Please see the letter below addressed to the TBDWG identifying recent propaganda published in the French Journal, Medicine and Infectious Diseases. It would appear that the racketeering scheme established here in the US has become a worldwide epidemic.
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: afauci@niaid.nih.gov, brett.giroir@hhs.gov, tickbornedisease@hhs.gov
Cc: (96 Undisclosed recipients)
Date: March 23, 2019 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Bartonella henselae Bloodstream Infection in a Boy With Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome
To the Tick Borne Disease Working Group;
There has been a flurry of Lyme propaganda articles all within the last month published in the French journal, Medicine and Infectious Diseases. The Editor-in-Chief, Jean-Paul Stahl was previous President of the French Infectious Diseases Society:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/medecine-et-maladies-infectieuses/editorial-board
It would be interesting to know if the IDSA and other defendants of the racketeering lawsuit have contacted the Editor-in-Chief and authors of the recent propaganda in order to gain worldwide support for their atrocious racketeering scheme.
Recently published propaganda:
1. Lyme disease: Insight from social sciences
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18306802
Excerpt:
“The highly controversial issue of “chronic Lyme disease” highlights the modern disappointment in science and the numerous resulting controversies. Just like any other controversy, this controversy focuses on modern debates on science and shows the leveling of the general population’s and experts’ relative opinions, and the progressive interference of the former with expert matters.” [AKA racketeering scheme]
2. Chronic Lyme disease: A scam that should be condemned!
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medmal.2019.01.001
Excerpt:
We must therefore set the record straight, counter the revival of obscurantism affecting too many patients as well as national authorities frightened by the associated political and legal con-sequences. We must act effectively to counter the manipulation of a naive public opinion.
3. Post-bacterial infection chronic fatigue syndrome is not a latent infection Le syndrome de fatigue chronique post-infection bactérienne n’est pas une infection latente
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18307923
Abstract:
Post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome is a public health problem. Etiologies and physiopathological mechanisms are unknown. Some viruses are known to be involved in post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome, but the role of bacterial infection is still questioned, especially in cases of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome where subjective symptoms are regularly attributed to the presence of the dormant bacterium without scientific evidence.
4. Functional neuroimaging in patients presenting with somatoform disorders: A model for investigating persisting symptoms after tick bites and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18306772
Excerpt:
Patients may develop chronic pain and subjective symptoms after having been treated for and cured of Lyme disease, or after a tick bite. [CURED?...how has that been proven?]
5. Management of patients presenting with generalized musculoskeletal pain and a suspicion of Lyme disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765287
Excerpt:
Our review shows that post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome has characteristics very close to post-infectious fibromyalgia. On the other hand, patients presenting for Lyme disease screening because of chronic generalized musculoskeletal pain symptoms after a tick bite should also be screened for fibromyalgia to allow appropriate management. Antibiotics are not recommended here. [Treatment Denial 101]
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Here are a few of my replies to the authors of these propaganda pieces……
#1 ---------- Original Message ----------
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: didier.raoult@gmail.com
Cc: eric.guedj@univ-amu.fr, carole.eldin@univ-amu.fr, jean-michel.azorin@univ-amu.fr, raoul.belzeaux@univ-amu.fr, jpstahl@chu-grenoble.fr
Date: March 23, 2019 at 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Management of patients presenting with generalized musculoskeletal pain and a suspicion of Lyme disease
Mar 23, 2019
IHU - Mediterranean Infection
19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin
13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
Attn: Didier Raoult, Faculty of medicine, department training medicine
Dr. Raoult,
Why hasn’t your group “analyzed existing literature data” for persistent Borrelia infection?
I have attached a list of over 700 peer reviewed articles that support the evidence of persistence of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. It is organized into different categories—general, psychiatric, dementia, autism and congenital transmission.
700 peer reviewed articles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/14kogblsjc7po2x/EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0
Patient testimony is describing a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers and leaving its victim in financial ruin while the established dogma here in the U.S. is propagated worldwide; France is no exception based on your recent publications.
You should be questioning what has been deceitfully established here in the United States not embracing it. I believe the legal term is known as collusion.
Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH USA
#2 On March 15, 2019 at 11:29 AM CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net> wrote:
Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Review
Management of patients presenting with generalized musculoskeletal pain and a suspicion of Lyme disease
(Published March 2019)
1. Ranque-Garnier , C. Eldin , C. Sault , D. Raoult , A. Donnet
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765287
Mar 15, 2019
IHU - Mediterranean Infection
19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin
13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
Attn: Didier Raoult, Faculty of medicine, department training medicine
Dear Dr. Raoult,
In regards to your recent Review published in Medicine and Infectious Diseases you seem to have a habit of omitting evidence/references of persistent Borrelia infection; why is that I might ask? (See email below dated Feb 12)
The US Centers for Disease Control had evidence that antibiotics weren’t working for Lyme when they cultured Borrelia from the cerebrospinal fluid of Dr. Kenneth Liegner’s patient in 1991 but they sat on that evidence without raising the treat level.
The attached letter addressed to past CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald has links to the actual positive culture lab report and seven page autopsy results showing histopathologic findings consistent with neurologic manifestations of chronic Lyme disease. The destructive nature of Borrelia is evident in the patient’s liver (nutmeg liver), kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. The patient died after the insurer refused additional IV antibiotic therapy.
