277. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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A thought-provoking conversation with science writer Kris Newby about Lyme Disease and the US history of infecting ticks and other parasites with disease as part of biological warfare research.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Accuson here. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Atkinson podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Bitten, the secret history of Lyme disease and biological weapons. |
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| 1:14.1 | Considering the stories I've covered over the decades and the shocking, true things |
| 1:18.5 | I've learned about astonishing and unethical acts by our government and medical establishment, |
| 1:24.3 | I have spent some time wondering about animal-carried tick-borne diseases and what may have caused |
| 1:30.9 | some of them to be so endemic. Well, science writer Chris Newby also wondered about some of these |
| 1:37.0 | things, particularly after she and her husband were bitten by ticks a couple of years ago |
| 1:42.0 | and came down with Lyme disease. |
| 1:50.6 | She researched the surprising history of our government working to intentionally infect fleas and ticks with viruses to use as weapons. What could go wrong? Her book is Bitten, |
| 1:58.5 | The Secret History of Lyme disease and biological weapons, and I'll be interviewing her on this week's episode of Full Measure, which airs Sunday, February 23rd, but you get to hear the whole interview now. |
| 2:11.1 | Did your curiosity about this topic start when you got bitten by a tick? |
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