Archive for the ‘Lyme’ Category

Why You Still Feel Sick After Standard Lyme Treatment

Why You Still Feel Sick After Standard Lyme Treatment

Dr. Jaquel Patterson

June 10, 2026

Lyme disease rarely travels alone, and unaddressed co-infections like Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Mycoplasma, and Rickettsia are some of the most common reasons chronic Lyme patients don’t recover. In this video, I walk through how each co-infection is distinct, why standard Lyme antibiotics don’t cover them, and what a truly comprehensive testing and treatment approach should look like. Learn more: https://www.fairfieldfamilyhealth.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 Why Lyme Treatment Often Isn’t Enough

01:32 What Tick Borne Co-Infections Actually Are

02:54 Bartonella, Babesia, and Why They Get Missed

06:55 Why Standard Lyme Testing Fails to Catch Co-Infections

08:46 The Clinical Patterns That Point to Hidden Infections

09:55 What Comprehensive Tick Borne Testing Looks Like

11:37 Treatment Protocols for Each Co-Infection

14:29 Final Takeaways for Chronic Lyme Patients

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**Comment**

And this, right here, is why many patients are not better and never get better. Further, testing absolutely sucks. ALL of it. Pathogens working together create a severe clinical picture. Many of these pathogens require completely different medications. Mainstream doctors are clueless on all of this and have furthered an antiquated, unscientific case definition and treatment protocol for over 40 years.

It is far, far more complex than most doctors are aware. They spend very little time studying this in med school and what they do study is completely wrong.

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment

There’s a New Type of Lyme Disease in NY. OY.

https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/theres-a-new-type-of-lyme-disease-in-new-york-state-oy

There’s A New Type of Lyme disease in New York State. Oy.

Richard Horowitz

Jun 10, 2026

There are very few headlines that catch my eye. This one was surprising but not unexpected, since ticks are known to spread via travel on birds (and air travel has become more expensive these days, as I just found out after booking several flights). Here is the news release that made me pay more attention:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lyme-disease-rare-type-found-first-time-new-york-symptoms-severe-rcna348491

So what exactly is the ‘new type of Lyme disease (LD)’? It’s a strain of LD that is not normally found in NY State. Its Borrelia mayonii. The CDC just reported on it in their MMWR report. Here is a brief summary:

[From: Nafiz TN, Prusinski MA, Gubbala S, et al. Notes from the Field: Borrelia mayonii Lyme Disease — New York, 2025. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2026;75:271–272. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7521a2]

This is an important case study, because B. mayonii clinically presents differently than an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), so we need to understand how to properly diagnose and treat it if it is being found in new areas. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Dr. Horowitz points out that the rash with B. mayonii is not the ‘classic’ rash seen with Bb, which isn’t so classic either, and highly variable – although it’s completely diagnostic, proving infection – no testing even required. If you have the rash, you are infected, period.

But there is concern for more severe systemic illness with B. mayonii due to a high level of spirochetes in the blood.

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Lyme, research, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

Seroprevalence of Borrelia, Anaplasma, Bartonella, Toxoplasma, Mycoplasma, Yersinia, and Chlamydia in Human Population From Eastern Poland

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14/1/96

Seroprevalence of Borrelia, Anaplasma, Bartonella,  Toxoplasma, Mycoplasma, Yersinia, and Chlamydia in Human Population from Eastern Poland

by Angelina Wójcik-Fatla 1, Anna Sawczyn-Domańska 1,*, Anna Kloc 1,Joanna Krzowska-Firych 2 and Jacek Sroka 1,3

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Pathogens 2025, 14(1), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens14010096

Submission received: 3 December 2024 / Revised: 15 January 2025 / Accepted: 16 January 2025 / Published: 18 January 2025

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Biodiversity of Parasites in Humans, Wild and Domestic Animals)

Abstract

The epidemiological situation related to infectious diseases is influenced by many factors. To monitor actual trends in selected zoonoses, a total of 473 serum samples from farmers, forestry workers, and veterinarians were collected for serological examination. Anti-Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) antibodies were tested with ELISA and Western blot (WB) tests; the detection of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies was performed using an enzyme linked fluorescence assay (ELFA). Antibodies to bartonellosis, anaplasmosis, and chlamydiosis were determined by indirect immunofluorescent test (IFA), whereas antibodies to yersiniosis and mycoplasmosis were confirmed in the ELISA test.

Positive or borderline results of antibodies against B. burgdorferi s.l. in the ELISA test were detected in 33.8% of the study population. The borderline or positive ELISA test results for at least one antibody class were confirmed by WB in 58.7% of cases. The IgG antibodies against Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Toxoplasma gondii, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae were detected in 9.6%, 51.7%, and 63.6% of samples, respectively. Antibodies against Yersinia spp., Bartonella henselae, and Chlamydia pneumoniae were found to vary between 43 and 47%.

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Anaplasmosis, Bartonella, Lyme, Mycoplasma, research, Testing, Toxoplasmosis

Lyme, Morgellons, and Patients Still Fighting to Be Heard: Dr. Ginger Savely

https://www.morgellonssurvey.org/ginger-savely-take-charge-of-your-health-lyme-morgellons/

Dr. Ginger Savely Joins Take Charge of Your Health to Discuss Lyme Disease, Morgellons, and the Patients Still Fighting to Be Heard

May 30, 2026 by Jeremy Murphree

Dr. Ginger Savely recently joined Take Charge of Your Health with Corinne and Carol for an important conversation about Lyme disease, chronic illness, and the misunderstood patients who continue searching for answers.

For the Morgellons community, this interview matters.

Dr. Savely has been one of the most visible and consistent clinicians willing to take Morgellons patients seriously. Long before the condition had any meaningful public recognition, she was listening to patients, examining lesions, documenting fibers, publishing clinical observations, and challenging the assumption that every patient reporting fibers, crawling sensations, or non-healing skin lesions must be suffering from a psychiatric disorder.

As a Morgellons patient advocate, I believe this type of public conversation is essential. Patients do not need more ridicule. They need careful evaluation, better science, better diagnostics, and clinicians willing to look before they dismiss.

(See link above for entire article)

Approximately 1 Hour

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Lyme, Morgellons

HHS Secretary on Lyme Disease

HHS Secretary Kennedy on Lyme Disease

May 29, 2026

Kennedy recently spoke in Concord, New Hampshire

HHS Sounds Alarm as Lyme Disease Cases Surge

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**Comment**

Hope stems from the fact HHS announced a new public private collaboration with ILADS – the only physician organization that recognizes Lyme can be a chronic, persistent infection. This group also trains doctors and connects patients with experienced providers.

For more on ILADS: https://www.ilads.org/

We need to be asking doctors to become educated on tickborne illness: https://iladef.org/physician-training-program/

HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Dr. Stephanie Haridopolos never answered the question in the second video about ticks being dropped all over farms as many on social media are reporting. Crickets……

The newscaster also blamed warmer winters as one reason for tick and disease proliferation – but this has been proven false by independent research: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/11/07/ticks-on-the-move-due-to-migrating-birds-and-photoperiod-not-climate-change/ Scott found warmer winters are lethal to black legged ticks.

Just to be clear, our government has a long sordid history of experimenting on ticks, stuffing them with numerous pathogens, and then dispersing them out of airplanes:

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks