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The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. (www.nytimes.com)
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[+] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Isn't there a theory that Lyme disease was created by the government on an island... And that it's where all these ticks originally came from?

I don't even recall whether it's theory or historical fact.

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"The US House of Representatives has called for an investigation into whether the spread of Lyme disease had its roots in a Pentagon experiment in weaponising ticks."

The review would have to assess the scope of the experiment and “whether any ticks or insects used in such experiment were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experiment design”. -Guardian article

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I recognize that Congress has asked for the investigaton, but Congress is also run by low-grade morons.

    https://now.tufts.edu/2019/07/18/lyme-bacterium-predates-us-lab-conspiracy-theorists-say-unleashed-ticks-public

    "It turned out that the bacterium was circulating in wildlife long before Lyme disease became a known illness in humans. Ticks collected in 1945 from the eastern end of Long Island and mice collected in 1894 on Cape Cod were found to be infected with B. burgdorferi. 

    This means that B. burgdorferi already existed in wildlife on Long Island—neighbor to Plum Island—for nearly ten years and on Cape Cod for fifty years before the time period in question.  And Ft. Terry, the predecessor to the Plum Island facility, wasn’t even activated by the Army Chemical Corps until 1952, noted Telford."

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