Study: Those With Evidence of Exposure to Lyme More Than Four Times As Likely to Have Antibodies Against Other Pathogens Compared to Those Without

September 21, 2026

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2854245

Coseropositivity to Tick-Borne Pathogens Among Patients Suspected to Have Lyme Disease

  1. Yonghong Li, PhD1; Carmen H. Tong, MS1; Tara S. Givens, PhD2et al

JAMA Netw Open

Published Online: September 18, 2026

2026;9;(9):e2634800.doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.34800

Introduction

Lyme disease (LD), the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the US,1 is caused by infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and transmitted through the bite of Ixodes ticks. However, Ixodes ticks also harbor other pathogens, including Anaplasma phagocytophilum and the malaria-like parasite Babesia microti.2,3 Co-infections with other pathogens can complicate diagnosis and treatment.4–6 However, the clinical burden of co-infections is evolving and frequently underappreciated. We sought to investigate patterns and frequencies of codetection of antibodies against B burgdorferi and other tick-borne pathogens in patients undergoing testing for tick-borne disease.

Methods

This cohort study was reviewed by the WCG Institutional Review Board, an independent ethical review board, and deemed to be exempt under federal regulation 45 CFR §46.104(d)(4). Reporting of this study follows the STROBE reporting guideline.

We queried the Quest Diagnostics test database for individuals who had undergone tick-borne disease serological panel testing during the 5 years from January 2021 to December 2025 (eFigure and eMethods in Supplement 1). Data used were deidentified as required by the HIPAA Privacy Rule (45 CFR §164.514). Results without associated information on age, sex, or state of residence were excluded. We restricted the analysis to the first test from unique individuals identified in the period. We performed descriptive analysis of the data in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Corp), and we used a log-binomial regression model to estimate seropositivity ratio and 95% CIs, with adjustment for age, sex, testing month, and region, using SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute). Statistical testing was 2-sided, with P < .05 considered statistically significant.

Results

We included 193 260 individuals in the study cohort (108 878 female [56.3%] and 84 382 male [43.7%]; median [IQR] age, 51 [35-64] years). Most were adults (aged ≥18 years; 92.4%) and resided in the Northeast region (70.6%), and 40.7% were tested between June and August. Seropositivity was observed in 9609 individuals (5.0%) for B burgdorferi, 6003 individuals (3.1%) for A phagocytophilum, 6497 individuals (3.4%) for B microti, and 1980 individuals (1.0%) for Ehrlichia spp. Together, 13 014 individuals tested (6.7%) were seropositive for at least 1 non-LD tick-borne pathogen.

Compared with individuals who were seronegative for B burgdorferi, individuals who were seropositive for B burgdorferi were more likely to be seropositive for A phagocytophilum, B microti, and Ehrlichia spp in all 4 US Census regions (Figure 1). While seropositivity for another tick-borne pathogen was observed in 5.5% of tested individuals who were seronegative for B burgdorferi, it was observed in 29.5% of individuals who were seropositive for B burgdorferi. The seropositivity ratio for other tick-borne pathogens in individuals with vs without laboratory evidence of LD was 4.46 (95% CI, 4.30-4.63; P < .001). Compared with individuals in other regions, individuals who were seropositive for B burgdorferi in the Northeast region tested seropositive more frequently for non-LD tick-borne pathogens (31.1% vs 13.6%-16.6%).

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**Comment**

Findings were in spite of the following study limitations:

  • Unknown clinical indications driving test ordering
  • Unknown disease stage
  • Lack of molecular testing
  • Unknown seropositivity level for non-Lyme disease tick-borne pathogens
  • Potential false-positive and false-negative serological results

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US Officials Knew COVID Shot Safety System Was Flawed But Turned Aside the FDA Doc Who Alerted Them

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“ONE OF THE GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY THIS CENTURY”: The BMJ Exposes the mRNA Safety Cover-Up

The BMJ reveals federal health officials knowingly relied on a broken surveillance system to mask vaccine harms while ordering internal whistleblowers to “cease and desist.”

Lioness of Judah Ministry

Sep 18, 2026

Article Excerpts:

The foundational narrative of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has collapsed.

A devastating investigation by The BMJ reveals that the CDC and FDA were not merely “incompetent”, they were actively deceptive.

Armed with the knowledge that their primary safety-monitoring algorithm was mathematically incapable of detecting harm, federal officials suppressed the truth to maintain an illusion of vaccine safety.

