Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer (Part 3)
Follow-up email to Dr. Allen Steere, guest speaker from the Mayo Clinic’s “Tomorrow’s Cure” podcast. (Please see part 1 and 2)
Steere’s picture was found here:
https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/17513/allen-steere
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
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Date: 07/17/2025 7:59 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer
Allen Steere, MD, Rheumatologist
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Translational Research in Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Steere,
I would like to call attention to your quote below found on Mayo Clinic’s “Tomorrow’s Cure” podcast page:
“Lyme disease is challenging to detect given its ability to mimic other illnesses or appear asymptomatic altogether. “There may not be specific symptoms when the patient comes in that would tell them this is a vector-borne disease,” said Dr. Steere. “There may be symptoms that we commonly see with infection, or they may also be absent.” Given this challenge, the development of better diagnostic tools is critical.”
As you know, serology cannot be used to gauge treatment failure or success which makes it the ideal tool for concealing a chronic infection. It sounds to me like serology was the perfect product to support the mantra, “chronic Lyme does not exist.”
It has been 50 years since you discovered Lyme disease in those cluster of children in Lyme, Connecticut and now you are finally admitting we need better tests??
Quote regarding CULTURE for Lyme disease @16:23 into the podcast…
“What we would really like is to have something that is truly associated with the infection itself and of course the best thing is to be able to identify the organism or at least some component of the organism by testing for this particular protein or the organism itself by culturing it which of course is the best way but very difficult to do in Lyme disease once late in the infection.” -Allen Steere
As previously reported, the CDC produced a positive culture in Lyme patient Viki Logan and from the 2018 Middelveen et al study Borrelia burgdorferi were cultured from the blood of seven subjects, from the genital secretions of ten subjects, and from a skin lesion of one subject. The cultures were subjected to corroborative microscopic, histopathological and molecular testing for Borrelia organisms in four independent laboratories in a blinded manner. Cultures from control subjects without Lyme disease were negative for Borrelia using these methods.
These examples are proof of chronic Lyme disease as culture is the gold standard for definitive diagnosis of bacterial and fungal infections worldwide but when it threatens the existing paradigm suddenly it becomes “not particularly useful.”
My Claim: A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the vaccine model so evidence of persistent infection (following the one-size-fits-all IDSA mandated treatment protocol) must be concealed/ignored at all costs.
Why is this proof of chronic Lyme disease despite extensive antibiotic treatment ignored Dr Steere? Is the deliberate suppression of this evidence a crime?
A response to this inquiry is requested.
Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH
Cc: Cathy Wurzer, Host
Deb Balzer Mayo Clinic Senior Communications Specialist
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Pam Bondi, US Attorney General
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For more:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/07/14/mayo-clinic-same-lyme-disease-clap-trap-just-in-time-for-summer/ Part 1
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/07/16/mayo-clinic-lyme-disease-clap-trap-part-2/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/13/suppression-of-microscopy-for-lyme-diagnostics-professor-laane/
- It’s important to clearly understand that government sanctioned Lyme testing (like COVID testing) is utterly useless:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/01/study-cdcs-2-tier-lyme-testing-inaccurate-in-more-than-70-of-cases/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/12/lyme-testing-problems-solutions/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/direct-diagnostic-tests-for-lyme-the-closest-thing-to-an-apology-you-are-ever-going-to-get/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/25/medical-stalemate-what-causes-continuing-symptoms-after-lyme-treatment/
- There is NO foolproof diagnostic device or test for this, but there IS a validated questionnaire that doctors should be utilizing: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/05/empirical-validation-of-the-horowitz-questionnaire-for-suspected-lyme-disease/
Questionnaire here: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/symptomlist.pdf Print & fill this out, and take to your doctor. Educate them about this.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 