Bitten
by Kris Newby · first published 2019
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…that causes Lyme) was named after Willy Burgdorfer. Burgdorfer claimed that the disease was the result of a biological weapons program that went awry. This is an interesting read: https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...
on “Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases” ↗I can recommend the book Bitten by Kris Newby for another theory why it might not be in the interest of everyone to classify chronic Lyme as a disease. Especially for people who loved the reports about the lab leaks in China last year.…
on “The Challenge of “Chronic Lyme” (2018)” ↗This new book, Bitten, describes some of the mystery surrounding the origins of the disease in the US in the 1960s. https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...
on “Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding” ↗If you're interested in the intersection between Lyme disease and investigations into it being a bioweapons program gone wrong there's a recent book on the subject. <https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea... I haven't read it, but I heard an interview with the author and the book sounds well researched. It doesn't reach a definitive conclusion that Lyme came from a bioweapons…
on “Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases” ↗…the book exposed that Burgdorfer had earlier "developed bioweapons for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)." http://www.news.cn/english/2021-08/25/c_1310146419.htm The book: https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea... > As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the…
on “On the Link Between Lyme Disease and Bioweapons (2019)” ↗A history of the US Military's role in bioweapons and Lyme Disease is discussed in this episode with Kris Newby and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bitten Book on the potential origins of Lyme outbreak: https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea... While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That…
I heard a great interview with the author, Kris Newby, concerning her recent book, Bitten. I haven't read her book, but it sounded good, and she definitely knows what she's talking about. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, By Kris Newby.
on “Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests” ↗