You Can Get Medically Assisted Dying Easier Than Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease
There are certain aspects of medicine and specifically medical politics that make my blood boil. All of my calm abiding meditation goes out the window when I see the Canadian broadcasting system continuing their biased attack on Lyme disease patients in Canada, especially when it is easier to get medically assisted dying in a country than it is to get treated for a chronic illness. This is what was in the news media this week, once again:
Lyme disease is littered with misinformation. Celebrities are part of the problem, experts say. Chronic Lyme isn’t medically recognized. It’s a controversial term that some say fuels a dubious industry.
This news article from a Canadian broadcasting system, casting doubt on whether chronic Lyme disease and persistent infection is real, was released the same week that this article was highlighted by LymeDisease.org on January 27th:
Does anyone in the news media actually do a medical search (or know how to do one) before reporting news and purporting to know the truth? The article on the persistence of Lyme disease came out several days before the Canadian broadcasting system released their news feed. This is the second article I saw on the subject of chronic Lyme being a ‘non-disease’ coming out of Canada in the past few weeks, where the best they can do is to slam medical clinics trying to help patients. See the last Medical Detective Substack I did on sleuthing the ‘mysterious brain disease in Canada’ which likely involves some patients having chronic tick-borne illness mixed with mold and other environmental toxins:
The newer guidelines by the IDSA do not incorporate any of the recent science on biofilms and persisters, and the Canadian healthcare system has chosen to adopt IDSA guidelines instead of giving doctors a choice, as we have here in the US to follow ILADS guidelines.
You Can Die from Lyme Disease. We Don’t Need More Help Getting There ~ Dr. Richard Horowitz
For more:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/03/25/the-old-political-does-borrelia-persist-debate/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/11/10/redfield-breaks-silence-on-long-covid-cancer-vaccines-and-chronic-lyme/ Within this link, Lyme advocate Carl Tuttle explains that not only is there plenty of information proving persistence, there is plenty of information proving conflicts of interest in the very people who are making the ‘guidelines’ and rules regarding Lyme/MSIDS.
- https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/resources/evidence-of-persistence-lyme-disease-in-humans/
- 2018 Middelveen study; “Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease” identifying twelve patients who were culture positive after antibiotic treatment. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.
- NIH funded Embers studies of persistent Bb infection in monkeys and mice
- Sapi study: “The Long-Term Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi Antigens and DNA in the Tissues of a Patient with Lyme Disease”
- Here is the positive culture report from the CDC at Fort Collins Colorado and the chronic Lyme autopsy results from the patient in the Sapi study: Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The destructive nature of Borrelia is evident in the patient’s liver (nutmeg liver), kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. The patient died after the insurer refused additional IV antibiotic therapy.
- Additional reference from 1990: “Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease” Dr. Allen Steere
- 700 references identifying persistent infection.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 