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A Masterclass on Tick-Borne Illness: Dr. Burrascano

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Dr. Joe Burrascano: A Masterclass on Tick-Borne Illness

Jul 16, 2025
Bay Area Lyme Foundation
Dr. Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., a pioneer in the field of Lyme, began his practice in East Hampton, NY, in 1981, where he identified and detailed the clinical aspects of Lyme in a high-prevalence area. Renowned for his groundbreaking diagnostic and treatment guidelines since 1984, he has advised the CDC, NIH, and U.S. Senate, authored extensive publications, and is a founding member of ILADS, continuing to educate globally.
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Lyme, Testing, Treatment

Help a Courageous Doctor as She Pushes Back Against Insurance Company Corruption

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/courageous-young-doctor-pushes-back?

Courageous Young Doctor Pushes Back Against Insurance Company Corruption

Afraid of Losing Insurance Contracts Most Physicians Remain Silent
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Jul 18, 2025

Have you ever wonder why doctors seem powerless against insurance companies denying needed surgical procedures? Grant Stinchfield blew medical corruption wide open on his podcast with clips from a young surgeon in Austin Texas.

Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a board certified plastic surgeon, offers a wide variety of breast reconstruction, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical cosmetic procedures. With a big smile she has taken to social media to tell the truth about United Healthcare’s practices in denying medically necessary procedures through clerical and administrative delays. With doctors like this, insurance reform has hope in a time where the patient always seems to be the loser.

UnitedHealthcare is facing multiple lawsuits from patients and their families related to issues like claim denials, particularly under Medicare Advantage plans. Some lawsuits allege that UnitedHealthcare is improperly using AI algorithms to deny care based on cost rather than medical necessity. Others involve whistleblower claims about incentives for nursing homes to reduce patient transfers to hospitals, and allegations of improper sales tactics.

(Go to top link to listen to Dr. McCullough explain the story in an interview)
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**Comment**
Please support this doctor’s efforts.  If we don’t speak up now, powerful, highly funded insurance companies win and patients lose.  We already face this in Lymeland.

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Activism

Expert Briefing on Ticks & Lyme Disease

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Expert Briefing on Ticks and Lyme Disease

May 29, 2025

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health experts Nicole Baumgarth and Thomas Hart discuss ticks and the growing threat of Lyme and other tickborne diseases.
Lyme disease is on the rise in the U.S., according to the CDC, mainly in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and parts of the West. In 2023, state health departments reported more than 89,000 cases of Lyme disease in humans to the CDC, but the actual number of cases is likely much higher due to underreporting and misdiagnosis.
If left untreated, Lyme disease can lead to serious complications affecting the heart, joints, and nervous system. Other tickborne illnesses are also of concern, including Powassan virus and Heartland virus. There is currently no vaccine against tickborne illnesses.
Ticks Pose an Increasing Health Risk https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/tic…
Tickborne Diseases Are on the Rise—Here’s What To Know https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/lym…
Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute video    • Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and E…  
Ticks Are Dangerous video    • Ticks Are Dangerous  
About Ticks and Tickborne Disease https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/about/index….
Lyme Disease Surveillance and Data https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/data-researc…
Lyme Disease https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html
  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:40 What is Lyme disease
  • 04:12 Rates of Lyme disease
  • 9:10 Status of a vaccine
  • 10:30 Tracking infection rates
  • 11:25 Vaccine challenges
  • 13:30 Ubiquity of tick bites
  • 14:45 Diagnosing lesser known tickborne illnesses
  • 16:10 How to improve diagnosis
  • 19:00 Diagnosing illnesses
  • 20:10 This year’s tick season
  • 20:40 Symptoms of Lyme disease
  • 22:10 Other tickborne illnesses
  • 23:20 Dogs and ticks
  • 24:40 Ticks in the environment
  • 25:30 Preventing tick bites

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**COMMENT**

Sadly, researchers continue to slice and dice this complex illness into a singular infection they call ‘Lyme disease,’ when truth be told, patients are often infected with numerous things working synergistically together, making the illness much more complex, harder to identify and treat, and much harder to overcome. So the very name, ‘Lyme disease,’ is inadequate for most patients.

