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New Lyme Vaccine: How Much BS Can We Tolerate?

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/34624473

NEW LYME VACCINE: How much vaccine BS (safe and effective) can we tolerate??

Carl Tuttle Hudson, NH, United States

May 17, 2026

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Subject: Health Watch: Lyme disease vaccine

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Kristen Remington Anchor/Reporter

Health Watch: Lyme disease vaccine

Quote:

“There used to be a Lyme disease vaccine called LYMErix in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. This was eventually pulled off the market due to low sales.” -Thomas M. Hart, PhD

Thomas M. Hart, PhD

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

615 N. Wolfe Street, E5638

Baltimore Maryland 21205

Dr. Hart,

“Low sales” of the LYMErix vaccine is not the entire truth and has been regurgitated across mainstream media. 

The vaccine known as LYMErix was supposed to expose the immune system to the outer surface protein A (OspA) of the spirochete responsible for causing Lyme disease but for some patients, it caused the same crippling effects of the disease itself as reported in the class action lawsuit:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sodqs3pdeeesktf/Sheller%20Lymerix.pdf?dl=0

Excerpt from the lawsuit:

“The people who have contacted us were, prior to vaccination with LYMErix, healthy, active and energetic. Indeed, the very reason they sought the LYMErix vaccine was their desire to preserve their healthy, active lifestyle. However, what they experienced was a dramatic degradation of their health and quality of life. As will be described below, these previously healthy individuals are now afflicted with painful, at times debilitating arthritic symptoms, including joint pain and swelling, as well as extremely severe Lyme-disease-like symptoms which have persisted to this day.”

Below is the link to the Final Judgement and Approval of the class action against SmithKline Beecham as a settlement was awarded to these individuals.

JUDGEMENT, FINAL ORDER AND DECREE GRANTING FINAL APPROVAL OF THE CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/811ar7u22g1x7vrgiwjhx/2003_Vaccine_Judgement_Final_Sttle_Apprvl..pdf?rlkey=ot1sl13exzgm2bv7ldfe7ks53&dl=0

A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the vaccine model so chronic Lyme which is completely devastating to the patient is not recognized and there is no treatment. The disabled Lyme patient is left to fend for himself because treating this class of patient became too expensive as outlined in the racketeering lawsuit. There is a growing community of horribly disabled patients whose disability has gone unrecognized for three decades.

Here’s yet another victim:

Nicole Malachowski: Unfit for Duty from Debilitating Tick-Borne Disease

http://cdmrp.army.mil/cwg/stories/2018/nicole_malachowski_profile

“Her medical retirement, however, was premature. At only 43 years old, she was deemed unfit for duty due to neurological damage from tick-borne illness.”

The latest vaccine from French drug manufacturer Valneva is another OspA vaccine similar to LYMErix so the possibility exists that the class of patient who experienced the debilitating effects of LYMErix could end up with the same results. There was no attempt to uncover why LYMErix disabled the patient as described in the class action. Until we fully understand how Lyme disease disables its victim aren’t we playing Russian roulette with people’s health?

Respectfully Submitted,

Carl Tuttle

Independent Researcher

Hudson, NH

Suppressing evidence of persistent infection after antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease is not collaboration, it is collusion:

Peer Reviewed Evidence of Persistence of Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and Tick-Borne Diseases (700 references)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n09sk90eo6xz7ua/700%20articles%20LYME%20EvidenceofPersistence-V2.pdf?dl=0

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks, vaccines

Pfizer Reboots Lyme Vaccine Linked to Lyme-Disease-Like Autoimmune Arthritis and Class Action Lawsuits

This needs to be a hard pass for everyone on planet earth …..

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/pfizer-reboots-lyme-vaccine-linked?

Pfizer Reboots Lyme Vaccine Linked to Lyme-Disease-Like Autoimmune Arthritis and Class Action Lawsuits

Forces your body to flood bloodstream with antibody proteins that ticks consume during feeding.
Jon Fleetwood
Apr 20, 2026

Pfizer and Valneva have advanced their experimental Lyme disease vaccine, PF-07307405 (LB6V, formerly VLA15), using the same core biological mechanism that sparked autoimmune arthritis concerns, lawsuits, and the eventual withdrawal of the only previous Lyme vaccine, LYMErix.

The jab works by forcing the body to produce antibodies against a bacterial protein that resembles a protein found in your own joint tissue, meaning those antibodies may also recognize similar structures in your joints and trigger an immune response there.

That means a mechanism previously tied to immune responses against joint tissue—producing Lyme-like symptoms—is now being brought back and positioned for broad public rollout.

Moreover, current data tracks antibody levels in the bloodstream over months, but does not map where those antibodies distribute in human tissues or how repeated boosting affects immune activity over the long term.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Great article.  Really.  I wish I could have said it better.

If the above information doesn’t scare you enough – catch this: the vaccine forces the body to produce large quantities of anti-OspA IgG that remain inactive UNTIL a tick bites you, then the activity takes place INSIDE the tick.  Come again? 

To further the horror, the SAME molecular OspA mimicry in LYMRrix is in in the Pfizer Lyme vaccine, only this new vaccine expands the design across SIX borrelia serotypes.  Translation: even more than the estimated 30% of vaccinated people could get treatment resistant arthritis as a result of covering more serotypes of Bb AND due to the necessary boosters.

And to pound the nail in the coffin for good, reported adverse events were declared to be unrelated to the vaccine by investigators who all worked for Pfizer!  

Fleetwood does all of us a favor by critically looking at the study and exposing the fact there isn’t data showing tissue distribution and long term effects, especially after repeated exposure – the SAME exact blind spots LYMErix had…..

History repeats itself……yet again.

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Activism, Lyme, research, Ticks, vaccines

Tools, Hope, & Healing in Lyme Disease: Dr. Joseph Jemsek

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Tools, Hope & Healing in Lyme Disease with Dr. Joseph Jemsek

Mar 24, 2026
A webinar and Q&A on tools, hope and healing for those affected by Lyme disease with special guest Dr. Joseph Jemsek.
Sponsored by the National Lottery Community Fund and facilitated by Lyme Disease UK Patient Ambassador Morven-May MacCallum.
Joseph Jemsek, MD, trained as an infectious disease specialist and dedicated the first 20 years of his practice to patients with HIV/AIDS. In the early 2000s, an influx of patients from all over the United States started flooding his practice, the Jemsek Clinic, complaining of chronic symptoms of Lyme disease. This was the start of an unexpected new chapter that would change the course of Lyme disease treatment and of Dr. Jemsek’s own life. Dr. Jemsek evaluated over 15,000 cases of Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses and introduced dozens of pioneering treatment innovations.
You may sign up for Dr. Jemsek’s newsletter, Choose Life Over Lyme!, where he’ll be sharing twenty-five years of insights from his work decoding Lyme disease, at ChooseLifeOverLyme.com
You can access his guide Self-Help Tools to Manage Lyme Borreliosis Complex co-created with Lyme Disease UK here: lymediseaseuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Self-Help-Tools-2026-.pdf
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**Comment**
Highly recommend!  Dr. Jemsek is not treating patients anymore but his expertise is phenomenal.  He was also persecuted for prescribing long term antibiotics to treat chronic Lyme by the North Carolina Medical Board which restricted his medical license, but was vindicated. You won’t regret the time you spend watching this.
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Lyme, research, Ticks, Treatment

Babesiosis Study Paves Way For Better Treatment

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/babesiosis-study-paves-way-for-better-treatment/

Babesiosis study paves way for better treatment

By Maya Brownstein

Illustration of a tick

Babesiosis, a disease transmitted to humans by the same ticks that carry Lyme disease, is an emerging threat, particularly for individuals who are immunocompromised. In a new study, researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health identified how Babesia divergens—one of the parasites that causes babesiosis—spreads in the human body to cause infection. The findings suggest a path for the development of more effective drugs to treat the disease.

The study was published Jan. 27 in Nature Microbiology. Manoj Duraisingh, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, was corresponding author.

According to Duraisingh, babesiosis is “exploding” in the northeast U.S., and there are limited treatments to combat it. Some people who are infected are asymptomatic; others have flu-like symptoms. In healthy individuals, babesiosis typically resolves on its own. But elderly patients and those with weakened immune systems can experience severe disease with potentially fatal complications.

