Bitten
The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
تاریخچه مخفی بیماری لیام و سلاحهای بیولوژیکی
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May 15, 2019
Some 400,000 Americans a year contract Lyme disease from ticks. Could a biological-weapons release of the blood-sucking, disease-carrying parasites be responsible for rashes, swollen joints, fevers, headaches, and neurological problems? Maybe, says science writer Newby, a Lyme survivor who produced the documentary Under Our Skin (2008). She interviews many scientists, including the microbe's discoverer, Swiss American tick expert Willy Burgdorfer, and notes that the outbreak began in the late 1960s, when the military was conducting open-air tests of aerosolized bacteria and aggressive lone star ticks. Whether this theory proves to be true remains a mystery, but it's a fact that ticks have wreaked havoc for tens of millions of years. (They sucked dinosaur blood.) And it's true that reported cases of the disease have quadrupled in the United States since the 1990s. Newby ends with a call for the government to better fund and analyze the expansion of tick-borne diseases, incorporating the possibility that they were spread in an unnatural way. It's a creepy, skin-crawling theory that seems to belong in a Stephen King novel. Stay tuned.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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