The facts, now exposed through internal emails and Senate investigative records, confirm a coordinated betrayal of the American people:

  • MATHEMATICAL MASKING: The FDA utilized an empirical Bayesian algorithm that they knew was broken. Because the system was flooded with reports for mRNA vaccines, it suffered from “masking”, effectively silencing alerts for heart inflammation, neurological damage, and sudden death.
  • DELIBERATE IGNORANCE: As late as 2022, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted the agency had not even performed standard PRR analyses for over a year. When those standard, functional analyses were finally run, they immediately flagged hundreds of severe safety signals that the government had previously claimed didn’t exist.
  • THE SILENCING OF DISSENT: When career medical officer Dr. Ana Szarfman and statistician William DuMouchel attempted to fix the flawed methodology, they were muzzled by FDA leadership. Dr. Peter Marks and others explicitly ordered them to “cease and desist,” fearing that accurate safety data would damage “vaccine confidence” and provide ammunition to critics.
  • A CALCULATED BETRAYAL: Officials knew their system had blind spots; they were warned repeatedly by their own staff; and yet they continued to cite the “lack of signals” to reassure the public and clinicians. They traded the bodily safety of millions of Americans for the protection of a government-mandated pharmaceutical campaign.

Americans were not just misinformed; they were systematically lied to by the very agencies tasked with their protection.

This report provides the documentation of a profound breach of trust, a calculated suppression of medical evidence that denied the public the right to understand the risks they were forced to take.

Footnotes
  • Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

Competing interests: This account is adapted from an upcoming book about covid-19 and the vaccines, written by David Willman and Peter Doshi. Doshi is senior editor, The BMJ Investigations Unit. (See top link for entire article and references)

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**Comment**

Before the first COVID shot, Sayer Ji warned that FDA’s own safety watchlist made rigorous post-market surveillance indispensable. A key detection system with a now proven and documented blind spot should have been a shot over the bow at the time, but senior officials instead worried about ‘public confidence’ in ‘vaccines’ and Meta records show pressure to restrict truthful side-effect information. ‘Vaccine” censorship was (and still is) prolific.

In 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Health sent out an alarm that they were seeing “a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people.”

These warnings went nowhere.

Pfizer, a private company and the manufacturer of the vaccine, received detailed case-level reports of hospitalizations and deaths. The public, and independent scientists, did not. The underlying record was never made public. The authors had to publish an anonymized version themselves as a supplementary file so that others could examine the evidence.

Five years. That’s how long this took to surface. Source

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Turbo Cancer: New Pre-Print Points Directly to mRNA ‘Vaccines’ & Testimony From the Allison Inquiry

September 18, 2026

Sep 17, 2026

“This is the smoking gun for turbo cancers,” Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist, tells Dr. Drew and Dr. Kelly Victory.

He says a new case study shows synthetic Pfizer mRNA vaccine plasmid fragments recovered directly from the aggressive tumor of a 35-year-old male.

“He received these mRNA injections. And then about 100 days later, he went to the ER and they found a giant cardiac sarcoma that was filling up his left atrium,” says Hulscher. “He got a booster, and then it spread to his brain, and he died because of bleeding into his brain stem.”

The paper, titled “Fatal Cardiac Intimal Sarcoma in a 35-Year-Old Male Following COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination,” details a previously healthy man whose tumor demonstrated an explosive 10-day doubling time. Tissue testing identified three synthetic spike-encoding fragments and the plasmid origin-of-replication sequence embedded within the tumor tissue.

“These were literally inside of that tumor,” says Nic. “We find the weapon at the scene of the crime now. And so turbo cancer is not a myth. It’s very real.”

Go here for the McCullough Foundation’s comprehensive library of peer-reviewed publications. You will not find the cardiac sarcoma as it is a pre-print and has not been peer-reviewed.

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The Allison Inquiry in Canada is the first inquiry by Canadian lawmakers into COVID-19 injection injuries. It is chaired by Member of Parliament Dean Allison and is non-partisan.

Approx. 11 Min

Sept. 14, 2026

Sen. Ron Johnson and Canadian MP Chris Lewis discuss alleged COVID-19 vaccine side effects and “turbo cancer” claims at the Allison Inquiry in Canada. Johnson raises questions about COVID vaccine safety, cancer, clinical-trial data and Pfizer’s unblinding, while Lewis shares his mother’s cancer story after vaccination.

The explosive Parliament Hill hearing has reignited debate over COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine injuries, cancer claims and the handling of long-term safety data.

Sept. 13, 2026

Former WHO Director Breaks Silence on ‘Vaccine’ Injury

“I was this grotesque, unrecognizable version of myself.” ~ Patricia Leidl

Sept. 11, 2026

Veteran Detective Helen Grus was suspended, charged with discreditable conduct, and subjected to a multi-year disciplinary tribunal after she noticed a sudden spike in unexplained infant deaths, which caused her to look into the department’s database and flag the trend to her superiors.