I realize why they do this: due to their very specific work, they must omit variables to conduct research – at least within the current allopathic model of one drug and vaccine, for one disease.  Unfortunately, this is often not what we are dealing with at all in reality.

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Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission, vaccines

U.S. Rejects IHR Amendments

**UPDATE**

It appears Italy has also rejected the IHR Amendments and Austria has officially lodged a legal objection.

To here to watch RFK reveal that the U.S. rejected the WHO’s IHR Amendments which would have given an unelected international body unprecedented power to:

  • Override national governments in health emergencies
  • Enforce lockdowns, quarantines, and ‘vaccine’ mandates
  • Control “official narratives” and criminalize dissent as “misinformation”
The language is deliberately broad, designed to hand over sovereignty under the guise of safety.

https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/the-united-states-has-rejected-the?

The United States has REJECTED the amendments to the International Health Regulations

Two nations (U.S and Israel) have now rejected the 2024 IHR amendments to the International Health Regulations. 194 more nations need to take this action before Saturday, July 19, 2025.

James Roguski
Jul 18, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HHS & State Department: The United States Rejects Amendments to International Health Regulations

WASHINGTON, DC—JULY 18, 2025—Today, the Department of State, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), transmitted the official U.S. rejection of the 2024 amendments to the International Heath Regulations (IHR) (2005). This action delivers on our promise to the American people – to fight for Americans in the international system, protect our national sovereignty, and prevent international bureaucrats from shaping U.S. domestic policies.

In 2024, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) that significantly expanded the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority over international public health responses. Developed without adequate public input, these amendments expand the role of the WHO in public health emergencies, create additional authorities for the WHO for shaping pandemic declarations, and promote WHO’s ability to facilitate “equitable access” of health commodities. These amendments have undue influence on our domestic health responses from WHO directives. They also fail to adequately address the WHO’s susceptibility to the political influence and censorship – most notably from China – during outbreaks. These amendments were set to become binding on the United States regardless of our withdrawal from the WHO.

Terminology throughout the 2024 amendments is vague and broad, risking WHO-coordinated international responses that focus on political issues like solidarity, rather than rapid and effective actions. The amendments also suggest that countries develop capabilities that jeopardize management and dissemination controls over public health information, potentially stifling valuable scientific debate. Furthermore, these revisions compel countries to adopt digital health documents. Our Agencies have been and will continue to be clear: we will put Americans first in all our actions and we will not tolerate international policies that infringe on Americans’ speech, privacy, or personal liberties. These amendments risk unwarranted interference with our national sovereign right to make health policy. We are proud to have worked jointly to ensure public health policy continues to be dictated by the values and will of the American people, not unelected global actors.

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/secretary-kennedy-rubio-reject-ihr-amendments-joint-statement.html

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Mayo Lyme Disease Clap-Trap Part 3

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33714016

Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer (Part 3)

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Jul 17, 2025

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

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “asteere@mgh.harvard.edu” <asteere@mgh.harvard.edu>, “cathy@cathywurzer.com” <cathy@cathywurzer.com>, “d.balzer@mayoclinic.org” <d.balzer@mayoclinic.org>
Cc: “newsbureau@mayo.edu” <newsbureau@mayo.edu>, “cwurzer@mpr.org” <cwurzer@mpr.org>, “Pritt.bobbi@mayo.edu” <Pritt.bobbi@mayo.edu>, “tomorrowscure@mayo.edu” <tomorrowscure@mayo.edu>, “mayoclinicnewsnetwork@mayo.edu” <mayoclinicnewsnetwork@mayo.edu>, “genevieve@prx.org” <genevieve@prx.org>, “Secretary@HHS.gov” <Secretary@HHS.gov>, “pam.bondi@usdoj.gov” <pam.bondi@usdoj.gov>
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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