Bitten Quotes

“Not only did the Yale researchers view a multisystem illness through the prism of rheumatology,”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“People become infected because the human body is nothing more than a vacuum pump pulling in that aerosol.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“one to three microns in diameter, small enough to evade the human respiratory tract’s defense mechanisms.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“America’s first deployable incapacitating biological weapon was an aerosolized mix of a toxin, a virus, and a bacterium, designed to create a prolonged period of incapacitation across a population.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“We were pioneers in the science of aerobiology, which essentially was the study of the survival properties and respiratory infectivity properties of pathogens in air, and we developed all the technology to do this research.1 —Edgar W. “Bud” Larson, Fort Detrick’s aerobiology division chief”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“Money goes to people who have, for the past thirty years, produced the same thing: nothing.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“The documentary Under Our Skin shows how difficult it is for Lyme disease patients to get diagnosed and treated”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“They were, in essence, playing God, creating “bacteriological freaks or mutants,”6 by using chemicals, radiation, ultraviolet light, and other agents, wrote modern investigative journalism pioneer Jack Anderson in a Washington Post column on August 27, 1965.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“American soldiers were coming back from Korean War battlefields with strange infectious diseases.”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“In June 1982, Science magazine published their discovery article, “Lyme Disease—A Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?,”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

“There’s no such thing as a clean tick.1 —Willy Burgdorfer”
― Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare