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How Ticks Became Bioweapons

https://spectator.com/article/how-ticks-became-bioweapons/

How ticks became bioweapons

By Kris Newby

1/19/26

On December 18 last year, Donald Trump signed into law an order to “review and report on biological weapons experiments on and in relation to ticks [and] tick-borne diseases.” The investigation is long overdue but even so, the facts it uncovers will come as a shock to many. A growing body of evidence shows that during the Cold War ticks were tinkered with and used as delivery mechanisms for biological warfare agents. And these weaponized ticks may have been released both intentionally and unintentionally on an unsuspecting public by the US military.

Ticks and the diseases they transmit (such as Lyme) pose a growing threat to Americans, the military and to agriculture. Record numbers of tick bites have been reported in New York (in 2024), Maine (in 2024), and Wisconsin (in 2023). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates approximately 500,000 new cases of Lyme disease annually. About one-third of patients do not respond to recommended treatment protocols.

Bioweapons specialists infected ticks with pathogens to cause disabilityand death to potential enemies

If these microbes have been genetically altered, we need to know. If the military harmed civilians through irresponsible experiments, the government has an obligation to acknowledge and remedy those harms. And if the original outbreak near Lyme, Connecticut, in the 1970s resulted from a hostile foreign act, future biosecurity protections must be strengthened. Knowing the root cause of an epidemic is vital in developing treatment strategies, containing the outbreaks and preventing future ones. And then there’s the issue of what else ticks may be carrying. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Sadly, Newby propitiates the ‘climate change’ myth regarding tick and disease proliferation.  This is a key point as there are only so many research dollars which are highly sought after.  By perpetuating a myth, we purposely limit those funds even further by funding research that has already been proven false.

The article does, however, go through the chronology of tick research as well as the fact researchers dropped these infected ticks on unsuspecting populations (Operation Mongoose, etc.)

Important excerpt:

….documents obtained by the CIA during the Cold War showed that the Soviets were conducting bioweapons-related experiments on ticks, including exploring ways to get ticks to reproduce more rapidly, selectively crossbreeding tick species so they could carry disease agents that caused tick-borne encephalitis and dropping infected ticks from aircraft and balloons. Intelligence reports on “entomological warfare” stoked fear and paranoia in the Pentagon, and the Cold War bug-borne weapons race began.

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Activism, Lyme, Ticks

U.S. Withdraws From UN Climate Framework and IPCC

The reason this is important is the UN Foundation has been bankrolling US politics and paying the full salaries of some government officials under the ‘climate change’ narrative, reminiscent of how doctors get kick-backs for vaccinating.  How this can result in unbiased leadership and science?

Big money is driving this fake narrative due to a so-called ‘renewable energy’ racket, transitioning away from inexpensive, reliable and very clean conventional energy toward unconventional energies such as wind, electric, and solar power that are expensive, unreliable, and deeply problematic environmentally  and is best described by an article in the Manhattan Institute as an unrealistic delusion. 

It was recently exposed that World Bank has ‘misplaced’ a staggering $41 BILLION in ‘climate change’ funds, and the bought out media is using corrupt data to propagate a narrative that isn’t true, which affects all research in every area – particularly regarding ticks and Lyme/MSIDS.

Further, many simply accept ‘climate change’ is finished science and proven.  It isn’t – not by a long shot.

‘We are in one of the coldest periods of the earth’s history right now.” ~ Dr. Patrick Moore

Climate scientists and researchers are now stepping forward armed with research to declare that the narrative is fake. Many are arguing that while the climate changes,(and always has and always will) there is no climate emergency.

Withdrawing from international organizations pushing a fake narrative is the only sane response.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct:

Section 1.  Purpose.  (a)  On February 4, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14199 (Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations).  That Executive Order directed the Secretary of State, in consultation with the United States Representative to the United Nations, to conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States.  The Secretary of State has reported his findings as required by Executive Order 14199.

(b)  I have considered the Secretary of State’s report and, after deliberating with my Cabinet, have determined that it is contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise provide support to the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum.

(c)  Consistent with Executive Order 14199 and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to take immediate steps to effectuate the withdrawal of the United States from the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum as soon as possible.  For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law.

(d)  My review of further findings of the Secretary of State remains ongoing.

