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Hot on the heels of "Savage Tick-Clone Armies are Sucking Cows to Death [soylentnews.org]" comes news that the US Pentagon is responsible for introducing Lyme disease carrying ticks into North America. According to a story in the Global Canadian [theglobalcanadian.com] newspaper "a bill has been passed in the House of Representatives which requires the Department of Defence to investigate whether research on biological weapons using insects took place in a 25-year period and whether these insects were released into the public realm either accidentally or on purpose."

The claim originated in the book ‘Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons [amazon.ca]’ by Kris Newby. The book tells the tale of "Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind Lyme Disease, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today."

In presenting the amendment in the House, New Jersey Republican Rep. Christopher H. Smith asked "“With Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases exploding in the United States — with an estimated 300,000 to 437,000 new cases diagnosed each year and 10-20 percent of all patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease — Americans have a right to know whether any of this is true. And have these experiments caused Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease to mutate and to spread?” "

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