic's first wave, told Daily Mail: 'Covid activity is clearly on the rise again.

'While we’re in a much better place than in 2020, rising transmission still poses a risk to those with underlying conditions or limited access to care. Concern should lead to preparedness, but not panic.'

Dr Evans added: 'The dominant strain in the US right now is an Omicron subvariant called Nimbus (NB.1.8.1). It spreads quickly but is not more severe than earlier forms. It can still be dangerous for older adults, people with chronic conditions, and those with weakened immune systems.'

The new strains can also cause more familiar Covid complaints such as headaches, coughing, fatigue and a runny or blocked nose. Experts stress they are no more dangerous than earlier versions, but genetic mutations mean they spread more easily.

However, Dr Laura Malone, director of the Pediatric Post-Covid-19 Rehabilitation Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, told The New York Times just because an infection is mild or you recover well, doesn't mean that lasting effects can't happen, including long Covid.

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