Study: Lyme Can Not Survive Inside Mosquitoes Or Be Transmitted to Mice

July 15, 2025

https://www.globallymealliance.org/news/why-you-can-cross-mosquitoes-off-your-lyme-disease-worry-list?

Why You Can Cross Mosquitoes Off Your Lyme Disease-Worry-List

by Cara DeAngelis, Ph.D. on June 24, 2025

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A new study finds no evidence that mosquitoes can transmitBorrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. This study reinforces that ticks are the only proven source of infection.

What did the study show?

Many Lyme disease patients have questioned whether a mosquito bite could have been the source of their infection, especially as many do not remember finding a tick. This new study published just this June in the journal Parasites & Vectors offers strong reassurance that mosquitoes are not capable of carrying or transmitting the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. Even when exposed under lab conditions, the bacteria could not survive inside mosquitoes or be passed to mice.

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Graphical abstract from Pekľanská et al. (2025), “Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease,” Parasites & Vectors. Image reused under an open-access Creative Commons license (CC by 4.0).

Why does this matter?

It’s common for patients to be unsure of how or when they were infected, and that’s completely understandable. Many people don’t recall a tick bite because the deer tick nymphs responsible for most Lyme disease cases are very small (the size of a poppy seed!), and their bites often go unnoticed. With that in mind, knowing Lyme disease is only spread by ticks helps patients and families focus on the right prevention strategies and worry less about every mosquito or bug bite. 

How was the study done?

To find out if mosquitoes can spread Lyme disease, scientists ran a detailed series of lab experiments. First, they let different species of mosquitoes feed on mice infected with Lyme-causing bacteria. In some cases, a few mosquitoes did pick up the bacteria, but the numbers were extremely low and the bacteria quickly died during digestion.

The researchers also tested whether the bacteria could survive long enough to be passed on to a new host, either naturally or through interrupted feeding. In every case, the answer was no. The bacteria couldn’t stay alive or infectious inside mosquitoes, and they never made it into the saliva, which is the only way a mosquito can transmit disease. 

To make sure the experiment was working properly, the researchers also included infected deer ticks, which did successfully transmit the Lyme disease bacteria to mice. These findings confirm that mosquitoes cannot maintain or transmit the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

What is the takeaway?

This research addresses a long-standing question within the Lyme disease community about the potential role of mosquitoes in transmission. By providing evidence that mosquitoes cannot serve as competent vectors for Borrelia burgdorferi, the findings help refine public health messaging and support prevention strategies that remain focused on tick exposure.

To learn how to protect yourself and your family from ticks, visit our guide on how to be Tick AWARE.

Publication: 
Pekľanská M, Kuníková K, Vlčková R, et al. Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease. Parasit Vectors. 2025;18(1):206. Published 2025 Jun 4. doi:10.1186/s13071-025-06823-x 
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**Comment**
I find it incredibly sad that we are over 40 years into this madness and it took this long for this study to be done.  Sad.
We desperately need properly done transmission studies for all things Lyme/MSIDS.
One thing to keep in mind: the study found mosquitoes seemingly can not carry or transmit Lyme.  This could change in the future with different lab techniques and technology.  Science is forever changing.
And lastly, the article makes it appear that ticks are the ONLY way to get Lyme.  This is patently false as congenital transmission has been proven.  There is also much to indicate it can be transmitted sexually as well.
The fact transmission studies have not been done shows clearly how far behind we are in knowledge of this complex illness impacting more and more people every year.

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DOJ Drops Charges Against Dr. Kirk Moore

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gnw-charges-dropped-utah-doctor-accused-destroying-covid-vaccines/

Charges Dropped Against Utah Doctor Accused of Destroying $28,000 in Covid Vaccines + More

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by The Defender Staff
July 14, 2025

Charges Dropped Against Utah Doctor Accused of Destroying $28,000 in Covid Vaccines

NBC News reported:

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction.

Moore and other defendants faced up to 35 years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to defraud the government; conspiracy to convert, sell, convey and dispose of government property; and aiding and abetting in those efforts. The charges were brought when Joe Biden was president.

“Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” Bondi wrote. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today.”  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Dr. Moore was imprisoned for 22 days for disobeying unethical orders to inject humans with a never before used gene therapy injection that were not properly tested for transmission, effectiveness and safety and were rushed to market.  In fact, studies showing efficacy were fraudulently done and they are highly contaminated. The package inserts were blank, yet we were told to simply ‘trust the experts’ and roll up our sleeves!  BTW: this information was hard for me to find and only The Wellness Company writes honestly about the blank package inserts.  Every other mainstream media outlet I read is dishonest about the inserts.

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704 No More: Restore Local Control Over Cell Towers and Antennas

https://www.704nomore.org/

Section 704 undermines public health, environmental protections, and individual rights

Our mission is to change that. Let’s protect children’s health and the environment by taking back local control of cell towers.

Section 704 and other FCC preemptive actions enforce the FCC’s outdated RF radiation guidelines, ignoring mounting evidence of harm, particularly to children. These laws and preemptive actions also strip away our personal freedoms and property rights, and override the states’ traditional police powers that protect our health and welfare.

704 No More is a legal initiative led by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and is led by attorney W. Scott McCollough, who brings decades of expertise to the fight for local control and public safety in the telecom space. They are dedicated to impactful strategic litigation and advocacy, and are determined to turn challenges into victories.

Through this initiative they aim to:

  • Tackle the broad federal preemption that prohibits local authorities from denying cell tower applications based on health and environmental effects;
  • Give you and your community a say when it comes to if and where cell towers are placed in your neighborhood;
  • Provide legal recourse for those harmed by wireless radiation; and
  • Protect our constitutional rights and freedoms.

Health Impacts of Cell Towers, 5G, and Millimeter Waves:  https://www.704nomore.org/evidence-of-harm

Click on top link to find out more, access downloadable resources, join the movement, and sign up to receive news and updates.  

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**Comment**

I’m currently involved in a group that is reaching out to local reps and Senators to educate them on the dangers of 5G.  We hope to make an impact to protect the public from harm.  

If you have been negatively impacted by radiation from 5G, Smart meters, cell phones, wifi, dirty electricity, or other devices, please email me your experiences so I can share them with the group and with our leaders who are voting on telecom bills that will affect everyone.  As it stands, more and more power is being taken away from local jurisdictions.  We are fighting to keep decision making at the local level so people have a voice.

Email:  Lymecoordinator56@gmail.com

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Study: Sunlight Penetrates the Human Body, Improving Mitochondrial Function & Vision

July 14, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-sunlight-penetrates-the?

NEW STUDY: Sunlight Penetrates the Human Body, Improving Mitochondrial Function and Vision

Just 15 minutes of fully clothed infrared sunlight exposure triggered systemic effects and measurable improvements in vision — even with eyes completely covered.

 
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Jul 14, 2025

A new study published in Scientific Reports titled, Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic impact which improves vision, confirms what animal studies have long suggested: longer wavelengths of sunlight—particularly in the infrared range (830–860 nm)—can penetrate the human body and improve mitochondrial function systemically. Remarkably, even 15 minutes of back exposure (fully clothed) improved vision 24 hours later — without any light entering the eyes.

 

40 adults (ages 25–63) participated in the study. Researchers first measured sunlight transmission by placing a radiometer against the chest of shirtless participants standing in direct midday sunlight. In a controlled lab setting, subjects were then exposed to 15 minutes of 850 nm near-infrared (NIR) LED light directed at their backs. Visual performance was evaluated before and 24 hours after exposure using color contrast sensitivity tests. To isolate systemic effects from direct eye exposure, a subgroup wore foil-wrapped head coverings to fully block light from reaching the eyes.

Key Findings

  • Sunlight penetrates the human torso. Infrared wavelengths (especially 850 nm) passed through the chest and back, reaching internal tissues. Peak transmission was observed between 800–875 nm.

  • Mitochondrial boost to visual function. A single 15-minute exposure to 850 nm light led to a 16% improvement in tritan (blue-yellow) contrast sensitivity and a 9% improvement in protan (red-green) sensitivity 24 hours later — even in dim lighting conditions.

  • Systemic effect confirmed. In participants whose heads were completely covered with foil (blocking all ocular exposure), tritan sensitivity still improved by 7%, proving that long-wavelength light acts systemically — likely via mitochondrial and cytokine signaling pathways.

  • Clothing is not a barrier. Even six layers of common garments (T-shirt, shirt, wool sweater) were nearly 100 times more transparent to 850 nm light than to visible light, allowing infrared to reach the skin and tissues underneath.

  • Built environment warning. Most indoor LED lighting lacks infrared and instead emits sharp peaks in the blue spectrum (400–450 nm), which are known to impair mitochondrial function and elevate oxidative stress, especially in the absence of balancing long wavelengths.

These findings underscore the critical role of full-spectrum sunlight — particularly its infrared components — in maintaining cellular health and sensory function. As modern environments increasingly rely on artificial lighting that omits these beneficial wavelengths, we are depriving our bodies of essential biological signals. Daily exposure to natural sunlight, even through clothing, appears to be a simple yet powerful tool to support mitochondrial health and optimize vision.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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Mayo Clinic: Same Lyme Disease Clap-Trap Just in Time For Summer

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33704283?

Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
Jul 14, 2025

What has been presented here in Tomorrow’s Cure is the same old dogma propagated for decades by those who have controlled this false public heath narrative.

Dr. Allen Steere would be doing us all a favor by retiring.

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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: 07/13/2025 3:00 PM EDT
Subject: Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer

Tomorrow’s Cure: New frontiers in Lyme disease detection — just in time for summer

Deb Balzer July 2, 2025
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/tomorrows-cure-new-frontiers-in-lyme-disease-detection-just-in-time-for-summer/

“Dr. Steere identified Lyme disease in 1976 while investigating a cluster of children in Lyme, Connecticut, who were experiencing unexplained arthritis. His research ultimately led to the discovery and naming of the disease. Since then, researchers have devoted their efforts to advancing diagnostic tools, treatments and vaccine development.”

