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PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT Biological Warfare Experiment on American Citizens Results in Spreading Pandemic

CDC-Created Epidemic Now Spreading Down East Coast of U.S.

Doctors Prevented from Treating Patients by Biowarfare Arm of the CDC (Epidemic Intelligence Service) Working with the IDSA in Phase II of the CDC's Infamous Tuskegee Experiment

irony if an agency estab- an affliction that the unin- researchers to call it a "pleo- lished to control and find formed may believe is noth- morphic stealth pathogen." cures for diseases caused ing more than arthritis And with the exception of instead their proliferation." caused by a tick bite. But the American Northeast, according to the CDC, this ground-zero for the out- Comment on Plum Island's "multisystem, multistage" ill- break, a crippling national BiologicalWarfare Research, ness is capable of inducing (and worldwide) epidemic quoted in Lab 257 disorders2 including "chronic has largely spread "under inflammatory arthritis, the radar9." "A much more discreet, dia- chronic muscle pain, heart In this article I bolical and effective method disease and/or neurological describe exactly how and of disabling a country would (brain and peripheral nerves) why the CDC has allowed be to employ a moderately disorders." So many dis- this catastrophic epidemic infectious organism, or com- abling afflictions are caused to spread on behalf of the bination of organisms by Lyme that it has earned pharmaceuticals industry (Russian Doll Cocktail), the disease the nickname using an orchestrated disin- by Jerry Leonard which would pass slowly "The Great Imitator.3" formation campaign led by through the population The highly complex CDC-manufactured unnoticed." bacterium that causes Lyme "thought-leaders". This "Who could imagine the - Marjorie Tietjen, Lyme disease4 has the ability to criminal program has government, all the way up researcher infect nearly every organ in enabled large-scale human to the Surgeon General of the body, often in spite of experimentation (the the United States, deliber- Americans are under antibiotic administration, by Tuskegee Experiment, Phase ately allowing a group of its attack from an insidious bio- changing into various self- II) under the cover of citizens to die from a terri- logical warfare agent perpe- protective forms5. This often biowarfare research to ble disease for the sake of trated by agencies within our happens without initially implement a step-by-step an ill-conceived experi- own government. This attack being detected by the vic- vaccine marketing agenda ment?" is centered on the American tims themselves or by the outlined in a cold-blooded --Commentary on the East Coast, but nobody woefully inadequate, CDC marketing strategy pub- Tuskegee Experiment should feel safe. indirect6 diagnostic tests7,8. lished in 1999. Shockingly, I am These attributes of "How tragic would be the talking about Lyme disease1, Lyme disease have inspired Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 1 PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT "…we are dealing here with treat it. In outrageous cases, and now directs his own -Wikipedia.org (Unethical a formidable 'smart stealth' knowledgeable doctors real- biowarfare lab. The defense- human experimentation in type of bacteria that is hard ize that the patient has contractor researcher who the United States16) to eradicate-one that does Lyme, but they aren't "discovered" the Ixodid tick extreme damage to psyche allowed to treat it or they vector that causes Lyme dis- and soma if not treated are punished if they do. ease, and led the early The Tuskegee Experiment aggressively over the long efforts to deny victims treat- Continues term when missed in the What is behind this ment for it (under numer- My research into the first days following inocula- travesty10? ous, fraudulent pretexts), horrific politics behind Lyme tion by the vector..." was then a recent graduate disease have led me to -- Dr. Virginia Scherr "It seems everywhere I go, of the CDC's biowarfare believe that the Lyme someone comes up to me to defense program. The Epidemic is the result of Lyme disease is talk about how Lyme dis- researcher whose publica- Phase II of the CDC's infa- spreading rapidly up and ease has severely impacted tion is universally used to mous Tuskegee Experiment, down the East Coast of the their lives or someone they institutionalize this treat- only this time conducted US. In fact, it is the most know." ment-denial philosophy for under the protection of common tick-borne disease --Congressman Chris Smith Lyme disease was also a biowarfare research. (This is in the Northern Hemisphere (R-NJ), 2011 graduate of this CDC biode- covered in my July 2011 arti- accounting for more than fense program and now also cle in the Public Health 95% of all vector-borne dis- directs his own biowarfare Alert17. ) eases reported in the United The Curious Lyme- lab. The original States. Even worse, the very Biowarfare Connections Moreover, the lead Tuskegee Experiment was same Centers for Disease In a previous article, author of the highly contro- designed to monitor the Control and Prevention that I related that Lyme disease is versial treatment guidelines destruction that syphilis investigated the disease and named for the unfortunate for Lyme disease, which use would cause over the long its myriad induced disorders town in Connecticut where it this publication as a justifica- term in untreated controls so is home to a secretive first broke out, just 20 miles tion13, travels around the that treatments and preven- biowarfare defense infra- from the nation's top-level country lecturing on biologi- tive strategies could be test- structure that prevents peo- biowarfare test facility (Plum cal warfare treatments14. ed. Thus, in Phase I of this ple not only from under- Island Animal Disease Press releases prepared in experiment, geographically standing the devastating Research Center) that con- 2005 to announce the open- isolated black men and their nature of the disease (due to ducted outdoor tick experi- ing of a government-funded families were systematically its complexity and often ments and has a history of biowarfare lab at the denied treatment against nonspecific symptoms), but pathogen-leaks from its University of Texas admitted syphilis for decades, so that also from getting treatment internal labs. Lyme disease was one of the the "natural course" of the for it. The connections numerous bioweapons to be disease and its spread could Many thousands of between Lyme disease studied at the facility, then be monitored through the Lyme patients who are des- research and biowarfare are were mysteriously edited to patients' deaths and subse- perately ill cannot get a doc- stunning11. A quick review: scrub only the references to quent dissections in carefully tor to diagnose them proper- The bacterium that Lyme disease15. arranged post-mortem ly, let alone treat them-even causes the disease is named examinations18. Even though in admitted endemic areas. after a biowarfare researcher Are you getting the picture? the experiment was proving In some cases this is because who, decades previous in a fatal almost immediately19, of pure ignorance, where a biowarfare lab, injected "As of 2007, not a single the deadly experiment doctor diagnoses arthritis or Ixodid ticks-the same type of U.S. government researcher would go on for decades20. heart trouble without discov- ticks that spread Lyme, with had been prosecuted for I believe Phase II of ering that the underlying Borrelia bacteria-the same human experimentation, this deadly experiment is cause is really Lyme, which type of bacteria that causes and many of the victims of being conducted by the CDC then goes untreated. In egre- Lyme disease12. The first U.S. government experi- with a weaponized variant of gious cases, knowledgeable researcher to overcome the ments have not received a Borrelia spirochete-a bac- doctors won't admit that the difficult process of culturing compensation, or in many terium of the same phylum patient has Lyme despite all the Lyme bacterium worked cases, acknowledgment of as the syphilis spirochete the signs, and they refuse to in this same biowarfare lab what was done to them." that was the subject of the

Page 2 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT first Tuskegee Experiment. politically perpetuated exposed their subjects Francis Collins, the NIH direc- (The Lyme spirochete is actu- through the denial of the through the use of infectious tor, tried to allay fears on ally much more complex severity and geographical prostitutes or directly ongoing experimentation: than the syphilis spirochete extent of the disease by the through inoculums made "I want to empha- and the infection more dead- CDC and associated govern- from tissue from human and size that today, the regula- ly and less understood21.) ment agencies. This has animal syphilitic gummas tions that govern research You need to arm resulted in many thousands and chancres, or pus of gon- funded by the United States yourself with information to of desperately ill patients orrhea or chancroid filled Government, whether con- protect yourself and your being cruelly and systemati- sores." ducted domestically or inter- family. As will be shown cally denied medical atten- Dr. John C. Cutler, an nationally, would absolutely below, the CDC clearly isn't tion as they fall victim to the assistant surgeon general in prohibit this type of study31." going to do it22. numerous symptoms of the the Public Health Service While such state- "Lyme disease patients fre- disease. who conducted these experi- ments may offer comfort to quently endure extensive ments in Guatemala with the the uninformed, I believe the delays in obtaining an initial syphilis spirochete, ultimate- NIH and the CDC are in fact diagnosis, have poor access The Tuskegee Experiment ly returned to the U.S. to conducting a modern to healthcare and suffer a Was Worse conduct similar experiments Tuskegee Experiment in severe burden of illness." Than We Thought in prisons29. treatment denial for vaccine -- Johnson, Aylward & Even as the CDC's research against another Stricker, agents work to prevent "If this were fiction, the spirochete disease that is (Health Policy, 2011) Americans from getting study's investigators would very similar to syphilis. treatment for this plague, we have been the archetypal I have referred to No One Is Safe have recently learned that mad scientists. But the study this ongoing medical crime Lyme disease spares the CDC's infamous Tuskegee was conducted by no less as the institutionalization of no level of society23. George Experiment in treatment- prestigious a group than the the Tuskegee Experiment32. W. Bush caught it while serv- prevention against an eerily United States Public Health The treatment denial experi- ing as president24. Lyme also similar bacterium Service30 and funded by the ment is being orchestrated has afflicted Senator Charles (Treponema Pallidum) was National Institutes of Health on a daily basis on a grand Schumer of New York25. far wider in scope and more (NIH)…" scale in a sophisticated man- They may have been spared deadly than we have been ner at a very high level the awful effects of misdiag- led to believe. --The Lancet, December through the enforcement of nosis and denial of treat- Indeed, instead of 2011 (commentary on inter- treatment guidelines33 and ment because of their privi- the experiment being limited national syphilis injection the selective NIH funding of leged positions, but millions to the prevention of treat- experiments conducted by guideline authors' research. of others haven't been so ment for syphilis in an isolat- the U.S.) (This body of sponsored lucky26. ed geographical area of research gives the treatment In addition to crip- Alabama, we have learned As Reverby relates, guidelines undeserved credi- pling arthritis, this disease that the Tuskegee these experiments with bility through an artificially can cause severe and dis- Experiment was internation- syphilis spirochetes were contrived appearance of sci- abling neuro-cognitive symp- al in scope and involved the conducted by the Public entific consensus by manu- toms that are difficult if not deliberate infection of men- Health Service to test vac- factured thought-leaders34.) impossible to cure (depend- tal patients and prisoners cine prototypes: Through the increas- ing on delays in diagnosis through syphilis injections, "These prison stud- ing reliance on treatment and treatment)-making it a scrapings and orchestrated ies were done to answer guidelines, which often end grave national security exposure to carefully infect- some questions about rein- up being "non-treatment" threat, especially when it ed prostitutes. fection and whether having guidelines, the medical sys- infects the Commander In Professor Susan treated syphilis and then tem can be used not only to Chief in time of war27. Reverby28 recently summa- being provided with the conduct unethical experi- But the biology of rized: "booster" of new disease ments but also to wage bio- the Lyme infection is only created immunity to further logical warfare against an part of the problem. Another "In this research program of infection." entire population through aspect of the epidemic is the a series of carefully delineat- In response to these treatment denial. Indeed, it manner in which it is being ed experiments, PHS doctors horrifying revelations, is not far-fetched to call this

Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 3 SPECIAL REPORT the "institutionalization of human infection with syphilis biological interest44" as well fever Borrelia through injec- biological warfare35." spirochetes39, so that vac- as a useful model for provid- tions and tick bites in inter- As was the case with cines and cures could be ing unique insight into the national experiments to the original syphilis study in tested40 in carefully con- human immune response45, understand the transmission treatment denial, the NIH is trolled populations (some a topic vital to vaccine of Borrelia diseases.50) But so intimately intertwined control populations getting research, in general. Thus, the truth has been actively with the immoral research no treatments)? human experimentation with obscured from the public's that it is impossible for them Let us establish Borrelia bacteria would have view, much like the extent of to conduct an impartial quickly that Lyme disease major research benefits out- the national epidemic and its investigation into it36. Thus, and syphilis are similar side of syphilis research. premeditated nature. we need an informed public organisms. Porcella and Notably, Barbour is a to demand a truly independ- Schwan wrote in the Journal career biowarfare researcher, "Three human beings, vol- ent investigation into why Of Clinical Investigation: as are many of the so-called unteer patients, have been many thousands of patients "… the Lyme disease "experts" on the Borrelia infected with relapsing fever are being denied treatment spirochete, Borrelia burgdor- organism that causes Lyme as follows: for Lyme disease. feri, is amazingly similar to disease. the spirochete, Treponema 1. The first by a subcuta- pallidum, that causes neous injection of blood The Tuskegee-Lyme Link? syphilis41." Borrelia and Biowarfare from a white rat which had One of America's The infections The tie-in between been infected with relapsing leading Lyme and biowarfare caused by the two disease Lyme disease, syphilis and fever by …naturally infected researchers, Dr. Alan agents are also similar. As biowarfare research may ticks. Barbour37 has written on the summarized by Judith seem puzzling (see Appendix experimental use of bacterial Miklossy: A for a summary of these 2. The second by a hypoder- disease agents known as "Both spirochetes connections). But there is a matic injection of a suspen- "Borrelia" (the type of organ- are neurotropic and in both connection that makes per- sion of naturally infected ism which causes Lyme dis- diseases the neurological fect sense if you think about ticks. ease) in syphilis treatment and pathological manifesta- it. research. tions occur in three stages. The Tuskegee 3. The third by being bitten Barbour has summa- They both can persist in the Experiment conducted from by naturally infected ticks." rized bizarre studies in which infected host tissue and play the 1920s to the 1970s by Borrelia infections were a role in chronic neuropsy- the PHS/CDC (a quasi-mili- -- Bates, et. al., Am. J. Trop. induced in mice for subse- chiatric disorders, including tary institution formed dur- Med. quent inoculation back into dementia42." ing World War II46 and humans, so the organisms Military researchers involved in biological warfare In addition to affect- could be studied as potential were investigating the use of activities47) also had a mili- ing military readiness, cures for syphilis (through Borrelia spirochetes in tary justification. The rates of research into disabling deliberate fever-induction, or syphilis vaccine research syphilis infection in the pub- agents such as the Borrelia "pyrotherapy"): because the infectious lic were hindering the organism that causes Lyme "When using borreli- agents were so similar (pro- American war effort as far disease had an offensive use ae for pyrotherapy of neu- viding hope for common back as World War I48. Thus, as biowarfare agents. rosyphilis, the authors of this antigens that could be used efforts aimed at curing or Borrelia organisms report recommended that in vaccines and diagnostic preventing syphilis had a were of interest to the mili- no more than 30 to 40 pas- tests43), as were the infec- national security justifica- tary because of their ability sages in mice be made tions they caused. tion. to cause both mentally and before inoculation of the But there was more The degree to which physically disabling infec- strain back into humans38." at stake than potential cures Borrelia infections such as tions that were capable of Was this ongoing or tests for syphilis. Lyme disease affects the relapsing, even after treat- experimentation with delib- Barbour has also readiness status of American ment with antibiotics. This erate human infection with noted that Borrelia spiro- troops is an ongoing area of was due to the organism's live Borrelia spirochetes part chetes were not only useful government study49. ability to not only rapidly of the ongoing Tuskegee for studies in syphilis experi- (American soldiers were evolve into different forms in study involving deliberate ments. They were of "basic even infected with relapsing a manner that frustrated Page 4 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT antibiotics administration51, chronic fatigue syndrome The CDC was able to physicians before the diag- but also to rapidly dissemi- (ME). Borrelia's inherent garner information about nosis of Lyme disease was nate throughout every major ability to swap outer surface "the natural history of the made. Nearly half had Lyme organ in the body. proteins, which may also disease" from its earliest disease for more than 10 Another form of vary widely from strain to phases by monitoring isolat- years and traveled over 50 self-protection is the organ- strain, would make the pro- ed communities of American miles to obtain treatment." ism's ability to form protec- duction of an effective vac- citizens denied treatment for --2011 Medical Survey tive "biofilms" and "cysts52" cine extremely difficult. ... syphilis "from the beginning Published by the California when confronted with a hos- Finally, the delay before the of the disease to the death Lyme Disease Association tile environment, only to appearance of the most inca- of the infected person." This reconvert from dormancy to pacitating symptoms would was viewed as an "opportu- A Contrived Epidemic active infection once a allow plenty of time for an nity … to compare the Proliferating Out of Control friendly environment was attacker to move away from syphilitic process uninflu- Lyme disease is the again encountered53 (for the scene, as well as pre- enced by modern treat- most rapidly expanding vec- example, when any adminis- venting people in a contami- ment60." tored disease in the U.S. 65 tered antibiotics were gone nated zone from realising Shockingly, the Nationally reported cases of 54). This protective dormancy they had been infected and experiments were published Lyme disease doubled from capability, which is shared by seeking treatment58." in open medical literature 1991 to 200766. An estimat- anthrax (a biowarfare agent over the years61 and yet the ed 2,000 to 20,000 people also studied by Barbour story did not break until per year contract Lyme. And before Lyme broke out55) and Lyme and Syphilis: A Shared 1972, when long overdue even the higher number like- syphilis, would be highly use- "Tuskegee Research" bad publicity forced the ly understates the number of ful for real-world biowarfare Rationale experiment to end62. cases. exercises56. The rationale of the Is the ongoing effort Local levels are In addition to PHS/CDC's Tuskegee syphilis behind treatment denial of more alarming. On Long weapons that could kill experiment in denying treat- Lyme disease allowing the Island, next door to the Plum quickly, the Pentagon was ment to individuals "to eval- government to conduct Island Animal Disease interested in such weapons uate the effectiveness of another long-term experi- Research Center that con- that could incapacitate57. programs of public health ment on the public with a ducted outdoor tick experi- The staggering ben- control" was explained in hidden agenda of biological ments, the "rate of infection efits of Lyme disease as an one journal from the begin- warfare?63 One which allows among the construction incapacitating infection were ning phases of the epidemic: them to monitor the various workers who worked out- summarized by researcher "… the facts relative chronic symptoms caused by doors" is an incredible 13%.67 Mark Sanborne: to the occurrence of central such disabling agents in an The Boston Globe "Lyme's ability to nervous system syphilis, car- untreated public, while gen- has summarized the spread evade detection on routine diovascular syphilis and con- erating a demand for vaccine of the disease northward medical tests, its myriad pre- genital syphilis were well research against them? If so, from the New sentations which can baffle known from the point of how much bad publicity will York/Connecticut "ground doctors by mimicking 100 view of diagnosis and patho- be required to shut this zero" area to Massachusetts: different diseases, its amaz- logical findings once the dis- multi-decade experiment "The number of ing abilities to evade the ease had become manifest. down? Lyme disease cases reported immune system and antibi- However, there was no accu- in Massachusetts jumped by otic treatment, would make rate idea about the natural "So far, we are keeping the about 50 percent from 2004 it an attractive choice to history of the disease lead- known positive patients to 2005, a single-year bioweaponeers looking for ing-up to these complica- from getting treatment."64 increase that prompted con- an incapacitating agent. tions. This information was --Comment On Tuskegee cerned state health officials Lyme's abilities as 'the great necessary in order to evalu- Experiment, to say they were stepping up imitator' might mean that an ate the effectiveness of pro- by U.S. Public Health Service efforts to educate the public attack could be misinterpret- grams of public health con- Official about prevention of the dis- ed as simply a rise in the trol with a reasonable ease."68 incidence of different, natu- degree of understanding of "Half of the [Lyme disease Moving south from rally occurring diseases such the natural history of the dis- victim] respondents report- the Connecticut epicenter of as autism, MS, lupus and ease59." ed seeing at least seven the epidemic, Pennsylvania Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 5 SPECIAL REPORT now leads the nation in the and the public at large. (IDSA), has created a hostile A similar state of number of Lyme cases. More When the task force issued political climate for state affairs existed in the neigh- alarmingly: its recommendations, the Departments of Health74 like boring state of North "In the past five chair, Michael Farris (eight Virginia's. This adversarial cli- Carolina. State health years the cases have dou- out of ten of his family mem- mate prevents Lyme victims experts there have engaged bled, and the population bers have Lyme), stated, "I from even being acknowl- in denials over the years most at risk is kids, ages 5 to think it's the greatest health edged, let alone treated. The about the prevalence, and 10 and the over-40-year-olds threat of our time."71 effects of this climate on Dr. even the existence, of Lyme who are in their backyards Why has this not Harbor's attempt to treat the disease. These deadly gardening."69 been done at the national children were relayed by the denials have recently been Moving further level72? Tragically, because Roanoke Times: exposed as fraudulent by the south, in a major investiga- of the "political" environ- "It's so politically Raleigh NewsObserver. tive reporting series, the ment created by the CDC, contentious that when she Reports the Observer: Roanoke Times has just con- patients and doctors cannot called the Virginia "After years of cau- firmed that the Lyme rely on the CDC or the Department of Health to say tioning that people were Epidemic is spreading down national medical infrastruc- she was swamped treating unlikely to get Lyme disease the East Coast to Virginia and ture to get accurate informa- campers with acute Lyme, in North Carolina, state North Carolina, and even to tion on how to treat Lyme the response was: You can't health leaders are now Florida. disease. In fact, a systematic possibly have that many advising that the tick-borne The rapid increase in disinformation campaign, cases because the number of illness can, in fact, be Lyme in Virginia (500% in and a war on doctors and Lyme-carrying ticks in acquired here."76 some areas!) was reported patients who see through it, Western Virginia is insignifi- Too bad for those in by the Times: is being waged by agents cant and small." North Carolina unfortunate "Lyme disease in and agencies of the CDC. "You can't have enough to have contracted Virginia is spreading west This "controlled stand-down" Lyme because the experts Lyme when the official posi- and south ... In Montgomery of the CDC seriously inhibits say it doesn't exist here." tion was that it didn't exist! County, the number of doctors' ability to get assis- This is the devastating "party (Whose experts were reported cases jumped 500 tance in treating victims at line" of circular reasoning those?) percent from four in 2007 to the state level. that has been parroted the The calculated 24 in 2008. [A] record 65 last 40 years because of stag- denial of infection rates new cases have been docu- Here is a case in point. gering levels of disinforma- directly impacts the ability mented this year in the While volunteering tion put out by the CDC and of patients to get diagnosed Roanoke region -- where at Virginia summer camp last its biodefense unit, the EIS and treated. This reality in only a handful was reported year, Dr. Cathryn Harbor saw (Epidemic Intelligence North Carolina was summa- just four years ago." an astounding 10% of her Service). This militant denial- rized by the Raleigh In fact, the rate of campers come down with ism is deadly for victims of a NewsObserver: the epidemic's spread is like- symptoms of Lyme disease, disease for which treatment "Yet North Carolina ly worse than what Virginia according to the Roanoke delay by days or weeks can health officials do not con- officials belatedly acknowl- Times.73 make the difference sider Lyme disease a perpet- edge. Dr. Keri Hall, director Dr. Harbor was between getting well or fac- ual threat -- a designation of epidemiology at the unable to get cooperation ing a lifetime of suffering.75 that would make it easier for Virginia Department of from her state Department doctors to diagnose Lyme Health, cautioned: "it is high- of Health, which dismissed "As I have traveled through- based solely on a patient's ly likely that the state does- her concern with contrived out my congressional dis- symptoms ..." n't know about all instances and deadly arrogance that trict, I have been struck by Consequently, "for of the tick-borne disease." 70 has become typical of the the lack of knowledge about years patients insisted they To address the esca- so-called health experts who Lyme by both patients and had caught Lyme from tick lating epidemic in Virginia, should be confronting the medical providers, even bites in North Carolina and Gov. Bob McDonnell entered Lyme Epidemic, instead of though this area has long faced tremendous problems the fray, creating a Lyme actively denying it. been at the center of a finding doctors to diagnose Disease Task Force to aid the The CDC, working Lyme epidemic." -- and treat them." diagnosis, treatment and through the Infectious Congressman Frank Wolf (R, The Raleigh News education among doctors Diseases Society of America VA). Observer relates the case of Page 6 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT Angela Stott and her efforts non-endemic area, the CDC tors in the state of Even more alarming, to get her son diagnosed and tossed out these purely clin- Connecticut are willing to according to Claesson, the treated for Lyme disease ical diagnoses." treat it: doctors are willingly ignorant (similar cases are common- "Only a very small of the epidemic: place): -Jonathan Edlow, Bull's-Eye number of physicians in "I want my kid "This past summer, Connecticut -- the epicenter fixed," she said. "Doctors Angela Stott of Asheville said Even more alarming, of Lyme disease -- diagnose here are like ostriches put- her son, Max, went several the Times reports that and treat patients with the ting their heads in the sand. weeks without a diagnosis "experts concede that inci- controversial chronic form of It's been 27 months of pure before he became so sick he dence of Lyme is woefully this tick-borne infection, a hell," she said. could barely walk and had under-reported and can be survey found. Among 285 "We're lepers," such excruciating headaches as much as 10 times higher primary care physicians sur- Claesson said. "We can't get his eyes crossed. than the numbers indicate."79 veyed, only about 2% treat any treatment. It's bankrupt- "More than one The magnitude of chronic Lyme disease…"81 ed people." doctor told her Lyme disease the epidemic at the national As the authors of Virginia State was not a factor in North level has been summarized the award-winning Lyme dis- Delegate Tom Rust, after Carolina. Even when a Lyme in one article as follows: ease documentary Under investigating the Lyme test came back positive, "We're in the midst Our Skin recently reported in Epidemic in his state, com- Stott said, doctors still ques- of a terrifying epidemic, their blog: mented, "I have people com- tioned the diagnosis. although you wouldn't know "So, with ing to me saying their dog "It was nightmar- it to talk to most doctors and Connecticut Lyme cases sky- can get better treatment ish," she said." health specialists. The dis- rocketing up 118% from than they can." The newspaper ease is growing at a rate 2006 to 2008, and the state As ludicrous as this notes how "the state is now faster than AIDS. From 2006 desperately needing every sounds, it is a tragic fact that working to get the word to to 2008 alone, the number Lyme specialist it can get, people are resorting to treat- doctors, who for years were of cases jumped a whopping the children of Connecticut ment by veterinarians. This reluctant to even test 77 percent. …If any other are the ones receiving a phenomenon is not limited patients for Lyme because it disease had stricken so many potential life sentence of suf- to the US. The Bolton News wasn't considered much of a people, the medical commu- fering, if they acquire one or in the United Kingdom possibility." nity would be scurrying for more tick-borne diseases."82 reported that a "toddler who The Lyme Epidemic knowledge, scrambling for The human conse- was taken to hospital after a is also surging further south, cures or rushing to warn quences of this reality are tick burrowed under his skin, in Florida. According to a patients (think swine flu). hard to fathom for those not ended up being treated by a recent article in the Tampa But that's not the case with directly affected. vet." The child's father stat- Tribune: Lyme disease -- a disease The Tampa Tribune ed, "Daniel got better service "Across Florida, carried by ticks."80 related the story of Delores there than at the hospital."84 Lyme disease cases have Claesson83, and her struggle more than tripled since to get her daughter treated Why the failure to 2007, according to the "Our practice is restricted by for misdiagnosed Lyme dis- treat Lyme patients? Florida Department of higher authorities, like the ease: Dr. Muddasar Health's Office of Statistics CDC." "In all," she said, Chaudry of Virginia, was spe- and Assessments…" "we saw about 20 doctors." cific in stating why he was Lyme disease cases --Dr. Muddasar Chaudr None thought of Lyme dis- unable to treat patients with have also tripled in states far ease. required long-term antibi- from the East Coast, like Lyme Doctors Eradicated "This is normal." Claesson otics: Iowa.78 Although Lyme dis- said. "They don't know "Our practice is ease cases have doubled in about it. They don't know restricted by higher authori- "So using the CDC's own the past five years, the num- the signs and symptoms. … ties, like the CDC."85 definition, physicians in ber of doctors willing to here in Florida, doctors don't Dr. Kenneth Liegner, Georgia and Missouri treat them has dwindled. know about it and don't an MD treating Lyme reported that they were Medpage today reports that know how to diagnose it. patients in Armonk, New seeing Lyme disease. But at ground-zero of the Lyme They don't know how to York, goes even further: because the cases were in a Epidemic, only 2% of doc- treat it." "Physicians who

Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 7 SPECIAL REPORT have cared for persons with physicians received a fine stage Lyme disease to get chronic Lyme disease have larger than $5,000. And only well with the judicious, but Manufactured Doctor faced harassment at a mini- one other physician, accused adequate, use of long-term Shortage Enables Modern mum and for some, their of drug abuse, received a antibiotics. Almost no one Tuskegee Experiment careers have been ruined. longer supervised probation gets better without these. Why would the Researchers who have seri- period than Dr. Jones - To deny patients access [to] medical establishment ously dedicated themselves though this drug-addict doc- this care is a travesty. But actively prevent doctors to the scientific study of tor did not receive the addi- this happens all the time from effectively treating chronic Lyme disease in tional $20,000 in fines levied and patients often travel Lyme disease, and help humans and/or animals have on Dr. Jones." hundreds to thousands of destroy doctors who treat it? often found themselves miles to see one of the I believe the CDC is attacked or marginalized. To The film-makers also small numbers of Lyme conducting Phase II of its persist in their researches warned: experts in this country. How Tuskegee Experiment on an would have resulted in virtu- "The medical can that be?" expanded scale for the same al career suicide and some board's six-year investigation --Dr. Jon Sterngold reason it conducted Phase I- have been forced, by exigen- into Dr. Jones has sent a the development, testing cies of survival, to leave the headline-grabbing message Observations of and marketing of pharma- field." to every pediatrician in patients getting better under ceutical products to treat The film-makers for Connecticut - If you treat the expert administration of only symptoms of the dis- the award-winning Under children with Lyme disease long-term antibiotics--only to ease. In fact, the treatment Our Skin described the pun- with more than four weeks relapse after their doctors denial of the Phase I ishment (supervised proba- of antibiotics, you may lose are prevented from provid- Tuskegee Experiment has tion and a $20,000 fine) your medical license and be ing them--are routine in the become an everyday occur- meted out to Dr. Charles Ray treated as a pariah among Lyme treatment community. rence for thousands of Lyme Jones, a national hero known your peers.''87 For example, the North patients because the experi- for successfully treating According to attor- Carolina state medical ment has become institu- thousands of desperately ill ney Richard Wolfram, this boards punished infectious tionalized within the main- children with Lyme disease harsh treatment of Lyme disease expert Dr. Joseph stream medical system in the Northeast. doctors88 has caused many Jemsek for prescribing long- through the creation and "Last week the to refuse treatment with term antibiotics to desper- enforcement of treatment Connecticut Medical long-term antibiotics, leaving ately ill Lyme victims. guidelines to justify treat- Examining Board (CMEB) patients abandoned: Consequently, many of his ment denial. For added pro- voted to discipline Dr. …in the case of long- patients (including myself) tection, the CDC is conduct- Charles Ray Jones, the 80- term treatment of Lyme dis- relapsed because they were ing this experiment in long- year-old pediatrician fea- ease, complainants estimate no longer able to get treat- term treatment denial tured in UNDER OUR SKIN, fewer than 150 physicians in ment from Jemsek or other through the biowarfare for technical violations in the the United States are willing doctors who were afraid of infrastructure as a biode- way he diagnosed and treat- to endure the pressures from similar prosecution by the fense exercise. ed three children suspected the IDSA and from insurance state medical mafia. As the The medical litera- of having tick-borne dis- companies (by their refusal mother of one such patient, ture from the time of the eases.'' to cover long-term antibiotic who was recovering his sight original Tuskegee The film-makers treatment). This number is under Jemsek's expert care, Experiment explained the noted the asymmetry in the down considerably from pre- related: experimental reasons for establishment's malicious vious levels." "We've looked for why patients with chronic punishment of a well- Unfortunately, it is other doctors, but nobody diseases like Lyme or syphilis respected Lyme doctor: exactly this type of embat- will deal with it here because must be prevented from get- "…Last year the tled long-term treatment89 they're terrified by what ting treatment over a long medical board punished 43 that is often required to fight happened to Dr. Jemsek. All period: physicians for serious the Lyme infection.90 we want is for our son to be "The prolonged charges such as substance able to be home and get nature of a chronic disease abuse, sexual misconduct, "It is difficult enough for well. Dr. Jemsek did that for or a disease with a chronic mental illness, and negli- someone suffering debilitat- us. He gave us back our son's stage, such as syphilis, gence; not one of these ing symptoms due to late- life." 92 necessitates long-term study

Page 8 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT of the natural history (or organizations are willing to "There is a gaping International news pathogenesis) of the disease participate in, fund and con- disconnect between scientif- articles report patients who before the effectiveness of done grossly unethical med- ic research and the experi- are initially treated with dis- programs for the control of ical experimentation into the ences of people on the gust rather than with medi- the disease can be evaluated 1970's." ground. Among the 420 New cine by their nation's med- properly."93 The timing is curious Englanders whom anthropol- ical experts, only to get bet- In other words, a in that just as the original ogist Macauda interviewed ter when they traveled to a long-term baseline must be Tuskegee Experiment was for his 2007 dissertation on country that gave them established as to how the being wound down in the chronic Lyme, 80 percent of proper tests and long-term chronic disease behaves in 1970s, the Lyme disease epi- the interviewees believed in antibiotics treatments.100,101 untreated patients (the "nat- demic and a corresponding the [chronic form of the] dis- The political power ural history of the disease"), denial of treatment for it by ease." and disinformation network so that the effectiveness of "experts" (often associated This "gaping discon- of the EIS would aid in coor- treatments or vaccines can with the CDC) was ramping nect" can be laid directly at dinating treatment-denial be evaluated against this up. In the 1970s, numerous the feet of the Centers for policy on an international background. congressional investigations Disease Control's elite scale, as well. According to Since syphilis and also revealed that the biowarfare defense unit, the the American Journal of Lyme disease are caused by American public had been Epidemic Intelligence Epidemiology: similar organisms and create subject to decades of human Service, since their epidemi- "Many EIS alumni similar multi-staged, chronic experiments with all manner ologists96 and researchers are are serving or have served in infections, a similar experi- of incapacitating agents the ones downplaying the leadership roles for the mental rationale would apply through the CIA's MKULTRA geographical extent and World Health Organization, to studies of Lyme disease project. According to the relapsing nature of the Lyme the Pan American Health treatments and vaccines. congressional reports, the Epidemic.97 And this down- Organization, the World Could the CDC really government had engaged in playing of the infection-rate Bank, and other internation- be conducting Phase II of "extensive testing and exper- and chronic nature of the al organizations and founda- the original Tuskegee imentation" on unwitting disease directly results in tions." Experiment? And could this human subjects "at all social treatment denial.98 explain the politics behind levels, high and low, native The anonymity of "It's possible to see the the non-treatment of the Americans and foreign."94 the EIS belies its power to modern history of Lyme as a Lyme Epidemic? shape health policy from string of events with an EIS Dr. Colin Ross, the behind the scenes. Indeed, it member at every crucial intrepid author who The CDC's Secret Police: The would be hard to underesti- node." obtained thousands of pages Epidemic Intelligence mate the power of the EIS in -Elena Cook, "Lyme Is A of FOIA documents on Service coordinating domestic health Biowarfare Issue" unethical government exper- In the Lyme war, the policy. Their graduates popu- imentation on its citizens, establishment is waging a late top positions in the The overall reach of noted that: battle of ignorance and health infrastructure (includ- the EIS in coordinating an "The Tuskeegee denial. Doctors in the field ing the media99). According "information exchange" Syphilis Study was eventually trying to treat the relapsing, to the American Journal of would be substantial, as shut down in 1972 because chronic infection due to Epidemiology: noted in the Journal: of the efforts of an investiga- Lyme, and their desperately "The current CDC "Although difficult tive journalist. There is no sick and relapsing patients, Director (and two previous to quantify, the networking evidence to suggest that the have opinions that differ Directors) and a Deputy and camaraderie among EIS government or the medical drastically from the research Director are graduates of the graduates continues to profession had any intention selectively published by CDC program, as are the directors strengthen the overall public of closing the study as of and Ivy League "experts" of 9 of the 11 major CDC health infrastructure by facil- 1972." who routinely deny the organizational units and itating information exchange Ross also noted the notorious "persistence" of much of the CDC leadership among alumni located in key precedent that the first so-called chronic Lyme dis- throughout the organization. public health positions Tuskegee Experiment set: ease, even after aggressive Two alumni have served as throughout the nation and "It establishes that a treatment.95 As noted by the Surgeon General of the world." large network of doctors and Roanoke Times: United States.'' Careful investigation

Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 9 SPECIAL REPORT supports the theory that the ters officially support contin- ment. Such delay may lead which also controlled the ini- epidemic of ignorance and uation of study)." to further dissemination of tial response to the Lyme corresponding lack of treat- So the national the infection, and in some Epidemic in the Northeast.115 ment has been perpetuated agency that was supposed cases severe disability and It was Steere's by the CDC as part of Phase to be protecting the public possibly chronic neurologic laughable ideology that II of the deadly Tuskegee from a deadly disease was damage." antibiotics were ineffective Experiment. actually in favor of letting it The further dissemi- against Lyme disease that go untreated for experimen- nation of symptoms is highly was used from day one to "Never would I have tal reasons and worked with profitable for pharmaceutical deny patients this treatment. deemed it possible that a prestigious medical societies companies, while treating The geographical group of medical people to that end! the root cause of the disease clustering of the arthritis would work so vigorously Tuskegee Phase II is with off-patent antibiotics is cases in the initial Lyme out- and with such malice being conducted in a similar not.111 break116, along with seasonal against a group of desper- manner, including the direct correlation of the outbreaks ately ill people …. But, here assistance of prominent "Most blockbuster drugs got (arthritis symptoms typically it is." medical societies through that way not by curing peo- increased in late summer -Lyme victim/activist IDSA treatment guidelines104 ple but by treating chronic and early fall), made it diffi- (requested anonymity for enforced by CDC insiders, conditions … that can cult to ignore the likelihood fear of reprisal) who are regularly found to require a lifetime of pre- that insects were spreading be on the payroll of the scription refills." the disease. Judith Mensch Even worse, Phase II pharmaceuticals and insur- --Michael Gianturco, was a Connecticut housewife is being carried out by the ance industries--both of Fortune who, like Polly Murray, had CDC with the aid of its secre- which can profit enormous- The Steere Camp's War on voiced her concerns about tive biological warfare group. ly105 ,106by not treating the Lyme Patients the spreading arthritis epi- Where the Phase I experi- many symptoms107caused by Even more alarming demic to local health author- ment denied isolated the disease. than CDC complicity in ities (and even the CDC). She patients from seeing non- spreading the epidemic112 is mentioned to Steere the first CDC-approved doctors102, "One way drug companies the overlap between govern- time they met that she sus- Phase II involves preventing have marketed their prod- ment personnel in biowar- pected ticks might be the doctors from treating ucts is by funding the imple- fare and regulatory agencies source of the disease.117 As patients (or even providing mentation of guidelines…" and private medical soci- part of the initial investiga- an accurate diagnosis--recall --Civil Action No. eties, universities and corpo- tion into the mysterious epi- the Tuskegee diagnosis of 08 rations involved in fueling demic, Yale sent out bul- syphilis as "bad blood"103) CA 11318 DPW the epidemic. letins to the local community outside of CDC-approved Notably, the lead warning residents to be on guidelines published by a The CDC has used author of the controversial the lookout for insects that medical society known as the non-specificity of Lyme IDSA Lyme disease treatment might be spreading the dis- the IDSA (Infectious Disease symptoms (except for those guidelines, pharmaceuticals ease. Society of America), on an fortunate enough to mani- consultant Dr. Gary While Steere was international basis. fest the Bull's Eye rash at the Wormser, in his spare time still prescribing toxic levels of The CDC's own his- onset of infection108 ) as an lectures as a biowarfare "aspirin therapy"118 for tory of the Tuskegee excuse to mislabel the dis- expert.113 Murray's desperately ill fami- Experiment describes how ease and thereby prevent Pharmaceuticals ly, a man named Joe Dowhan the CDC worked with promi- effective diagnosis and treat- consultant Allen Steere, walked into Steere's office nent medical societies to ment.109,110 As Dr. Brian influential researcher and co- and presented him with the gain support for the multi- Fallon summarized: author of the guidelines, is a "smoking gun." Dowhan had decade experiment in med- "Incorrectly labeling CDC/EIS biowarfare officer. not only been bitten by a ical malpractice: these patients as having a He also worked for the pri- tick and suffered from Lyme functional illness, such as vate Yale Corporation114 that symptoms. He had saved the "1969 CDC reaffirms depression, hypochondriasis worked closely with the tick, which turned out to be need for study and gains or a somatization disorder, biowarfare tick lab across from the Ixodes Scapularis local medical societies' sup- may result in a delay in the the Long Island Sound from species.119 port (AMA and NMA chap- initiation of antibiotic treat- Lyme, Connecticut, and This vital clue would

