Follow-up email to Cathy Wurzer, Host of Mayo Clinic’s “Tomorrow’s Cure” podcast.
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From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “tomorrowscure@mayo.edu” <tomorrowscure@mayo.edu>
Cc: “newsbureau@mayo.edu” <newsbureau@mayo.edu>, “cwurzer@mpr.org” <cwurzer@mpr.org>, “asteere@mgh.harvard.edu” <asteere@mgh.harvard.edu>, “Pritt.bobbi@mayo.edu” <Pritt.bobbi@mayo.edu>
Date: 07/15/2025 10:44 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer
To: Cathy Wurzer,
Here are additional facts you are probably not aware of…
It is believed that Lyme disease was pigeonholed into its current status by the two principal investigators of the previous Lyme disease vaccines as these investigators conceptualized a disease that would enable vaccine development.
A preventive vaccine for Lyme disease would not satisfy the FDA if a chronic persistent infection and seronegative disease exist. Dr. Gary Wormser, lead author of the one-size-fits-all IDSA Lyme treatment guideline (which matches the conceptualized disease) was the principal investigator of Connaught’s Lyme vaccine which never made it to market. This is a flagrant conflict of interest. Have we been dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug purposely concealed to promote vaccine development?
Wormser received Grant# R01CK00015201 from the CDC totaling 1.5 million to produce the following junk science: (It is no secret that the CDC is in the shot business)
Subjective symptoms after treatment of EARLY Lyme disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20102996
Gary Wormser, New York Medical College
(Financed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control)
RESULTS:
“At 12 months after enrollment, only 5 (2.2%) of 230 evaluable patients reported new or increased symptoms, and in none of the patients were these symptoms of sufficient severity to be functionally disabling”
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Summary of Wormser’s study: Anyone experiencing symptoms after the one-size-fits-all treatment approach is just experiencing nothing more than the “aches and pains of daily living.”
Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) after early treatment and untreated Lyme of months, years or decades are two entirely different disease states; the latter being ignored for three decades. Patients who have had a prolonged exposure to the pathogen are almost always incapacitated. So basically, Wormser’s results are then assumed to apply to the entire patient population; in other words, Lyme is no big deal which has wrongly influenced our nation’s response to this serious life-altering health threat. The research into how Lyme disables should have been completed by now but the misclassification of Lyme as a simple nuisance disease (hard to catch and easily treated) has paralyzed the response to this runaway plague. Purposely avoiding the advanced stage of disease hides the horribly disabled and anyone unable to see this is somewhat naïve.
When Wormser was appointed to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group 12,393 angry individuals signed the petition to have him removed.
Remove Wormser from federal TBD working group (Please read!)
https://www.change.org/p/dr-richard-wolitski-remove-wormser-from-federal-tbd-working-group-due-to-financial-conflicts-of-interest [See above picture of Wormser]
The patient community is well aware of the mishandling of Lyme disease for the sake of a vaccine.
The New York Times Magazine
Stalking Dr. Steere
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/stalking-dr-steere.html
By David Grann June 17, 2001
Last year, Dr. Allen Steere, one of the world’s most renowned medical researchers and rheumatologists, began to fear patients. It was not so much the ones he had treated, though he occasionally had to worry about them too, but the ones who had started to call his office, threatening him, claiming he was responsible for their suffering. They insisted that he was denying them treatment for an acute form of chronic Lyme disease, a strand of the ordinarily more modest infection that they believed slipped into the bloodstream undetected and remained there for years, causing joint pain, chronic fatigue, suicidal depression, paralysis and even death. Affirming their diagnoses were a growing number of patient advocacy groups, practitioners and psychiatrists who argued that the disease had become a full-scale epidemic, a modern-day plague crippling thousands of Americans.
Continued…
What I have shared here is just a fraction of the deliberate mismanagement uncovered in the fifteen years that I have studied the mishandling of Lyme disease.
None of this of course is mentioned in your Tomorrow’s Cure article.
Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH
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**Comment**
Tuttle, per usual, is spot on.
To read part 1: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/07/14/mayo-clinic-same-lyme-disease-clap-trap-just-in-time-for-summer/
Tuttle has also gone to the work of showing the conflicts of interest in 12 of the 14 authors of the IDSA Lyme Guidelines: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/swq4j8zz15hn56hp98jd2/12-of-14-IDSA-Lyme-guidelines-have-conflicts-of-interest.pdf?rlkey=yzqac1e01t6jw6wnmkckztjog&e=1&dl=0
It’s all right there in bright, purple crayon.
More on Dr. Wormser:
• Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and E… 
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 