Madison Area Lyme Support Group

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Would Diagnostics and Treatments Change if Lyme Was Bioengineered?

Yes. Here’s how diagnostics and treatment would likely change in this day and age if the GAO report were to conclude that Lyme disease was bioengineered:

1. The Shift in Diagnostics: From “Indirect” to “Direct”: Currently, most Lyme tests look for antibodies (your body’s reaction), which can take weeks to appear and often stay positive even after the infection is gone. If the bacteria were bioengineered, the focus would shift immediately to identifying its specific genetic “fingerprint.” Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) could be done in laboratories, sequencing the entire genome of the bacteria found in a chronically ill patient. If the GAO find specific “inserts” or genetic modifications, doctors could use CRISPR-based diagnostic tools to detect those exact artificial sequences with 100% certainty.

• Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR): As seen in 2025/2026 research, we are already moving towards ddPCR, which can detect as few as 5 to 10 bacterial cells in the sample. Confirmation of a lab origin would likely fast-track FDA approval for these “direct detection” tests to ensure no bioengineered strain is missed.

2. Treatment: Targeted and Combination Therapies:

If a pathogen is bioengineered, there is a risk that it was designed to be a “persistent” or resistant to standard single drug protocols. When I worked at HHS on the 1^st round of the HHS Tickborne Working Group, I asked for research monies to be provided to look at both accuracy of diagnostics and proof of persistence. I was told that each question would cost approximately $250,000. My request was denied. Was this part of a cover-up, since these were such important questions to have answered without costing a lot of money vis-à-vis the general NIH budget? Here is a link which I recently received from Carl Tuttle, who frequently puts out information on the dysfunctional medical politics of Lyme.

Evidence of Persistence of Lyme

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/59vfqec535blhfrs34dxa/700-articles-LYME-EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?rlkey=c4qokt5dxhfssj9tjxqfxhoi9&e=1&dl=0

Would such extensive science finally be accepted by mainstream scientists as true if it were proven without a shadow of a doubt that Lyme was bioengineered? In other fields, we might not need such extensive science to prove what all of us know who have been in clinical practice for 4+ decades.

Research Funding Would Want To Improve on Lyme Disease Treatments

If the GAO report identifies specific genes added to enhance survival, then based on current 2026 research into “persister” cells, we might finally see the official adoption of multiple-drug protocols like dapsone combination therapy, which has been published to be highly effective against the biofilm/persister forms of Borrelia burgdorferi. You can see more about the studies and look at the documentaries and podcasts I did on my website, under consultations (I am providing this link to give information, not get more work. I promise!):   https://cangetbetter.com/consulting-services/

(See link for excellent article and many important facts patients need to know including the fact Dr. Horowitz was turned down for a grant):

 ….to design a multicenter, placebo-controlled, randomized study (the gold standard in medicine) to prove that Lyme was a persistent infection and that all 16 MSIDS factors can drive inflammation and subsequent clinical manifestations.

It would appear that once again our public ‘health’ authorities simply don’t want to uncover answers to the Lyme/MSIDS crisis.