Lyme Disease: The most common vector-borne illness in the country—more prevalent than West Nile, more pervasive than Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and far more mysterious than any public health official cares to admit.
VLA Comment: Best I have read so far. Never mentioned, not even on Wikipedia…always given kudos for discovery the bacterium Lyme Disease, that Dr. Burgdorfer was a bioweapons specialist at Fort Detrick.
Excerpt:And who was one of the key scientists working on tick-borne diseases during this period? None other than Dr. Willy Burgdorfer. You might know him as the man who discovered the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. You know, the bacteria that allegedly cause Lyme disease. Burgdorfer was a bioweapons specialist at Fort Detrick. His entire career was steeped in the art of turning insects into instruments of war. He didn’t just study ticks; he studied how to make them weapons.