Quote:On the Link Between Lyme Disease and Bioweapons

Kris Newby Explores the Murky History of Government Experiments with Bug-Borne Illness

In 1968 there was a sudden outbreak of three unusual tick-borne diseases that sickened people living around Long Island Sound, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of New York and Connecticut. One of these diseases was Lyme arthritis, first documented near the township of Lyme, Connecticut. The other two were Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a bacterial disease, and babesiosis, a disease caused by a malaria-like parasite.

The investigations into these outbreaks were fragmented among multiple state health departments, universities, and government labs. It’s not clear if any officials were looking at the big picture, asking why these strange diseases had appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the same place and at the same time.

Thirteen years later, in 1981, a Swiss American tick expert named Willy Burgdorfer was the first to identify the corkscrew-shaped bacterium that caused the condition that we now call Lyme disease. The discovery made headlines around the world and earned Burgdorfer a place in the medical history books. As researchers the world over rushed back to their laboratories to learn as much as they could about this new organism, the two other disease outbreaks were all but forgotten.

Thirty-eight years later, the conventional medical establishment would like us to believe that it has a solid understanding of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease. It says that the tests to detect Lyme are reliable and that the disease can be cured with a few weeks of antibiotics.

The statistics show a different reality.

Reported cases of Lyme disease have quadrupled in the United States since the 1990s. In 2017, there were 42,743 cases of Lyme disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The scientists at the CDC who study the spread of diseases now say that the actual cases may be ten times higher than reported, or 427,430 cases. On average, this means there are about 1,000 new Lyme cases in the United States per day.

While most Lyme disease patients who are diagnosed and treated early can fully recover, 10 to 20 percent suffer from persistent symptoms, some seriously disabling. One study estimates that Lyme disease costs about $1.3 billion each year in direct medical costs alone, but no one has assessed the full economic and societal impact of chronic Lyme, sometimes called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). Patients with lingering symptoms are often dismissed by the medical establishment, a situation that forces them to seek unproven treatments that aren’t covered by medical insurance. Many are unable to work or go to school. Some go bankrupt. Families break up. There’s a high rate of suicide among Lyme disease patients, reflected in a common saying among the afflicted: “Lyme doesn’t kill you; it only makes you wish you were dead.”

(08-19-2025, 08:02 PM)FCD Wrote: I know a couple guys who have contracted Lyme Disease, and they had a helluva time getting better after the worst symptoms were over.  Just a helluva time!  It was pretty bad.

These guys (two of them) went down with it right when they first got it (and that was expected), but then once they started getting better and they'd go down again several times every 3-4 day or week or so.  This went on with one of the guys for like 2-3 months.

(08-20-2025, 01:59 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: No mention of the Plumb Island conspiracy theory and its connection to Nazi scientists and Project Paperclip?

I like the information provided, but come on, guys, let's have some back story here.