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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: Bitten: Bioweapons, Cover-Ups, and the Hidden History of Lyme Disease — Kris Newby
Description: In this gripping interview, award-winning science writer Kris Newby—author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons and senior producer of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Under Our Skin—joins the Tick Boot Camp Podcast to break down the explosive research behind one of the most controversial questions in infectious disease: Could Lyme disease have originated from a Cold War biological weapons program?
Newby shares the personal nightmare that began with a family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, a tick bite that led to misdiagnosis by 10 doctors, years of disability, and a desperate search for answer...