Kris Newby

A bunch of people got sick beginning in the late 60s around Lyme, Connecticut, which is just off Long Island near New York City. And they got sick with a really strange set of symptoms. They were both neurological and crazy joint pains, giant swollen knees like balloons. Back then, sometimes they would name a disease after where it was first discovered. So the Yale...

A bunch of people got sick beginning in the late 60s around Lyme, Connecticut, which is just off Long Island near New York City. And they got sick with a really strange set of symptoms. They were both neurological and crazy joint pains, giant swollen knees like balloons. Back then, sometimes they would name a disease after where it was first discovered. So the Yale...

A bunch of people got sick beginning in the late 60s around Lyme, Connecticut, which is just off Long Island near New York City. And they got sick with a really strange set of symptoms. They were both neurological and crazy joint pains, giant swollen knees like balloons. Back then, sometimes they would name a disease after where it was first discovered. So the Yale...

Rheumatologists called it Lyme disease. My theory is it was multiple organisms that got out of a military lab somehow. One of them might be the Lyme bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. The other one, according to the discoverer of Lyme disease, he told me at the end of his life, he believed that that was a weaponized germ that came out of his Cold War lab. And there was an experiment gone wrong.

Rheumatologists called it Lyme disease. My theory is it was multiple organisms that got out of a military lab somehow. One of them might be the Lyme bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. The other one, according to the discoverer of Lyme disease, he told me at the end of his life, he believed that that was a weaponized germ that came out of his Cold War lab. And there was an experiment gone wrong.

Rheumatologists called it Lyme disease. My theory is it was multiple organisms that got out of a military lab somehow. One of them might be the Lyme bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. The other one, according to the discoverer of Lyme disease, he told me at the end of his life, he believed that that was a weaponized germ that came out of his Cold War lab. And there was an experiment gone wrong.

So it's complicated in that... What we call Lyme disease is this spirochetal bacteria, but I think there's no proof that that was weaponized. But there is this other organism which might be related to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which Willy Bergdorfer, the discoverer, called Swiss agent. So that's complicated, but it helps to know that in the Cold War...

So it's complicated in that... What we call Lyme disease is this spirochetal bacteria, but I think there's no proof that that was weaponized. But there is this other organism which might be related to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which Willy Bergdorfer, the discoverer, called Swiss agent. So that's complicated, but it helps to know that in the Cold War...

So it's complicated in that... What we call Lyme disease is this spirochetal bacteria, but I think there's no proof that that was weaponized. But there is this other organism which might be related to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which Willy Bergdorfer, the discoverer, called Swiss agent. So that's complicated, but it helps to know that in the Cold War...

the military weaponized ticks, stuffing them with various viruses and bacterias to create a bioweapon that could be dropped on our enemy, make people sick with a confusing set of symptoms that couldn't be diagnosed. So you could weaken a population and tie up their medical resources before you invaded the country. So that's the premise of it. And why should we care now?

the military weaponized ticks, stuffing them with various viruses and bacterias to create a bioweapon that could be dropped on our enemy, make people sick with a confusing set of symptoms that couldn't be diagnosed. So you could weaken a population and tie up their medical resources before you invaded the country. So that's the premise of it. And why should we care now?

the military weaponized ticks, stuffing them with various viruses and bacterias to create a bioweapon that could be dropped on our enemy, make people sick with a confusing set of symptoms that couldn't be diagnosed. So you could weaken a population and tie up their medical resources before you invaded the country. So that's the premise of it. And why should we care now?

Because there were a series of experiments with these weaponized ticks during the Cold War. Sometimes the ticks with their evil germs got out. And that has a long lasting effect on the environment to both the animals and the humans.

Because there were a series of experiments with these weaponized ticks during the Cold War. Sometimes the ticks with their evil germs got out. And that has a long lasting effect on the environment to both the animals and the humans.

Because there were a series of experiments with these weaponized ticks during the Cold War. Sometimes the ticks with their evil germs got out. And that has a long lasting effect on the environment to both the animals and the humans.

There have been rumors. Before I came along, the weaponization of ticks was not a known entity. I feel like I've gathered enough evidence that that is established now. So the way I got that evidence was, first of all, the Lyme disease discoverer told me that he weaponized fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes during the Cold War for a a couple decades.

There have been rumors. Before I came along, the weaponization of ticks was not a known entity. I feel like I've gathered enough evidence that that is established now. So the way I got that evidence was, first of all, the Lyme disease discoverer told me that he weaponized fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes during the Cold War for a a couple decades.

There have been rumors. Before I came along, the weaponization of ticks was not a known entity. I feel like I've gathered enough evidence that that is established now. So the way I got that evidence was, first of all, the Lyme disease discoverer told me that he weaponized fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes during the Cold War for a a couple decades.

He said he stuffed plague in fleas, deadly yellow fever virus in mosquitoes, and then a grab bag of disease agents inside of ticks. So the way I know that is from Willie Bergdorfer. Later on, I got his lab notebooks and reports to the NIH in Fort Detrick to prove that.

He said he stuffed plague in fleas, deadly yellow fever virus in mosquitoes, and then a grab bag of disease agents inside of ticks. So the way I know that is from Willie Bergdorfer. Later on, I got his lab notebooks and reports to the NIH in Fort Detrick to prove that.