Page 10 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT allow Steere to become "To sum up the therapy of "In two previous which the deadly symptoms famous by publishing a Lyme arthritis (Lyme dis- studies, we used a unique ("sequelae") of the disease paper documenting the ease), it appears that at this set of serial serum samples could be monitored over the transmission of the mystery point only symptomatic from untreated patients long term (as the "optimal disease by Ixodid ticks.120 A treatment is feasible…" monitored throughout the antibiotic therapies were still case can be made for the course of Lyme disease in evolving"), just as they had argument that Steere used --Allen Steere et al., the late 1970s prior to the been in the CDC's Tuskegee the prestige offered by this Hospital Practice 143 (April use of antibiotic therapy for Experiment with a similar, development to tragic effect 1978) this illness. Only with this set but less complicated, syphilis over the ensuing years. of serum samples is it possi- spirochete. As Steere, who Indeed, Steere's This fraudulent ble to determine how the played an active part in dis- institutional ties gave him Steere-camp ideology has antibody responses to B. crediting "optimal antibiotic undeserved influence as an been institutionalized in the burgdorferi develop and therapies" that other doctors "expert" on Lyme disease. highly change during the various with far more limited Unfortunately, Steere's controversial, one-size-fits-all stages of the illness."131 resources than Yale's finest expertise seems geared IDSA Lyme Disease At the beginning of had managed to develop,137 toward finding reasons for Treatment Guidelines.127 the epidemic, Steere system- shockingly admitted in 1994: why patients didn't have These "guidelines" were so atically ridiculed the notion "We studied persons Lyme disease and therefore draconian they were investi- that antibiotics were effec- residing in an endemic didn't need treatment. The gated by the Connecticut tive against the Lyme disease coastal area of New York Times summarized Attorney General, who found bacterium132 that he erro- Massachusetts who were Steere's history: "undisclosed financial inter- neously assumed133 was a previously infected with B. "As the world's fore- ests held by several of the virus.134 His group at Yale burgdorferi in the early most expert on the illness, most powerful IDSA pan- said the same thing,135 even 1980s. They contracted Lyme however, Steere did not elists."128,129 as doctors around him were disease while the clinical believe many of them had Steere originally successfully treating patients syndromes and optimal Lyme disease at all, but worked for the corporation with antibiotics.136 antibiotic therapies were still something else … and he had (Yale) that developed and evolving, which offered a refused to treat them with licensed the first Lyme vac- "We remain skeptical that "natural experiment" for the antibiotics. Many doctors cine, Lymerix. He not only antibiotic therapy helps..." identification of risk factors and insurance companies established the mythology --Allen Steere, et. al. for Lyme disease seque- had followed his lead, and in that has kept his patients lae."138 turn, hordes of patients had from getting effective treat- When they could no In her book, Lyme started to stalk him."121 ment so that the vaccine longer deny the obvious research pioneer Polly Over the years, this could be developed and mar- beneficial effects of antibi- Murray hinted at Steere's so-called Steere-camp group keted, but he also personally otics, Steere's camp sudden- agenda in not treating Lyme has invented a non-existent oversaw the vaccine trials ly switched to the other disease, which was consis- Lyme virus122 and a non-exis- and associated tests130 run by extreme, claiming that tent with Tuskegee-like mon- tent species of Ixodid tick123 the company that licensed antibiotics were amazingly itoring139 of the progression to justify the denial of antibi- the vaccine from his previ- effective and therefore only of the damage induced by otics124 to an expanding ous employer. extremely short courses of the disease: group of Lyme victims. (This Steere admitted in antibiotics would completely "He told us that he camp currently searches for one technical paper how cure Lyme disease. The com- felt that it was very impor- an auto-immune having blood samples from mon thread in these two tant for him to follow all his mechanism125 which would untreated controls through- contradictory ideologies is patients on a continuous explain chronic Lyme disease out the progression of the that they are both rationales basis in order to know the symptoms independent of disease was beneficial in for denying patients effec- stages of the disease."140 an ongoing infection that mapping out the long-term tive, long-term antibiotic Steere even took might be cured through immune response to the dis- treatment. measures to ensure that the antibiotics126 instead of ease (this was critical for These positions fraudulent ideology141 he cre- treated with a lifetime of developing a vaccine to allowed Steere et al to con- ated to maintain untreated pharmaceuticals products.) mimic the antibody response duct what he later termed as controls was enforced. He against the disease-agent): a "natural experiment" in personally testified against

Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 11 SPECIAL REPORT doctors who defied his care- cines.145) Step-I would involve researcher fully designed disease per- At this point, I the leaking of the pathogen petuation paradigm. As relat- should add that I do not into the public,146 with asso- The otherwise inex- ed by the New York Times: think Steere has any power ciated treatment-prevention plicable policies of the "To patients with on his own. He, and other and cover-up techniques Steere camp, which are Lyme disease perhaps Dr. Ivy League Lyme "experts" subsequently employed by more geared toward perpet- Steere's most audacious ges- like him, are simply being pharmaceutical companies uating the epidemic than ture came in 1994 when he used as manufactured using their influence over halting it, can be viewed as testified at a board of medi- "thought-leaders" on behalf the CDC and other regulato- implementing such a strate- cine hearing against Dr. of the pharma-biowar estab- ry agencies. This would keep gy. The Steere camp has cre- Joseph Natole of Saginaw, lishment to sell profit-friend- the public ignorant about ated an environment con- Mich., who was treating ly Tuskegee policy to the the nature and extent of the ducive to developing and patients for chronic Lyme public. His undue influence disease, so that well-con- testing vaccines and also one disease. Because Dr. Natole reflects no expertise whatso- nected researchers (conve- for marketing them! had so many people on ever (other than milking gov- niently doubling as pharma- Such a strategy is intravenous antibiotics, ernment grants to reach the ceuticals consultants and not as far out as it may authorities charged him with same conclusion year after military biowarfare experts) seem. The parameters that medical malpractice and year), just the reality that far could monitor the immune would lead to a favorable insurance fraud. Dr. Natole too much unaccountable response of the disease in market for Lyme vaccines was ultimately stripped of influence rests in too few untreated controls. This were outlined in a blunt CDC his medical license for six hands at the top of the eco- information could then be paper on the cost-effective- months."142 nomic ladder. exploited to develop a vac- ness of a Lyme disease vac- Steere has not only cine. cine. According to the con- helped destroy the lives of "The controversy in the Once this phase was clusions of the paper, vac- Lyme doctors. He has sys- Lyme disease research is a complete, and a candidate cines against Lyme disease tematically ridiculed Lyme shameful affair. And I say vaccine developed, would would only be cost-effective patients over the years-- that because the whole come Step-II. The vaccine if the probability of contract- especially women.143 Echoing thing is politically tainted. could be tested under the ing Lyme disease was the manner in which Polly Money goes to people that secrecy and human experi- increased significantly from Murray was initially treated have for the past 30 years mentation privileges afford- the existing levels. 147 by the medical community,144 produced the same thing: ed by the covert biowarfare (Published 1999). Steere has taken the position nothing." research infrastructure, As Emma Hitt that many Lyme patients --Willy Burgdorfer which has conducted explained in Nature want to be diagnosed with [name-sake of Lyme bacteri- decades of destructive Medicine,148 the cost-effec- Lyme disease. He was quot- um] experiments with impunity. tiveness argument for a vac- ed in the New York Times: The health crisis created cine ("savings per case avert- ''I suppose Lyme dis- The Blueprint Behind It All? through the "treatment- ed") only made sense if ease is one of the few dis- Could a vaccine denial phase" of the vaccine- nearly an order of magni- eases that some people want agenda, under the pretext of development experiment tude increase in infection to have, because it's defined. biowarfare defense, explain could then be used to gener- rates took place: I think it's very difficult to why the EIS, and its point- ate demand and justify have something that is not man Allen Steere, were so implementing the vaccine, ™ "A cost-effectiveness well understood.'' heavily involved in control- despite predictable side- analysis of the Lyme disease On top of all this, ling the non-response to the effects. vaccine by the CDC indicates Steere is a member of the Lyme Epidemic, which start- that the use of Lymerix vac- Epidemic Intelligence ed just outside a biowarfare "The most serious and dis- cine is justified only in areas Service, the CDC agency lab? appointing circumstance in which the incidence of chartered with responding to It is certainly feasi- was when I caught the CDC Lyme disease is high. biowarfare agents released ble that a two-step program red-handed trying to... mas- on U.S. soil, as well as devel- was put into place with querade opinion as data ™ They found that the oping vaccines against them. respect to a vaccine develop- supported by objective and mean net savings of vaccina- (The EIS has boasted of its ment and marketing agenda provable facts." tion per case averted is history in promoting vac- for Lyme disease. --Dr. Ed Masters, Lyme $3,377 if the probability of

Page 12 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT contracting Lyme disease is --Marcia Angell, New York oping short- and long-term the "probability of diagnos- estimated at 0.03. However, Review of Books complications (sequelae) ing and treating early symp- the probability of contracting from Lyme disease increases toms" (while the epidemic is Lyme disease is, in all but a The CDC vaccine- building) few areas, less than 0.005." marketability study spells I propose that this The CDC vaccine- out how the "cost-savings of CDC article provides insight ™ The promotion marketability authors found vaccination" against Lyme into the overarching princi- of ineffective, short-term that, within parameter val- disease can be computed by ples behind the Steere antibiotic regimens over ues estimated to be accurate examining "the effect of camp's "Lyme Disease more effective, long-term at the time when the first combinations of six inputs": Cartel" (managed largely by antibiotic regimens that have Lyme vaccine was being mar- CDC epidemiologists), and been developed through keted, increasing the proba- ™ cost of vaccination therefore provides a blue- years of careful, empirical bility of Lyme disease to 1%- print of the real goals research 3% would make the vaccine ™ annual probability of con- behind decades of disas- appear cost-effective. The tracting Lyme disease trous CDC Lyme disease ™ This increases problem was that, except for policies. 149 the "probability of sequelae a few isolated areas, this ™ costs of successfully Indeed, with this due to early infection; proba- proposed probability of con- treating either early symp- article as a backdrop, it bility of sequelae due to late, tracting Lyme was far higher toms of Lyme disease or one should be obvious that the disseminated infection" than actual infection rates. of three sequelae policies advocated by the Steere-camp pharmaceutical ™ The systematic ™ Were CDC policies put ™ probability of diagnosing consultants that have result- harassment of physicians into place to correct this? and treating early symptoms ed in abject misery for Lyme who learn how to diagnose victims represent gain for and treat the disease effec- ™ Were CDC-trained epi- ™ probability of sequelae vaccine interests. tively by using these antibi- demiologists (EIS), such as due to early infection otic treatments Allen Steere, put in place to The article explains: justify disastrous policies to ™ probability of sequelae ™ This both make the vaccine cost-effec- due to late, disseminated ™ The perpetuation of decreases the probability of tive, as outlined in this CDC- infection mythologies (variations of effectively treating Lyme dis- authored publication? the "hard to catch, easy to ease and increases the prob- Thus, this article cure" myth) that allow the ability of generating short- ™ Does this explain the reveals how a business case epidemic to spread more and long-term disease symp- decades of outrageous CDC could be made to offset the readily (the "easy to catch, toms, the expensive treat- policies to the detriment of costs of an expensive Lyme hard to cure" reality) while ments for which make a vac- the public, allowing Lyme disease vaccine for each of keeping the public and the cine look cost-effective by disease to spread generally these parameters, if medical community in the comparison and its effects to worsen dark as to the true nature individually beyond what ™ the probability of con- and extent of the disease ™ The denial of the they would have with proper tracting the disease increas- role of active infection in treatment so that a vaccine es ™ This increases the "prob- sustaining long-term or could be justified from a ability of contracting Lyme chronic Lyme disease and financial standpoint? ™ the cost of treating Lyme disease" the associated symptoms disease increases "In recent years, drug com- ™ The promotion of notori- ™ This also panies have perfected a new ™ the probability of correct- ously inaccurate test decreases the probability of and highly effective method ly diagnosing it decreases methodologies over more effectively treating Lyme dis- to expand their markets. effective ones, while grossly ease at the source and Instead of promoting drugs ™ the probability of effec- underplaying the effect this increases the probability of to treat diseases, they have tively treating it decreases; has on the burgeoning epi- generating long-term Lyme begun to promote diseases and, correspondingly, demic disease symptoms to fit their drugs." ™ the probability of devel- ™ This decreases ™ The downplaying

