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Fibro Vision's avatar

Cheers for another great article.

I'd like to add an anecdote.

In recent years my mum had a chest x-ray. The consultant asked when had she contracted TB due to the scarring pattern he observed. Mum had no idea she had this "infection" until then.

She could only relay that she'd been diagnosed many years before as having the russian flu. She'd be severely ill. My father nursed her at the time and visitors came and went without contracting anything. No prescription given and she recovered without medical intervention.

My mum was also a Salk vaccine victim as a child. On the first vaccination she nearly died and developed acute and chronic asthma. The following year they decided to dose her again, orally this time, in the hope she wouldn't react so badly, again she was very ill. She was advised never to get any vaccines thereafter. Travelled the world without getting infected and had exemption status for countries that had mandatory requirements.

To date, no one has contracted TB from her.

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CM Maccioli's avatar

It's like you took a page from my life Fibro. My lung sickness, on and off, during my life was epic. Scar tissue on my chest x rays as well, that every doctor believes needs biopsies and more useless testing, that I have never allowed. Now I know it was the smallpox vaccine that gave me incalculable cases of pneumonia and bronchitis (same thing as TB), always testing negative for TB. Given all polio vaccines as well.

Curiously, it wasn't till the early 70's that true sickness visited me. What happened then? Glyphosate entered agriculture. Seed oils and non-fat everything replaced nutritional saturated fats. Slaughter houses became an incubus of diseases. We didn't Know any of this. Sales pitch propaganda lies were ubiquitous. To this day folks believe industrial manufacturing oils belong on your dinner plate and that butter will kill you.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

I have another anecdote . A deceased doctor’s wife was in a nursing home in her mid 80’s and developed hemoptysis , final diagnosis was TB . Nobody else at the nursing home had TB , no exposure or travel . She was treated but succumbed to TB .

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

The environmental argument makes sense - especially as people would get better once they changed their environment. Seeking places of higher UV and cleaner mountain air with more sunlight would often clear up issues. Here in Prescott AZ a whole community of veterans and cowboys would come to heal from TB, and the healing arts are still strong here for that reason. Light is the key disinfectant in my opinion.

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Danika Sinram's avatar

Both Dr. Barre Lando and Dr. C. J. Verghese (not 100% sure i spelled that correctly) say that the Tuberculum bacteria are responsible for cleaning up a tumor- as in removing it from the body. Sometimes I wonder if that is the reason for the extreme focus on tuberculosis, but that would be a deep rabbit hole indeed.

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Fibro Vision's avatar

Also, I meant to add that recently I've been studying breathing therapies. I think it was Dan Brulé's book, but not sure with the volumes I've read. However, it stated that our lungs work in conjunction with liver and kidneys and clear around 70% of waste.

Just seems interesting to consider this as part of the overwhelm in these symptoms.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

When the husband of my German friend contracted TB she told me it was because he ate so poorly. He was a heavy drinker at the time and barely ate. He was treated with several antibiotics at once, because one or 2 did not do the job. She is a nurse and told me not to sit across from him, but neither her nor her 2 kids nor I or anyone else got infected, and I wonder how someone could think that a food-related illness could be contagious? I don' t think she believed it either, but as a nurse, she probably took the 'safe' way and said what she learned in school. He finally healed up after a period in a sanatorium. Until about 7 years ago, when we lost contact, he did just fine.

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N. Walker's avatar

I remember early on in my childhood the sanitariums in Saranac lake, NY. They were well known for exposing patients to sun and fresh air. Much of their treatment parallels with that of this article.

https://www.saranaclake.com/story/2014/07/cure-cottage-tour-step-back-time

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

Germ Theory is a fraud, but Terrain still oversimplifies or overcomplicates.

Still, TB stands out among the many invented illnesses.

What causes illness might be best evaluated in the symbiotic human body:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-symbiotic-human-body

I also refuted Koch's postulates a few days ago:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/mythical-illnesses-amended

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Em's avatar

What of "iron lung" used to keep TB patients alive? Really made from iron? In contact with patient in a way to be absorbed? Fascinating article.

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Mark Seager's avatar

So I presume they stopped the vaccine because it was becoming too obvious it didn't work.

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