What if W.Burgdorfer was not lying about lyme being caused by Borrelia?

I just watched the video with the interview of Kris Newby by the Under the Skin director, about her book Bitten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwJ5VrIzUc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0C3zSl01FcMm-jZr1IvOtuUDGRj7DlIBav2eVSbGaA7EJsTQCYjRz1vE4

This journalist Kris Newby found solid evidence about stealth pathogens being studied and released in nature from this lab (accidentally and on purpose, like dropping infected ticks in Cuba).

Even Willy Burgdorfer admits...
He was a bioweapon researcher...

Yes, the guy who 'discovered' lyme disease!
The hero of lyme communities, who finally gave an answer to lyme sufferers!!

What's interesting is that not only Borrelia was being studied as bioweapon, but other organisms such as Rickettsias and VIRUSES!! 😳

All transported by ticks!

They were creating illnesses that are stealth, meaning, not exactly 'lethal' but incapacitating.

Combos of pathogens were researched for bioweapon's programs.
Babesiosis was inside too, it seems (I read that in the Amazon book reviews about Bitten...)

Since 1968, babesiosis, rickettsia and Bb were known to be inside ticks.

Why TODAY no one speaks of viruses being transported by ticks?

My question is: we think lyme as being PRIMARILY caused by Borrelia burg, because of what Willy Burdgdorfer said... Right?

This 'truth' (?) remains unchallenged.

My question is: 'If Rickettsias, babesiosis and viruses were inside the ticks as combo pathogens from start, according to the bioweapon researcher Willy Burdgorfer, why do we think lyme is PRIMARILY caused by Borrelia only?"

Couldn't this be a strategy to make all our treatments USELESS?

I mean, who disclosed that Borrelia burgdorferi was behind lyme sufferers' complaints was a BIOWEAPON researcher (W. Burgdorfer)!!!

My question is: why has Willy talked about Borrelia ONLY?

He did NOT scream outloud about ALL the other nasty research he was involved with.

Like all the REST of pathogens HE was mixing and researching inside ticks.

It took decades for doctors and other researchers to pin point the presence of the today called "tick born CO-INFECTIONS", also coincidentally found in lyme patients.

Thanks for your post and all the information you provided. After getting Lyme Disease, I made a couple of friends who have Gulf War Illness. One of them pointed me to the Riegle Report. I'm not sure if you are familiar with it - it is a Senate report from around 1994. It documents the possible reasons vets became ill during and after the Gulf War. In this report, there are lengthy receipts of US sales of biological (and also chemical) weapons agents to Iraq during the time of the Iraq-Iran war. The sale of disease weapons agents such as tularemia, anthrax, botulism, etc, continued until 1989, which was only a year before Operation Desert Shield. One of my acquaintances was present at the bombing of weapons bunkers over there in 1991. Chapter one of the Riegle Report, which covers the bio and chemical weapons sales, was pretty disturbing. After learning our military allowed vets to be exposed to US-made biological weapons over in Iraq, I just have to wonder. Not that Lyme was associated with the Gulf War, but I just wonder about the origin of the disease. I haven't read Bitten yet - but will have to read it one of these days.

Post Edited (Auspiciousbunny) : 2/22/2020 3:07:19 AM (GMT-7)

"but I just wonder about the origin of the disease"

Lyme dna or traces or ...something....was found in ancient the frozen alps guy -

The bio-weapon theory is that they (US at Plumb Island) made the "original" stronger.

Burgdorfer certainly was a bioweapons scientist - I was warning about that in my articles years ago. And the book "Bitten" clarified that he most certainly did work on tick-borne WMD for the US Dept of Defense.

However, I don't think there is any evidence to suggest he deliberately wanted Americans to die. What he did do was what he, as a military man engaged in secret bioweapons work, would have undoubtedly been expected to do - follow orders.

And orders then (as now) would have meant covering up all aspects of the disease that the Pentagon did not want known.

Later, after becoming infected accidentally himself, he found it harder to follow the orders. He began to make public statements admitting Lyme was a chronic illness, which earned him his "hero" status.

We should not be too quick to hero-worship.

Burgdorfer tried to play both sides. He helped the Establishment cover up the link with Alzheimers by publishing a paper negating Alan MacDonald's work, ignoring the existence of non-spirochaetal forms of Borrelia (even though he knew full well of their significance.)

