The Highwire with Del Bigtree - LEPROSY MAKES A COMEBACK IN THE US

Episode Date: August 23, 2023

A rare outbreak of Hansen’s disease has the medical community stumped. The comeback of an age-old infection, which most have natural immunity, demands a look at the science showing an mRNA COVID shot association.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

We're at the point where these vaccines aren't really being given too much anymore. The uptake is extremely low. And we can start looking at sorting out some of these, they call them post-marketing adverse events. But we've been on this from the beginning. Miocarditis. We're some of the first to report on that. The thrombosis, the strokes, the cancer is showing up. And now we have some other headlines here.

We're going to start just looking into this as an ongoing investigation. This is men's health. Pretty catchy headline here. Yes, leprosy is back. Wow. Remember leprosy, this was this, like when it brings thoughts of this like middle age, dark ages. I think of Jesus, man. I mean, I think of Jesus in the leper colonies. I mean, this goes back. This is like biblical here. I didn't think I'd ever, I mean, hear about this in the modern world. So right now it's in Florida. Here's one of the headlines, how leprosy arrived in Florida and how it is spreading New

clues are emerging. It says in this article about 95% of people have natural immunity to the bacteria that causes leprosy. Scientists still are researching why 5% of people are vulnerable. This is one of the people in Florida that has a 50-year-old man. And what's interesting about the Florida case is it's people that haven't come from other countries. So when you go to the CDC's definitions of this of leprosy, they call it Hansen's disease now in order just to take away the stigma of the name leprosy, but it says Hanson's disease, also known as leprosy, is very rare in the United States, with less than 200 cases reported per year. Most people with Hanson's disease in the U.S. become infected in a country where it is common. So this is one of the people, they're scratching

their heads in Florida saying we really don't know what's going on here. We found the bacteria on an armadillo. Maybe people are touching armadillos. These people are, a lot of them, a certain percentage of them are coming, aren't coming from other countries here. So kind of just scratching our heads here. But what we do here, we start looking at the literature. And what was the biggest experiment we just went through? Well, it was an immune tinkering vaccine that was given to a lot of people. So we found this. COVID-19 vaccination and leprosy. Yes, this is actually a study, a UK hospital-based retrospective cohort study. What do they find? SARS-CoV2 vaccination was associated with the development of leprosy in one individual and a type one reaction in another. Both men

develop their leprosy, adverse reactions following vaccination with Pfizer's COVID shot, although in each case it was not their first SARS-CoB2 vaccination either had received. This may be due to increase TNF alpha and interleukin 6 after Pfizer's COVID vaccination second dose. So these researchers said, wait a minute, we found these reactions that are associated with this vaccine. Let's look at the literature. Is there any other comments in the literature? Are there any other studies about this? And this is what they found. In this study, they write, we identified 14 individuals men and women with leprosy adverse events associated with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in six published reports from both leprosy endemic and non-indemic settings.

So again, Florida is a non-indemic setting right now, but if cases are still being found, that could switch to an endemic setting. And so we go back to a study. We've gotten a lot of mileage from this study. It's the Pfizer's mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses. So remember, you have the toll-like receptors. You're finding these, it regulates, it down-regulates a toll-like receptors. These are the watchdogs of the immune system when these foreign invaders, whether it's a virus or a bacteria or what else comes in, that's what gives the alarm

system off. So you start looking into the literature and you see this study, leprosy and the adaption of the human-toll-like receptor, one, that says, we currently conducted an association analysis of more than 1,500 individuals from different case controls and family studies and observe consistent associations between genetic variations in both Toll-like receptor 1 and HLA-D-R-B-1 regions with susceptibility to leprosy. The effect sizes of these associations suggest that TLR-1 and H-L-A-D-R-B-1 are major susceptibility genes in susceptibility to leprosy. So they're basically saying that when there's variants in these tole-like receptors, genetic variants, there's major

susceptibility. Now, the leprosy or the Hansen's disease, if we want to call it by its, its current name, is not the only skin condition that is being affected by or associated with these vaccinations. We have herpesoster reactivation. This was a study after MRI and adenovirus vector coronavirus vaccines. And this was a national health insurance database. So these are, they're looking at the database where someone comes into the doctor's office. They're actually diagnosed with this. It goes into their medical. record. So these are a little more set in stone because this is something that's in the health system now. They find that Pfizer's COVID shot had a statistically significant increased risk

in the 14-day window following vaccination. They concluded that MRNA COVID vaccination possibly increases the risk of herpes oscar reactivation and thus close follow-up for herpes oscar reactivation is required. So think about this. You're a doctor. You give this shot. You have to watch them for 15 minutes now for anaphylaxis. You got to watch them for the first couple weeks at least for myocarditis. And then you have, you know, its potential of cancer that's floating around. You may have to watch them for that. And now for 18 days, it's herpesoster reactivation. So the doctors have their work cut out for them that are giving these vaccines. I can tell you that. Amazing reporting. Very scary. And I think it just simply put, if you're new to the high

wire, you can read what you want on Wikipedia. They'll try to scare you away from listening to the truth here. Everything that we're giving you is peer-reviewed science. Some of it is pre-prints. Some of this ends up proving to weigh out, like the ivermectin. We were giving you preprint information while it was happening. Now it's fully peer-reviewed. Some of it will tell you if it looks like the thoughts have changed around this. But one thing we do know, this vaccine was designed, designed to mess with your toll-like receptors, really those guardians of your immune system. And if you shut those down, then we will start seeing herpes, zash, these things that can be carried in your body but not affecting you.

What happens to leprosy? this idea that you have that you are making yourself stronger by taking vaccines and priming your immune system, you know, I don't know where it gets out of control. Maybe it worked when there was two or three vaccines. Maybe when we started giving you 72 vaccines or adding MRNA. But somewhere in here, we're starting to see a lot of sick people, rises in autoimmune disease, inabilities to handle just basic infections and things that you should normally have natural immunity too? Are we erasing our immunity through the overuse of these pharmaceutical products? All these are part of the conversations that are happening here. Very interesting. Hopefully

leprosy will not start to run rampant across America. It's bad enough that we can't handle a fire. It would really be terrible if we start dying from a disease we thought was handled back when the Bible was being written.