https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1498750227044-DJZ3J19OLSY061WQ5A9Y/Hondsrug%2C_De_Strubben-Kniphorstbosch_14.jpg Lyme Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1498751420089-ETO647GF9VESQ03S9EPJ/Hondsrug%2C_De_Strubben-Kniphorstbosch_14.jpg Lyme Book https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/about-mb daily 0.75 2024-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1520868348817-643T2D7Z9A4OT54A1IBD/static1.squarespace.jpg About the Author A tick found on Bushwick. Photos by Janet Graham Gottlieb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1519326788761-KC9R8R5CY4WWYTTYVTAV/Pfeiffer-color-flap.jpg About the Author Photo by Jim Smith Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1521553913239-4XUG29X97FUBS61S9DN0/Screen+Shot+2018-03-20+at+9.51.14+AM.png About the Author Mary Beth, with her Shih Tzu Bushwick, walks a trail across the lane from her upstate New York home. https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/new-index daily 0.75 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/52b8b83d-e0d1-44fd-a02f-3d06933e64c8/Screenshot+2026-03-21+at+9.15.51%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/34a65487-da33-4177-b764-99229b6b2d7d/FDA+adverse+event+reports.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out FDA likened chlorine dioxide to bleach and warned consumers it was harmful. Yet aspirin (top of list) prompted thousands more “adverse event” reports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/48c60abb-8436-4b06-a336-2b389d5a185c/CVS+image.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out CVS is offering $10 coupons to “Get a vaccine today!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/65e07043-c6ac-4588-8209-4c3f48c7a574/mbp+.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Yup, that’s me in Sony Hall, Literally standing up for Lyme disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/960c9e61-d05d-4a62-91b4-84703b5e970a/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.47.16%E2%80%AFPM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/b502497b-0bec-4517-8b29-af0097e4bc3c/Screenshot+2025-08-15+at+10.06.31%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Twins from Idaho, 18 months old, and a 12-month-old from upstate New York died soon after inoculation with multiple vaccines. No official review has been undertaken of the role of the shots in these babies’ deaths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/30efbe42-2681-4326-92ff-918b19d7a850/tempImagebAbXr8.jpg READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Baby Judy McWhorter was riddled with cancer and given weeks to live. After treatment by Dr. Koch, her parents wrote a notarized letter attesting to her health. A newspaper said she “cured herself.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/df0a91f1-1b41-4a62-bc46-47b06525bedc/Screenshot+2025-03-05+at+10.12.08%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/31964d7f-62d4-4aba-a64b-bf3e4b5140a7/rosa+DMSO.JPG READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Rosa Azucena Aguirre received intravenous DMSO after she severed her spinal column in a fall. (From left) Pre- and post-surgery X-rays, and recently taking physical therapy. “What Rosita has achieved now is fantastic because she is independent,” said her husband, Juan Ayala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/9f4ed464-1e04-4e1f-a06d-c7296d12a985/Screenshot+2024-08-02+at+8.34.58%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Insured working-age people had the highest above-average death rates, shown in red blocks, in this Society of Actuaries chart. (Source: Society of Actuaries, May 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1714574737348-2SRS1C73FN558WC2G81Z/Screenshot%2B2024-05-01%2Bat%2B10.44.21%25E2%2580%25AFAM.jpg READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/9cc79ab0-4eca-4d0c-8253-bd10853e51ba/Screen+Shot+2023-11-04+at+9.17.08+AM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/ddd866a8-cd7b-4154-9fe5-c063234dbc58/Screen+Shot+2024-01-12+at+11.02.08+AM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Top vaccine experts, gathered at a conference in Rochester, N.Y., said evidence of adulteration in Covid vaccines was reason to stop using them. Photo by Mary Beth Pfeiffer ———————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/ea4e1da3-fd74-4a77-a3f4-228624ff1310/Screen+Shot+2023-05-31+at+6.48.42+AM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out John Berndsen, with his wife Leslie, was 64 when he got a Pfizer vaccine. His heart stopped 14 hours later. ————————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/ca992fe2-66d5-4732-9e6d-dfc522e26bb5/Screen+Shot+2022-12-30+at+4.04.42+PM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out ————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/30215b9a-9e06-480b-b350-c55dbc752bac/lead+chart%3B+decline+in+births+in+switzerland.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out The red line between the top chart on vaccination rates in Switzerland, and the bottom chart, on births, shows the nine-month lag between the two trends, which has been seen in other European countries as well. —————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/8fe4b701-75ca-4153-831e-3ea7a549c57b/Screen+Shot+2022-11-14+at+2.40.30+PM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out ——————————————————————- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1666700968015-7QB0U3WD22DJOHXONAI2/Dr.+Christian+Perronne+on+the+day+of+his+hearing+before+the+French+Order+of+Physicians.