The Kindle version of BITTEN is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time! NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says: βIt's an incredible, infuriating, well-written book worth your time.β
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Investigations into medical mysteries. Medical-Science Writer | BITTEN Author | @UnderOurSkin Sr Producer | Contributor @StanMedMag @Epic @Voxdotcom @LitHub http://krisnewby.substack.com | https://linktr.ee/krisnewby
The Kindle version of BITTEN is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time! NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says: βIt's an incredible, infuriating, well-written book worth your time.β
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Yesterday the CIA told me that they *might* release my MKNAOMI document request on 12 March 2027β8 years, 7 months, & 11 days since submission. MKNAOMI was the ultra-secret Cold War biological warfare program run by the CIA and the Armyβs Special Operations Division.
12.09.2025 10:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Inside the haunting story of a teenagerβs overnight descent into madnessβand his parents' search for answers. This medical mystery, deleted from Vox after a regime change, reveals the hidden links between infection and mental illness. #PANS #OCD #schizophrenia
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The Sunday @nytimes lists "Bitten," "Deep Places," and "Sick" as must-reads on Lyme disease! @DouthatNYT @PKhakpour
12.08.2025 10:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How Lyme disease almost killed me, and how this struggle motivated me to produce a documentary and write a book to help others. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing my story. michellekatz.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
05.08.2025 21:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Dr. Burrascano has treated over 15,000 patients with tick-borne diseases. (His protocol cured my chronic case.) This fascinating discussion with @danaparish offers valuable tips on diagnosing and treating #Lyme, # Babesia, and #Bartonella. buff.ly/2ZvErMy
17.07.2025 10:45 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The "Ticktective" podcast series from @BayAreaLyme is a great resource for learning more about tick diseases. Here's my interview with @DanaParish: tinyurl.com/ycyzfcv5
09.07.2025 16:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What was tick researcher Willy Burgdorfer thinking when they took this photo? This 2020 "Martha's Vineyard magazine" Q&A covers my #Lyme nightmare and the US tick weaponization program.
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What Lurks in the Grass: The exquisite anatomical design that enables ticks to suck your blood. #Lyme #Ticks
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@NPR reports that this could be a bad year for ticks, highlighting the vigilant need for tick checking. But even those doing everything right are still at risk, as @krisnewby explains in a 2022 talk with @camforum. Watch here: bit.ly/3RWiwu6 #lymedisease #ticks #news
24.06.2025 16:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How one tick bite can derail your life. I loved sharing my story with @TheWarNerd military historians, who never ask questions like, βBut how could the military keep the tick weaponization program secret for so long?β Stay away from the tall grass, my friends. www.krisnewby.com/media/radio-... #Lyme
09.06.2025 16:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βͺThomas Matherβ¬ βͺ@thetickguy reports a near-record high for submissions to #TickSpotters in May. Read "The Rise of the Lone Star Tick," to learn how Army-funded releases of radioactive ticks may have contributed to an epidemic of tick-borne diseases.
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Theft from the Hot Zone: When a Ft. Detrick researcher flew to NYC with a deadly virus sample in his pocket. Larceny of biological select agents with no jail time. open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
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Discover how the U.S. military transformed ticks into stealth weapons during the Cold War. Could these experimental eight-legged agents be behind today's surge in dangerous tick-borne illnesses? #LymeDisease krisnewby.substack.com/p/tick-weapo...
29.04.2025 16:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0HHS LEAK: A βpre-decisionalβ HHS budget defunds CDC programs focused on minorities, tribes, rural health, #ME/CFS, #AIDS, and #Lyme disease. Read about the Lyme cuts here: open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
20.04.2025 10:45 β π 17 π 10 π¬ 1 π 2With 500K new #Lyme cases/year & no new treatment studies in 20+ years, it's time for researchers with new ideas and more funding. @SenBlumenthal @DrJBhattacharya @RobertKennedyJr
09.04.2025 10:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The new batch of JFK Files includes references to the CIA poisoning sugar shipments, in addition to dropping infected ticks on sugarcane workers, as detailed in my book BITTEN. krisnewby.substack.com/p/operation-...
βJFK Assassination Records, Case no. NW 54214, CoID: 32424914, rel. 09-13-2017
Read "A Band of Rebels Fights to Save Health Care,β for an inspirational story about how a team of young doctors tried to make health care better & more affordable.β @StanMedMag #cancer
15.03.2025 11:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you, @DrJBhattacharya, for your review of BITTEN, & good luck with your NIH director nomination. It offers hope to #Lyme patients to know that someone at the helm of our premier research institution will understand their challenges in getting diagnosed and treated. buff.ly/41jNAt2
05.03.2025 11:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It took Jennifer @writerjcrystal 8 yrs to receive a diagnosis of #Lyme+co-infections. Her memoir "One Tick Stopped the Clock" is a story of perseverance and hope. And why are there still no effective tests & treatments for a disease identified in 1981? Her story on Tick Boot Camp:
04.03.2025 17:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Bioweapons and the Korean War: An interview with Jeffrey Kaye, who lays out the evidence for U.S. bioweapons use during this war, including dropping cholera-laced feathers, plague-infected rodents, and spider bombs on China and Korea.
28.02.2025 11:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll be on "Full Measure" Sunday morning, discussing βBittenβ & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, hosted by amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of βFollow the Science.β How to watch:https://buff.ly/3Xao5HV
23.02.2025 15:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An interview about βBittenβ & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, with amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of βFollow the Science.β
21.02.2025 17:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm overjoyed that our new HHS leader understands the devastating impact of chronic #Lyme. Please prioritize better tests & treatmentsβand declassify the 50yo bug-borne weapons documents so that we know what engineered germs/ticks were released in which locations. @RobertKennedyJr
14.02.2025 18:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Learn about the Cold War weaponization of tick-borne diseases in my interview with James Li. Are Americans suffering from Lyme disease collateral damage? @5149jamesli @RobertKennedyJr
10.02.2025 17:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Using ticks for military gain-of-function research: βPassage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...β including yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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But the military gain-of-function research: βPassage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...β including yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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My book BITTEN suggests that an unnamed, weaponized, tick-borne rickettsia contributed to the sickness around Lyme, CT.
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My book BITTEN suggests that an unnamed, weaponized, tick-borne rickettsia contributed to the sickness around Lyme, CT.
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Using ticks for military gain-of-function research: βPassage of bioweapons agents through various arthropods offers an opportunity to increase the virulence of the agents ...β including yellow fever, VEE, plague, & spotted fever. See p.77
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