No, Lyme Disease Is Not an Escaped Military Bioweapon, Despite What Conspiracy Theorists Say

7/26/19

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Could Lyme disease in the U.S. be the result of an accidental release from a secret bioweapons experiment? Could the military have specifically engineered the Lyme disease bacterium to be more insidious and destructive – and then let it somehow escape the lab and spread in nature?

Is this why 300,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with this potentially debilitating disease?

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