PSA: when bioweapons escape containment

Posted on 1/24/20 at 1:04 pm

Posted by ThinePreparedAni

In a sea of cognitive dissonance

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Posted on 1/24/20 at 1:04 pm

Given the speculation about China, I give you a precedent...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/453424-house-calls-for-investigation-into-whether-pentagon-tried-to

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July 16, 2019 - 08:40 PM EDT
House calls for investigation into whether Pentagon tried to weaponize ticks

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The House has called for an investigation into whether the Department of Defense experimented with weaponized ticks decades ago and if it affected the spread of Lyme disease across the country. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would have the Defense Department’s Inspector General “conduct a review of whether the Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975.” Under the amendment, the inspector general would will also have to disclose “the scope of such an experiment” and determine whether any insects “were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experimental design.”

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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?” Smith said on the House floor Thursda

For those not familiar, this condition is a bitch to deal with /understand

So much so, that people have been accused of faking symptoms

The evasiveness may be due to the fact that it is a bioweapon

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https://news.yahoo.com/did-pentagon-ticks-biological-warfare-195700257.html

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So...Did the Pentagon Use Ticks for Biological Warfare? Kyle Mizokami Kyle Mizokami
Popular Mechanics
July 17, 2019, 2:57 PM CDT

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The call for information comes after the publication of the book Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. A major allegation in the book is that Willy Burgdorfer, the discoverer of the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease, claimed that the disease was the result of a biological weapons program that went awry. Burgdorfer himself was involved in biological warfare programs that involved using blood-sucking insects, including fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as vectors for the transmission of human diseases.

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According to the book, there were plans to drop weaponized bugs from the air to incapacitate enemies. This is similar to attempts by Imperial Japan to weaponize insects, typically fleas infected with plague and cholera, where they were used against the civilian population in China. The Japanese military organization responsible for the research, Unit 731, was later rounded up by the U.S. military after the war. Despite committing serious, egregious crimes against humanity, including vivisection, members of the unit were only lightly punished by the Allies, reportedly in exchange for research data.

Sounds like Operation Paperclip rationale...
Hail Hydra

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Lyme Disease affects approximately 30,000 people a year, primarily in the northeastern United States. The book alleges biowarfare research involving ticks took place at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and Plum Island, New York—both areas where CDC maps note the disease is very prevalent, but the CDC itself does not have an opinion on the allegation.