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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 House approved an amendment proposed by a Republican congressman from New Jersey, Chris Smith, instructing the defence department’s inspector general to conduct a review of whether the US “experimented with ticks and … insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975”.

The book Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons cites the discoverer of the Lyme pathogen, Willy Burgdorfer, as saying that the Lyme epidemic was a military experiment that had gone wrong.

Burgdorfer, who died in 2014, worked as a biological weapons researcher for the US military where he bred fleas, ticks, mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects, and infected them with human disease germs.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/are-secret-us-living-weapons-alive-our-countryside

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/16/pentagon-review-weaponised-ticks-lyme-disease

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-weaponized-ticks-lyme-disease-investigation-1449737

http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/did-lyme-disease-originate-out-of-plum-island-33473/I