Eponastill
Justified & Ancient
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I'd have thought ticks were quite capable of spreading disease all by themselves, but there's a theory (maybe not a theory, what shall we call it, a conspiracy?) that in the 50s the US government were experimenting with ticks as a bioweapon, and that these escaped / were deliberately released, and there was an explosion of Lyme disease in the population.
My main problem is that Lyme disease is hardly fast-acting. If you're trying to get rid of people, you might want to try something a bit quicker and more fatal.
Anyway the House of Representatives has approved an ammendment "instructing the defence department’s inspector general to conduct a review of whether the US experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975”.
Besides I think we have ticks with Lyme disease in the UK so I don't really know how that fits in
Sensitivity Warning: You will have to read the words 'weaponised ticks'. Weaponised. I know it's a word. But I don't like it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/16/pentagon-review-weaponised-ticks-lyme-disease
My main problem is that Lyme disease is hardly fast-acting. If you're trying to get rid of people, you might want to try something a bit quicker and more fatal.
Anyway the House of Representatives has approved an ammendment "instructing the defence department’s inspector general to conduct a review of whether the US experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975”.
Besides I think we have ticks with Lyme disease in the UK so I don't really know how that fits in
Sensitivity Warning: You will have to read the words 'weaponised ticks'. Weaponised. I know it's a word. But I don't like it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/16/pentagon-review-weaponised-ticks-lyme-disease