Definitive Proof: Lyme Disease Caused By A Bioweapon

Just for fun, ask ChatGPT or similar AI engine this question: “Was Lyme disease a bioweapon?”
Then sit back in your chair and laugh.

Immediately, the AI labels you a conspiracy theorist just for asking, and assures you that Lyme disease is a natural infection spread by the deer tick to humans. The ticks are infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi which causes the disease.

The chat goes on to say that the disease was discovered in the 1970s by physician Allen Steere after a cluster of cases was seen in Connecticut (Lyme, Connecticut to be exact). Rest assured, ChatGPT says, scientists found genetic evidence that the Lyme-causing bacteria existed in nature long before the 1970s, probably for thousands of years.

Naturally the ChatGPT must expound upon the conspiracy theory, stating that some people believe the disease might have come from Plum Island experiments. This animal disease center in New York is very close to the Connecticut outbreak area (but I’m sure that is just a coincidence).

I love sentences like this: “current research strongly supports that Lyme disease is a natural tick-borne illness, not a manufactured biological weapon.” Okay, but is anyone really doing research to prove it IS a biological weapon? If they are, we’ll likely never hear about it.

That changed last week when declassified US government documents indeed linked the original Lyme disease outbreak to the US bioweapons program.

Well, what do you know?

Yes, the US bioweapons program did contribute to the emergence of Lyme disease. And who better to comment on that than the scientist who discovered it in 1982, Willy Burgdorfer.

Burgdorfer was an entomologist who spent most of his career developing tick-borne biological weapons. Later in life, he transitioned to civilian research. In 2013, he testified that he indeed participated in bioweapons research and insinuated an accidental release in relation to the Lyme, Connecticut outbreak.

His testimony gives credence to the Plum Island connection. For nearly two decades, from 1952 to 1969, the facility was managed by the Army Chemical Corps, and afterward by the Department of Agriculture. Their task? Biological warfare research. The New York facility is just 13 miles from Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was first identified.  By the 1990s, eastern Long Island had by far the greatest concentration of Lyme disease. If you draw a circle around that area, what is smack dab in the middle? You guessed it—Plum Island.

Here’s the amazing part. They frequently conducted experiments outdoors, and Plum Island has admitted to past containment failures, meaning their test animals mixed with wild deer, birds, and other animals. Deer swim, and birds fly so wildlife from the island mixed with wildlife from the mainland. News flash: this creates a direct pathway for the introduction of laboratory pathogens into wild populations. Even more damaging is the fact that the facility maintained over 200,000 ticks of various species. They called it a tick nursery. Lovely.

Ah but the Plum Island connection is conspiracy theory (not.)

Next question to ChatGPT: “Why did you not mention Willy Burgdorfer when I asked you about Lyme disease?”

ChatGPT: oh, you’re right! He WAS an important figure in the history of Lyme disease, and he should definitely be mentioned when discussing its discovery. My bad (the bot didn’t really say this last sentence, I just added it for fun.)

The AI says that Burgdorfer discovered a spirochete bacteria in the guts of blacklegged ticks. That is why the bacterium is named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor. He proved that the bacterial infection is transmitted by ticks.

Certainly it is, but this conclusion does not disprove that the infection was first weaponized, then spread by ticks. The physician Allen Steere had identified the illness (an unusual cluster of arthritis cases) in Lyme in the 1970s but the cause remained a mystery.

By the way, ChatGPT fails to mention that Burgdorfer spent most of his career working on military bioweapons. 

The Truth Is Coming Out

Robert Malone has provided us with an extensive expose of the truth about Lyme disease. The documents have been declassified, and naturally they show previously suppressed scientific research which is always the case in situations like this. Information has been concealed for six decades.

It turns out that infected ticks were deployed against Cuba in 1962 by the CIA (of course). The ticks were part of Operation Mongoose, an overall effort to destabilize Fidel Castro’s communist regime. The ticks were released to infect sugarcane workers. The actual CIA agent who deployed the ticks has gone on record stating that they used C-123 transport aircraft to drop ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers during nighttime missions. When the operative returned home, his infant son developed life-threatening fever and required emergency surgery. The operative’s CIA commander told him to burn clothes and everything he had taken to Cuba.

The US military also released these ticks on US soil between 1966 and 1969. Nearly 300,000 lone star ticks were made radioactive with Carbon-14 and were deployed across Virginia along bird migration routes. The radioactive markers allowed researchers to track the ticks which they did for several YEARS. Keep in mind that the lone star tick is a southern species, and years later had propagated all the way to Long Island.

The tick deployments were part of a larger bioweapons program called Project 112, authorized by then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1962. Facilities bred 100 million infected mosquitos every month, and 50 million fleas every week.

Of course, the military denied the existence of Project 112, until they didn’t. In 2000, a CBS News investigation forced the military to come clean. (Side note: this is how the mainstream media used to do their jobs. Sigh.)

Project 112 involved every branch of the US military, and of course it involved intelligence agencies like the CIA. Tests were conducted domestically and in several countries. For example, 1954’s Big Itch loaded 670,000 fleas in cluster bombs to attach themselves to human hosts. The test validated that fleas could survive the journey and be spread across a large area of the enemy’s military and disrupt operations for up to one day.

Our tax dollars at work.

What Burgdorfer Failed to Mention

After Burgdorfer’s death, his materials were seized from his garage. In those notes, he claimed to have found a second pathogen in the blood samples of Lyme disease patients. Burgdorfer called the pathogen “Swiss Agent.”

Today, Lyme disease affects hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. It is now the most common tick-borne disease in North America, and Europe for that matter. Nearly 500,000 people are diagnosed and treated each year according to the CDC. About 90% of cases occur in 15 states in the upper East Coast region. Think Plum Island epicenter.

Lyme has three stages: (1) an early localized infection characterized by fever, headache and rash, (2) early disseminated infection including stage 1 symptoms plus nerve issues and irregular heartbeat, and (3) late Lyme disease, characterized by severe neurological issues, severe joint pain (Lyme arthritis) and even cognitive issues.

Early cases are usually successfully treated with antibiotics, but late-stage Lyme is difficult because the bacteria is already pervasive in the body, and the chronic inflammation has done serious damage to joints and other tissues. The 40-year suppression of knowledge about the Swiss agent second pathogen has to be directly linked to treatment failures in chronic Lyme patients. If only we had known sooner.

ChatGPT says cases are rising, you know, because of climate change which is expanding tick habitats. There is no mention of the expanding biolabs across the planet! Deer populations are growing, so there is more disease spread. The bot also says that more people are now living near forested areas. Really? More than in the past?

No Vaccine Yet, But…

LYMERix® was previously available in the US as a vaccine for Lyme disease. Approved by the FDA in 1998, the vaccine was discontinued in 2002 by the manufacturer (SmithKline Beecham, which later became GlaxoSmithKline) for insufficient consumer demand. Like so many jabs, any protection provided by this vaccine decreased over time, so what is the point?

Of course, what would the world do without a Lyme vaccine, so naturally, clinical trials of new vaccines are currently  underway. Pfizer and Valneva have developed VLA15 that is  in Phase 3 human trials. MassBiologics developed a human monoclonal antibody intended for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against Lyme disease. This approach is said to  provide seasonal protection against Lyme disease, provided in a single shot that people would receive  each year before potential exposure to any ticks they may encounter.  MassBiologics licensed the technology to Tonix Pharmaceuticals in 2025. The company is actively planning human clinical studies.

CDC says it is doing their part by conducting research to better understand what concerns healthcare providers and the public may have about any potential Lyme disease vaccine. Isn’t it comforting to know that CDC is on the job?  If the FDA does approve a Lyme disease vaccine, they’ll work with ACIP to decide who might benefit from it.