Kris Newby
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Medical-Science Writer | BITTEN Author | @UnderOurSkin Sr Producer | Contributor @Voxdotcom @LitHub @StanMedMag @Epic @NowThisNews |
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Blocking Substack links is harming the content producers who Elon needs to feed his AI engines. Substack isn't a Twitter competitor--it's a multiplier.
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A good overview of the mysteries surrounding the disease outbreak around
#Lyme
, CT, during the late '60s. We need disclosure of Cold War bioweapons experiments!
When a cluster of previously rare diseases pops up right across the water from a U.S. government bioweapons testing facility, it warrants asking some questions.
@krisnewby
, author of “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,” seemed like the perfect
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Thank you
@DrJBhattacharya
for this concise, accurate summary of "Bitten" and for highlighting the parallels btw/ the
#Covid_19
&
#Lyme
outbreaks. Dr. Fauci was
#2
at NIAID when the Lyme disease "discovery" & disinformation campaign was rolled out.
I just finished
@krisnewby
's Bitten, which tells the history of the US government's secret program in the 1950s and 1960s to weaponize ticks to deliver deadly bacteria to incapacitate unsuspecting populations.
Newby, a talented journalist and science writer, structures her
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Very few politicians admit that chronic
#Lyme
is a real and present danger. Thank you
@RobertKennedyJr
for sharing your family's story.
💣 👀 💥 RFK, Jr discloses how his fam was horribly impacted by Lyme!🕷️
✅ his child’s face paralyzed by
#Lyme
for a year!
✅ another child suffers from chronic Lyme!
✅ all of his kids have been infected w varying severity
✅ he was also infected
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Listen to my interview with RFK Jr about the history of the US bioweapons program, tick weaponization, and how his family has been impacted by
#Lyme
disease.
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A great interview in Martha’s Vineyard magazine about BITTEN and the US Cold War weaponization of fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes—an old school gain-of-function biological weapons program.
@jeff_kaye
@AnnieJacobsen
@nicholsonbaker8
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Neil really did his homework on
#lyme
and
#bioweapons
. Join me for a thought provoking discussion with this whip smart entrepreneur on our broken healthcare system.
@danaparish
@joerogan
New Outside The System episode is out!
@krisnewby
joined me for a discussion about her eye opening book “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons”
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New CDC
#Lyme
numbers are finally posted: “In 2022, the number of reported Lyme disease cases in the U.S. increased **68.5%** over the average reported during 2017–2019.” Another epic fail from our disease prevention agency.
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A great interview in Martha’s Vineyard magazine about BITTEN and the US Cold War weaponization of fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes—an old-school gain-of-function biological weapons program.
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I was reviewing my medical history with a new doctor when he interrupted me, saying, "Chronic Lyme is an imaginary disease (with air quotes). Our infectious disease doctors won't even see those patients." Shame on you
@UofUMedicine
. Watch this and learn:
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Circa 1953, using ticks for gain-of-function research: “Passage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...” such as yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
Scientists don't always agree on the term "gain-of-function" because NIH officials and researchers like
@ggronvall
have worked hard to complicate the matter and drown it in technical language. They did this on purpose to lock out the public.
@StevenSalzberg1
@T_Inglesby
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The archived document, since the original has been removed:
Circa 1953, using ticks for gain-of-function research: “Passage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...” such as yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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Ditto. Most lab accidents never see the light of day.
"What I had come to learn through more than a decade of reporting... was that the only thing rare about lab accidents was the public finding out about them."
--Alison Young
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Tall about a terrifying
#throwback
: a 1989 cover of .
@newsweek
. 31 years later we are still seeking answers... via
@TerryMMayfield
#Lyme
#LymeDisease
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Coverup strategies for bioweapons accidents: A case study on the Lyme disease outbreak | Kris Newby
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"Chronic" author
@danaparish
has been fighting for medical justice for
#LongCOVID
and
#Lyme
patients for years. In this podcast, we talked about lab leak disinformation, coverups, and the corrupting influence of money in medicine. It's a favorite of mine.
📣 🎙 NEW: Fascinating podcast w award-winning author/ filmmaker/ historian
@krisnewby
.
We discuss:
✅US bioweapons program weaponizing insects
✅the chronic Lyme coverup
✅how intelligence has long-infiltrated media to shape stories
✅the truth abt Lyme vaccine etc
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Little Shop of Horrors: Accidents at a Bioweapons Lab
When genetically engineered organisms are released on a population without natural immunity, it can lead to disease, death, and pandemics. Read more on my sub*stack.
#Lyme
#bioweapons
#lableak
@alisonannyoung
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Lyme disease expert champion's investigation into Pentagon weaponizing ticks: 'It's a courageous move'
#FoxNews
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A confession left on a folder detailing
#BiologicalWeapons
work by
#Lyme
discoverer Willy Burgdorfer, released after his death—plague in fleas, yellow fever in mosquitoes, mixed disease agents in ticks, a secret Swiss bank account. What did he do?
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Biologist Jim Oliver on bioweapons—I started working on ticks & mosquitoes—how to produce a lot of them. Drop them out of airplanes. Everything was very hush-hush, very secret. I’m still leery talking about it because I think they might put me in jail.
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.
@RepChrisSmith
cites
@KrisNewby
’s BITTEN, and amends H.R. 2500 with an investigation into DoD’s use of ticks and other insects as biological weapons.
#Lymedisease
@Lymenews
@Harper_Wave
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Thank you .
@bookauthority
!
#bitten
was named “The Best Public Health Book of All Time.” As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc – BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world. Learn more here
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Using ticks for gain-of-function research: “Passage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...” including yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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The Ross
@DouthatNYT
column, "How I Became a Science Experiment" sums up the experience of most chronic
#Lyme
patients: Follow the advice of mainstream medicine and die a slow, painful death or find an experienced tick-disease MD and get your life back.
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I just finished
@krisnewby
's Bitten, which tells the history of the US government's secret program in the 1950s and 1960s to weaponize ticks to deliver deadly bacteria to incapacitate unsuspecting populations.
Newby, a talented journalist and science writer, structures her
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The infectious diseases doc diagnosed mental illness and the psychiatrist diagnosed Lyme. What is wrong with with this picture?
#lymenews
@DouthatNYT
In Opinion
"I’m just in so much pain, Doctor. Can it really all be … stress?" columnist
@DouthatNYT
said to a doctor at one point during his long battle with a mysterious illness.
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Using ticks for gain-of-function research: “Passage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...” such as yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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Could chronic Lyme contribute to Alzheimer’s dementia? A Tulane researcher lays out the evidence that Lyme bacteria could be one possible cause of dementia.
#Alzheimers
#Dementia
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Same with neuro-Lyme patients.
For decades, neurologists have dismissed the significance of white matter abnormalities/enlarged perivascular spaces in the MRIs of ME/CFS pts. Now, scientists finding the same pathology in the brains of ppl who have died from COVID-19 say it's "perivascular inflammation". 🤔
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They've kept Lyme science frozen in time for 30 years thru academic bullying.
Infectious disease docs are where they usually are: on the wrong side of infectious history. They did it with HIV/AIDS (10 years to catch up), they do it with
#Lymedisease
and now they are doing it with COVID.
@Lymenews
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I agree. Weaponizing live organisms is a crime against humanity and nature.
TICK-BORNE SHIT... think about it. What a way to disseminate.
I am so ashamed of what we fund versus what we do not fund. I used to work with ticks and tick-borne Rickettsia. I was fascinated by it all and back then, I had no idea about any of this intent to disseminate
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My family’s harrowing journey to get a
#Lyme
diagnosis after we were bitten by ticks, It took us 10 doctors/1 year/$60,000 to get diagnosed. What was your doctor/time/money count?
@YolandaHadid
,
@AvrilLavigne
,
@ShaniaTwain
,
@ALLYHILFIGER
,
@danaparish
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My new blog on 10 reasons to be thankful for the
#Lyme
patient advocates and researchers who've been toiling in the trenches to improve the situation for those suffering from tick-borne diseases.
@CDC
@mylymedata
@lymenews
@ProjectLyme
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The US entomological weapons strategy at-a-glance, from an Army training slide, Chemical Corps Training Command, Ft McClellan, June 1954. Read in BITTEN how the
#Lyme
discoverer put plague in fleas, yellow fever in mosquitoes, & mixed disease agents in ticks.
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A great interview with gov't muckracker Paul Thacker, "Long Before Suspicions Arose About A Lab Leak, Government Scientists Were Fiddling With Bugs to Make Them More Deadly."
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A humble thanks that one more physician,
@drschweig
, will treat Lyme patients with respect.
Lyme disease diagnosis: problems and solutions from the health system - Vox. Thanks for this important article,
@krisnewby
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I hear this documentary is going to be great ;-)
BREAKING NEWS: The LivLyme Foundation is honored to be premiering the movie trailer for the “Bitten” documentary, based
@krisnewby
book. Be the first to see it on Saturday, March 4th. You won’t want to miss it. Register for FREE at . 🎉🍿🎬
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A short review of BITTEN by
@DrJBhattacharya
, MD, PhD, Professor at Stanford Medicine, and a fellow lover of data & messenger of inconvenient truths.
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Just received the top writing award from GIA/AAMC: "For its cinematic storytelling that moved policymakers and public health officials to action, its narrative underscoring the challenges of community-evidenced research, and the determination of detective-like researchers seeking
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Using ticks for gain-of-function research: “Passage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...” such as yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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Tomorrow IDSA starts its
#IDWeek2022
with >150 scientific sessions, but none on
#Lyme
(500k annual cases, no reliable tests, & up to 30% treatment failures) or
#Bartonella
. I'm diagnosing IDSA with CDD, Compassion Deficit Disorder. Is there a drug for that?
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My latest blog post, "Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests" :
#lyme
#LymeDisease
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Important
@nytimes
op-ed on
#LongCovid
by Ed Yong. Relevant to
#Lyme
and
#CFS
long-haulers: "Dismissal and gaslighting — you’re just depressed, it’s in your head — are among the worst aspects of long Covid, and can be as crushing as the physical suffering.
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What a year - thank you all for the support and love! I have a good feeling our
#topnine2019
will have nothing on 2020 💥. Onward!
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A flea-counting vacuum used in Operation Big Itch, where 670K fleas were dropped in cluster bombs on a Dugway target.
#Lyme
hero Willy Burgdorfer worked on the front end of weaponization—how to infect fleas with plague.
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The secret history of
#LymeDisease
that the gov’t doesn’t want you to read: BITTEN, winner of 3 int’l book awards.
@BretWeinstein
@joerogan
@DouthatNYT
@LymeNews
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The Haunting Legacy of Lyme: The ‘Polly Murray Papers’ reveal the horrific symptoms of ground-zero
#Lyme
disease sufferers. Click on the sub-link in my bio to read it.
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Monica Embers
@TulaneNews
finds that intact
#Lyme
spirochetes survived the
#IDSA
-recommended 4 wks of doxycycline in monkeys 4 months after infection by tick bite. We need more human treatment studies on chronic Lyme.
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I was very excited to see BITTEN listed as a Staff Pick
@BookIncStores
in Mountain View, CA! Support your
@IndieBound
bookstores this holiday season.
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A well-crafted review of BITTEN from
@NDClemons
: "If you want to understand the origins of Lyme disease in an objective and entertaining manner then Bitten is a good resource."
Did the government create America’s invisible illness? Read my most recent article on Bitten by
@krisnewby
.
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Two more days until the launch of BITTEN! Amazon tagged it as a bestseller today. Follow me at for updates.
#Lyme
#Lymedisease
@CanLyme
@Lymenews
@marybethpf
@underourskin
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Testing the tick could save a life. Human
#Lyme
tests aren't reliable in the first month. And you're contributing to science when you share co-infection data w/ your doc and public health officials tracking the spread of ticks and associated diseases.
Do you need to send ticks in for testing after being bitten? TL;DR: no. Even if something is detected in a tick, it does not mean it was transmitted to you. Read more here:
#LymeDisease
#scicomm
#factsnotfear
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Joined in fundraising for MyLymeData at a screening of
#TheQuietEpidemic
. Met a theater full of
#Lyme
sufferers in Utah, where it's supposed to be a rare disease.
Individuals and organizations from around the world are signing up to host screenings at their local movie theaters, universities, public libraries, school auditoriums, community centers, and more.
READ MORE via
@QuietEpidemic
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For more embarrassing lab-leak stories from Rocky Mountain Labs, read Bitten: The secret history of Lyme disease and biological weapons:
Rocky Mountain Labs
@RockyMtnBioLab
in total violation of
@NIH
public access rules for
#biosafety
records. A disgrace showing NIH's secrecy on
#BSL4
labs and why lab biosafety oversight needs to be removed from NIH hands.
#gainoffunction
#originofcovid
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Cold War military scientists worked on putting plague in fleas, yellow fever virus in mosquitoes, & mixed pathogens inside ticks to develop stealth weapons. What could possibly go wrong?
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Excellent “Weaponized Killer Insects” episode by Andrew Gentile
@TheWhyFiles
summarizes the evidence in “BITTEN: The Secret History of
#Lyme
Disease and
#BiologicalWeapons
.” Bravo!
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My medical mystery story “Swamp Boy” is the perfect long-read for Halloween, a horrific scenario that could happen to anyone.
@epic
@DouthatNYT
@meghanor
@scahalan
#psychosis
#Bartonella
#Lyme
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Are our current
#Lyme
treatment protocols all wrong? New evidence on Lyme persistence beyond 28-days of doxycycline.
#ChronicLyme
#LymeDisease
#LymeResearch
@DouthatNYT
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If you want to go deeper on the Cold War tick weaponization program, listen to Neil Soni's podcast.
@TheRealNeilS
I think
@TuckerCarlson
must listen to Outside The System bc I had
@krisnewby
on and then his episode came out. Glad to see Kris and her Lyme Disease work get exposure on a massive platform!
Long form Outside The System episode with Kris 👇🏽
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If you live in a Lyme or Powassan virus or spotted fever endemic area not testing an attached tick is like playing Russian roulette with your life.
Acclaimed author, investigative journalist & expert
@krisnewby
explains that denying
#Lyme
is chronic is the only way to get another Lyme vax approved. The industry is built on lies.
@thackerpd
conducted this astounding interview. Seriously. Read it!
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After years of being ill,
@meghanor
found herself with one of medicine’s most bitterly contested diagnoses—a baffling disease that has pitted experts against one another and against patients.
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New study from Benach
@stonybrooku
& Tokarz
@Columbia
, both interviewed for
#Bitten
, finds multiple disease agents in nearly 1/4 of tested ticks. “This study emphasizes the need to focus on all tick-borne diseases, not just Lyme.” … via
@SciTechDaily1
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Thank you
@KirkusReviews
for honoring BITTEN with a starred review! “Full of fascinating and sometimes-disturbing information, little of which is widely known.”
#Lyme
#Lymedisease
@CanLyme
@Lymenews
@BayAreaLyme
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