LYME, WEAPONIZED BUGS

Kris Newby's Substack - Ask RFK Jr to Investigate Lyme Disease

CONTENTS

Operation Mongoose 1962

A Bloody History of Tick Bites

CDC’s Flawed Lyme Tracking System

Interview with Kris Newby

A Short Review of BITTEN

The Haunting Legacy of Lyme

Little Shop of Horrors: Accidents at a Bioweapons Lab

Tick Weaponization 101

The Rise of the Lone Star Tick

Stranger Things About the Lyme Outbreak

Synopsis of "Bitten" the Book

Operation Mongoose 1962

When the CIA air-dropped infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers.

Jan 21, 2025

A Bloody History of Tick Bites

A New York artist pulled 389 ticks off her body in 14 years and created a visual accounting of the growing tick problem in the U.S.

Jan 14, 2025

CDC’s Flawed Lyme Tracking System

Changes to the CDC’s Lyme case definition add complexity and case undercounting, leading to missed diagnoses and underfunding.

Dec 19, 2024

Interview with Kris Newby

On Lyme Disease, Willy Burgdorfer, Bioweapons, Ticks, Plum Island and much more.

Oct 16, 2024

A Short Review of BITTEN

by Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy at Stanford Medicine

Jul 25, 2024

The Haunting Legacy of Lyme

The ‘Polly Murray Papers’ reveal the horrific symptoms of ground-zero Lyme disease sufferers.

Jul 12, 2024

Little Shop of Horrors: Accidents at a Bioweapons Lab

When genetically engineered organisms are released on a population without natural immunity, it can lead to disease, death, and pandemics.

May 29, 2024

Tick Weaponization 101

Why and how the U.S. military turned ticks into stealth weapons.

Apr 29, 2024

The Rise of the Lone Star Tick

Did Army-funded releases of radioactive ticks ignite an epidemic of tick-borne diseases?

Mar 28, 2024

Stranger Things About the Lyme Outbreak

Why did 3 unusual tick-borne diseases suddenly appear around Long Island in the late 60s?

Jan 16, 2024

Synopsis of "Bitten" the Book

Stuffing fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes with deadly microbes—What could go wrong?

Jan 14, 2024