Sec. 2.  Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw.  (a)  Non-United Nations Organizations:

(i)       24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;

(ii)      Colombo Plan Council;

(iii)     Commission for Environmental Cooperation;

(iv)      Education Cannot Wait;

(v)       European Centre of Excellence for Countering

Hybrid Threats;

(vi)      Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;

(vii)     Freedom Online Coalition;

(viii)    Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;

(ix)      Global Counterterrorism Forum;

(x)       Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;

(xi)      Global Forum on Migration and Development;

(xii)     Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;

(xiii)    Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

(xiv)     Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

(xv)      Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

(xvi)     International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

(xvii)    International Cotton Advisory Committee;

(xviii)   International Development Law Organization;

(xix)     International Energy Forum;

(xx)      International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;

(xxi)     International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

(xxii)    International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

(xxiii)   International Lead and Zinc Study Group;

(xxiv)    International Renewable Energy Agency;

(xxv)     International Solar Alliance;

(xxvi)    International Tropical Timber Organization;

(xxvii)   International Union for Conservation of Nature;

(xxviii)  Pan American Institute of Geography and History;

(xxix)    Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;

(xxx)     Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;

(xxxi)    Regional Cooperation Council;

(xxxii)   Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;

(xxxiii)  Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;

(xxxiv)   Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and

(xxxv)    Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

(b)  United Nations (UN) Organizations:

(i)       Department of Economic and Social Affairs;

(ii)      UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;

(iii)     ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;

(iv)      ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;

(v)       ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;

(vi)      International Law Commission;

(vii)     International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

(viii)    International Trade Centre;

(ix)      Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;

(x)       Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;

(xi)      Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;

(xii)     Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

(xiii)    Peacebuilding Commission;

(xiv)     Peacebuilding Fund;

(xv)      Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;

(xvi)     UN Alliance of Civilizations;

(xvii)    UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

(xviii)   UN Conference on Trade and Development;

(xix)     UN Democracy Fund;

(xx)      UN Energy;

(xxi)     UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

(xxii)    UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;

(xxiii)   UN Human Settlements Programme;

(xxiv)    UN Institute for Training and Research;

(xxv)     UN Oceans;

(xxvi)    UN Population Fund;

(xxvii)   UN Register of Conventional Arms;

(xxviii)  UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;

(xxix)    UN System Staff College;

(xxx)     UN Water; and

(xxxi)    UN University.

Sec. 3.  Implementation Guidance.  The Secretary of State shall provide additional guidance as needed to agencies when implementing this memorandum.

Sec. 4.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d)  The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

                              DONALD J. TRUMP

From Whitehouse.gov

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**Comment**

Researchers are beholden to the government to receive grants. Science tribalism has led to mass censorship with corrupt journal cartels retracting papers that don’t follow the narrative.

Since the 80’s, Anthony Fauci controlled the money pot until his recent retirement.  Researchers quickly figured out if they wanted money they needed to repeat a narrative.  This is widespread but is particularly seen in tick research regarding Lyme/MSIDS, which is in the exact timeline of Fauci’s reign.

Science has been wrong about global warming for over 50 years and independently done research has shown ticks are marvelously ecoadaptive and will simply hide under leaf litter or snow when the weather becomes harsh, yet mainstream research continues to push the climate narrative regarding tick and disease proliferation.

Warm winters are in fact LETHAL to ticks.

Faulty climate research became glaringly clear when two researchers from Western Michigan University wrote a paper ominously titled “Beneficial Bloodsucking.” Published by the journal Bioethics in July, the paper argues that intentionally spreading alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) could be ethically defensible, and perhaps even necessary, because it reduces animal suffering and combats climate change. As the authors, Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, put it:

“Because promoting tickborne AGS prevents something bad from happening, doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, and promotes virtuous action or character, it follows that promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto (‘to that extent’) morally obligatory.”

Hello?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), AGS “is a serious, potentially life-threatening allergy,” affecting “as many as 450,000 people.”

But, hey, they got their grant money and laughed all the way to the bank.

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Climate madness must end.

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Activism, Climate, Ticks

Eastern Red Cedars Contributing to Spread of Lone Star Tick

https://www.farmtalknews.com/news/eastern-redcedars-are-contributing-to-the-spread-of-the-lone-star-tick

Eastern red cedars are contributing to the spread of the lone star tick

The Oklahoma invasive tree, the eastern red cedar, is contributing to the spread of another problematic species in the state, the lone star tick (Photo by OSU Agriculture).

An Oklahoma invasive species has become a haven for another problematic species, which has the potential to create a range of problems for human, wildlife and livestock health, as well as the environment.

Native to the rocky areas of eastern Oklahoma, eastern red cedar has been documented spreading through grasslands across the state, which affects rangeland quality and livestock productivity, as well as having negative impacts on water resources. According to studies, the trees spread by 40 square miles per year in Oklahoma.