Public Health Alert www.publichealthalert.org Page 13 SPECIAL REPORT of chronic or asymptomatic This is because, in addition and monitor, the abili on to treat chronic illnesses. infections ultimately causing to helping spread the infec- ty to make experimental vac- These are patients they long-term symptoms also tion for reasons described cine trials look more success- think they are going to have makes the vaccine trials easi- above, the insistence that ful is enhanced. for the rest of their lives. So er to conduct (allows a Lyme disease is characterized This was the course it's a big profit center for shorter surveillance time by a fast-forming and easily taken in the trials for the them. … They don't really with a shorter list of symp- recognized Bull's-Eye rash first commercial vaccine like solutions to these ill- toms to monitor)150 along with arthritis symp- against Lyme disease. In nesses because it cuts into toms drastically shortens the spite of the fact that their profits, long-term prof- Indeed, the Lyme surveillance time (and thus researchers associated with its. So in that regard, they "vaccine marketability" argu- the required FDA approval SmithKline Beecham admit- have not been our best ment could also explain time) in vaccine trials and ted the size of the vaccine friends." other controversial tenets eases the "surveillance crite- trials "will not be sufficient --Dr. Garth Nicholson, for- long held by the Steere ria" defining a positive case to determine vaccine efficacy mer David Bruton Jr. chair in camp, including the follow- of Lyme disease following against rare manifestations cancer research, ing: experimental vaccination. of LD with comfortable preci- Department of Tumor Indeed, according to sion," an IDSA meeting was Biology, the University of ™ The overempha- the authors of one Lyme vac- used to make ridiculously Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer sis of the relatively fast- cine study, the long lead- overoptimistic statements Center, Houston developing Bull's-Eye rash time, late-stage disease man- regarding the vaccine's effec- symptom (Erythema ifestations of Lyme disease tiveness against so-called The Unrivaled Destructive migrans) as an indicator of presented unique and signifi- asymptomatic manifesta- Power of "Big Pharma" Lyme disease, when this cant problems153 for vaccine tions. According to one opti- Is there a power occurs in only half (or less) trials, since they required mistic synopsis of the vac- center capable of manipulat- of Lyme victims151 longer and therefore more cine trials: ing the definition and treat- expensive monitoring peri- "A study with ment of a disease for such a ™ The restricting of ods: Lymerix®, manufactured by nefarious agenda? If so, how Lyme disease to an arthritic "Late-stage disease, SmithKline Beecham does it work? disease, while absurdly which can occur weeks to Biologicals, presented at the The pharmaceuticals denying that numerous, years following infection, Infectious Diseases Society of industry certainly has the debilitating symptoms (both may cause complex rheuma- America (IDSA) meeting in money and infrastructure to short- and long-term) such tologic, neurological and car- Philadelphia, showed that carry out such an agenda. as cognitive and cardiac diac manifestations. These after three doses, Lymerix They also have a history rife problems are routinely variable manifestations can reduced the risk of asympto- with such large-scale induced by the disease.152 make definitive matic Lyme disease infection doings.158 diagnosis problematic and by 100 percent."155 This vaccine-friendly Overemphasizing present difficulties in deter- Such absurd vaccine agenda is largely accom- the prevalence of the Bull's- mining case definitions for marketing claims may also plished by manufacturing Eye rash and arthritis in use in vaccine efficacy trials. explain why Steere himself thought-leaders159 out of Lyme disease cases has The long latency period for has made so many state- compliant academics and major benefits for vaccine the appearance of symptoms ments trivializing these non- keeping them on retainer as development. By concentrat- also has implications for a arthritic symptoms over the consultants to write pharma- ing on only one or two of the trial, since prolonged sur- years, and has recently friendly treatment guidelines "protean manifestations" of veillance must be claimed that these asympto- and publish pharma-friendly Lyme disease, a vaccine can employed."154 [emphasis matic cases are not only rare articles in pharma-dominat- be made to appear more added] in American infections,156 but ed medical journals. Such effective by emphasizing Thus, by ignoring form over a period short thought leaders are also kept short-term conditions and symptoms that form over enough to have been moni- on retainer to serve as ignoring long-term ones. periods of months to years tored157 in his vaccine trial. "expert witnesses" when Additionally, the difficult and and which are difficult and doctors who buck the system costly problem of running expensive to diagnose and, "The pharmaceutical com- are put on trial.160 vaccine trials can be made by emphasizing symptoms panies depend upon a lot of The rotating door much more manageable. that are easy to diagnose their profits for drugs and so between the pharmaceuti-

Page 14 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT cals industry, private medical the public. Nass reports that create pathogens for which Independent: societies and government in addition to hiring directors profitable symptom treat- The suit further con- health agencies facilitates from the CDC, Merck has ments could be sold in per- tends that the researchers the implementation of a vac- hired a high-level military petuity. Since the pharma- gave the other half a com- cine-friendly agenda. This vaccine expert to help mar- ceutical industry dominates parison drug made by was no more evident than ket vaccines. According to the CDC, medical educa- Pfizer's competitor Hoffman- when former CDC director Nass, "retired Colonel John tion,176 medical press177,178 and La Roche, but deliberately Dr. Julie Gerberding was Grabenstein, Ph.D., who led mass media,179 the industry is underdosed them to make recently selected to head the military anthrax vaccine not likely to be held account- their own product look bet- Merck's vaccines division: program from 1999 through able for disseminating ter. Pfizer and its doctors "As a pre-eminent 2006, supervised multiple pathogens for which their "agreed to do an illegal act," authority in public health, poorly conducted studies of well-placed consultants the suit says, "in a manner infectious diseases and vac- anthrax vaccine safety, then could ghost-write self-serv- so rash and negligent as to cines, Dr. Gerberding is the moved to Merck Vaccine as a ing treatment guidelines180,181 endanger human life".190 ideal choice to lead Merck's VP."163 (bolstered by ghost-written The fact that Lyme engagement with organiza- Of course all of this studies182,183), and help intimi- disease under-treatment has tions around the world that orchestration takes lots of date doctors into compliance been surrounded by so many share our commitment to money, planning, lobbying with them,184,185 to keep the researchers with biowarfare the use of vaccines to pre- and media censorship. The profitable circle going.186 The connections explains why vent disease and save pharmaceuticals industry has elite medical press has all their deliberately ineffective lives."161 unrivaled power in this but given up on preventing treatment regimens (using Additionally, Dr. regard. It is the most prof- such profit-oriented conflicts the wrong drug at the wrong Carol Baker, past president of itable business on earth164 of interest.187 dose for the wrong period of IDSA and head of the Lyme and correspondingly has the time to give the illusion of disease definition panel most expensive,165 exten- "Replacing medical educa- treatment while preventing (hearing panel) on IDSA sive166 and effective167 lobby tion with industry promo- it, as was done in the Lyme guidelines was in the U.S. Its lobbying is so tion in the guise of scholar- Tuskegee Study191) have not appointed head of CDC advi- successful168 that it routinely ship causes demonstrable been widely exposed. sory committee on vaccines. engages in illicit behavior, harm to trainees, the public Unfortunately, this Conveniently "the 2009 IDSA knowing the profits will far and the profession."188 situation is only getting international meeting exceed any fines it is eventu- --Dr. Amy C. Brodkey worse. focused on Lyme vaccine ally hit with (which often set Sherwood Ross has development."162 records). These fines are Would pharmaceuti- reported on the increased These developments merely factored into the cost cal companies perpetuate collaboration between the are consistent with the the- of doing business.169 research with deadly, "sham pharmaceutical industry and sis of this article that person- Conflicts of interest antibiotics regimens" (such academia in America's resur- nel are being rotated abound, with respect to as those short-term antibiot- gent biowarfare program: through government health pharmaceuticals' company ic regimens with ineffective "In case you didn't and military agencies (CDC), influence over government drugs and doses typically know it, the White House private medical societies regulatory agencies170 - recommended for Lyme dis- since 9/11 has called for (IDSA) and private pharma- including the FDA,171 NIH172 ease) to make competing spending $44 billion on bio- ceuticals companies (Merck and the CDC.173 Other media treatments that are a threat logical warfare research, a and others) to carry out dan- outlets have reported that to corporate profits look less sum unprecedented in world gerous, vaccine-friendly members of Congress own effective by deliberately history, and an obliging human experimentation poli- pharmaceutical stocks.174 under-dosing them? Congress has authorized it. cies under the hidden agen- Alarmingly, the Pfizer is accused of Thus, some of the deadliest da of biowarfare defense. pharmaceuticals industry175 doing exactly this. It was pathogens known to Also consistent with has historically played a piv- sued in Nigeria for conduct- humankind are being rekin- this hypothesis is a develop- otal role in running the ing a deadly, unethical drug dled in hundreds of labs in ment reported by Dr. Merle American biological warfare experiment on children, pharmaceutical houses, uni- Nass, who has been follow- program. without the permission of versity biology departments ing the military's deadly This role would give their parents.189 According to and on military bases. anthrax experimentation on the industry the ability to an article in the ...Besides the big

Page 15 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT pharmaceutical houses, the view Lyme disease as a the background noise of Lyme patient victims.200 biowarfare buildup is getting model form of experimental adverse reactions (some- The New York Times an enthusiastic response arthritis. Stephen Malawista, thing he could claim to be an quoted Murray, the woman from academia, which sees who oversaw Steere's initial expert at, having carefully who conducted the first new funds flowing from investigation into the cause monitored the excruciating investigation of Lyme disease Washington's horn of plen- of Lyme arthritis, saw the symptoms in numerous in Connecticut (until Steere ty." According to Francis Bull's-eye rash as "the stuff untreated patients through- took it over201 and ran it into Boyle, an international law that rheumatologists' out the course of their the ground), summarizing authority at the University of dreams are made of." untreated disease). Steere's philosophy of deny- Illinois, Champaign... As summarized by Steere played a piv- ing the existence of chronic 'American universities have a Jonathan Edlow, since "Lyme otal role in bringing the dis- Lyme disease and the bene- long history of willingly per- arthritis had a definable astrous vaccine to market. As fits of long-term antibiotic mitting their research agen- onset, marked by the rash, the "coordinating investiga- treatment: da, researchers, institutes rheumatologists could study tor," he "coordinated and ''I am dismayed and laboratories to be co- the joint inflammation in a monitored all laboratory about Dr. Steere's position. opted, corrupted and per- way that they could not for, activities, including assay val- He feels that it's overdiag- verted by the Pentagon and say, rheumatoid arthritis or idation, sample testing, and nosed and overtreated, but I the CIA.'192 lupus." (The fact that the dis- the reporting of results." He see people in the area who ease was also caused by an also advised the vaccine are having a real struggle Lyme Disease: The Stuff infectious agent that could researchers on adverse reac- with getting over Lyme dis- Dreams Are Made Of? be modified for use in a vac- tions, "especially the serious ease. And some of them The Lyme disease cine was another plus.) Such adverse events." Steere's have responded to longer- epidemic has proved to be a considerations would also assistance in this matter was term treatment.'' lucrative opportunity for the play into the ease with which essential due to the fact that Murray has provided biowarfare-connected corpo- post-vaccination rates of "the number of adverse us an illuminating glimpse rate-linked academics who infections in experimental events was so large that it into Steere's early investiga- made their careers pretend- populations could supposed- could otherwise have been tion of Lyme disease. Her ing to investigate and treat ly be monitored in vaccine considered 'too much back- story, as one of the first vic- it. Perhaps this explains their trials.194 ground noise.'"196 tims unfortunate enough to reported excitement when No doubt Steere's "We the people" fall under Steere's dismissive the disease first broke out. knowledge of the immune need to ask this question: care (her husband was given Polly Murray, the response to Lyme disease, Did reducing this "back- the Tuskegee "aspirin thera- pioneer Lyme investigator gained from his "study of 25 ground noise" involve sup- py"202 by Steere, et al at who bore the brunt of the untreated patients moni- pressing negative findings in Yale), vividly illustrates the arrogance of the medical tored longitudinally through- the form of "adverse ongoing struggle with the establishment that misdiag- out the course of Lyme dis- events"?197 Curiously, arrogant Yale/CDC/IDSA aris- nosed her and her family,193 ease" came in handy when Steere's experimental vac- tocracy that has plagued the records that the doctors he was put in charge of an cine, the world's first vaccine Lyme community from the present at her initial meeting experimental Lyme vaccine to prevent Lyme disease, was beginning.203 This arrogance with Steere at Yale were trial, while working at Tufts quickly pulled from the mar- was described by a Navy strangely enthusiastic about University.195 This trial was ket in the face of multiple doctor named William Mast the burgeoning epidemic based on the vaccine agent lawsuits once the public fig- who early on tried to inform that was devastating her that was licensed to ured out that adverse reac- Steere that antibiotics could community. She records one SmithKlineBeecham by tions were inducing symp- be effective against Lyme doctor's strange comments Steere's former employer toms of the disease instead disease: on the newly discovered ill- (Yale). (The study was fund- of preventing them.198 "Allen [Steere] at ness: "Isn't this exciting?" ed jointly by SmithKline that time was very adamant The tell-tale rash Beecham Pharmaceuticals Summary about antibiotics having that signaled the coming and the CDC.) The institutionalized absolutely no role in the dis- onset of symptoms associat- In fact, scientists Steere camp philosophy that ease. We left with some feel- ed with Lyme disease caused from the vaccine manufac- Lyme disease is overdiag- ings of animosity at that Steere camp "experts" as far turer credited Steere with nosed and overtreated has point. And the academic back as the mid-1970s to advising them on reducing been an epic disaster for people made us feel like we

Page 16 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT obviously didn't know what out the history, almost every until implementation of in human subjects for vac- we were doing. And we time a major dogmatic state- Phase III: Making sure our cine research. For an knew from our observations ment has been made about demands are heard and overview of Jerry's work, that we did." what we 'know' about this acted on by turning the see: Murray, who at first disease, it was subsequently Lyme Epidemic into the Lyme naively trusted Steere, has proven wrong or underwent Solution. This entails protec- America's Secret Weapons: given us a succinct summary major modifications." tion for doctors who know http://winstonsmith.net/am of the "widening gulf" The Steere camp how to treat Lyme and ericas_secret_weapons.htm between reality and Steere's experts have indeed been informing other doctors and deadly myth: wrong along. Why should the public at large about the Contact Jerry at jer- "There was a widen- we believe anything they nature of the epidemic and [email protected]. ing gulf between what the now say about the prof- who is behind its perpetua- patients were experiencing itable Lyme Epidemic they tion. To this end, Additional Resources: and what most of the med- created under the pretext of President Obama ical literature was reporting biowarfare-related vaccine must extend the mission of The source of Lyme that Lyme disease should be research? Why should doc- his Presidential Commission, disease has been traced to a like. Patients were becoming tors be hamstrung by the formed in the wake of recent biological warfare experi- confused and frustrated by treatment guidelines Steere's revelations on the expanding ment gone out of control the dilemmas in diagnosis. clones have created to per- scope of the Tuskegee through books, films, and Dr. Steere seemed to be less petuate the epidemic under Experiment,205 to specifically television documentaries. receptive to what patients the pretext of treating it?204 investigate the CDC's role in were describing, and I felt it Was the CDC's Lyme disease treatment- Books: more difficult to understand Steere camp "less receptive denial. his position on diagnosis, to what patients were Lyme disease is not ™ Lab 257, by Michael treatment, re-infection and describing" because they my problem, it is not the Carroll sero-negative patients." were being rewarded with Lyme community's problem. Dr. Ed Masters, a perpetual research grants to It is not an American prob- ™ http://search.barnesand- Lyme doctor from Missouri develop predetermined poli- lem. It is now an internation- noble.com/ who more recently caught cies consistent with disease- al problem. And it is up to books/product.aspx?userid=i the CDC red-handed con- perpetuation for vaccine you, to all of you, to solve it. 98a5vf98j&isbn=0060011416 ducting a fraudulent investi- development and market- Let the haunting &itm=3 gation to justify denying the ing? words of Joseph Mengele, existence and necessity of Given the source of conductor of Nazi medical Articles: treatment of Lyme disease in Lyme disease, and the peo- experiments, ring from the the Southeast, gave a ple behind the denial of past into the present: "The ™ Elena Cook, "Lyme Is A blunter summary of the treatment, it is my opinion more we do to you, the less Biowarfare Issue" establishment's disastrous- that we are in the midst of you seem to believe we are yet-strident positions on the another phase of the CDC doing it.'' nature of Lyme disease: Tuskegee Experiment and http://www.elenacook.org/b "First off, they said it twin epidemics of disinfor- wsept06. html was a new disease, which it mation and disease. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: wasn't. Then it was thought For victims of the Jerry Leonard is a ™ Marjorie Tietjen, to be viral, but it isn't. Then disease and concerned mem- Lyme disease patient and "Discreet Methods of it was thought that sero-neg- bers of the public, knowl- author. He has written three Biological Warfare" ativity didn't exist, which it edge of the situation must books on unethical medical does. They thought it was be our own Phase I. But experiments conducted by http://www.pub- easily treated by short cours- knowledge without action is the government -- including lichealthalert.org/ es of antibiotics, which fruitless. It us up to us to experiments involving the Articles/marjorietietjen/Discr sometimes it isn't. Then it wage Phase II: alerting mem- systematic injection of tumor eet%20Methods%20of%20Bi was only the Ixodes dammini bers of Congress and other cells and monkey cancer ological%20Warfare.html tick, which we now know is officials and demanding virus in humans so that not even a separate valid tick action. model forms of cancer could ™ Marjorie Tietjen, "Lyme species. If you look through- And we cannot stop be induced and maintained Disease - A Biological

Page 17 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT Weapon?" Lyme-Biowarfare also has a history of and experimentation" on Connections pathogen leaks. unwitting human subjects http://www.rense.com/gen- "at all social levels, high and eral63/lyme. "…we are dealing here with ™ Plum Island still con- low, native Americans and htm a formidable 'smart stealth' ducts tick research with foreign." type of bacteria that is hard African Swine Fever Virus, ™ Mark Sanborne, "The to eradicate-one that does which, according to papers ™ The vector for Lyme Mystery of Plum Island: extreme damage to psyche published by Lyme/biowar- disease (Ixodid ticks) was Nazis, Ticks and Weapons of and soma if not treated fare experts such as Alan "discovered" by a biowarfare Mass Infection" aggressively over the long Barbour, has "sequence simi- defense expert (Allen Steere) term when missed in the larities" to segments of DNA from the CDC's Epidemic http://www.ww4report.com/ first days following inocula- in the telomeres of the Intelligence Service (EIS). node/ tion by the vector..." Borrelia organism which %201898 --Dr. Virginia Sherr causes Lyme disease. ™ The Lyme bacterium was first propagated in cell ™ Tina J. Garcia, Researchers have ™ Plum Island propa- cultures by another CDC EIS "Biowarfare Lab Directors demonstrated the extensive gates this genetically engi- biowarfare expert (Alan Are Experts on Lyme Disease, ties between the CDC's neered virus in ticks for vac- Barbour), in a biowarfare A Level II Debilitating biodefense unit and the per- cine studies. This virus, lab. This researcher had pre- Biological Agent" petuation of the Lyme according to numerous viously studied anthrax for Epidemic. reports, has also reportedly the military, and went on to http://www.rumormillnews.c been used by the U.S. in create mutant strains of om/ Here is a summary real-world biological warfare Borrelia burgdorferi. He now cgi- of the connections between attacks. directs a biowarfare lab at bin/archive.cgi?noframes;rea the Lyme Epidemic and the University of California, d=189403 biowarfare: ™ Lyme disease has Irvine Campus. properties ideal for a dis- Videos/Documentaries: ™ The causative agent abling biowarfare agent: ™ The Lyme Epidemic of Lyme disease (Borrelia rapid dissemination within is being perpetuated by ™ Under the Eightball, doc- burgdorferi) was identified the body but causing researchers affiliated with umentary by Tim Grey (film by and named after a delayed symptoms, relapsing the CDC's biowarfare links Lyme disease epidemic biowarfare researcher antibiotic resistant infection, defense unit (EIS), including to biowarfare research) named Willy Burgdorfer, who protective cyst formation Steere (EIS) and Eugene worked at a biowarfare lab (similar to anthrax), capabili- Shapiro (EIS) by forcing doc- http://www.youtube.com/w (Rocky Mountain Labs) ty for inducing both mental tors to treat (or not treat) atch?v=4UOhME0K4hw developing and publishing and physical incapacitation patients according to treat- methods for infecting Ixodid ment guidelines that are so ™ Under Our Skin (film that ticks with Borrelia agents-a ™ Just as the Lyme draconian and riddled with documents the non-treat- decade or so before an epi- spirochete epidemic was get- self-serving recommenda- ment of Lyme disease vic- demic caused by Borrelia ting started, we learned in tions that the organization tims) agents spread by Ixodid ticks 1977 of a massive govern- that put them out was inves- broke out just outside a top- ment research effort known tigated and reprimanded by http://www.underourskin.co level biowarfare lab that did as MKULTRA that was "con- the Attorney General of m/ outdoor tick research. cerned with the research and Connecticut. development of chemical, ™ Plum Island episode, ™ Lyme disease itself is biological and radiological ™ Gary Wormser is the Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy named after Lyme, materials" to do exactly what lead author on the fraudu- Theory" discusses Lyme dis- Connecticut-the town a few Lyme does: "severely" inca- lent treatment guidelines ease and biowarfare miles from a top-level pacitate human victims. published by the IDSA, which http://www.youtube.com/w biowarfare lab (Plum Island prevent patients from get- atch?v=aC1gV_6aSIA Animal Disease Research ™ To accomplish this ting effective treatments. In Center) that not only did goal, the government his spare time, he lectures as Appendix A outdoor tick experiments but engaged in "extensive testing an expert on biowarfare Page 18 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT agents and treatments: How of super-labs, are neverthe- Epidemic. Germs Become Weapons: Related questions include: less in receipt of substantial Given the manner in Recognizing Agents -- What are the odds grants for biowarfare which Lyme disease broke Treating Patients.) that a Borrelia disease agent research." out and the deadly manner spread by Ixodid ticks and --Elena Cook, "Lyme Is A in which it has been inten- ™ The research study the policies of the CDC's Biowarfare Issue" tionally mismanaged ever Wormser used to justify his biowarfare unit, which has since, hard questions must position that Lyme disease is been identified by the gov- Appendix B be asked: readily cured with short ernment as a potential courses of antibiotics was a biowarfare agent, would be The research history ™ When Burgdorfer fraudulent study authored by named after a biowarfare of Willy Burgdorfer, name- was developing techniques Mark Klempner, a CDC EIS researcher who published sake of Lyme disease: to artificially expand the agent who also now directs a methods for infecting Ixodid In the 1950s, Willy host-range of Borrelias to biowarfare lab, at Boston ticks with Borrelia agents? Burgdorfer, who isolated the new tick species, and then to University. (This celebrated What are the odds a tick-vectored Lyme disease lab animals, was he in fact study to allegedly investigate Borrelia disease that broke spirochete and for whom the conducting biological war- long-term antibiotic treat- out just outside a biowarfare causative Borrelia is named, fare research at the Rocky ment of Lyme patients was lab that conducted tick worked on artificially forcing Mountain Laboratory? halted before long-term research is not a biowarfare Borrelia disease agents (like antibiotics could even be agent? relapsing fever Borrelias) to ™ Did this research administered. ) And what are the infect new tick vectors. feed in to the tick research odds that treatment denial (Burgdorfer then used these that was conducted at Plum ™ The first vaccine for this disease agent, which artificially infected ticks in Island Animal Disease against the disease was is controlled by various attempts to infect lab ani- Center, the outdoor biowar developed and licensed by a agents of the biowarfare mals. ) test facility for such insect defense contractor (Yale wing of an agency that con- He also published vectors? And was Plum Corporation) that worked ducted experiments limiting papers describing the "occult Island,the outdoor test facili- closely with Plum Island treatment for a similar dis- infections" due to these ty for Fort Detrick, the cen- biowarfare lab on ease agent (both the Lyme relapsing fever spirochete ter of the U.S. biological war- biowarfare and vaccine Borrelia and syphilis are clas- disease agents. In parallel fare effort? agents. The lead investigator sified as spirochetes), is not with these studies, he devel- for the vaccine field trials part of a similar experiment oped production-like meth- ™ Was the causative (Steere) was a Yale and EIS conducted on a grander ods for transferring diseases agent of Lyme disease later alumnus who has done scale, under the auspices of to Ixodid ticks, the same "discovered" by a military everything in his power to biowarfare research? species that spreads the epidemiologist as part of a deny effective antibiotic occult Borrelia infection ini- suspected public treatments to Lyme victims, "The number of Steere tially called Lyme disease, relations/containment effort so that the immune camp Lyme researchers with which Burgdorfer later com- to control information about response to the disease a background in the pared to the relapsing fever the burgeoning epidemic could be mapped out in Epidemic Intelligence Borrelias he had studied. and its ties to the military? untreated controls. Service (EIS) and/or biowar- The lab he conduct- fare research is too numer- ed this research in and which ™ Did this effort sur- ™ Lyme disease was ous to be pure coincidence. later isolated the Lyme spiro- rounding the so-called "natu- recently named as a biowar- Two scientists who have chete is now a "biosafety ral" outbreak of a zoonotic fare agent by the U.S. gov- played a central role in the level 4" biowarfare research agent lead to an experimen- ernment. Lyme story, Barbour and facility, just like the biowar- tal vaccine effort (orchestrat- Klempner, have been placed fare lab at the epicenter of ed by CDC/EIS biowarfare in charge of new biowar the Lyme Epidemic (Plum agents) similar to that which Thus, it is not a super-labs set up in the Island Animal Disease happened in Egypt, when question whether Lyme is a aftermath of 9-11, where Center), which conducted human vaccine experiments biowarfare agent. The ques- they are aided by some of outdoor tick research and is were conducted after the tion is, when was it first their Steerite colleagues. suspected of being the "natural" outbreak of Rift investigated as one? Others, while not in charge source of the Lyme Valley fever virus, an out-

