Please see the letter below addressed to the President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of The New England Journal of Medicine. The Centers for Disease Control here in the United States has downplayed the severity of Lyme disease; essentially classifying this disease as a low-risk and non-urgent health risk. Public health agencies worldwide are blindly following what has been deceitfully established. There is a refusal to recognize that untreated/undertreated Lyme evolves into an entirely different disease similar to untreated strep throat which progresses to rheumatic fever causing irreversible heart damage. Patient experience is describing a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers, causing death and disability while leaving victims in financial ruin. Lyme is the 21st Century Plague that became too expensive to treat (The Do-It-Yourself Plague) with unacceptable testing, inadequate treatment, lack of medical training and absolutely no disease control; a public health disaster. And to make things worse, our blood supply is most likely full of Lyme disease. Letter to: Henry Lawrence Dorkin, MD, President of the Massachusetts Medical Society. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Carl Tuttle To: ldorkin@mms.org, henry.dorkin@childrens.harvard.edu Cc: jrosenfeld@mms.org, achaoui@mms.org, lcornell@mms.org, lhealy@mms.org, clynch@mms.org, ddutko@hanszenlaporte.com Date: April 28, 2018 at 9:42 AM Subject: Fwd: Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease April 28, 2018 Massachusetts Medical Society Waltham Woods Corporate Center 860 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451-1411 Attn: Henry Lawrence Dorkin, MD, President Dear Dr. Dorkin, Please take a moment if you will to read the following letter (and attachment) addressed to Dr. Mark Klempner who in 2001 published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study set the stage for one of the most shameful affairs in the history of medicine. Respectfully submitted, Carl Tuttle Hudson, NH Letter to Mark S. Klempner, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor, MassBiologics: ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Carl Tuttle To: mark.klempner@umassmed.edu Cc: michael.collins@umassmed.edu, ddutko@hanszenlaporte.com, ryan.kantor@usdoj.gov, michelle.seltzer@usdoj.gov, william.rinner@usdoj.gov, makan.delrahim@usdoj.gov, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov, "Elias, John" , officeofthechancellor@umassmed.edu Date: April 27, 2018 at 7:53 AM Subject: Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease April 27, 2018 University of Massachusetts Medical School 55 Lake Avenue North Worcester, Massachusetts 01655 Attn: Mark S. Klempner, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor, MassBiologics Dr. Klempner, I would like to call attention to the attached study recently identifying chronic Lyme disease in twelve patients from Canada. Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33 All of these patients were culture positive for infection (genital secretions, skin “Morgellons” and blood) even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics. In contrast, your 2001 antibiotic treatment study found; “no evidence of B. burgdorferi in a total of more than 700 different blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples from the 129 patients in these studies.” Two Controlled Trials of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Persistent Symptoms and a History of Lyme Disease http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200107123450202#article_references#t=references Not a single positive Dr. Klempner? Doesn’t this statistically prove that your methodology was fatally flawed? Did you culture skin and genital secretions as the Middelveen paper reports? It would appear that you conveniently stopped looking after your results supported the existing thirty year dogma; chronic Lyme does not exist. Persistent Lyme disease is not new and has been intentionally/deceitfully suppressed for decades as described in the Vicki Logan case identified in the following letter to past CDC Director Barbara Fitzgerald: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaul84dqmqgbre0/Brenda%20Fitzgerald%20MD%20Director%20CDC.docx?dl=0 In 1991 B. burgdorferi had been isolated in culture from Vicki Logan's CSF (CDC’s laboratory in Fort Collins CO.) despite prior treatment with 21 days of IV cefotaxime and 4 months of oral minocycline. The dishonest science here in the U.S. has denied chronic Lyme which stifled research to find a curative approach. Now the rest of the world is suffering. We have lost nearly four decades to this 21st century plague due to the racketeering scheme identified in the RICO lawsuit filed by SHRADER & ASSOCIATES, LLP against the Infectious Disease Society of America, seven IDSA Panelists and eight insurance companies. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has aligned itself with the seven IDSA Panelists identified in this lawsuit. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LymeDisease.pdf Lyme is an incurable disease when not treated immediately which is spreading across North America and deceitfully misclassified as a low-risk and non-urgent health issue. Patient experience is describing a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers, causing death and disability while leaving victims in financial ruin. Current antimicrobials are ineffective for eradicating all forms of the Borrelia spirochete. Public outcry has been ignored for decades while the Centers for Disease Control sat on evidence that this infection was not easily treated with a one size fits all treatment approach as dictated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Once again your studies were fatally flawed while supporting the controlling dogma leaving hundreds of thousands if not millions worldwide with a persistent infection and absolutely no relief. We have another AIDS on our hands. Carl Tuttle Independent Researcher Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH Cc: Michael F. Collins, Chancellor