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(308 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2019, 01:17 PM Jul 2019

Did the US military cause Lyme disease? Were ticks developed as biological weapons? [View all]

A book released in May this year titled 'BITTEN: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons' brought to light a possible link between the rise of Lyme disease and U.S. germ warfare.

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A bill passed in the House of Representatives by a vote last week has demanded a thorough investigation into the source of the illness.

Pentagon officials will determine whether ticks and other insects were 'weaponised' and used in experiments by the Department of Defense between 1950 and 1975.

Politicians also demanded they reveal whether any ticks or insects used in such experiments were released outside of any laboratory either by accident or on purpose.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7260123/Did-military-cause-Lyme-disease-PURPOSE.html

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Did the US military cause Lyme disease? Were ticks developed as biological weapons? [View all] zooks Jul 2019 OP

Oh, goodie PJMcK Jul 2019 #1

This is the second post of this one jberryhill Jul 2019 #2

Thanks PJMcK Jul 2019 #7

Will people believe any inane bullshit? jberryhill Jul 2019 #3

IT is an indisputable fact the the US has been involved with germ/bio warfare. Whether this is zooks Jul 2019 #10

What do you think of chemtrails? jberryhill Jul 2019 #16

I hate it when I have to agree with you, jb. marble falls Jul 2019 #21

Regrettably, yes. NNadir Jul 2019 #22

If nature had not already invented the tick and the mosquito, then marylandblue Jul 2019 #4

Then there's the new kid on the block. Igel Jul 2019 #23

Right. And polio vaccines in Africa spread AIDS. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2019 #5

Our military did spray altered anthrax virus in populated areas to study its dispersal patterns. Midnight Writer Jul 2019 #6

most of this makes no sense stopdiggin Jul 2019 #8

post #2 (jberry) ---- the fruitcakes are at it again stopdiggin Jul 2019 #9

Yeah, and Kucinich got his nutty chemtrail bill passed too jberryhill Jul 2019 #14

Was Agent Orange a rational choice? What is rational about any bio weapon? nt zooks Jul 2019 #11

it's your OP stopdiggin Jul 2019 #12

The article is about an investigation. An investigation will put this to rest zooks Jul 2019 #15

Suuuuure it will jberryhill Jul 2019 #17

You are asking if it was rational to use a defoliant on a rain forest where an enemy was located? jberryhill Jul 2019 #13

You're splitting hairs to say there's a differnce between chemical and biological warfare zooks Jul 2019 #18

Have fun with your ticks jberryhill Jul 2019 #19

That is absurd. Dioxin is a chemical just like Naplam zooks Jul 2019 #20