Chris, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining me.

Hi, Marty. Thanks for inviting me on.

Well, I'm very excited to do this for the audience out there.

Who may not know, sitting down with Chris Newby, who's an award-winning science writer,

investigative journalist and senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary Under Our Skin.

She also wrote a book called Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological

Weapons in 2019.

He won three awards for that book.

But I think most importantly, you're delving into this particular line of investigative reporting

started because you and your husband were bitten by ticks and Martha's Vineyard in 2002

and basically went on a wild goose chase to figure out what happened to you.

And through that process, sort of went bankrupt and went down this rabbit hole.

So this is a beat you've been covering for over two decades now at this point.

And as I was saying, before I hit record, it's a very, very top of mind for many people

here in the US as ticks seem to be exploding in population and diseases like Lyme and alpha-gall begin to pop up all over

the place.

Yeah, I never, I was a tech writer in Silicon Valley, and I have an engineer, two engineering

degrees, and I never in a million years imagined that I would be on the tick beat for the rest of my life.

But what happened to our family was so devastating.

And after I figured out what was wrong and we both got back, my husband and I both got back on our feet,

I said, I never want this to happen to another family again.

So I'm doing everything I can to educate people to get fast treatment.

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