Book: Bitten: Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
Unravel the Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons in this explosive explainer video based on the investigation by Kris Newby, the award-winning science writer and senior producer of the Oscar semifinalist documentary Under Our Skin. The video centers on the deathbed confession of the Lyme spirochete discoverer, Swiss American scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who alleged that the Lyme disease epidemic beginning in the late 1960s around Long Island Sound and Lyme, Connecticut, was linked to a deliberate release or accident involving Cold War bioweapons (BW).
This investigation dives deep into Burgdorfer’s secret military work at Rocky Mountain Laboratory and Fort Detrick, where he focused on artificially feeding ticks (Ixodes scapularis) with lethal and incapacitating agents like plague (Yersinia pestis) and the Colorado Tick Fever Virus.
Crucially, the video explores the mysterious disappearance of the Swiss Agent USA, an unnamed Rickettsia microbe Burgdorfer detected with strong positive results in blood samples from early Lyme patients [131, 200–202]. Burgdorfer’s lab notes detail how this organism—related to the European Rickettsia helvetica (the Swiss Agent)—vanished from the records of key collaborators like Allen Steere and Jorge Benach roughly two years before Burgdorfer announced the discovery of the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as the sole cause.
Learn how the 1968 outbreak involved a “triple threat” of unusual, virulent tick-borne diseases, including Lyme arthritis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), and Babesiosis, a pattern consistent with the BW goal of using multiple agents to achieve prolonged incapacitation and evade diagnosis. This historical concealment is presented as the reason why the foundational science of Lyme disease was compromised, contributing to the controversy surrounding unreliable two-tier testing and the denial of Chronic Lyme disease (Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, PTLDS). The video explores the implications of this possible cover-up by institutions like the CDC and NIH.
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