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Lyme Disease Co-Infections: What You Need to Know

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Lyme Disease Co-infections: What You Need to Know

Posted By: Dr. Daniel Cameron

Lyme disease co-infections occur when a single tick bite transmits multiple pathogens. Up to 40% of Lyme patients in some regions also carry Babesia, Bartonella, Anaplasmosis, or Ehrlichia—yet these infections are frequently missed.

When co-infections go unrecognized, patients don’t fully recover. Standard Lyme treatment won’t clear a parasite like Babesia or intracellular bacteria like Anaplasmosis. Understanding lyme disease co-infections is essential for anyone who isn’t getting better despite treatment.

Why Co-infections Matter

Ticks don’t carry just one pathogen—they can harbor several at once. A single bite can transmit:

  1. Bacteria — Borrelia (Lyme), Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Bartonella
  2. Parasites — Babesia species
  3. Viruses — Powassan, others

Co-infections typically make symptoms more severe, treatment more complicated, and recovery longer. Patients with multiple infections often experience symptoms that don’t fit neatly into one diagnosis—which leads to confusion, misdiagnosis, and delayed care.

If you’ve been treated for Lyme disease but still feel sick, a co-infection may be the reason.

Babesia

Babesia is a malaria-like parasite that infects red blood cells. It’s the most common Lyme disease co-infection in the Northeast and Midwest, with up to 40% of Lyme patients in some areas also testing positive.

Key symptoms:

  1. Drenching night sweats
  2. Air hunger (shortness of breath with normal oxygen)
  3. Profound fatigue beyond typical Lyme exhaustion
  4. Cycling fevers and chills

Why it’s missed: Standard Lyme antibiotics don’t work against Babesia. Patients improve on doxycycline, then relapse—because the parasite was never treated.

Treatment: Requires antiparasitic medications (typically atovaquone + azithromycin), not standard Lyme antibiotics.

Babesia Resources

→ Babesia and Lyme: What Patients Need to Know — Comprehensive guide with 57 articles covering symptoms, testing, treatment, and more.

Bartonella

Bartonella species cause several human diseases, most famously “cat scratch fever.” While traditionally associated with flea bites and cat scratches, Bartonella has been found in ticks—including black-legged ticks that transmit Lyme.

Key symptoms:

  1. Streak-like rash (in some patients)
  2. Swollen lymph nodes
  3. Neuropsychiatric symptoms — anxiety, irritability, rage
  4. Fatigue, headaches, fever

Why it’s missed: Testing is unreliable, and many physicians don’t consider tick-borne Bartonella. Psychiatric symptoms may be attributed to stress or mental illness rather than infection.

Related Reading: Bartonella

  1. Case Reports: Bartonella Associated with Psychiatric Symptoms
  2. ALS and MS Suspected in Woman Later Diagnosed with Bartonella and Lyme
  3. Babesia Bartonella: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Children

Anaplasmosis

Anaplasmosis (formerly Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis) is caused by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum. It’s transmitted by the same black-legged tick that carries Lyme disease.

Key symptoms:

  1. High fever, chills
  2. Severe headache
  3. Muscle aches
  4. Fatigue, malaise

Why it’s missed: Symptoms overlap with Lyme and other flu-like illnesses. Without specific testing, Anaplasmosis is often overlooked—especially when Lyme is already diagnosed.

Treatment: Responds to doxycycline, the same antibiotic used for Lyme. However, treatment duration and monitoring may differ when co-infection is present.

Related Reading: Anaplasmosis
  1. Babesia Anaplasmosis: Cognitive Impairment in Co-infection
  2. Tick Bite Multiple Co-infections: One Bite, Many Pathogens

Ehrlichia

Ehrlichiosis is caused primarily by Ehrlichia chaffeensis and transmitted by the Lone Star tick. It attacks white blood cells, potentially causing severe illness if untreated.

Key symptoms:

  1. Fever, headache
  2. Fatigue, muscle aches
  3. Nausea, vomiting
  4. Confusion (in severe cases)

Why it’s missed: Similar presentation to Anaplasmosis and other tick-borne diseases. Geographic distribution differs—Ehrlichiosis is more common in the Southeast and South-Central U.S.

Treatment: Doxycycline is the treatment of choice. Delayed treatment can lead to hospitalization.

Other Tick-Borne Infections

The list of tick-borne diseases continues to grow:

  1. STARI (Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness) — EM-like rash from Lone Star tick, causative agent unknown
  2. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — Severe, potentially fatal if untreated
  3. Powassan Virus — Rare but serious neurological infection
  4. Borrelia miyamotoi — Relapsing fever-like illness
  5. Rickettsiosis — Various spotted fever group infections

When to Suspect Co-infections

Consider lyme disease co-infections if:

  1. Symptoms are unusually severe
  2. You’re not improving with standard Lyme treatment
  3. You relapse after completing antibiotics
  4. Night sweats, air hunger, or high fevers are prominent
  5. Neuropsychiatric symptoms don’t fit the typical Lyme pattern

Co-infections don’t always show up on tests. Clinical judgment—based on symptoms, exposure history, and treatment response—often guides diagnosis.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you get multiple infections from one tick bite?

Yes. A single tick can carry several pathogens simultaneously, transmitting them all in one bite. This is why co-infections are so common in Lyme patients.

Why don’t standard Lyme antibiotics work for all co-infections?

Lyme disease is bacterial, but Babesia is a parasite—it requires antiparasitic medications. Bartonella may need different antibiotics than those used for Lyme. Each pathogen requires targeted treatment.

How are co-infections diagnosed?

Testing exists for most co-infections, but sensitivity varies. Blood smears, PCR, and antibody tests each have limitations. Clinical diagnosis based on symptoms is often necessary.

Do co-infections make Lyme disease worse?

Yes. Studies show that patients with co-infections experience more severe symptoms, longer illness duration, and slower recovery than those with Lyme alone.

What if I’ve been treated for Lyme but still feel sick?

Undiagnosed co-infection is one of the most common reasons for persistent symptoms after Lyme treatment. Evaluation for Babesia, Bartonella, and other pathogens should be considered.

Related Resources

  1. Babesia and Lyme: What Patients Need to Know — Complete Babesia hub
  2. Lyme Disease Symptoms
  3. Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS)
  4. Autonomic Dysfunction in Lyme Disease
  5. Lyme Disease Misconceptions

If you’re struggling with persistent symptoms despite Lyme treatment, co-infections may be part of the picture. Identifying and treating all tick-borne pathogens is often the key to recovery.

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Anaplasmosis, Babesia, Bartonella, Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Ehrlichiosis, Lyme, Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Viruses

Deadly Hospital Protocols Caused Nearly Half a Million Excess Deaths in 2020

Deadly Hospital Protocols Caused Almost 20% Excess Deaths in 2020

By John Beaudoin

In this 10 minute video, John Beaudoin explains CDC mortality data from 2018 – 2023. The largest increase in death happened between 2019 and 2020 – nearly a 20% increase in mortality before the gene therapy injection rollout.

Almost none of these deaths were caused by Covid but by deadly hospital treatment protocols that Covid patients were subjected to. These protocols were issued as guidelines by the NIH and heavily incentivized by the federal health agencies with lavish reimbursements and extravagant bonus payments.

The system that made these hospital murders they declared ‘COVID deaths’ possible, is still in place today.

Ken McCarthy‘s book, ‘What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospital During the COVID Panic and the Nurses Who Fought Back to Save Their Patients,’ gives a first hand accounts by nurses that stated they didn’t see a SINGLE patient die from COVID.

Instead of effective treatments like vitamin C, D, HCQ, ivermectin, and steroids for cytokine cascades they were given Remdesivir which is ineffective, and previously pulled for high death rates, and were intubated, which caused 70% of COVID deaths alone.

“Specifically in the US, they incentivized a protocol which virtually guaranteed that people that came to the hospital with respiratory problems were going to die. Not everyone died, but over a million people died in US hospitals.”

And he adds: “It was systematized and it was incentivized by the federal government of the United States.” ~ Ken McCarthy

Then in 2021 when 70% of the population received toxic gene therapy injections, excess mortality went up more, but it’s virtually impossible to parse out how much was due to hospital protocols or how much was from the COVID gene therapy shots due to the CDC’s inaccurate coding of death certificates.

The CDC systematically misclassified COVID as the underlying cause of death (UCod) even when a different condition was listed.

And the code issued by the WHO in January 2021 to be used exclusively for COVID ‘vaccine’ caused death wasn’t used at all by the CDC.  

This is how health officials got away with proclaiming there was not a single COVID ‘vaccine’ death.

The only reason some COVID ‘vaccine’ deaths are even coded is due to some brave doctors who dared to list the nmRNA shots as the cause of death on the death certificate.

Further mudding the waters, such deaths are coded with Y59.0., which is meant to be used for adverse events of viral vaccines, which the mRNA vaccines are not, so death by the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were thrown in with viral vaccines, making it impossible to distinguish whether death was caused by a viral vaccine or an mRNA gene therapy injection.

Please see this video: The Uncounted COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries 

“More people died in excess from pneumonia in the third wave of Covid than in the first or the second. How does that make any sense? Because they wrecked their immune systems with a vaccine that goes into your bone marrow and your lymph and destroys your ability to create appropriate white cells that will attack a disease. It reprograms your immune system to fight something that doesn’t even exist anymore in society, an old variant of COVID.” ~ John Beaudoin

No wonder nobody wants to talk about this. This cannot be buried. People must know.  Those responsible must be held accountable.

If not, way more people are going to be killed next time.

It’s important to note that infant deaths to vaccines are NEVER listed on death certificates because a specific ICD code doesn’t exist.  They’ve been misclassifying vaccine deaths as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) for decades.  The CDC lists 131 causes of childhood deaths but omits vaccines.

Another way the CDC obfuscates vaccine data is by classifying 95% of measles cases as ‘unvaccinated or unknown’ – two fundamentally different categories.

Truth be told, measles cases with unknown vaccination status may in fact be vaccinated.

The CDC purposely merges unknown cases with unvaccinated ones maximizing the association between measles cases and non-vaccination while obscuring uncertainty in the data.  It purposely does not apply the same logic in reverse – merging ‘unknown cases with vaccinated cases maximizing the association between measles cases and vaccination, which very well could be true.

This allows them to smugly reinforce a predetermined narrative.

The MMR vaccine contains a live measles virus that was created through a laboratory process U.S. military biodefense experts state “could be considered, by current definitions, gain-of-function research.”  Peer-reviewed studies further document vaccine-strain replication and shedding, measles-like illness following vaccination, and frequent inability to distinguish vaccine-strain illness from wild measles in symptomatic cases.

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Bird Flu Outbreak in Wisconsin Cattle Just as Study is Published From H5N1 Outbreak Simulation & WHO Now Controls a Bioweapon Lab – What Could Go Wrong?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-bird-flu-outbreak-40-miles-wisconsin-lab-sparks-concern-gain-of-function-experiments

Exclusive: Bird Flu Outbreak 40 Miles From Wisconsin Lab Sparks Concern About Gain-of-Function Experiments

A bird flu outbreak in a Wisconsin dairy cattle herd has fueled speculation that gain-of-function research at a nearby university lab — where scientists are working to develop a bird flu vaccine for cattle — may be behind the outbreak. The lab has a history of safety violations.

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
January 15, 2026
dairy cows and test tube with words "bird flu"

A bird flu outbreak in a Wisconsin dairy cattle herd has fueled speculation that gain-of-function research at a nearby university lab — where scientists are working to develop a bird flu vaccine for cattle — may have played a role in the outbreak.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) identified what it said was the first known case of highly pathogenic bird flu in a Dodge County, Wisconsin, dairy cattle herd.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS) characterized the outbreak as a new “spillover” event — from wildlife to cattle.

The two scientists who conducted the whole genome sequencing for APHIS and identified the virus responsible for the Dodge County outbreak work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the university confirmed.

Those same scientists — Keith Poulsen, DVM, Ph.D., and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, Ph.D. — have also co-authored studies on gain-of-function research, including studies related to the H5N1 virus.

One of the scientists, Kawaoka, directs the university’s Influenza Research Institute, known to conduct gain-of-function research on H5N1. Kawaoka was director of the high-security lab in 2019, when it came under scrutiny for a safety breach.

The institute’s lab is about 40 miles from the bird flu outbreak in Dodge County.

Kawaoka is also the co-founder of flu vaccine manufacturer FluGen. And he is among a group of scientists working on the development of a bird flu vaccine for livestock.

Will Cushman, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Strategic Communication, confirmed that virologists Poulsen and Kawaoka are performing H5N1 research. However, he denied that it is gain-of-function research. (See link for article)

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H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype D1.1 is responsible for the Dodge County outbreak. The D1.1 genotype contains characteristics that may increase the transmissibility of the virus, including to humans.  The D1.1 strain is linked to a 3 year old’s death in Mexico, according to the WHO.

In 2023 lawmakers proposed Assembly Bill 413 to shut down gain-of-function research at Wisconsin universities, but UW lobbied against it and defeated it in April, 2024.

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Although the following Bird flu simulation was done in early 2025, the study wasn’t submitted until July, wasn’t accepted until December, with an online publish date if Jan. 8, 2026 – just in time as bird flu fear porn is intensifying.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/portugal-runs-h5n1-bird-flu-outbreak?

Portugal Runs H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Simulation—Echoing Pre-COVID Pandemic Exercises

Patients refusing to use personal protective equipment, like masks, defined as “threats.”

Jon Fleetwood
Jan 13, 2026

Portuguese health authorities conducted a formal avian influenza (H5N1) simulation exercise in early 2025 to test how primary health care units would respond to a bird flu outbreak, according to a study published last week in Acta Médica Portuguesa and indexed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

The exercise comes as bird flu is simultaneously being advanced through expanded PCR surveillance, laboratory-engineered H5N1 research, and revived mRNA vaccine programs, raising questions given the similar convergence of testing, research, and preparedness measures that preceded COVID-19.

The exercise took place on February 3, 2025, and was coordinated by the Infection Prevention and Control Programme responsible for primary health care units in Northern Lisbon, within the Santa Maria Local Health Unit.

According to the authors, the event was a tabletop exercise—a structured simulation used to rehearse decision-making during hypothetical outbreaks—designed to assess whether frontline clinics could identify, isolate, and manage patients during high-risk infectious disease scenarios.  (See link for article)

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Important to note: those refusing to use PPE were seen as threats, not as patients with autonomy.

It truly appears nothing whatsoever has been gleaned from COVID tyranny.

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https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/urgent-attention-the-swiss-government?

URGENT ATTENTION: The Swiss Government Handed Control of a Bioweapons Lab to the WHO—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

PLEASE SHARE WITH GRASSROOTS AND POLITICAL LEADERS ALIKE

Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​
Jan 15, 2026

Have you been wondering where the WHO will collect, store, amplify and share pathogens for its Pathogen Access and Benefit System outlined in the WHO Pandemic Treaty for future WHO-declared pandemics? Well, now we know…

Concerns about a WHO-controlled Swiss bioweapons laboratory, the Spiez laboratory, in the heart of “neutral” Switzerland led representatives of a Swiss citizens group called Swiss Association WIR to send a letter to President Trump this week requesting support.

Today I had a conversation with Christian Oesch, President of Swiss Association WIR, about the letter and more. You can listen below in link above.

“Bioweapons are never defensive – they can only ever be offensive.”~ Christian Oesch, president of the Swiss Association WIR.

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U.S. Military Uses AI to Accelerate Viral Outbreak Modeling & Funds Intranasal Spray Self-Replicating sa-mRNA H5N1 Bird Flu Vax

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/darpa-uses-ai-to-push-viral-pandemic?p

DARPA Uses AI to Push Viral Pandemic Outbreak Modeling From Weeks to Days

Speed is being prioritized over scrutiny, with AI-generated models designed to justify interventions before they can be meaningfully challenged.

Jon Fleetwood
Jan 09, 2026

The U.S. military is funding artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to drastically accelerate viral outbreak modeling—compressing a process that typically takes weeks into something that can be produced in days, then used to steer real-world interventions.

In other words, the faster the model, the less time there is to question whether the response is justified at all.

This acceleration follows DARPA’s already-documented pre-COVID pandemic infrastructure  designed to turn digital genetic sequences into synthesized viruses and mass-produced mRNA countermeasures on a fixed timeline. (See link for article)

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https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/us-military-funds-intranasal-spray?

U.S. Military Funds Intranasal Spray Self-Replicating sa-mRNA H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine Built From Chimeric Viral Constructs: Journal ‘Nature Communications’

U.S. government is not slowing its push toward intranasal self-replicating RNA vaccine technology.

Jon Fleetwood
Jan 15, 2026

A U.S. military–funded research program has developed an intranasal, self-replicating RNA (sa-mRNA) vaccine targeting H5N1 avian influenza, built using chimeric viral constructs assembled through reverse genetics.

The work was disclosed in a 2026 Nature Communications paper and explicitly funded through a U.S. Army–administered biodefense contracting mechanism.

The vaccine is said to force cells to produce H5N1 bird flu antigen while simultaneously producing viral replication enzymes that copy the self-amplifying RNA inside the cell.

The U.S. government is funding the creation of next-generation bird flu vaccines while funding the creation of purported chimeric “Frankenstein” bird flu viruses.

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, the CIA, and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

Why is the government making the bird flu pandemic problem and solution at the same time, just like it was doing with coronaviruses before the COVID-19 outbreak?  (See link for article)

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What could possibly go wrong?

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

U.S. Intelligence Classified & Redacted COVID PCR Test Findings & The Replacement for PCR Has Arrived

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/us-intelligence-classified-and-redacted?

U.S. Intelligence Classified and Redacted Findings on COVID-19 PCR Tests: New FOIA Documents

New records show top U.S. nuclear, national security laboratories scrutinized primers used to define the pandemic—but hid the results.

Jon Fleetwood
Jan 14, 2026

Newly released Department of Energy (DOE) records obtained by U.S. Right to Know through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that U.S. federal intelligence agencies classified and redacted the results of an internal review of COVID-19 PCR test primers, even as those tests were used to define “cases,” drive emergency policy, and justify unprecedented social and economic controls.

The documents reveal that during the pandemic, the U.S. government quietly subjected PCR test primer sets—the molecular components that determine what PCR tests detect—to classified scrutiny by top national security laboratories, while withholding the findings from the public under national-security and intelligence exemptions.

At the center of the release is a classified internal communication titled “DRAFT memo on Primer Sets,” circulated through the DOE’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and reviewed by assay experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The memo itself remains classified.

Its conclusions were redacted.

No public explanation was ever provided.

PCR Testing Was Treated as a Classified Intelligence Issue

PCR tests do not detect an intact virus and do not prove infection.

They work by using short genetic sequences—primers—to bind to matching genetic material and amplify it until a signal is detected.

What a PCR test detects depends entirely on what its primers bind to. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

What this means is while the public was repeatedly told COVID testing was reliable, specific, and settled science, the test was never handled in a public scientific manner but as a classified intelligence issue.

This should tell you everything you need to know, but it’s actually far worse.

In 2020 we were warned about the CDC’s monopolized COVID testing – something those in Lymeland have had to live with for over 40 years.

Experts have now shown repeatedly that the genetic sequences used in PCRs to detect suspected SARS-CoV-2 as well as the flu, and to diagnose cases of illness and death attributed to Covid-19 are present in dozens of sequences of the human genome itself and in those of about a hundred microbes. And that includes the initiators or primers, the most extensive fragments taken at random from their supposed “genome” and even the so-called “target genes” allegedly specific to the “new coronavirus”.

The test is worthless and all “positive” results obtained so far should be scientifically invalidated and communicated to those affected; and if they are deceased, to their relatives. Stephen Bustin, one of the world’s leading experts on PCR, in fact says that under certain conditions anyone can test positive.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-replacement-for-pcr-tests-has?  Go here for article & video interview

The Replacement for PCR Tests Has Arrived

Dr. Roger Hodkinson breaks down how MultiSeq could replace PCR and fix infectious disease testing with multi-target panels and confirmatory Sanger sequencing.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Jan 13, 2026

The COVID era exposed a diagnostic failure that can no longer be ignored: PCR-based testing is not a true “gold standard” for clinical infection diagnosis. PCR is widely treated as definitive, but mechanistically it is not an identification method—it is an amplification step that simply makes more copies of genetic material. The real weakness comes from what many systems use after amplification: probe-based fluorescence detection, which generates a “signal” without actually confirming what is present. That is how medicine ends up with false positives, misclassification, and policy decisions built on unstable data.

In my interview with Dr. Roger Hodkinson—a highly respected pathologist and Chairman of MultiSeq—he explains why the PCR problem is structural: probe-based testing functions like a “lock-and-key,” where partial matches can still trigger a positive signal. Even worse, infectious syndromes (cough/cold, diarrhea, suspected STI) are rarely caused by only one organism—yet most PCR workflows are narrow, slow, and often treated as confirmatory when they’re not. In practice, clinicians are forced into an “educated guess” model because results frequently come back days later and only cover a limited scope.

MultiSeq is attempting to replace this entire model with something fundamentally different: sequence-confirmed diagnosis. Instead of relying on probe fluorescence to “suggest” identity, it uses modified Sanger sequencing to directly read the nucleotide sequence and confirm which pathogen is actually present.  (See link for article & video)

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