"Lyme disease was the precursor to Covid mismanagement as we see similarities from our Public Health response."
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: "tickbornedisease@hhs.gov" <tickbornedisease@hhs.gov>
Cc: (All members of the TBDWG)
Date: 10/17/2022 9:03 AM
Subject: The Political Persecution of Dr. Meryl Nass
To all Members of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group,
Please see the following letter addressed to the Executive Director of the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine responsible for suspending the medical license of Dr. Meryl Nass.
Lyme disease was the precursor to Covid mismanagement as we see similarities from our Public Health response.
Letter to Dennis E. Smith, Esq. Executive Director Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine:
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: dennis.e.smith@maine.gov
Cc: Tim.E.Terranova@maine.gov, nathan.fitts@maine.gov, maureen.s.lathrop@maine.gov, Faith.L.McLaughlin@maine.gov, Kelly.McLaughlin@maine.gov, tracy.a.morrison@maine.gov, savannah.okoronkwo@maine.gov, lisa.m.reny@maine.gov, kenji.saito@maine.gov, info@janetmills.com
Date: 10/16/2022 10:05 AM
Subject: The Political Persecution of Dr. Meryl Nass
Oct 16, 2022
Dennis E. Smith, Esq. Executive Director
Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine
161 Capitol Street
Augusta, ME 04330
Dear Mr. Smith,
Twenty-five years before researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren discovered H. pylori was causing peptic ulcer disease (not stress or diet) a physician in Greece was successfully treating with antibiotics. [1]
John Lykoudis, a general practitioner in Greece treated patients suffering from peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics before it was discovered that bacteria were responsible for the disease. Like Marshall, he too successfully treated himself for peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics in 1958 and patented his antibiotic combination he called “Elgaco” (2 quinolines and streptomycin along with vitamin A, taken orally) in 1961. He reportedly treated more than 30,000 patients.
Lykoudis was unable to persuade the Greek medical establishment regarding efficacy of his treatment and was given a fine of 4000 drachmas by a disciplinary committee, and indicted in the Greek courts while unable to get drug companies interested in treatment.
Like Marshall and Warren, Lykoudis found physicians resist challenges to prevailing medical dogma. Ulcers were such a cash cow for gastroenterologists and surgeons that the Mayo Clinic for example was built on gastric surgery. Surgeons and drug companies had a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. That revenue stream however would soon dry up.
History Repeats Itself
Please take a moment to review the five-minute extended trailer for the documentary “Under our Skin” where you will see disciplinary action taken by the North Carolina Medical Board suspending the license of Dr. Joseph Jemsek for prescribing outside the IDSA treatment guideline.
Dr. Jemsek was eventually exonerated by the North Carolina Medical Board overturning their 2006 decision to restrict Dr. Jemsek’s medical license by rescinding and abolishing that wrongful decision; vindication for the patients suffering from this disease. [2] There are now over a dozen states with laws in place to protect physicians who treat with long-term antibiotics.
Under Our Skin - Extended Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWgS0XLVqw
Current Day
The Political Persecution of Dr. Meryl Nass
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/good-morning-chd/oP3pZGapbn
Focused on allegations that Nass prescribed ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to three patients.
It would appear that those who have a vested/financial interest in maintaining the "status quo" (false public health narrative) will do anything necessary to protect those interests just as we saw with peptic ulcer and Lyme disease.
We haven't learned anything Mr. Smith, have we?
Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH
Member of NH Gov Chris Sununu's Lyme Disease Study Commission
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/committees/default.aspx?id=1515
Letter to the Editor of the BMJ published June 2020
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1
References
[1] Information regarding Greek practitioner John Lykoudis is found on page 84 of Barry Marshall’s book "Helicobacter Pioneers"
[2] Jemsek Specialty Clinic Announcement overturning the 2006 Medical Board decision decisionhttps://www.facebook.com/carl.tuttle.5/posts/2778636335591003?notif_id=1579623166488068¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
John Lykoudis: an unappreciated discoverer of the cause and treatment of peptic ulcer disease
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(99)06034-1/fulltext#article_upsell
Basil Rigas MD a , Chris Feretis MD b, Efstathios D Papavassiliou MD c
Dear Mr. Tuttle,
Thank you for your interest in the two publications on John Lykoudis that my colleagues and I co-authored.
It was indeed a sad story and it pained us to contemplate as we writing them how many lives would have been saved had the scientific establishment of that era been more open minded.
Best regards,
Basil
Basil Rigas, MD, DSc
Vice President, Business Development
Dean for Clinical Affairs
William and Jane Knapp Chair in Pharmacological Sciences
Professor of Medicine
Stony Brook University
HSC, L4, Room 169
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8430