Sept. 10, 2026

Carrie Sakamoto describes severe neurological complications, including facial paralysis and spinal problems, which she says followed COVID-19 shot.

Sept. 9, 2026

After 40 years of active construction work and robust health, 74-year-old John Philip Grant experienced sudden, life-threatening hematological and pulmonary complications after the COVID shot.

“My blood platelets had gone down to zero… I didn’t know if I was going to live.”

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ACTION: Repeal the 1986 Vaccine Law

September 17, 2026

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/help-us-reach-50000-signatures-to

Help us reach 50,000 signatures to repeal the 1986 vaccine law

If you can only take one action this year, this should be your top choice.

Steve Kirsch

Sep 16, 2026

I’m again asking you to sign our petition to repeal the 1986 vaccine law.

For 40 years, vaccine manufacturers have been protected from legal responsibility when their products injure people.

Now, bills to repeal the 1986 law are finally before both chambers of Congress. We have a real chance to change the law. The tide is turning in our favor.

We are at just over 20,000 signatures. Our next goal is 50,000.

We had some technical issues with a previous version of the petition form. Those problems have been fixed.

You don’t have to be an American to sign. We welcome signatures from around the world.

I signed it. It takes less than a minute.

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I highly recommend reading/watching NVIC’s “1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act: Myth vs. Fact.“

It is NVIC’s position that the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act should return to its original form before the vaccine safety, civil liability and compensation provisions were destroyed by weakening congressional amendments, agency rule making changes, and the tragically flawed U.S. Supreme Court decision effectively removing product design defect liability from vaccine manufacturers.

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After These Young People Died, Postmortems Found an Unnerving Parasite Link

September 15, 2026

After These Young People Died, Postmortems Found an Unnerving Parasite Link

04 September 2026

ByEsra Öz

After These Young People Died, Postmortems Found an Unnerving Parasite Link (Breitschwerdt et al., Parasites & Vectors, 2026, CC BY 4.0.)

He had been athletic and healthy. Then came years of exhaustion, pain, memory problems, and psychiatric symptoms. Eventually, he had to leave college.

By the time the 27-year-old died, six years of illness and specialist care had failed to restore his health.

Tests performed after his death revealed DNA from two species of Babesia, tiny parasites that infect red blood cells, and Bartonella henselae, the bacterium that causes cat-scratch disease.

His was one of six cases in a postmortem investigation driven by families still seeking answers about their children’s illnesses.

Researchers confirmed DNA from one or both groups of microbes in five individuals.

The discovery left a crucial question unanswered: what role, if any, had these infections played in their illnesses?

The individuals were aged 14 to 30, and all had experienced chronic illness and suicidal thoughts or behaviors.

Four died by suicide, one through medical assistance in dying, and another from a severe disorder involving excessive immune activation.

Their parents contacted Edward Breitschwerdt, an infectious disease researcher at North Carolina State University, after learning about his team’s work on Bartonella and neurological illness. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is the perfect article to follow up on the research on ‘PTLDS’ as it wonderfully shows how these pathogens are hard to find let alone effectively treat but are causing needless suicides and unbelievable suffering, due to an old faulty dogma that refuses to go away.

Important excerpt:

“They supplied medical histories and arranged for postmortem samples to reach his laboratory. Some had already been tested or treated for these infections while alive. The investigation was therefore not the first indication of infection in every case. At the laboratory, the initial search returned no clear answers. The researchers analyzed 125 DNA extracts from blood, laboratory blood cultures, tissues, and other body fluids. Initial quantitative PCR screening, which searches for selected genetic sequences, was negative throughout. Digital PCR, which divides samples into many tiny reactions, then produced faint signals in some samples. None reached the study’s threshold for a positive result. Additional targeted tests and DNA sequencing, which reads genetic material to identify organisms, provided confirmation.”

These poor folks would have been ignored by most researchers after the PCR screening, but Bart guru, Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, is no dummy and kept digging. Notice they did additional ‘targeted’ tests AND DNA sequencing. Mainstream research simply quits looking after using tests that are wrong nearly 90% of the time.

In response to the question of whether the DNA points to an active infection at the time of death, Breitschwerdt said that detecting a known pathogen’s DNA in clinical specimens is medically accepted as evidence of “active infection.

Yet – for some reason, this ‘medically accepted’ evidence does NOT hold true for Lyme/MSIDS. It’s the perfect quagmire with no end in sight.

While this was an ‘observational study’, not a prospective case-controlled study, Breitschwerdt states:

“I think the best interpretation is that infections with vector-borne pathogens that have evolved to induce persistent infections in animals and human patients are not a current diagnostic consideration in patients with chronic illnesses or neuropsychiatric symptoms.”

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