Carl Tuttle gave the following comments via telephone to the Nov. 17 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. We have added links for reference.

This comment is directed to Dr. David Walker, Co-Chair of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group.

During the July 8th meeting you were recorded saying that persistent infection is a religious belief.

Here’s what the folks at Johns Hopkins and Northeastern are saying:

A Drug Combination Screen Identifies Drugs Active against Amoxicillin-Induced Round Bodies of In Vitro Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters from an FDA Drug Library

Excerpt:

Under experimental stress conditions such as starvation or antibiotic exposure, Borrelia burgdorferi can develop round body forms, which are a type of persister bacteria that appear resistant in vitro to customary first-line antibiotics for Lyme disease.

Does that sound like a religious belief Dr. Walker?

Researchers’ discovery may explain difficulty in treating Lyme disease

Excerpt:

“North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers have found that the bac­terium that causes Lyme dis­ease forms dor­mant per­sister cells, which are known to evade antibi­otics.”

Standard antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease does not kill persistent Borrelia bacteria.

Excerpt:

What do tuberculosis and Borrelia burgdorferi have in common? In the late stage of the disease occurs persistent (tolerant) bacteria, which essentially means that the bacteria lasts and lasts and lasts. They protect themselves against antibiotics and are difficult to treat.

Both Borrelia burgdorferi and tuberculosis are relatively easy to cure in the early stages, even with the use of one antibiotic. In the late stage, it is impossible to cure the disease with the same type of treatment in the acute phase, said Dr. Ying Zhang when he visited the NorVect conference.

Dr. Ying Zhang is a professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Does that sound like a religious belief Dr. Walker?

Evidence of in vivo existence of Borrelia biofilm in borrelial lymphocytomas

Excerpt:

“An article by a UNH research team led by Professor Eva Sapi is the first to show that the microorganisms that cause Lyme disease are resistant to treatment due to what’s called a biofilm. A biofilm – which has a protective layer of “slime” – allows the organisms to hide away from antibiotics at the microscopic level.”

Does that sound like a religious belief Dr. Walker?

Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters Which Are Sterilized by Daptomycin/Doxycycline/Cefuroxime Drug Combination without Pulse Dosing  By Jie Feng1, Shuo Zhang1, Wanliang Shi1 and Ying Zhang

Excerpt:

While the causes for this post-treatment Lyme disease symptoms are unclear, one possibility is due to B. burgdorferi persisters that are not effectively killed by current antibiotics such as doxycycline or amoxicillin used to treat Lyme disease.

Does that sound like a religious belief Dr. Walker?

It sounds more like someone has pulled the wool over your eyes, Dr. Walker. (Like Dr. Eugene Shapiro)

We have a public health emergency requiring a Manhattan Project to find a cure for this antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug but the thirty-year established dogma or should I say racketeering scheme identified in the Lisa Torrey vs IDSA RICO lawsuit has brainwashed an entire medical community.

Mark Twain once said, “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Carl Tuttle, a longtime Lyme patient advocate from New Hampshire, serves on Governor Chris Sununu’s HB490 Commission to Study Lyme Disease.