I don't think there is any doubt that Borrelia causes a severe incapacitating multi-system disease, including neurological, and sometimes kills.

The very fact that researchers like Alan MacDonald have found it in the autopsy brain tissue and/or CSF of people with Alzheimers, MS, and other very serious brain diseases, is evidence enough of the virulence of Lyme Borrelia, as well as its persistence.

Despite the fact that the CDC, under the controlling influence of the military via the EIS - the Epidemic Intelligence Service) and other US/NATO public health bodies have done everything in their power to stop these findings coming to light.

So the question is not: "is it the co-infections rather than Borrelia?" It is Borrelia, and in many cases it will also be an illness compounded by co-infections.

In Europe, Tick-borne encephalitis - a viral disease - has been recognised for decades. Could millions of Lyme patients have a tick-borne virus compounding their illness?

In theory, yes. But that does not detract from the importance of Borrelia itself.

A virus cannot explain why so many people feel much better whilst on antibiotics , nor can it explain the fact that Lyme patients have had Borrelia cultured from their blood or tissues long after mainstream medicine said they should be "cured", nor does it explain why they have Herx reactions - the classic reaction to antibiotics historically linked to spirochaetes, not viruses.

Did Burgdorfer obscure the existence of co-infections? Technically, no. He even wrote a paper about one of them - microfilarial worms. He then fell more or less silent on that issue, and the topic was buried for years by the powers-that-be, only to resurface later, when some patients discovered that anthelminthics (anti-worm drugs) helped them.

A few years ago, I and others persuaded Dr MacDonald to search for parasitic worms in his Borrelia-positive brain samples, and lo and behold , he found BOTH borrelia and worms together.

He made this finding in dementia, glioblastoma multiforme (fatal brain tunour) and MS among others. (You can see his micrographs and data at https://www.durayresearch.wordpress.com)

The worms are an incredibly significant co-infection, because the Borrelia turns out to be in an endosymbiotic relationship with them. It is living INSIDE the worms, in a kind of partnership with them.

This protects the borrelia from the immune system and antimicrobials, and certainly helps to explain why the Borrelia can persist despite long courses of antibiotics.

Burgdorfer's worst deception, perhaps, was not that he attributed Lyme only to Borrelia but that he attributed it (along with bioweapons scientist Alan Barbour of the EIS, and many other biowarfaremen) to the WRONG Borrelia.

The strain Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto B31, is the one Burgdorfer, Steere and Barbour gave the world. It is the strain on which all identification of Lyme borrelia and diagnostic blood tests have ultimatelty been based. But it is an organism that came from a tick and was cultured in a lab - it is a strain of Borrelia that has never been found in a human being.

And Borrelia that are genetically quite distinct from Bb B31 - distinct enough to be UNDETECTABLE on present B31-inspired tests - have been cultured from Lyme patients' tissues and/or body fluids - sometimes at post-mortem.

Last July, the first real opportunity to expose the Lyme coverup opened up, when Congressmen inspired by Kris Newby's book and other material demanded the Pentagon come clean on its past tick-borne research and its relation to the Lyme epidemic.

Sadly, it seems the Senate destroyed the initiative, and the world's media, which reported the original Congress move very prominently, has not said a word about this.

We need to re-take the initiative, and demand that the issue be opened up again.

Otherwise the coverup will continue to cause unforgivable suffering and death all over the world.

Elena Cook @ElenaCookLD

Thanks, elenacook for your brilliant comment and post. And like you say, many of us forget that it's primarily the dying off of spirochetes that cause the (sometimes awful) Herx responses. Not viruses. And not other types of bacteria, from what I understand.

Elena has anyone filed any FOIA's on WIlly or Plum Island?

Alright I'm going down the rabbit hole, this is going to be a long and interesting night.

https://www.docdroid.net/1xvbod8/rainycloud-nih-foia-burgdorfer-cv.pdf

Stay tuned, more to come.

Thanks Cignet, appreciate it

Ticks : an ever increasing public health menace
By: Burgdorfer, Willy
Publication Date: 1984
https://www.docdroid.net/qmuuluz/rainycloud-tickseverincreas00burg-bw.pdf

More to come.