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Good time to remind people that right next to the town of Lyme CT is Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who happened to be researching tick based disease transm

Good time to remind people that right next to the town of Lyme CT is Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who happened to be researching tick based disease transmission when Lyme disease was first discovered (named after the town that had the first case). Crazy coincidence. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lyme-disease-1960s-house-aims-find-out/158529/ https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lym...

goda90 1y ago
Evidence of bacterium that causes Lyme disease was also found in the 5000+ year old "Iceman" mummy found in the alps. People have described the disease in the 1700s, 1800s and in the 1900s prior to the outbreak in Lyme. Ticks preserved alongside their animal hosts in 1800s biologic samples also are found to have it. Genetic sequencing of different bacteria samples suggests a much older evolutionary tree than a few decades existence.
- jpadkins 1y ago
  Bioweapon researchers use existing bacteria and virus to enhance them for weapon usage (I.e. coronavius gain of function research). So the fact that the bacterium previously existed in nature does not disprove that a version engineered to be spread via ticks was released.
seattle_spring 1y ago
Not really. Isn't the best place to open a center that "researches tick based disease transmission" somewhere that's close proximity to a hot-spot for ticks that transmit diseases?
- diamondfist25 1y ago
  Hmm reminds me of the lab in Wuhan’s that’s doing weapons level bio research, and yet the virus came from a wet market
  - seattle_spring 1y ago
    Yes, very similar situation. Opening a Coronavirus research lab next to an area historically active for natural virus harbors and transmission makes perfect sense. However, that situation also empowered the uninformed to come out of the woodwork and repeat the nonsense they heard from people like Bret Weinstein, using the correlation with a perfectly reasonable explanation as some kind of "gotcha".

goda90 1y ago

Evidence of bacterium that causes Lyme disease was also found in the 5000+ year old "Iceman" mummy found in the alps. People have described the disease in the 1700s, 1800s and in the 1900s prior to the outbreak in Lyme. Ticks preserved alongside their animal hosts in 1800s biologic samples also are found to have it. Genetic sequencing of different bacteria samples suggests a much older evolutionary tree than a few decades existence.

jpadkins 1y ago
Bioweapon researchers use existing bacteria and virus to enhance them for weapon usage (I.e. coronavius gain of function research). So the fact that the bacterium previously existed in nature does not disprove that a version engineered to be spread via ticks was released.

seattle_spring 1y ago

Not really. Isn't the best place to open a center that "researches tick based disease transmission" somewhere that's close proximity to a hot-spot for ticks that transmit diseases?

diamondfist25 1y ago
Hmm reminds me of the lab in Wuhan’s that’s doing weapons level bio research, and yet the virus came from a wet market
- seattle_spring 1y ago
  Yes, very similar situation. Opening a Coronavirus research lab next to an area historically active for natural virus harbors and transmission makes perfect sense. However, that situation also empowered the uninformed to come out of the woodwork and repeat the nonsense they heard from people like Bret Weinstein, using the correlation with a perfectly reasonable explanation as some kind of "gotcha".