Eastern red cedars use a significant amount of water, which reduces the amount of water running off into streams and reservoirs where it is needed. Not to mention, once it’s established, eastern red cedar proves to be a highly flammable fuel for wildfires.

Now, ticks, particularly the lone star tick, are also spreading statewide into western Oklahoma. Is this a coincidence? According to Dr. Scott Loss, OSU professor of natural resource ecology and management, and Dr. Bruce Noden, OSU professor of entomology, it’s not.

Noden and graduate student Jozlyn Propst found evidence that the expansion of eastern redcedar across the state into the western grasslands is contributing to the spread of ticks by creating a hospitable environment for them to thrive. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Every state has it’s invasives that ticks love to shelter under.

Here in Wisconsin it’s the Japanese barberry, honeysuckle, and Buckthorn.

I’ve personally seen the red cedar problem in Oklahoma.  These trees were planted after the dust bowl to help with erosion, but they are obviously a problem now.  They are also hazardous fuel to forest fires due to the volatile oils they contain.

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research, Ticks

After Decades of Dismissal, Chronic Lyme Disease is Now Recognized

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/after-decades-of-dismissal-chronic-lyme-disease-is-now-getting-recognized

After Decades of Dismissal, Chronic Lyme Disease Is Now Recognized

Patients with persistent Lyme symptoms face medical limbo as federal officials and researchers debate causes, treatment, and what to call the condition.
Cara Michelle Miller
Updated:

“Like a human hockey puck”—that’s how Nikki Schultek describes a year spent ricocheting between specialists in Connecticut, each focused on one piece of her deteriorating health—bladder pain, neurological symptoms, joint pain—while missing the whole picture.

“I really don’t fault the clinicians,” she told The Epoch Times. “The training hones them to be experts in a domain.”

After her odyssey of misdiagnoses, Schultek finally received a correct diagnosis of Lyme disease. However, her experience navigating a fragmented health care system brought her to Washington on Dec. 15, where Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a rare federal roundtable addressing what he called long-standing failures in how the disease is diagnosed, studied, and treated.

“Lyme disease is an example of a chronic disease that has long been dismissed, with patients receiving inadequate care,” Kennedy said at the event. “I want to announce that the gaslighting of Lyme patients is over.”

The Medical Divide

Schultek’s story echoes those of many patients whose months—or years—of fatigue, pain, neurological symptoms, and cognitive problems, after undergoing a battery of tests, are eventually traced back to that one tick bite that infected them with Lyme disease.

Persistent symptoms from Lyme disease are both difficult to diagnose and treat, in part because health agencies, mainstream medicine, researchers, and patients disagree about what is causing the debilitating constellation of symptoms.

The roundtable brought together patients, clinicians, researchers, and advocates to discuss what many describe as long-standing failures in how Lyme disease is diagnosed, studied, and treated. At stake is not just terminology, but access to care.
 
(See link for article)
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**Comment**
 
Two things, right off the bat: 
 
  1. It’s going to take a whole lot more than an accurate test to fix this beast.
  2. A simple pronouncement from Kennedy is not going to stop the deeply entrenched gas-lighting of patients.
  3. I do blame doctors, public health, and institutions that ignore the Hippocratic Oath – a vow to ‘do no harm,’ and would rather turn patients away entirely or diagnose them with anything but Lyme/MSIDS, furthering their misery. 
The entire paradigm is set against patient health.  
The article falsely regurgitates that only 10% go on to suffer lingering symptoms, when microbiologist Holly Ahern puts it between 40-60% – a far cry from 10%. It also falsely states that 90% are successfully treated with a few weeks of antibiotics when research demonstrates again and again treatment failures in nearly every antibiotic study done.
 
The article doesn’t even sniff at coinfections. Reality paints a starkly different picture from what the article paints.  Most patients are sicker than dogs and infected with multiple pathogens which require entirely different drugs.  Nary a word on pleomorphism either (Bb’s ability to shapeshift and lie dormant to reemerge later).  
These issues are relevant as they make patients infinitely sicker and more complex.
Sorry – not feeling too excited about this.  Reading through the comments didn’t help either.  I saw plenty of the “if you are healthy you won’t get this,” and “take ivermectin,” or take Japanese knotweed.”  
 
If only it was that simple!

To comment, you are limited to 1500 words.  I left this comment:

Far more than 10% go onto suffer persisting symptoms because they don’t include those who are diagnosed and treated late – which is most of us: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/25/medical-stalemate-what-causes-continuing-symptoms-after-lyme-treatment/.

