Please see the letter below addressed to the Director of The Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where TBDWG Co-Chair Dr. David Walker is a Professor of Pathology. https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty-directory/david-h-walker-md
This is an ethics complaint against Walker who believes persistent infection after extensive antibiotic treatment is little more than a “religious belief.”
If you agree with this complaint why not send an email to Director, Lisa Campo-Engelstein requesting a response to my inquiry. A short note on how chronic Lyme has affected you or a family member will support these efforts.
Thank you!
Carl Tuttle
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Date: 12/20/2020 10:48 AM
Subject: Ethics complaint against David H. Walker, MD
Dec 20, 2020
Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities
3.102 Ewing Hall
600 Harborside Drive
Galveston, Texas 77555-1311
Attn: Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD, Director
Dear Dr. Campo-Engelstein,
I would like to register an ethics complaint against David H. Walker, MD regarding an insensitive and derogatory statement he made as Co-Chair of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group through the July 8th meeting.
During that meeting Dr. Walker was recorded saying that persistent infection is a “ religious belief.”
(See the Written Public Comment below)
There are hundreds of publications identifying persistent Borrelia infection after extensive antibiotic treatment and yet Walker chooses to ignore this growing body of evidence while insulting the disabled Lyme patient community.
For your review, my June 2020 letter to the editor published in the BMJ calls attention to just a handful of these references:
Lyme borreliosis: diagnosis and management
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rapid-responses
My Sept 15th Verbal Public Comment to the TBDWG was published by lymedisease.org:
Tuttle directs pointed questions to TBD Working Group member Shapiro
https://www.lymedisease.org/carl-tuttle-tbdwg-comments/
Question:
As a professor of the Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston what influence does Walker have over the student population and are his bias viewpoints intergraded into the curriculum?
A response to this inquiry is requested.
Respectfully Submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH
PS. It should be noted that the seven academics who have controlled the Lyme disease narrative for the past 30yrs are defendants in an Antitrust Lawsuit filed in the Texarkana, TX federal court. Lead plaintiff Lisa Torrey lives on a non-invasive ventilator and oxygen and needs to use a wheelchair most of the time.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bw29y-help-for
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TBDWG November 17, 2020 - Written Public Comment
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/tickbornedisease/meetings/2020-11-17/written-public-comments/index.html
Carl Tuttle
Member of NH Governor Chris Sununu’s HB490 Commission to Study Lyme Disease:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/details.aspx?id=1515&rbl=1&txtbillnumber=hb490
This comment is directed to Dr. David Walker, Co-Chair of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group.
During the July 8th meeting you were recorded saying that persistent infection is a religious belief:
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/government/federal-government/govt-departments-a-policies/hhs-tbd-working-group/contentious-9-hour-wg-meeting-persistent-infection-a-religious-belief-wg-co-chair-says-yes/
Here’s what the folks at Johns Hopkins and Northeastern are saying:
A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27242757/
Excerpt:
Under experimental stress conditions such as starvation or antibiotic exposure, Borrelia burgdorferi can develop round body forms, which are a type of persister bacteria that appear resistant in vitro to customary first-line antibiotics for Lyme disease.
[redact]
Researchers’ discovery may explain difficulty in treating Lyme disease
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2015/06/researchers-discovery-may-explain-difficulty-in-treating-lyme-disease/
Excerpt:
“Northeastern Univesity researchers have found that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease forms dormant persister cells, which are known to evade antibiotics.”
Standard antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease does not kill persistent Borrelia bacteria.
http://droopyyoupi.blogspot.com/2015/08/standart-antibiotic-treatment-for-lyme.html
Excerpt:
- What has tuberculosis and Borrelia burgdorferi in common? In the late stage of the disease occurs persistent (tolerant) bacteria, which essentially means that the bacteria lasts and lasts and lasts. They protect themselves against antibiotics and are difficult to treat.
- Both Borrelia burgdorferi and tuberculosis is relatively easy to cure in the early stages, even with the use of one antibiotic. In the late stage it is impossible to cure the disease with the same type of treatment in the acute phase, said Dr. Ying Zhang when he visited the year NorVect conference.
- Dr. Ying Zhang is a professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Evidence of in vivo existence of Borrelia biofilm in borrelial lymphocytomas
http://wtnh.com/2016/02/23/unh-discovers-biofilm-in-those-affected-by-lyme-disease/
Excerpt:
“An article by a UNH research team led by Professor Eva Sapi is the first to show that the microorganisms that cause Lyme disease are resistant to treatment due to what’s called a biofilm. A biofilm – which has a protective layer of “slime” – allows the organisms to hide away from antibiotics at the microscopic level.”
[redact]
Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/Doxycycline/Cefuroxime Drug Combination without Pulse Dosing
Jie Feng1 , Shuo Zhang1 , Wanliang Shi1 and Ying Zhang
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01744/abstract
Excerpt:
While the causes for this post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms are unclear, one possibility is due to B. burgdorferi persisters that are not effectively killed by current antibiotics such as doxycycline or amoxicillin used to treat Lyme disease.
[redact]
We have a public health emergency requiring a Manhattan Project to find a cure for this antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug but the thirty-year established dogma or should I say racketeering scheme identified in the Lisa Torrey vs IDSA RICO lawsuit has brainwashed an entire medical community.
Mark Twain once said, “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH