A major development in Lyme disease accountability just happened in Washington.
🏛️ A new amendment from Rep. Chris Smith to investigate whether the U.S. military ever weaponized ticks with Lyme disease has been officially included in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.
📜 The amendment orders the Government Accountability Office to examine Cold War bioweapons programs and determine whether ticks were used as carriers for pathogens between 1945 and 1972.
🧬 The investigation will review research from the Department of Defense, NIH, USDA, and other federal agencies involving tick-borne bacteria like Spirochaetales and Rickettsiales.
⚠️ Smith stated that millions suffering from Lyme disease deserve the truth about the origins of their illness and whether government programs played any role in its spread.
📚 The amendment was inspired in part by Kris Newby’s book Bitten and the personal files of Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, who described historical experiments involving ticks and pathogens.
📰 After passing the House, this provision now heads to the Senate and is expected to be signed by President Trump once the NDAA clears final passage.
💚 For the Lyme community, this represents a significant step toward long-awaited transparency and answers.
Check out Tick Boot Camp Podcast episode 109 with Kris Newby titled “Bitten: Bioweapons, Cover-Ups, And The Hidden History Of Lyme Disease — Kris Newby” to learn more! @bittenthebook@newbyKris
-------------------- Hiker53
"God is light. In Him there is no darkness." 1John 1:5 Posts: 10180 | From Illinois | Registered: Aug 2004
| IP: Logged |
Phoiph
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 41238
posted
hiker53~
Thanks for posting this.
It is encouraging that attention is finally being directed toward this issue.
Unfortunately, who knows if we will get the truth or another cover-up, which would allow disbelievers (and those entities who stand to be held culpable) to dismiss this as another "conspiracy theory" and avoid accountability.
Posts: 2072 | From Earth | Registered: Jul 2013
| IP: Logged |
MADDOG
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 18
posted
And we deserve compensation ! I have lost thousands of bucks to this germ warfare. It destroyed my life ! MADDOG P.S. Not to mention the lab at Mammoth Cave National park.They tested Lyme on the country people there. I went there on vacation and got in on the test.
Posts: 4083 | From Ohio | Registered: Oct 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
I've read that Germany weaponized ticks to drop them over Russia to infect their cattle during WW2. That's also where Erich Traub, the Plum Island tick researcher, was from.
Posts: 13171 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic