“…the US military has conducted thousands of experiments exploring the use of ticks and tick-borne diseases as biological weapons, and in some cases, these agents escaped into the environment. The government needs to declassify the details of these open air bioweapons tests, so that we can begin to repair the damage these pathogens are inflicting on humans and animals in the ecosystem.”

These are words written by Kris Newby, in her scrupulously researched and referenced, controversial new book, BITTEN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF LYME DISEASE AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, published by Harper Wave, an imprint of Harper Collins.

Kris Newby has two degrees in engineering, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Stanford University.
She was the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary UNDER OUR SKIN, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was a 2010 Oscar semifinalist. 

Feeding apparatus of female Ixodes ricinus.

Courtesy of Dania Richter, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany

Kris Newby

The Long Island Sound area of tick-born outbreaks of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Babesia and Lyme DIsease (1968-1976). The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is pinpointed.