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Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: 1333 Ticking Time Bomb: Did Cold War Bioweapons Experiments Unleash Lyme Disease?
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EP. # 1333 Ticking Time Bomb: Did Cold War Bioweapons Experiments Unleash Lyme Disease?
During the Cold War, the Pentagon explored a terrifying possibility: weaponizing insects to spread disease. At laboratories like Fort Detrick and Plum Island, scientists studied ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas as delivery systems for biological agents. Now, newly examined documents are raising unsettling questions. Did secret military experiments help shape the mysterious emergence of Lyme disease in the 1970s? Dr. Robert Malone joins...