Lyme Disease: Product of America’s Bioweapons Program?
Years prior to the Covid pandemic and the heightened public awareness of risky gain-of-function research, our military and intelligence community were conducting secret bioweapons programs involving insects that could carry deadly pathogens. Investigative journalist and award-winning author Kris Newby uncovered strong circumstantial evidence suggesting that these programs, which took place on American soil, might have caused the outbreak of Lyme disease, a highly unusual and potentially chronic and debilitating condition of which more than half a million cases are reported annually. Newby authored a book titled Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons, which won three international book awards. She is a former science writer at Stanford University, now serving as communications director of the nonprofit Invisible International.
Below is the condensed transcript of a November 14 interview of Newby by The New American senior editor Veronika Kyrylenko. The full interview, posted two days later, is available at TheNewAmerican.com under the title “Kris Newby: Lyme Disease and America’s Secret Bioweapons Programs.”
The New American: Let’s start with your work as a senior producer on the documentary called Under Our Skin, which was a huge success. It premiered in 2009 and was nominated for an Academy Award. It certainly drew a lot of public attention to Lyme disease and dysfunctions within our medical system that you uncovered. Why did you pick up this project, and what was its purpose?
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