Thread by @BeauxReliosis

Alan Barbour is an old-school bioweapons scientist who made his name with #LymeDisease. He was studying spirochetes at NIAID’s Rocky Mtn Labs before Lyme was named Borrelia burgdorferi, for his colleague Willy.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This is the “Barbour” from “Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly (BSK) medium,” a medium they developed to more effectively culture spirochetes. He also owned the original patent for recombinant OspA, the antigen in the original #LymeDisease “vaccine” and the new one being developed by Pfizer.

For the record, OspA is not a vaccine, does not induce immunity, and is a *cause* of #LymeDisease. Barbour knew all that but licensed his patent to SmithKline & Yale anyway, resulting in the failed #LYMErix which harmed many people before it’s withdrawal after 3 years.

How did Barbour know OspA injection cannot create immunity to #LymeDisease? For one thing, he points out in this Jan 1982 report that exposure of Borrelia hermsii to penicillin caused the spirochetes to secrete a massive amount of “blebs” which are covered in OspA & other Osps.

See those little blobs? Those are blebs (sometimes called exosomes) that contain spirochetal genetic material. There are also round forms here that can morph into viable spirochetes. These are all covered in hundreds of different antigens, of which OspA is just one.

Spirochetes have many immune-evasion capabilities. One is to change form, only to re-emerge & wreak havoc later. Another is to change which Osps are expressed depending on the environment. They do that by blebbing. They sense a threat, shed their outer surface & express new Osps.

As a side note, in his Jan 1982 report, Barbour noted that this massive shedding of antigenic material after antibiotic treatment could be a cause of the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. My mentor, @KMDickson, likened it to throwing fertilizer onto spirochetes.

Barbour knew that injecting OspA into humans could not vaccinate them against #LymeDisease because borrelia are moving targets. Antibodies against a single antigen that the bug may not even be expressing when injected by tick, don’t stand a chance.

Another important finding in this report is that it only takes one or two spirochetes to cause disease.

ONE. Spirochete. Can cause #LymeDisease.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Here’s a very nice bio of Alan Barbour by the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network 👀

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

It’s good to see that Alan Barbour is no longer on the scientific advisory board of @BayAreaLyme. 👍👍👍👏

As patient advocates for #LymeDisease, the most corrupted disease in history, we must learn to identify players who may not share our interests.