HAPPY HOLIDAYS! December 24, 2025

I am pleased to announce that we have recently discovered documented proof of how the world got in this Lyme pandemic, who made this mess, and what we need to do to get out of our plight. We are here as the result of the actions of several HHS employees. By knowing what was done, we now know how to reverse the problems and find solutions!

Donate as generously as possible so the LDF can pull this all together and share it with the right authorities. We can now establish a more rational response to our tick-borne pandemic. We have all the research we need to transform the current public health from patient-attacks to patient-recovery. This is not the result of lack of federal funds, but because the bad judgement of a few corrupt HHS employees were working for Pharma interests simultaneously as being HHS employees. Federal grants were also used in this interest.

Donations will help keep our doors open to get this all put together and off to decision makers. HHS has no “actual plan.” HHS cannot make a “plan” unless it knows the truth! Worse yet, the path taken for Lyme disease is based on junk science, and the same path can be used again and again for every new disease!

This is what I know from my research of the history of Lyme disease:

• “Lyme disease,” originally named Erythema Migrans disease (ECM), was discovered in Europe in 1883 by German Dr. Alfred Buchwald as a skin disease. It was first discovered as being indigenous in the USA in Wisconsin (mid-west) in 1969 and was subsequently published by dermatologist Dr. Rudy Scrimenti. This disproves the origination story of being discovered in Connecticut and disproves that it was a biowarfare pathogen escaped from Plum Island, NY. Scrimenti’s finding predates the “outbreak” in Lyme, Ct. It was no surprise that the Lyme disease pathogen was found in Michigan, which is geographically close to the discovery location. HHS ignored this.

• Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, a Borrelia expert, conducted non-Borrelia biological warfare experiments in Montana and across military bases in the USA. Dr. Burgdorfer left documented proof. HHs is not addressing this.

• The original patient bloods tested positive for other pathogens that had been found in European ticks. Europeans do not know this! Dr. Burgdorfer left documented proof.

• Thirty-nine years ago (1998) science PROVED that there are 281,250 seronegative Lyme cases for every 500,000 seropositive cases! The federal government has ignored this fact. The consequences of a negative test are dire: millions of patients go undiagnosed and untreated because doctors only rely on the test results to diagnose and treat patients. Doctors who treat seronegative patients lose their licenses. The untreated population then take decades spending millions attempting to get diagnosed. Worse yet, all research is done only on positive patients which has no relevance to the seronegative group.

• CDC started the doctor harassment campaign by asking the Michigan Health department to investigate a doctor who was diagnosing and treating patients in Michigan, which the CDC felt had no Lyme disease (sic). Dr. Allen Steere was the expert witness claiming the western blot testing was definitive.

• Dr. Steere preented the first program on diagnosing and treating patients to the Insurance company medical directors on the importance of a diagnosing patients with only a positive test and that the cure was easy. Despite this, there has never been a human test that could prove bactericidal cure! His presentation was accepted as gospel by the insurance companies, resulting in lost coverage for many people across the world.

• NIAID funded several protocols and required that the grantees coordinate their results. IDSA being one of them. NIAID then endorsed this by funding having copies sent to every heath department in the country. At that point, an artificial “Standard of Care” forced by NIAID, became the countrywide standard of care. How do I know? Because of donations, I had the funding to send out a survey asking the health departments how they set their standard of care. I received many replies with a copy of the manufactured HHS protocol. Right away a cottage industry of “experts” appeared who made money by testifying against treating doctors.

• Research of primate models has proven that no antibiotic treatment currently recommended is curative! This fact was originally reported at LDF conferences decades ago. It is how most doctors learned the truth. In addition, there never has been a test that can show human cure!

• Dr. Burgdorfer (NIH), Dr. Steere, Yale, and the Ct. Ag. Station NEVER DISCLOSED the full range of pathogens in the original patient group. The other pathogens were never disclosed and no tests exist for them.

• A clue to “weaponization” of agents comes from a Congressional hearing into Agent Orange and the transfer of pathogens to Iraq. How can Bb be weaponized without genetic change? The agents given to Iraq were botulinum, arbovirus, West Nile Virus, R. rickettsia, and r. typhi. The military explained that there are 4 groups that can be carried by ticks, mosquitos, and mites: fungi, bacteria, rickettsiae, and viruses. The USA military told IRAQ that combining other agents make them more deadly because it is, “likely to confuse diagnosis and interfere with proper treatment... and result in breakdown of individual immunity because the large number of organisms could overwhelm the natural body defense.”

The LDF was formed because of the lack of medical providers and public awareness of Lyme disease and its coinfections. We have conducted 27 scientific conferences (with worldwide attendees) in order to globally educate healthcare professionals and network researchers. We could not do this without support like yours! In our first two years the LDF raised awareness from 0% to 88%! Time Magazine stated that the LDF has had the “most successful awareness of any campaign” of any health organization.

Lyme disease continues to be the fastest growing infectious disease in the U.S. Recent research has proven that 14% of the world’s population has had Lyme disease! We know that people can be infected with not just Lyme disease, but also multiple pathogens! Because of your support, we can continue our efforts to inform the public about these developments and other strategies to make Lyme and other vector-borne disorders preventable, easier to diagnose, easier to treat, and eventually a non-risk!

The LDF and our supporters regularly educate the media, patients, healthcare providers, state & Federal legislators & agencies. We are also busy developing new educational material and supporting/conducting research. Our research on the LD Cost of Disease to Society was presented at Scientific Conferences in Europe and the USA. The LDF’s research data proved that Lyme disease has cost US patients $343 billion from its inception of case counts to 2017, with 37% of those costs incurred before diagnosis!

No other person or group is doing the research that the LDF has undertaken. Every group could! Luckily, the LDF is here doing it. Everyone thinks the science isn’t here. However, we have enough science. HHS is not listening and is busy accepting junk science!

I am a healthcare lawyer who started the Lyme disease worldwide movement in order to find a cure to help keep our congenitally infected baby alive. He died. I do not want anyone to go through what I went through. I can stop the madness and make a change. My husband and I donate our time to the LDF. All cash donations cover programs and research! Join me and let’s make a change!!

Are you done with Lyme disease and its coinfections? Do you want the scientific truth to prevail?

If you want a healthier tomorrow, then donate as generously as possible! Donations on our website get to the LDF within 30 minutes, with just a few dollars in processing fees! Keep checking on our website to stay up to date ... lyme.org.

Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, JD cum laude (Honors in Healthcare Law), LLM (Insurance Law), BS (biology), MBA (business), President, LDF