March 3-4, 2020, TBDWG Meeting (in-person)
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/meetings/2020-3-3/index.html

The following comment was published on the Tick-Borne Disease Workgroup website and will be read aloud (via phone call) on March 4th sometime between 9:05 am – 10:05 am

TBDWG March 3-4, 2020 - Written Public Comment
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/meetings/2020-3-3/written-public-comment/index.html

Carl Tuttle

Providing comments in support of the Change.org petition calling for a congressional investigation into the mishandling of Lyme disease.

This whole IDSA illusion that Lyme disease is “hard to catch and easily treated” is based on the acute stage of disease with early treatment and it is blatantly obvious. Patients who advance to late stage and are horribly disabled are completely ignored and there are no studies to help these people to determine what caused the disability and what we can do to relieve the disabling symptoms. The truth about the disease has been kept from the public while suppressing evidence of Congenital Transmission along with persistent infection after aggressive antibiotic treatment.

Congenital transmission is just now being recognized by the CDC almost four decades after the disease was identified? So obviously there is a deliberate disinformation campaign to downplay the severity of Lyme disease and this racketeering scheme continues today well financed through the Centers for Disease Control with an open checkbook under grant number RO1 CK 000152

NIH Online Reporting Tools
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_history.cfm?aid=8707215&icde=48502354

The CDC together with the academics named in the Lisa Torrey vs IDSA racketeering lawsuit has orchestrated this deception on the public.

So why are those responsible for this mess still in control? Who appointed Eugene Shapiro to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group?

Until those responsible for this health disaster are removed from positions of authority we will have another decade of unimaginable pain and suffering.

Quote from a clinician on the front lines treating this epidemic:

“We are seeing so many young people, previously completely healthy & vital with lives totally de-railed by (the disease that does not exist) chronic Lyme disease.  The medical profession is entirely 'blind' to this devastating, complex, multi-system illness that, in aggregate, can be totally disabling. (not to mention, of course, the compounding factors of co-infections making their illnesses even more complex). To me, it’s like playing 3 simultaneous games of chess against 3 opposing 'Chess-masters'”  -Kenneth Liegner, MD

We are dealing with a life-altering/life-threatening infection with faulty/misleading antibody tests, inadequate treatment, no medical training and absolutely no disease control whatsoever; a public health disaster misclassified as a low-risk and non-urgent health threat.

Lyme disease is a 21st Century plague hidden in plain sight as patient testimony all across America is describing a disease that is destroying lives, ending careers while leaving its victim in financial ruin. ….. Lyme disease is a public health emergency!

A report to the HHS Secretary and Congress was already submitted in 2018: 
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/tbdwg-report-to-congress-2018.pdf - PDF

So where is the Manhattan Project to find a cure for this antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug?

Carl Tuttle
Lyme Endemic Hudson, NH