Page 19 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT break that occurred in the disease patient and advocate nation of those Guidelines Borreliosis patients, based same time-frame as the who has struggled with on its website. upon the premise that such Lyme disease outbreak? Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) Another reason for treatment causes antibiotic infection for twelve years, the medical neglect of Lyme resistance? Do the CDC and In the time period since 1998. The bacteria patients is the failure of the IDSA endorse the practice of leading up to the Lyme ravaged my body for six National Institutes of Health sacrificing Lyme disease Epidemic, Burgdorfer worked years before I was finally (NIH) to conduct meaningful patients, who are afflicted for the military in a capacity diagnosed and began antibi- treatment studies. To date, with neurological damage consistent with this hypothe- otic treatment at the end of the efforts of the NIH have from embedded infection sis: He was a member of the 2004. At one point I could been unconscionably weak and resulting persistent Armed Forces Epidemiology barely walk and could not in this area. Studies should inflammation, on the altar of Board investigating insect effectively communicate due have been conducted a long antibiotic resistance, in an vectored diseases. The dis- to encephalopathy, neuro- time ago to determine the effort to save antibiotic use astrous non-response to the logical and musculoskeletal efficacy of long-term combi- for others? Lyme Epidemic has been involvement. I became dis- nations of antibiotics Professor Garth orchestrated by military epi- abled from the disease and (months to years, as is pro- Nicolson, a microbiologist demiologists using their lost my job and my home. vided for tuberculosis and who has studied Bb, stated influence in the government, To this day, it has leprosy infections), in search that the antibiotic resistance medical infrastructure and been a devastating journey, of an effective treatment argument is "particularly media. and this debilitating chronic protocol to alleviate the lame." He explained that infection caused by the bite widespread suffering and another reason for antibiotic of a tick in Arizona has pro- loss of productivity experi- resistance is the INADE- Appendix C foundly altered my life. I enced by those who have QUATE antibiotic treatment could not find one doctor on developed chronic Lyme of virulent pathogens, such Open Letter Written to the my insurance plan who infection, due to lack of as Borrelia burgdorferi, the World Warning of CDC and would provide treatment. timely diagnosis and treat- bacterium that causes Lyme IDSA Complicity in Therefore, my insurance ment. disease. If you have ever Deliberately Mistreating denied coverage, and my Of particular signifi- received a prescription for Lyme Victims family had to pay for it. We cance, the NIH study per- antibiotics from the pharma- were never able to afford formed by IDSA guideline cy, you may recall that the By Tina Garcia the intravenous antibiotics author, Mark Klempner, sticker on the side of the that were recommended by M.D., was a study that was bottle recommends that all Founder of Lyme Education my Lyme-treating physicians. analyzed statistically by sta- the medication be used Awareness Program (L.E.A.P. The delayed diagnosis and tistical scientist Alison according to the instructions Arizona) denial of treatment extend- Delong and found to be - that all of it should be www.leaparizona.com ed my suffering, caused dis- flawed. taken by the patient. This ability and has prevented a It would be consid- recommendation is made full recovery thus far. My ered inhumane to bring up because UNDERTREATMENT Tina Garcia is a Lyme case is not unique; thou- the issue of antibiotic resist- of bacterial infections causes victim and patient advocate sands have reported the ance when referring to antibiotic resistance. who has caught her state same lack of medical care. patients receiving long-term Therefore, each time epidemiologist red-handed I am not shy to state treatment for tuberculosis or a physician adheres to IDSA publishing research estab- publicly that the main reason leprosy, both of which are treatment guidelines for lishing Western blacklegged for the denial of diagnosis bacterial infections. Leprosy Lyme disease, they are con- ticks in Arizona tentatively and treatment and terrible and Lyme disease share the tributing to the antibiotic identified as Lyme disease suffering that I have experi- ability to damage the nerv- resistance of Borrelia and then subsequently deny- enced was caused directly by ous system. burgdorferi. Each time a ing that information to her in the Infectious Diseases Why then, do the Lyme disease patient is writing. Tina has also docu- Society of America's Clinical CDC and IDSA find it accept- UNDERTREATED, Bb under- mented the fraud behind the Practice Guidelines for Lyme able to publish articles and goes antigenic variation. In CDC's and IDSA's treatment Disease and the Centers for guidelines that encourage other words, it changes to guidelines. Disease Control and the denial of long-term evade the immune system I am a chronic Lyme Prevention's (CDC) dissemi- antibiotic therapy to and antibiotics. This is

Page 20 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT another way that the patient community at a legal the CDC to perform new and the previously documented pathogen persists in the tis- hearing held in Washington, utilize existing patient-cen- problems with accuracy and sues (not only the blood) of D.C. on July 30, 2009. tered research. precision of serodiagnostic those who are infected. The hearing was the By definition, tests by using WCS antigens In addition, there is result of an antitrust investi- screening tests should have of B. burgdorferi (4-11). The no definitive test that proves gation of the IDSA and its at least 95% sensitivity. The study confirmed that a seri- that Bb is eradicated with Lyme Disease Practice ELISA screening test that is ous disparity existed the recommended treat- Guideline authors, which recommended by the CDC between the test results ment set forth by the CDC was conducted by then lacks such sensitivity and obtained by CDC and those and IDSA. Numerous tissue Connecticut Attorney falls short in its specificity, obtained by academic refer- samples would need to be General (now Senator thereby missing detection of ence centers with the best collected and tested to Blumenthal). a significant number of testing performances. These determine this, as Bb does It was a privilege to cases. Such a scenario results guided corrective not predominantly reside in speak on behalf of thou- would be unacceptable for action and led to the adop- the blood, at times render- sands of people suffering HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, tion by CDC and ASTPHLD of ing antibody tests inconclu- from chronic Lyme infection. tuberculosis, heart disease, a two-test approach to sero- sive. In order to eradicate However, the outcome of diabetes and cancer; it is, diagnosis (23), which forms Bb from the brain, antibi- the hearing and the exten- therefore, unacceptable for the basis for the future otics must be administered sive review of submitted Lyme infection, also. national standardization of which cross the blood-brain medical research, that clear- During the Lymerix Lyme disease serologic test- barrier to get into the cere- ly showed the existence of vaccine clinical trials, chief ing methods." brospinal fluid, and not all persistent Lyme infection investigator Dr. Allen Steere How many hoops antibiotics are able to do despite antibiotic treatment, did not use the ELISA must patients jump through this. was a rubber stamping of because of its lack of sensi- to receive diagnosis and The good news for the current IDSA Guidelines, tivity and specificity. treatment? In the case of me is that I have made sig- with no immediate changes "ELISA's are com- Lyme disease, half of the nificant progress through recommended by the mercially available but lack patients cannot make it the use of intermittent Review Panel. This decision sufficient sensitivity and through the first hoop (the antibiotic therapy (oral and has served the insurance specificity for use in efficacy ELISA), and therefore, never intramuscular injections) for industry by guaranteeing the trials…The CDC criteria, get the chance to be tested the past six years. That's a continuation of diagnosis however, were developed as by way of the second lot of antibiotic, but the and treatment denials, as a surveillance tool, which (Western blot). antibiotics have allowed me insurance companies base frequently necessitates a This testing recom- to regain function. I am their denials on the IDSA compromise between sensi- mendation leaves approxi- grateful for the progress I Practice Guidelines for Lyme tivity and specificity to reach mately half of all patients have made, and my hope is disease. the optimal surveillance with no diagnosis or treat- to get to a point where I can Although the infor- objective….The CDC criteria ment -- that is certainly go back to work as a func- mation I am submitting is were therefore deemed to medical neglect. Due to its tioning and productive contrary to what has been be inadequate for the pur- fallibility, the CDC's serodi- member of society. reported in numerous arti- pose of conducting a pivotal agnostic testing recommen- However, I am now suffering cles in the mass media, it is efficacy trial." dation for use of the ELISA from small vessel disease in the truth about the medical It is, therefore, obvi- as a screening test for Lyme my brain and multiple scle- neglect that Lyme disease ously inappropriate for the disease should be rosis-type symptoms which patients are experiencing. ELISA to be used as a reassessed by an unbiased incapacitate me periodically. Lyme disease patients have screening test in the clinical committee not associated I was selected by struggled for more than thir- setting, for if and only if the with the CDC or individuals Connecticut Attorney ty-five years, due to a com- ELISA is positive are patients involved in creating the General Richard Blumenthal plicated web of issues "allowed" to progress to the Dearborn recommendation and the Infectious Diseases involving inadequate testing next level of testing -- the (which would include Society of America (IDSA) methods, ineffective treat- Western blot: authors of the IDSA Practice Lyme Disease Review Panel ment recommendations "This study con- Guidelines that were investi- to testify on behalf of the published by the IDSA and firmed in the reference and gated by the Connecticut worldwide Lyme disease the failure of the NIH and research laboratory setting Attorney General).

Page 21 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT General, along with other smudging the line that use of federal research antibiotic treatment or other spokespersons for the CDC. should separate acute from funds, caused insurance medical care and also strong- This is a small group of chronic treatment. In fact, denials of treatment and the ly influence physician treat- researchers who have, for the Lyme Medical Cartel has medical neglect of suffering ment decisions. many years, continually continually used the media patients. "Insurance companies have received a large portion of to accomplish their despica- In my opinion, the denied coverage for long- the federal research funds ble dissemination of false NIH and CDC have continual- term antibiotic treatment allocated for Lyme disease. medical information. ly wasted precious funding relying on these guidelines Their unfounded statements However, if one reads the allocated by Congress, which as justification. The guide- that chronic Lyme infection published literature and should instead be utilized for lines are also widely cited for does not exist directly con- makes the crucial distinction patient-centered research, conclusions that chronic tradict the research they between the research on not pet projects of individu- Lyme disease is nonexistent. have already published in acute and the research on als investigated for their "This agreement vin- which they did, indeed, chronic Lyme infection, one financial conflicts of interest dicates my investigation -- demonstrate persistent will see that there actually is related to Lyme vaccines, finding undisclosed financial infection. In fact, there is no no controversy at all. The patents for diagnostic tests interests and forcing a uncertainty about chronic controversy has been fabri- and consulting arrangements reassessment of IDSA guide- infection among patients and cated by the Lyme Medical with insurance companies. lines. My office uncovered the physicians who actually Cartel. The General undisclosed financial inter- treat patients with chronic Patients are in des- Accounting Office (GAO) pre- ests held by several of the Lyme disease. perate need for government viously investigated the mat- most powerful IDSA pan- If patients do not healthcare agencies, such as ter of research funds for elists. The IDSA's guideline receive diagnosis in the early the CDC, to utilize research Lyme disease and deter- panel improperly ignored or stage, the disease will devel- that has already demonstrat- mined that the CDC did, in minimized consideration of op into a chronic, ed persistent infection. You fact, spend appropriated alternative medical opinion relapsing/remitting illness will hear so-called "Lyme funds on Lyme disease and evidence regarding that becomes even harder to experts" make statements research. This determina- chronic Lyme disease, poten- diagnose and treat. that chronic Lyme disease tion, although accurate, did tially raising serious ques- Attempting to clear an does not exist. You will also not expose the research tions about whether the rec- embedded infection (one hear them reference terms monopoly that exists ommendations reflected all that has persisted for several they coined - Post Lyme between the CDC and the relevant science. years), with an early-stage, Syndrome (PLS) and "most powerful IDSA pan- "The IDSA's 2006 short-term treatment proto- Medically Unexplained elists" who authored the Lyme disease guideline panel col as has been recommend- Symptoms (MUS). There is IDSA Practice Guidelines for undercut its credibility by ed by the IDSA, is ludicrous. no proof of the existence of Lyme disease. Yes, they allowing individuals with Borrelia burgdorferi colo- either PLS or MUS in relation funded Lyme research, but financial interests -- in drug nizes all the organs and tis- to infection from Borrelia the majority of the funds companies, Lyme disease sues of the body, and due to burgdorferi; these are mere- have been granted to mem- diagnostic tests, patents and its antigenic variation, its ly opinions passed off as con- bers of the Lyme Medical consulting arrangements biofilm and its ability to sensus. Cartel, who in my opinion, with insurance companies -- morph into evasive forms, Once again, much of take their marching orders to exclude divergent medical repeated courses of various the research on persistent from the CDC. evidence and opinion. antibiotics are needed to infection has been published Connecticut In today's healthcare fight the embedded infec- by the individuals who are Attorney General Blumenthal system, clinical practice tion. now calling persistent infec- revealed the following in his guidelines have tremendous In the hurried world tion "Post Lyme Syndrome" May 1, 2008, Press Release: influence on the marketing of practicing clinicians, it is and "Medically Unexplained "The IDSA guidelines of medical services and easy for the line between Symptoms. " They are, have sweeping and signifi- products, insurance reim- acute and chronic treatment therefore, contradicting their cant impacts on Lyme dis- bursements and treatment recommendations to appear own research. Their contra- ease medical care. They are decisions. As a result, med- nebulous, and those who dictions, published in the commonly applied by insur- ical societies that publish espouse the CDC/IDSA party IDSA Practice Guidelines, ance companies in restricting such guidelines have a legal line are quite adept at have resulted in the wasteful coverage for long-term and moral duty to use exact-

Page 22 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT Published research infection among patients and cated by the Lyme Medical with insurance companies. has demonstrated that the physicians who actually Cartel. The General Borrelia burgdorferi uses treat patients with chronic Patients are in des- Accounting Office (GAO) pre- antigenic variation to evade Lyme disease. perate need for government viously investigated the mat- the host's immune system, If patients do not healthcare agencies, such as ter of research funds for thereby ensuring its survival receive diagnosis in the early the CDC, to utilize research Lyme disease and deter- and causing persistent infec- stage, the disease will devel- that has already demonstrat- mined that the CDC did, in tion. Bb has the ability to op into a chronic, ed persistent infection. You fact, spend appropriated morph into various forms. It relapsing/remitting illness will hear so-called "Lyme funds on Lyme disease is commonly recognized as a that becomes even harder to experts" make statements research. This determina- corkscrew-shaped spiro- diagnose and treat. that chronic Lyme disease tion, although accurate, did chete; however, it can Attempting to clear an does not exist. You will also not expose the research change into a cyst form, a embedded infection (one hear them reference terms monopoly that exists cell-wall-deficient form, a that has persisted for several they coined - Post Lyme between the CDC and the granular form and a bleb years), with an early-stage, Syndrome (PLS) and "most powerful IDSA pan- form and protects itself with short-term treatment proto- Medically Unexplained elists" who authored the a biofilm that sequesters it col as has been recommend- Symptoms (MUS). There is IDSA Practice Guidelines for from attack by the immune ed by the IDSA, is ludicrous. no proof of the existence of Lyme disease. Yes, they system and antibiotics. Borrelia burgdorferi colo- either PLS or MUS in relation funded Lyme research, but Published research nizes all the organs and tis- to infection from Borrelia the majority of the funds indicates that "the interplay sues of the body, and due to burgdorferi; these are mere- have been granted to mem- between the host and invad- its antigenic variation, its ly opinions passed off as con- bers of the Lyme Medical ing spirochetes results in a biofilm and its ability to sensus. Cartel, who in my opinion, cascade of signaling events morph into evasive forms, Once again, much of take their marching orders that B. burgdorferi can use repeated courses of various the research on persistent from the CDC. to facilitate persistent infec- antibiotics are needed to infection has been published Connecticut tion." fight the embedded infec- by the individuals who are Attorney General Blumenthal Uncertainty about tion. now calling persistent infec- revealed the following in his the existence of chronic In the hurried world tion "Post Lyme Syndrome" May 1, 2008, Press Release: Lyme infection is a direct of practicing clinicians, it is and "Medically Unexplained "The IDSA guidelines result of misleading informa- easy for the line between Symptoms. " They are, have sweeping and signifi- tion and opinions that have acute and chronic treatment therefore, contradicting their cant impacts on Lyme dis- been circulated by the IDSA recommendations to appear own research. Their contra- ease medical care. They are Guideline authors who were nebulous, and those who dictions, published in the commonly applied by insur- investigated by the espouse the CDC/IDSA party IDSA Practice Guidelines, ance companies in restricting Connecticut Attorney line are quite adept at have resulted in the wasteful coverage for long-term General, along with other smudging the line that use of federal research antibiotic treatment or other spokespersons for the CDC. should separate acute from funds, caused insurance medical care and also strong- This is a small group of chronic treatment. In fact, denials of treatment and the ly influence physician treat- researchers who have, for the Lyme Medical Cartel has medical neglect of suffering ment decisions. many years, continually continually used the media patients. "Insurance companies have received a large portion of to accomplish their despica- In my opinion, the denied coverage for long- the federal research funds ble dissemination of false NIH and CDC have continual- term antibiotic treatment allocated for Lyme disease. medical information. ly wasted precious funding relying on these guidelines Their unfounded statements However, if one reads the allocated by Congress, which as justification. The guide- that chronic Lyme infection published literature and should instead be utilized for lines are also widely cited for does not exist directly con- makes the crucial distinction patient-centered research, conclusions that chronic tradict the research they between the research on not pet projects of individu- Lyme disease is nonexistent. have already published in acute and the research on als investigated for their "This agreement vin- which they did, indeed, chronic Lyme infection, one financial conflicts of interest dicates my investigation -- demonstrate persistent will see that there actually is related to Lyme vaccines, finding undisclosed financial infection. In fact, there is no no controversy at all. The patents for diagnostic tests interests and forcing a uncertainty about chronic controversy has been fabri- and consulting arrangements reassessment of IDSA guide-

Page 23 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT lines. My office uncovered Lyme disease disease infection. It is, these important issues of undisclosed financial inter- patients do not relish using therefore, inhumane to deny transmission of Lyme dis- ests held by several of the antibiotics for prolonged Lyme patients access to long- ease, a spirochetal disease most powerful IDSA pan- periods, just as cancer term antibiotic therapy that that is similar to syphilis, elists. The IDSA's guideline patients do not enjoy under- is legally prescribed by may be jeopardizing public panel improperly ignored or going chemotherapy. licensed physicians. If Lyme health and perpetuating the minimized consideration of However, at the present disease patients are willing pandemic. alternative medical opinion time, antibiotic therapy is to accept the risks of such The Lyme patient and evidence regarding the only treatment that pro- treatment in lieu of a chron- community has requested chronic Lyme disease, poten- vides relief and improvement ic, debilitating, infectious dis- assistance from the CDC and tially raising serious ques- in symptoms, and the choice ease, insurance companies the IDSA for many years, but tions about whether the rec- of accepting the risks of should provide coverage for patients have been either ommendations reflected all intravenous infusion of such treatment and not shirk ignored or publicly ridiculed. relevant science. antibiotics should rest with their responsibility based Thus the need for me to "The IDSA's 2006 the patient and their treating upon the IDSA Practice write this lengthy essay as a Lyme disease guideline panel physician, not the IDSA, Guidelines - guidelines that public service. undercut its credibility by which the majority of Lyme were written by those who, The Lyme patient allowing individuals with patients view as a pseudo- at the same time that they community no longer relies financial interests -- in drug paternalistic medical dicta- publish guidelines for use by upon the CDC or the IDSA to companies, Lyme disease torship. the insurance industry, they be the guardians of our diagnostic tests, patents and Veteran Lyme also serve as insurance con- health, as the research and consulting arrangements patients are quite knowl- sultants and expert witness- programs that are funded with insurance companies -- edgeable of the disease they es in medical board prosecu- and performed by them and to exclude divergent medical are infected with and most tions against physicians who the clinical practice guide- evidence and opinion. can talk circles around med- actually have experience lines that are published and In today's healthcare ical doctors who have no treating the disease. disseminated by them are system, clinical practice experience treating the dis- Lyme disease not "patient-centered." Nor guidelines have tremendous ease. It is simple reasoning patients expect insurance is the research that demon- influence on the marketing to come to the conclusion companies to cover long- strates the existence of per- of medical services and that the majority of IDSA term antibiotic therapy, if sistent infection utilized by products, insurance reim- member physicians fall into such therapy is recommend- the CDC and IDSA for the bursements and treatment this category, as they deny ed by their treating physi- benefit of patients. decisions. As a result, med- the existence of the disease. cians. In the clinical setting, Instead, the ical societies that publish Therefore, if ID Lyme disease patients and research is contradicted, or such guidelines have a legal physicians deny the exis- treating physicians have con- simply ignored, in favor of and moral duty to use exact- tence of Lyme disease and sistently reported evidence personal agenda-promoting ing safeguards and scientific refuse to treat patients, they of in utero transmission and opinions and manufactured standards." don't have any experience suspect sexual transmission, disease parameters. As Cancer patients are with the disease, correct? as well. Due to the fact that revealed formerly in the CT given the choice of So, how can they refer to Borrelia burgdorferi has Attorney General's Press chemotherapy with danger- themselves as Lyme experts? been found to live in frozen Release, these financial con- ous drugs that not only Such a physician would actu- blood for up to eight flicts of interest were destroy cancer cells, but ally be considered a charla- months, transmission via our exposed during the antitrust cause extensive damage to tan. The IDSA mantra that nation's blood supply should investigation of the IDSA and the rest of the body, as well. chronic Lyme disease does also be studied and given its 2006 Lyme Disease Despite the risks associated not exist is the blindfold that serious consideration. Practice Guideline authors. with cancer chemotherapy, allows these sheepish IDSA Studies on such Unfortunately, the Attorney cancer patients are given member physicians to fall off modes of transmission have General was not able to additional treatment when the cliff into an abyss of not been adequately pur- extend his investigation into they relapse, and physicians ignorance and arrogance. sued. I have strongly urged the bowels of the monopoly specializing in cancer thera- Research has that such research be funded -- the CDC and its Division of py are not discouraged from demonstrated the remitting and performed immediately, Vector-Borne Infectious doing so. and relapsing nature of Lyme as our failure to address Diseases, and possibly, the

Page 24 www.publichealthalert.org Public Health Alert SPECIAL REPORT United States Public Health October Institute of these diagnoses are made Service, which if you recall, Medicine forum on the state initially is because chronic led the Tuskegee Study of of the science of Lyme dis- Lyme infection can manifest Syphilis from 1932 to 1972. ease, the patient community as all of these conditions. Despite extensive suggested that funding be Published medical research funding for Lyme disease given to other researchers has also shown that Borrelia research, the healthcare not involved in the Lyme burgdorferi can cause certain needs of Lyme disease Medical Cartel research types of cancer. patients have been neglect- monopoly. This monopoly is If you read the ed for too long. Precious the one that Willy Tuskegee Timeline on the funds are wasted by those Burgdorfer, Ph.D., discoverer CDC website, you may be who place their own inter- of the Lyme disease bacteri- surprised at the similarities ests in developing a Lyme um, referred to when he between the Tuskegee Study vaccine and marketable test made the following state- of Syphilis that was inhu- kits above the health needs ment in the film "Under Our manely carried out by the of patients. Clinical practice Skin": United States Public Health guidelines are being written "The controversy in Service / condoned by the and published to serve the Lyme disease research is a CDC and the denial of diag- personal agendas of the shameful affair. And I say nosis and treatment for authors and those who have that because the whole thing those infected with Borrelia a stake in the guidelines, is politically tainted. Money (a cousin to syphilis). barring the most important goes to people who have, for The journalist who stakeholders - the patients. the past 30 years, produced broke the story of the The irresponsible the same thing-nothing. Tuskegee Study in the 1970s behavior of the IDSA prior Serology has to be started helped bring closure to that to, during and following the from scratch with people inhumane medical "study" investigation and review who don't know beforehand that resulted in a public process of the IDSA Practice the results of their research." apology from President Guidelines for Lyme disease, Allowing the current Clinton and a financial settle- in the form of fraudulent IDSA treatment guidelines, ment with the victims and public statements that and their tacit endorsement their families. chronic Lyme infection does by the CDC, to stand as a It is time for addi- not exist and their continued factual reference is irrespon- tional investigations dissemination of other false sible medicine that continues (Congressional and other- information, has caused the the damaging medical neg- wise) to be conducted to majority of their infectious lect of thousands of patients publicly establish the facts disease member physicians who have been diagnosed surrounding one of the most to deny diagnosis and treat- with Lyme disease in North, widespread medical crimes ment to chronic Lyme dis- Central and South America, in the history of mankind, ease patients. Europe, Asia and Australia. with the intention to hold The CDC plays a This is an infectious disease the perpetrators accountable leading role on the world pandemic that is disabling for their despicable betrayal stage of health. The CDC people worldwide. of public trust. provides a link to the IDSA Many patients who have Practice Guidelines for Lyme been diagnosed with multi- Sincerely, disease on its website, and ple sclerosis, ALS, Tina J. Garcia this action has resulted in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Founder, LEAP Arizona diagnosis and treatment rheumatoid arthritis, denial to chronic Lyme dis- fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue ease patients in the U.S. and and lupus have subsequently in other endemic countries been diagnosed with and around the globe. treated for Borrelia burgdor- At the recent feri infection. The reason

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