Chuck Bryant

And then Fort Detrick for however long, if they're not still doing it now.

But they were apparently looking into ticks as delivery systems for biological weapons.

Yeah.

I couldn't find that that is actually verified, but I find that highly believable.

But what Newby is saying is they were doing that research.

And then the way we got Lyme disease is whatever research they were coming up with escaped, say, a tick attached to a bird that flew off of Plum Island.

and landed in the area around Lyme, Connecticut.

And these ticks got off and they started to breed and they became endemic in this area.

And that's where Lyme disease came from.

There was actually a biological weapon that was produced and then inadvertently, probably not purposefully, released into the larger population in the Northeast.

Yeah, so here's my question.

I haven't read the book.

But are they saying that we created Lyme disease or that we just weaponized it?

Because those are two very different things.

Yeah, I don't know what she's saying either.

And I think she stops short of saying that, but that it's implied that if you put two and two together, the government was looking into biological warfare and they were talking about, you know, using ticks at some point.

And, you know, it's really close to this ground zero of where the tick epidemic began.

Sure.

You put two and two together.

That's the impression I have is that she didn't actually come out and say it, but that she lets the reader surmise for themselves, which is the problem.