Letter addressed to past CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaul84dqmqgbre0/Brenda%20Fitzgerald%20MD%20Director%20CDC.docx?dl=0
Public health officials around the world are blindly following what has been deceitfully established here in the United States so there are no “continental boundaries” to this racketeering scheme/business model while patients are suffering from this antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug.
This serious health threat has been downplayed here in the United States by a handful of academics followed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Infectious Diseases Society of America as outlined in the following active racketeering lawsuit filed in Texas district court:
Court Document:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/18uyrli878ug51m/LymeDisease%20RICO%20Lawsuit.pdf?dl=0
So I ask the question Dr. Raoult, “What is your motivation for sponsoring this racketeering scheme in France?”
Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH USA
#3 On February 12, 2019 at 9:45 AM CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net> wrote:
ScienceDirect
Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Review
Functional neuroimaging in patients presenting with somatoform disorders: A model for investigating persisting symptoms after tick bites and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome?
C.EldindD.RaoultiJ.M.AzorinhR.Belzeauxefg
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18306772
Feb 12, 2019
IHU - Mediterranean Infection
19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin
13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
Attn: Didier Raoult, Faculty of medicine, department training medicine
Dear Dr. Raoult,
It is well known that untreated streptococcal pharyngitis can progress to rheumatic fever, causing irreversible heart damage. Untreated syphilis leads to progressive disability and dementia, and untreated HIV infection progresses to AIDS with significant disability and death. What happens to the patient with Lyme disease who goes months, years or decades before diagnosis because of a false negative serological test, missing erythema migrans, (bulls-eye rash) misdiagnosis etc.?
Duke University Oncologist Dr. Neil Spector’s Lyme disease infection went undetected for four years requiring a heart transplant. His serologic test results over that four year period were repeatedly negative and he never developed a bulls-eye rash.
Dr. Neil Spector
https://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/story/neil-spector/
Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome after early treatment and untreated late stage Lyme of months, years or decades are two distinctly different disease states with the later going unrecognized for over three decades. The absence of a bulls-eye rash after tick bite allows patients to progress to severe neurological disease instead of obtaining a prompt diagnosis and early treatment.
Patients who miss the narrow window of opportunity for successful short term treatment and have had a prolonged exposure to the pathogen are almost always incapacitated. Testimony over thirty years is reporting a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers while leaving its victim in financial ruin. We have an epidemic of ruined lives as these patients are left to fend for themselves.
Fixation on the acute stage of disease [with bulls-eye rash] after early treatment has done nothing to advance our understanding of how Lyme disease disables its victim. The research into how Lyme disables should have been completed by now but the misclassification of Lyme as a simple nuisance disease (hard to catch and easily treated) has paralyzed the response to this runaway plague.
Purposely avoiding the advanced stage of disease hides the horribly disabled and anyone unable to see this is somewhat naive.
Neuroimaging in patients who are in late stage often show white matter lesions similar to Multiple Sclerosis.
The following pilot study recently identified chronic Lyme disease in twelve patients from Canada. All of these patients were culture positive for infection (genital secretions, skin 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.
Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease
http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33
Published: 14 April 2018
From Stony Brook Lyme Clinic; I understand the patient identified in the case study below received thirteen spinal taps, multiple courses of IV and oral meds, and relapsed after each one, proven by CSF antigens and/or PCR. The only way this patient (said to be a physician) remained in remission was to keep her on open ended clarithromycin- was on it for 22 months by the time of publication.
Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837
Lawrence C.a · Lipton R.B.b · Lowy F.D.c · Coyle P.K.d
aDepartment of Medicine, bDepartment of Neurology, and cDivision of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and dDepartment of Neurology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY., USA
Eur Neurol 1995; 35:113–117 (DOI:10.1159/000117104)
Abstract
We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.
Forty one years ago Allen Steere knew that antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease were not working:
Lyme arthritis: an epidemic of oligoarticular arthritis in children and adults in three connecticut communities. (1977)
Steere AC, Malawista SE, Snydman DR, Shope RE, Andiman WA, Ross MR, Steele FM.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/836338
Excerpt:
“The best treatment for this illness is not clear. Some physicians have reported that penicillin or tetracycline results in disappearance of the skin lesion (41,42), but others find antibiotics ineffective. Four of the patients with expanding skin lesions received penicillin but still developed arthritis.”
Public Health Agencies and researchers around the globe are blindly following what has been deceptively established here in the United States and now French researchers want to claim that anomalies of brain scans are psychosomatic while turning this plague into a psychiatric disorder?
Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH USA
Cc: Jean-Paul Stahl, Editor-in-chief
I am including links from my personal Dropbox storage area for the following documents:
1. Congenital Transmission of Lyme
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z10em0szgpm8bll/Congenital%20Transmission%20of%20Lyme%202015.doc?dl=0
2. Evidence of Persistence-V2 (700 peer reviewed articles that support the evidence of persistence of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/14kogblsjc7po2x/EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0
3. Deaths From Lyme Disease
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo794dx7zspc1ln/Ld%20deaths.doc?dl=0
4. Seronegativity in Lyme borreliosis and Other Spirochetal Infections
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d6m45jzlhhwalu/Seronegativity.pdf?dl=0
From all the evidence I have presented here it would appear that the medical establishment (worldwide) has been bamboozled/brainwashed into believing Lyme disease is not a serious life-altering/life-threatening disease.
How has this affected humanity as we have turned our backs on a 21st century plague? A disease that if not treated immediately destroys lives ends careers while leaving its victim in financial ruin.