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Coinfection in Lyme Disease: Clinical Impact, Diagnostic Challenges, and Therapeutic Perspectives

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/14/2/325

Tick-Borne Co-Infection in Lyme Disease: Clinical Impact, Diagnostic Challenges, and Therapeutic Perspectives

by Georgi Popov, Dzhaner Bashchobanov* and Radina Andonova
Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Sofiamed Hospital, 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Microorganisms 2026, 14(2), 325; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14020325
Submission received: 8 January 2026 / Revised: 27 January 2026 / Accepted: 28 January 2026 / Published: 30 January 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Perspectives in Lyme Disease: Microbial Interactions, Host Responses, and Therapeutic Innovations)
Abstract
Tick-borne co-infections are an increasingly recognized and clinically important aspect of Lyme borreliosis, particularly in regions where Ixodes ticks transmit a wide range of bacterial, protozoan, and viral pathogens. In addition to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, these ticks frequently harbor microorganisms such as Babesia spp.,   Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia spp., Borrelia miyamotoi, Bartonella spp., and several tick-borne viruses. Co-infections may increase disease severity, prolong symptom duration, and contribute to atypical or overlapping clinical presentations, thereby complicating diagnosis and management. Growing evidence from epidemiological studies, clinical case series, and experimental in vivo and in vitro models indicates that pathogen–pathogen and pathogen–host interactions can modulate immune responses and influence disease progression. Diagnostic challenges arise from non-specific clinical features and limitations of current laboratory methods. From a therapeutic perspective, although standard antibiotic regimens for Lyme disease are effective against some bacterial co-infections, they do not provide coverage for protozoan or viral agents, necessitating pathogen-specific and, in some cases, combination treatment strategies. This review synthesizes current knowledge on the epidemiology, clinical impact, diagnostic limitations, and treatment approaches for tick-borne co-infections associated with Lyme disease, and highlights critical evidence gaps and future research directions to improve patient outcomes.
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Anaplasmosis, Babesia, Bartonella, Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, research, Viruses

The BMJ and Commonwealth Fund: All Hat, No Cattle?

Before reading the following article, read this first.  It’s crucial to understand that Gates and Farrar had their hands all over everything related to COVID – including but not limited to the research being done and the global messaging about it.

The BMJ writes about how the Wellcome Trust’s investments overlap with its research efforts.  At the very bottom of the page it also lists the competing interests and that the BMJ publishes work by research groups and academics funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

So there’s that……read on….

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/the-bmj-public-health-commonwealth-fund-debate-mary-holland-rapid-response/?

The BMJ and Commonwealth Fund: All Hat, No Cattle?

On Jan. 29, The BMJ published an op-ed by Lucinda Hiam of the Commonwealth Fund: “Public health must bridge the divide with groups who mistrust science.” Using the online “Rapid Response” form provided by The BMJ, I replied to Ms. Hiam’s call to “bridge the divide.” I said I agreed and invited her to engage with CHD. We have received no response from her, and The BMJ has not published our response.

by Mary Holland, J.D.
February 9, 2026

On Jan. 29, The BMJ published an op-ed by Lucinda Hiam of the Commonwealth Fund. The op-ed — “Public health must bridge the divide with groups who mistrust science” — specifically referenced Children’s Health Defense (CHD).

Using the online “Rapid Response” form provided by The BMJ, I replied to Ms. Hiam’s call to “bridge the divide.” I said I agreed and invited her to engage with CHD.

In my response, submitted Feb. 3, I wrote:

“Let’s have an adult conversation about science, vaccination, informed consent, vaccine injury, and civil rights. I invite Ms. Hiam to engage in a public dialogue on CHD’s public platform CHD.TV, or anywhere else, to debate these critical issues.”

Despite Ms. Hiam’s stated goal to “bridge the divide,” we have received no response from her, and The BMJ has not published our “Rapid Response” to her op-ed.

As a result, The BMJ and the Commonwealth Fund have only driven the divide deeper — by failing even to afford the courtesy of a reply.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

And this is where ‘science’ stands…..in a vice-grip of investors who are running the show.

Those without an agenda are willing to debate those with differing opinions.  Remaining silent shows propaganda politics, not science.

Examples:

By contrast, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has agreed for years to debate anyone on vaccines.

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Activism, vaccines

Epstein & Gates Financed Research Portal To Control Scientific Discourse

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-financed-researchgate-control-scientific-discourse/

‘Muzzled and Muted’: Epstein, Gates Financed Research Portal to Control Scientific Discourse

In a series of posts on X, ScienceGuardians revealed that Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and others linked to the Gates Foundation were instrumental in financing ResearchGate, an online scientific research portal. According to ScienceGuardians, the platform was actually developed “as a for-profit business to make big money from science” — with the intent to “control the flow of scientific ideas.”

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
February 13, 2026
epstein, gates and money

Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates sought to profit from — and exert influence over — scientific publishing and online discourse, according to information in the “Epstein Files” released last month by the U.S. Department of Justice…..