To learn more, the researchers examined Babesia divergens in the lab. They developed and optimized genetic tools, such as CRISPR, to study on a molecular level how Babesia divergens spreads from one infected cell to the next, to ultimately cause disease in humans.

The researchers discovered that Babesia divergens relies on four essential proteins to spread. They then validated drug compounds that block these proteins and stop parasite growth.

“This is the first detailed, genetically validated map of egress in Babesia divergens,” Duraisingh said. “We have now druggable targets in babesia parasites. This creates a clear path toward better therapies.”

Read the study:

Babesia divergens host cell egress is mediated by essential and druggable kinases and proteases

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Babesia, research, Ticks, Treatment

Massachusetts Makes AGS a Reportable Illness

https://www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2026-03-23/state-will-start-tracking-cases-of-tick-borne-mammal-product-allergy

State will start tracking cases of tick-borne mammal product allergy

CAI | By Gilda Geist
Published March 23, 2026
Governor Maura Healey (at the podium) announced that alpha-gal syndrome will become a reportable condition in Massachusetts at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in North Falmouth. Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein (leftmost person standing) spoke about the importance of collecting data on the emerging condition.

Gilda Geist / CAI
Governor Maura Healey (at the podium) announced that alpha-gal syndrome will become a reportable condition in Massachusetts at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in North Falmouth. Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein (leftmost person standing) spoke about the importance of collecting data on the emerging condition.

Starting April 1, Massachusetts health care providers and labs will be required to alert the state when they encounter cases of the tick-borne allergy alpha-gal syndrome.

Alpha-gal syndrome is an allergy to mammal products that can be caused by a lone star tick bite. It’s been on the rise on Cape Cod and the Islands, to the point where it’s caught the attention of the governor’s office.

At a press conference in North Falmouth last week, Governor Maura Healey announced that alpha-gal syndrome will be considered a reportable condition for at least the next year. The designation will make it easier for the state to collect data on alpha-gal syndrome, which at this time has no treatment.

“As the global life sciences capital of the world, I hope that somehow our data and our collection can be used with science and research right now in our state to eradicate this once and for all,” Healey said.

Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein was also at the event. Until recently, he said, there were no lone star ticks in Massachusetts. But climate change has made Massachusetts hospitable to lone star ticks, named for the single white dot on their backs.

“Warmer temperatures, shorter winters [and] shifting ecosystems all have allowed the lone star tick to crawl—literally crawl—northward,” he said. “We’re seeing that expansion now on Cape Cod, on Martha’s Vineyard and on Nantucket. And increasingly, we’re seeing it in the mainland.”

Barnstable County has been working closely with public health partners on the Vineyard, where alpha-gal syndrome has emerged as a significant concern.

“By taking this data-driven, proactive approach, we are doing more than just simply responding to an emerging public health challenge,” Goldstein said. “We are helping people prevent alpha-gal syndrome.”

Alpha-gal is a sugar molecule that is in most mammals, but not humans. It’s also in the saliva of lone star ticks. When someone is bitten by a lone star tick, the alpha-gal in the tick’s saliva can get into the person’s bloodstream. The body’s immune system can see the presence of alpha-gal as a threat, causing an allergic reaction that is triggered when people are exposed to alpha-gal in the future by consuming mammal products. That can include meat and dairy, as well as non-food products, such as some medications that contain mammal additives or stabilizers. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

I will refrain from my regular diatribe, but ticks are impervious to weather:

Researchers and the Media are beholden to Big Pharma and government – pretty much their main funders.  They understand who butters their bread and that they must toe the lie to get those hotly contested research dollars. This requires them to regurgitate the accepted narrative, even though it’s been proven wrong, again and again.

It’s now been exposed that billionaires under the guise of philanthropy have financed research portals to control scientific discourse and that a carefully planned 20 year architecture is behind ‘pandemics’ as a business model.

Big money is behind the faulty climate change narrative and it seems researchers care more about their paychecks than facts.

Just as it’s far more likely that geoengineering is behind deleterious weather conditions, not to mention health issues, it’s also far more likely that the government’s deployment of radioactive lone star ticks in Virginia have more to do with tick dispersement than the weather.

Lone star ticks have been found in Minnesota, Wisconsin and up into Maine.

Then, there’s the very real issue that ticks are not the sole perp in this drama:

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Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Climate, Ticks