Mayo Clinic “Tomorrow’s Cure” podcast
Attn: Cathy Wurzer, Host

Dear Cathy,

Thirty-five  years ago Dr. Allen Steere identified chronic Lyme disease which should have set off a red flag prompting an immediate search for better antimicrobials but then did a 180° as he became principal investigator (PI) of the Phase 3 clinical trial for the first Lyme disease vaccine. So all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket while a campaign was orchestrated to discredit the sick and disabled patient population along with the courageous clinicians attempting to help these patients. Apparently, a chronic relapsing seronegative disease did not fit the business model of patent royalties, vaccine development and pharmaceutical profits. That rush to create a Lyme vaccine early in the discovery phase (of the Lyme epidemic) eliminated the research desperately needed to find a cure for an infection that was not responding to antibiotic treatment as reported by Dr. Allen Steere in 1990 and the disabled Lyme community ever since.

Here is Dr. Steere’s 1990 publication summary for your review:

The New England Journal of Medicine 

Published November 22, 1990

Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199011223232102

This is what Steere was reporting in 1977:

Lyme arthritis: an epidemic of oligoarticular arthritis in children and adults in three connecticut communities. (1977)
Steere AC, Malawista SE, Snydman DR, Shope RE, Andiman WA, Ross MR, Steele FM.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/836338

Excerpt:

“The best treatment for this illness is not clear. Some physicians have reported that penicillin or tetracycline results in disappearance of the skin lesion (41,42), but others find antibiotics ineffective. Four of the patients with expanding skin lesions received penicillin but still developed arthritis.”

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In 1991 the Lyme disease organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, was grown from the cerebrospinal fluid of Lyme patient Vicki Logan at the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins, Colorado despite prior treatment with intravenous antibiotics. The patient died when the insurer refused additional IV antibiotics. Here is a copy of Logan’s CDC positive culture report for your review.

(Vicki Logan’s Chronic Lyme Autopsy results Page #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

The destructive nature of Borrelia is evident in Vicky Logan’s liver (nutmeg liver), kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. The patient died after the insurer refused additional IV antibiotic therapy.

There are 700 peer-reviewed publications referencing persistent infection and in a 2018 study all patients were culture positive even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.

Quotes from the Tomorrow’s Cure podcast

Lyme disease testing:

Quote from Dr Pritt @ 15:11min into the podcast…

“…but later on, the antibody tests that we have are quite good at detecting those late-stage manifestations…”

1. Serology is so unreliable that in 2013 Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed HB1933 into law requiring healthcare providers to notify those tested that current laboratory testing can produce false negatives.

2. Governor Chris Sununu’s 2020-2021 commission to study diagnostic testing for Lyme disease  concluded that the FDA approved two-tier serologic immunoassay for Lyme was not reliable in all stages of disease; no better than a coin toss.
 
3. Peer-reviewed evidence of “Seronegativity in Lyme borreliosis and Other Spirochetal Infections” 16 September 2003  https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d6m45jzlhhwalu/Seronegativity.pdf?dl=0

4. I would like to point out the following case study from Stony Brook Lyme clinic. I understand the patient received thirteen spinal taps, multiple courses of IV and oral meds, and relapsed after each one, proven by CSF antigens and/or PCR. The only way this patient (said to be a physician) remained in remission was to keep her on open ended clarithromycin- was on it for 22 months by the time of publication.

Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7796837

Lawrence C.a · Lipton R.B.b · Lowy F.D.c · Coyle P.K.d

aDepartment of Medicine, bDepartment of Neurology, and cDivision of Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and dDepartment of Neurology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY., USA

Eur Neurol 1995; 35:113–117 (DOI:10.1159/000117104)

Abstract

We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.

Lyme disease vaccines:

Quotes from Dr Steere:

@ 26:41min: “I think we’ve had an effective and save vaccine for Lyme disease for over twenty years.”

@ 27:49 min: “From antivaccine movements the manufacturer decided it just was not worth the risk.”

This was not an “antivaccine movement” as there was substantial risk of serious harm to public health!

REPORT ON LYlMErix
Prepared by: SHELLER, LUDWIG & BADEY
Submitted to: VACCINES AN-D RELATED BIOLOGICAL PRODUSTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE   Jan 31, 2001

Excerpt:

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.

LymeRix Vaccine Victim’s Stories and Related- Articles
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0jxjhg58v4zey5bl3s1xj/LYMErix-Vaccine-Victims-Stories-FDA-Jan-2001.pdf?rlkey=vmicwpln1e850otvtal0mw9y6&dl=0

JUDGEMENT, FINAL ORDER AND DECREE GRANTING FINAL APPROVAL OF THE CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT:
https://www.lymedisease.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2003-Vaccine-Judgement.pdf

What has been presented here in Tomorrow’s Cure is the same old dogma propagated for decades by those who have controlled this false public heath narrative.

Mark Twain once said, “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Has the wool been pulled over your eyes Cathy Wurzer?

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH
 
Letter to the editor published in BMJ June 10, 2020
Re: Lyme borreliosis: diagnosis and management
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1041/rr-1

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