Kris Newby
@krisnewby
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Medical-Science Writer | BITTEN Author | @UnderOurSkin Sr Producer | Contributor @Voxdotcom @LitHub @StanMedMag @Epic @NowThisNews | https://t.co/q8qSqC4AVK
Park City, UT
Joined January 2009
“In this riveting narrative, journalist Kris Newby reveals the backstory behind the bioweaponization of ticks during the Cold War.” Pam Weintraub | Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic https://t.co/EmeZQVxPwV
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Hey, NY Times. Why are you quoting CropLife mouthpiece Jessica Steier in your piece criticising @SecKennedy and MAHA? Is that journalism or pesticide lobby propaganda?
How does @nytimes reporter Ben Ryder Howe quote Jessica Steier of The Unbiased Podcast without noting Steier has taken money from Yes! Apples, CropLife, Novartis, and Pfizer? Why do NYTimes reporters keep quoting corporate front groups? https://t.co/8qfaB6Olot
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While Alison Young is the Grande Dame of lab leaks, I'll add my own monkey blood story here, for the record. Labs will go to great lengths to cover up leaks. All that paperwork! The *honor system* for safely oversight isn't working, and we're not learning/improving from
There is an entire chapter in my book about safety breaches involving Tulane’s monkey research. Page 160 is only part of what I uncovered in my deep FOIA work for Pandora’s Gamble…
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Isn't this how the film, 28 DAYS LATER, started?
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Hey @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay. WAKE UP. CDC needs massive overhaul on Tick-borne infection guidelines as current info is based on bad corrupt science. Better testing and treatment massively needed. Start with removing lies from CDC website. Bartonella/Babesia too.
Within hours after the tick bite, Borrelia quickly invades and is detectible in the lymph nodes nearest the site of infection. Once inside the lymph nodes, the spirochetes induce a signal that disrupts the “germinal centers.” READ MORE:
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Within hours after the tick bite, Borrelia quickly invades and is detectible in the lymph nodes nearest the site of infection. Once inside the lymph nodes, the spirochetes induce a signal that disrupts the “germinal centers.” READ MORE:
lymedisease.org
Borrelia burgdorferi can persist in animals and humans is because it has evolved complex mechanisms to avoid the immune system.
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Sounds like a disease that might not be cleared with 2 weeks of doxycycline @idsociety
🚨 NEW @Nature paper explains how Lyme disseminates within 2 hours (!) & persists all over the body 1️⃣ Hour 2: Slips into lymph → spreads body-wide SILENTLY (before immune attack) 2️⃣Slides along collagen → no inflammation alarm 3️⃣Hides between cells: Pericyte fingers +
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@DrJBhattacharya @krisnewby Using ticks as a weapon is being proposed again among some bioethicists, this time to get people allergic to meat.
nationalreview.com
This is an all-inclusive argument that we have a positive duty not to consume animal flesh.
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Excellent article. I'm glad you offer some treatment strategies for people to try.
When we manipulate life, genes, microbes, or seeds, we change everything. Lyme disease isn’t separate from the GMO debate. It is the debate. @SecKennedy @krisnewby Read my new piece: https://t.co/vNfNLUybj8
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I’m twenty years on the other side of two devastating tick-borne diseases—Lyme and babesiosis—and the experience changed the course of my life and work. Join me in a 56-min. podcast (#85) with talented Marc Vigliotti, host of the "All Across America," where I discuss my healing
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‼️ 2025 held record-setting # of tick-borne illnesses in Maine. They warn not to let guard down this fall! 🍁 Via Maine CDC: 📌 3,569 cases of Lyme 📌1,255 cases anaplasmosis 📌 324 cases babesiosis 📌 26 cases hard tick relapsing fever (HTRF) 📌 1 case of Powassan 🦟
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I had this photo of Nolan Williams on my desk when I heard about his passing. I was about to send him a note about something that I thought he’d be interested in. But now he’s gone. Forever. He sent me this photo of himself at age 15 practicing taekwondo when I was interviewing
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"Lyme Disease has a crazy history if you read the book BITTEN, with one of the government labs being proximate to the origins of #Lyme Disease" —FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary
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BREAKING: Mamdani's odds collapse in NYC Mayoral Election. If he continues falling at the rate he has the past 24h, Cuomo would be the projected winner.
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Yes. Read "Bitten."
@JesslovesMJK @DrMakaryFDA "Lyme Disease has a crazy history if you read the book BITTEN, with one of the government labs being proximate to the origins of Lyme Disease" -FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary
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We all live in a BSL-3 (biosafety level 3) lab without walls.
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🎙️ 🚨 NEW PODCAST Jyotsna Shah, PhD, director of @igenexlab, drops a 💣: Their NEW FDA-cleared #Lyme test is a game-changer! They can detect multiple Lyme species, catching *early* & chronic cases like never before! Proud that our @LymeBiobank was instrumental! 🧵
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Yes. We need to investigate the origins of the Lyme disease outbreak. Genetically sequence ground zero blood. Declassify the Cold War bioweapons documents. If it's an engineered bioweapon we need better and different tests and treatments.
Joe Rogan details a formidable and terrifying theory about the origins of Lyme Disease. He lays out the case, heavily supported by RFK Jr.'s research, that this debilitating illness was a man-made bioweapon engineered at the Plum Island Animal Research Center. The alleged
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Enbrel 💰 💉 Cymbalta 💊 Lyrica 💊 Xanax 💊 List of drugs I could’ve been on for LIFE if I didn’t INSIST on being treated for Lyme w cheap, generic antibiotics for less than a year. What I take now? Vit D if I remember. UNTREATED INFECTIONS TURN INTO “autoimmune,” neuro,
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A chilling connection between a US biological weapons program and the Lyme disease epidemic has been detailed by journalist Kris Newby, author of "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons." The timeline and geography she presents are impossible to ignore.
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The Kindle version of BITTEN is on sale for $1.99! Read NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s review, below. https://t.co/CNib5DCehi
I just finished @krisnewby's Bitten, which tells the history of the US government's secret program in the 1950s and 1960s to weaponize ticks to deliver deadly bacteria to incapacitate unsuspecting populations. Newby, a talented journalist and science writer, structures her
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For an example of what can go wrong with uncontrolled tick releases, read this story: https://t.co/tlPTqReE0I
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