+Credit+FranceSoir.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Some 3,000 people turned out for the hearing of charges against Dr. Christian Perronne, center, on Sept. 13, 2022. All were dismissed. (FranceSoir) ———————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1664031790774-GVVBZVB9C4I35EMLN9DB/tempImage0RzRyK.gif READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Vaccine-injured people, top, in a Zoom call with an FDA official in Washington, DC; Victor Castillo Simoes, bottom right, died at 34, sixteen days after vaccination; Maddie de Garay, 14, cannot walk since injected in a vaccine trial in January 2021. —————————————————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1662406134831-SDUE6CO91XHA5DDWBIB4/Screen+Shot+2022-09-05+at+3.25.37+PM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Rab Wardell posted this image on winning Scotland's national biking championship in August 2022. He died two days later at 37. 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Photo by Mary Beth Pfeiffer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1642527196570-U5XK2EPGW31X8MI87EWN/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+12.32.47+PM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1642341471805-9FDYLZB2WCLKPNPMS2IK/oneamerica.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1637934779164-VE4JYAM9NNH16MSZQOAP/Screen+Shot+2021-11-26+at+8.51.42+AM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Sun Ng, 71, with his granddaughter, Kaylie, at her first birthday party three weeks before he contracted Covid-19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1634657587029-KZK9USC8B0EZXFP50TU1/fda+image.jpeg READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out The Propaganda That Started The Big Lie About Ivermectin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1614750048680-4L5KCS5ADY6WF25DTPGY/IMG_9742.jpg READ MY ARTICLES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1601948608499-U95XLZYLXFBQMB6I37FA/Capture.PNG READ MY ARTICLES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1597694108449-RA895GQQXKZ53U17J7BP/Dr.+Richard+Horowitz.png READ MY ARTICLES Dr. Richard Horowitz has put his Lyme disease expertise to work on COVID. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1585319803659-IEDC0C13DG0DZ6NPVJKE/960x0+%281%29.jpg READ MY ARTICLES Margaret Novins, 53, received an emerging treatment for COVID-19 at a Freehold, N.J. hospital. 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Photo provided by Dr. Robert Bransfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/745a2392-44c1-4a64-bf05-5f4bdb23f0a2/Screenshot+2024-04-30+at+9.43.33%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Photo provided —————————————————— https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/b67577e6-6287-429d-b958-3145c1b423be/Screenshot+2024-04-30+at+9.47.27%E2%80%AFAM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Troy Murphy’s health was restored by a heroic Lyme disease doctor, Charles Ray Jones. 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Yet aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and other common substances prompted thousands more reports of “adverse events.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/7c5d5b18-57e1-4704-bd9b-8dfdde659d0b/Screenshot+2025-09-22+at+5.47.16%E2%80%AFPM.png READ MY ARTICLES - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/review01 daily 0.75 2018-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1530545388815-N0HG8IARBDEG3Q8OSMDE/251451-200.png Listing 01 Back to Reviews https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/listing-02 daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871473977-9ZW1HHLAWJD2HXK6V20G/JessieWebster_Lifestyle_36.jpg Listing 02 https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/listing-03-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871574948-78VCF5VCJ7Y23DCOLM1S/JessieWebster_HM_09.jpg Listing 03 https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/listing-04-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871735282-YPBK7Q05GF5EPQ630O78/JessieWebster_Squarespace_28.jpg Listing 04 https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/intro daily 0.75 2015-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1498510306221-2F7CXHG6IU6HTCOFS15Y/Hondsrug%2C_De_Strubben-Kniphorstbosch_14.jpg Intro https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/lyme-lawsuit-3 daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1551193309671-XTIQFDQ99T5VKI0KPIV4/torrey+v+IDSA+et+al.png Lyme Lawsuit (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1556060725928-W8W9W2OEXJI8HN3JONTR/unnamed.jpg Lyme Lawsuit (Copy) https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/lyme-lawsuit-3 daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1551193309671-XTIQFDQ99T5VKI0KPIV4/torrey+v+IDSA+et+al.png Lyme Lawsuit (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1556060725928-W8W9W2OEXJI8HN3JONTR/unnamed.jpg Lyme Lawsuit (Copy) https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/science-suggests-we-can-prevent-covid-even-when-our-best-defenses-fail-preventative-supplement-pharma daily 0.75 2024-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5936c3f21e5b6c2c02c40842/1596932844866-SBYJY9RKOQ8J4B3ULKEQ/997182181131375061.jpg Science suggests we can prevent COVID -- even when our best defenses fail Dr. Richard Horowitz, center, has used natural supplements to treat COVID-19. 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