This is trite bullshit, debunked for years. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture has repeated it several times since the book came out: no one has ever worked o

This is trite bullshit, debunked for years. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture has repeated it several times since the book came out: no one has ever worked on Lyme disease on Plum Island. Eric Traub himself never conducted any research there. He simply visited the site! He wasn't a tick specialist, but a foot-and-mouth disease specialist. Pressed by an Associated Press journalist, Michael C. Carroll admitted back in 2004 that he had "no direct evidence "2 of his claims. The strongest argument in support of this thesis is in fact a simple geographical coincidence. Lyme, the small Connecticut town that gave its name to the disease, is located in Connecticut, a few dozen kilometers from Plum Island, as the crow flies. It was here, in 1975, that researchers drew up a summary of what they called "Lyme arthritis". They had observed an unusual recrudescence of oligoarthritis in children, and attributed it to tick-borne bacteria of the Borrelia genus. In fact, these researchers were not the first to observe what was to become Lyme disease. Other outbreaks were scattered across Europe and North America, thousands of miles from Plum Island." https://www.afis.org/Maladie-de-Lyme-L-Obs-a-retrouve-le-coupable https://www.afis.org/Maladie-de-Lyme-L-Obs-a-retrouve-le-cou... Disappointing to see many fall for it. "Do your own research", but for real, please.