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Jul 17, 2019 · "With Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases exploding in the United States—with an estimated 300,000 to 437,000 new cases diagnosed each year and 10-20 percent of all patients suffering ...
- United States’ Biological Weapons
- Claims That U.S. Biological Weapons Created Lyme Disease
- Scientific Problems with The Lyme Disease Claim
The United States began biological weapons testing during World War I, when the U.S. investigated — but did not use — ricin as a potential weapon. Though President Richard Nixon banned offensive biological weapons research and development in 1969, the period following World War II saw significant experimentation with the use of germs in warfare, pr...
Among the most extreme claims related to U.S. biological weapons research are those that suggest that outbreaks of the tick-borne Lyme disease in the late 60s and early 70s — the first widespread appearances of the condition — and its subsequent spread across much of the nation were the result of the United States government, either intentionally o...
The primary problem with the notion that Lyme disease was not “a naturally occurring germ” is that the occurrence ofBorrelia bacteria living inside ticks goes back to a time at least millions of years before humans existed to insert the bacteria into ticks. In 2014, for example, scientists found a 15-million-year-old tick fossil found in a chunk of...
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Jul 22, 2019 · The House of Representatives has instructed the Pentagon to disclose whether it used ticks to infect the American public with Lyme disease between 1950 and 1975. The allegation comes from Chris ...
Jul 17, 2019 · Burgdorfer himself was involved in biological warfare programs that involved using blood-sucking insects, including fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as vectors for the transmission of human diseases ...
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Jul 2, 2019 · One such insect is the deer tick, pursued as a germ weapon by the Nazis, the Japanese, the Soviets, and the Americans. Deer swim to Plum Island. Birds fly to Plum Island. The island lies in the middle of the Atlantic migration route for numerous species. “Ticks,” Carroll writes, “find baby chicks irresistible.”.
Mar 7, 2024 · Key Takeaways. Weaponizing ticks as a delivery system for biological agents like Lyme disease is theoretically possible but highly impractical due to the ticks' preference for non-urban environments, slow feeding times, and the logistical challenges of infecting and dispersing them effectively.
Jul 17, 2019 · CNN — The US House of Representatives has ordered an investigation into whether the Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects as biological weapons. In an amendment passed...