For a bird’s eye view of the entire sordid, complicated affair: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/25/why-should-we-care-about-lyme-disease-a-colorful-tale-of-government-conflicts-of-interest-probable-bioweaponization-and-pathogen-complexity/

How Lyme/MSIDS (multi systemic infectious disease syndrome – because Lyme is just the tip of the spear) has been handled is palpably insane. It’s going to take a whole lot more than an accurate test to fix this juggernaut. Doctors are afraid to diagnose let alone treat it: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/15/everything-about-lyme-disease-is-steeped-in-controversy-now-some-doctors-are-too-afraid-to-treat-patients/

My husband and I only achieved our health back after FIVE years of intensely nuanced and expensive treatment and then retreating for a few months after relapsing 3-4 times.
Not sure I’d even be writing this if it weren’t for this life-saving treatment.
It’s sexually and congenitally transmitted.

All my initial symptoms were gynecological. Remember, it’s a cousin to syphilis: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2024/12/18/letter-breaking-down-timeline-deception-of-lyme-disease-no-studies-have-ruled-out-sexual-transmission/

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If you have the time, comment after the article here:   https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/after-decades-of-dismissal-chronic-lyme-disease-is-now-getting-recognized-5960441?

 
 

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Ticks

New Rickettsia Species Found in Dogs & Lone Star Ticks in California

https://www.lymedisease.org/new-rickettsia-in-dogs/

Researchers confirm new Rickettsia species found in dogs

By Tracy Peake, NC State

Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that a species of Rickettsia first seen in dogs in 2018 is a new species of bacteria.

The new species, dubbed Rickettsia finnyi, is associated with symptoms similar to those of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in dogs, but has not yet been found in humans.

Rickettsia pathogens are categorized into four groups; of those, spotted-fever group Rickettsia (which is transmitted by ticks) is the most commonly known and contains the most identified species. There are more than 25 species of tick-borne, spotted-fever group Rickettsia species worldwide, with R. rickettsii – which causes RMSF – being one of the most virulent and dangerous.

Symptoms of RMSF in dogs and people are similar, including fever, lethargy and symptoms related to vascular inflammation, like swelling, rash and pain.

“We first reported the novel species of Rickettsia in a 2020 case series involving three dogs,” says Barbara Qurollo, associate research professor at NC State and corresponding author of the new study.

“Since then we received samples from an additional 16 dogs – primarily from the Southeast and Midwest – that were infected with the same pathogen. We were also able to culture the new species from the blood of one of the naturally infected dogs in that group.”

To name a new Rickettsial bacterial species, the bacteria must be cultured, its genome sequenced and published, and the cultures must be deposited in two biobanks so that other researchers can also study it. Qurollo’s group successfully cultured the new species from the infected dog.

Culturing a difficult pathogen

“Rickettsia species are difficult to culture because these organisms grow inside of cells,” Qurollo says. “While we haven’t been able to confirm which tick species transmit it yet, we think it may be associated with the lone star tick, because a research group in Oklahoma found R. finnyi DNA in a lone star tick.”

The researchers named the new species Rickettsia finnyi, after Finny, the first dog they found it in.

“By naming it after an individual dog, we wanted to honor all companion dogs that have contributed to the discovery of new pathogens that could cause serious illness in both dogs and humans,” Qurollo says.

The work appears in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

SOURCE: North Carolina State University

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https://www.lymedisease.org/lone-star-ticks-california/

Are lone star ticks taking hold in California?

The lone star tick, notorious for spreading disease and causing a red meat allergy called alpha-gal syndrome, has long plagued the eastern United States.

Now, UC Davis researchers warn it may be edging closer to establishing itself in California.

Their study uncovered seventy-six lone star ticks reported across the state, including recent finds in the Bay Area and San Clemente. While field teams in 2024 and 2025 didn’t recover any during surveillance, climate models show coastal California offers prime conditions for the species.

Experts say the tick isn’t officially established yet, but the risk is real. With climate change and increased movement of animals and people, scientists caution that Californians should stay vigilant, check for ticks after outdoor activities, and report unusual sightings.

Click here to read the study in the journal Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.

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**Comment**

Sadly, climate clap trap has taken hold in research because a political tribalism has taken over due to highly competitive, but limited research dollars to be vied for.  “Science” has been wrong about global warming for over 50 years but refuses to admit fault or reform.  

Regarding tick and disease proliferation, independent research has already proven the climate is a mute point as ticks are highly ecoadaptive, yet the narrative continues on like a bad penny.  And nary a word is ever mentioned about our own government experimenting on ticks and dropping them out of airplanes.

Much easier to blame the climate phantom.

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Activism, Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Climate, research, Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Transmission