The summary listed ResearchGate, noting that Gates provided $10 million in funding to ResearchGate in 2013. This was part of a Gates-led funding round that attracted $35 million in investments to ResearchGate.

But according to ScienceGuardians, the platform was actually developed “as a for-profit business to make big money from science” — with the intent to “control the flow of scientific ideas” and exert influence over scientific discourse.  (See link for article)

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Important Excerpts:

Investors included Goldman Sachs and the Wellcome Trust, led by Jeremy Farrar, Ph.D., architect of key COVID-19 pandemic-era policies and now assistant director-general of the World Health Organization.

Gates and Epstein also helped secure partnerships with the publishers of major scientific journals, including Nature. Published by Springer Nature, it is widely considered one of the “giants” of medical and scientific publishing.

Other Springer publications include Politico, Springer Health, Nature, BioMedCentral, Scientific American and Nature Medicine — publisher of the infamous “Proximal Origin” paper in 2020, used to support the claim that SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin.

Hopefully by now it’s clear why COVID messaging was so tyrannically one-sided.  Voices were simply drowned out.  This article shares how sensitive government information has been shared with Epstein.  The Biden administration and corporate media used the “Disinformation Dozen” list to discredit figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sayer Ji. Social media platforms deplatformed those included on the list.

According to Ji, the same dark-money infrastructure they used to destroy political opponents were redeployed the identical playbook against U.S.-based health publishers and independent media.”

Internal documents leaked in 2024 showed that CCDH sought to launch “Black Ops” against Kennedy and “kill Musk’s Twitter” — now known as X. “Black ops” refers to secret operations carried out by governments or other organizations that hide their involvement.

Never trust these agencies again.  Ever.  Remain vigilant and do your own research. Whatever the CDC/FDA/NIH are peddling – do the exact opposite!

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During Covid-19, one member of this small group of unaccountable actors, British medical researcher who was previously the director of the Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar, has been given almost absolute power over designing the WHO’s global response to the pandemic.

“There is no peacetime any more…Preparedness and readiness is a constant and needs to be part of the fabric of society… My preference would be to streamline the architecture of global health with the WHO in the middle of the web, convening, advising, guiding and providing an emergency response… Crumbs from the table will not cut it in the era of pandemics.” ~ Jeremy Farrar (2021)  [4]

 

 

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

‘Lyme Disease Ruined My Life – I Was Misdiagnosed With Hypochondria and Depression For Over 20 Years’

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/lyme-disease-symptoms-bella-hadid-justin-timberlake-

‘Lyme disease ruined my life – I was misdiagnosed with hypochondria and depression for over 20 years’

Frédéric Roscop, 49, contracted Lyme disease aged five years old but wasn’t diagnosed with it until his mid-thirties. He tells Charlotte Cripps about his lifelong battle with the disease, along with co-infections and associated mental health challenges, and how he found his way to a normal life

As a child, I was raised in the French countryside in the Dordogne. From around the age of five, I’d help local farmers by collecting eggs and herding cows in the fields. I was also naturally curious and adventurous and would go exploring in the bushes. I’d often end up covered in ticks and an old lady at the farm would put me in an iron bath and brush them off me. This is not the right way of removing them, which is to pull them out of the skin, as soon as possible, to prevent the transmission of disease. It should often befollowed by a course of antibiotics.

The next day, I’d be covered in bruising and red marks, which we now call a “bullmark”, or the “bulls-eye” rash, medically known as Erythema migrans, a hallmark symptom of Lyme disease. My mum was always horrified and took me to the doctor, who thought it was an allergic reaction to a bite and prescribed me an antihistamine. But due to a lack of awareness years ago, nobody ever mentioned Lyme disease.

Looking back, I suffered years of mild symptoms. I had a delayed puberty because my body was not functioning properly; weight gain due to factors known to be caused by Lyme disease, such as gastrointestinal issues and hormonal imbalances; and I craved sugar because my body was stressed.

As much as I was exhausted, I was also hyper – Lyme disease can cause symptoms that mimic or contribute to ADHD – and I was also hyper-sensitive. I couldn’t switch off. By the age of eight, I was already seeing a psychotherapist who recommended more exercise to exhaust me.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

A very dismissive article & video on Lyme disease appeared recently dissing celebrities who have the courage to share their battle with it.  Yet, because of these celebrities speaking out, more have become aware of Lyme/MSIDS.

You know it’s bad when you have to learn about a severe medical condition from a celebrity.  But, there it is…..  The truth is, it’s easier to get medical assisted death than treatment for chronic Lyme disease, which is what the man in this article had.

Whenever I see articles on how ‘things are getting better’ in Lymeland, I remember that probably every day someone just like the man in this article is being misdiagnosed and sent on a wild goose chase – maybe for years. 

