Sam R. Telford

Um, I've, I've received calls and emails from some of my colleagues, in- including some that I worked with when I worked for the government at HHS on their first round of the Tick-Borne Working Group.

Um, I, I was working intimately with Sam Telford, great, you know, great researcher who's published huge numbers of articles.

I sent it to Sam, who I worked with on the Babesia subcommittee.

He congratulated me, said, "Rich, you're doing great work." So, you know, I'm trying to bridge the gap because this-- Lyme disease has been a medical political disease now for fifty years, and I've been trying to kind of bridge the gaps between what we know as, you know, functional medicine doctors in the field who are, you know, using these biofilm persister drug regimens and those people who don't believe it's a chronic persistent infection.