No, my friends – it ain’t getting better.  Not by a long shot.  To date, the best chance a patient has is to bump into someone who will educate them about this, OR read an article about a celebrity who shares their story.

And this is where we’ve been for a long, long time.

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The stories are endless and continue.  These stories touch people and like it or not, are for some the only way they will learn about this dreadful illness.  The medical and research establishments haven’t helped one iota.

I’ve always said, and I stand by it, the only way this needle is going to move is when enough people are infected with it.

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks

Study: Unable to Produce ONE Case of Flu Despite Prolonged Close Contact But NIAID-Funded Scientists Engineer Mutant Flu Virus & ‘Expand its Host Range’

More on the ‘virus,’ ‘no virus,’ debate…..

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/niaid-funded-scientists-tried-to?

NIAID-Funded Scientists Tried to Make Influenza Spread—They Couldn’t Despite 80+ Hours of Close Human Exposure: Journal ‘PLOS Pathogens’

Researchers engineered real-world transmission conditions using infected volunteers and sealed indoor exposure sessions, but no secondary infections were detected.
Jon Fleetwood
Feb 12, 2026

A new peer-reviewed study reports that researchers were unable to produce a single confirmed case of influenza transmission in a controlled human exposure experiment, despite prolonged close contact between infected individuals and healthy volunteers.

The study, published last month in PLOS Pathogens, tested whether naturally infected people could transmit influenza to others under tightly controlled indoor conditions designed to facilitate spread.

Transmission did not occur.

“[N]o transmission was observed in this study,” the authors confirm.

Researchers recruited individuals with confirmed influenza infection and placed them in repeated exposure sessions with healthy participants inside a sealed hotel-based quarantine environment.

Volunteers interacted face-to-face, shared objects, and spent hours together in a room with intentionally low ventilation—conditions chosen to support transmission.

Even under these circumstances, no recipient developed influenza-like illness, tested PCR-positive, or showed serological evidence of infection.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Even the most hardened skeptic must scratch his head on this one.

Authors give possible reasons for the unexpected outcome:

  • the sick weren’t coughing enough
  • people had immune protection
  • airflow quickly diluted exhaled breath, reducing exposure

Fleetwood points out the exact same thing was found with COVID challenge studies. In other words, exposed volunteers failed to produce sustained infections.

This experiment has been repeated numerous times now showing the same result: nadda.  Going all the way back to the 1918 influenza pandemic, an experiment was conducted on 62 prisoners:

injected with infected lung tissue from sick or deceased patients, have infected tissue dropped in their eyes, and sprayed in the nose and mouth with infectious aerosols. Others would see mucus taken from critically ill patients and put it into the noses and throats of prisoners. In other parts of the trials, experimenters would take the blood of the sick and inject it into the healthy, to see if it was spread through infectious microorganisms in the blood.

Not one got ill or died.

What nobody is saying here is that viruses don’t exist.  But, there is a camp that asserts just that.  Go here for the history of this camp.  I would say these challenge studies don’t help the virus camp.

One thing is sure: exposure alone is not enough to make someone sick.

Which makes you wonder about the purpose of this……

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/niaid-funded-scientists-engineer?

NIAID-Funded Scientists Engineer Mutant Influenza Virus and ‘Expand its Host Range’: Journal ‘Nature Communications’

Gain-of-function flu pathogen acquires new cell entry function, expands infection capability.
Jon Fleetwood
Feb 16, 2026

Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) engineered influenza viruses and introduced mutations that expanded the virus’s host range—an outcome that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) itself formally defines as gain-of-function research under a 2025 Executive Order implementation notice.

The study, published in Nature Communicationslast week, confirms the work was funded through a NIAID influenza research center.

The authors state:

“Funding was also provided, in part, by … CRIPT (Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis and Transmission), a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded Center for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR, contract 75N93021C00014…).”

The CEIRR network is one of NIAID’s primary federally funded influenza research programs.

The current Director of NIAID—allowing such risky influenza lab engineering—is Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, who holds a patent on the technology behind the Trump administration’s $500 million influenza vaccine platform.

The same federal agency funding the creation of mutated influenza viruses is led by the man who helped invent—and could profit from—the vaccine meant to fight them.

Moreover, the study comes as Congress and President Donald Trump have enacted a new law allocating more than $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding for pandemic preparedness, with influenza—the same pathogen engineered in these experiments—named as the only virus explicitly identified in the statute.

Funding for the experiment also came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

According to attorney Tom Renz, the scuttle that dangerous ‘gain of function’ research was recently banned due to an Executive Order, is false.  Rather, it’s codified and allowed under new regulation.  It’s all good if you are compliant with current regulation.

“Gain of Function” has now been legitimized and sanctioned.  Far from being banned.

The ‘no virus’ camp rolls their eyes at all of this because according to them, none of this exists.

Something exists and something is making people sicker than dogs. How about we find out what is causing these illnesses killing people and STOP funding research making pathogens deadlier?

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Activism, research, Viruses