It sounds bizarre: The Pentagon aims to investigate whether the spread of Lyme disease goes back to experiments of the Ministry of defence. The U.S. house of representatives wants to leave, therefore, from the inspector General of the U.S. Department of defense to examine whether the United States have carried out between 1950 and 1975, investigations of ticks and insects. It should be clarified whether these have been developed as biological weapons and the laboratories, escape could be.

Lyme disease is by far the most common tick-spread disease. According to estimates by the U.S. centers for control and prevention of diseases, CDC, 300,000 people in the United States are infected each year with the disease. The symptoms are manifold: fever, muscle and joint pain, and skin rash. The infection is with antibiotics to treat. You will not be identified, however, can invade the bacteria the spinal cord and the brain and, thereby, for example, cause paralysis.

“Who has arranged it?”

The process goes back to the Initiative of a Republican: Chris Smith sits in for the US state of New Jersey in the house of representatives and has found in several books and articles suggested that, in the institutions of the U.S. government in Fort Detrick, Maryland and Plum Island and New York extensive research work on insects and ticks have occurred, in order to use them as weapons. “If this is true, what are the parameters of the program were? Who has arranged it?”, Smith recently asked during a debate in the US house of representatives.

Smith relies mainly on the the middle of may, published the book “Ask: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Kris Newby, author of the Stanford School of Medicine, which, according to own information on Lyme disease sufferers. According to Newby, the 2014 late discoverer of the disease, Willy Burgdorfer was also an expert on bio-weapons. Together with other researchers, he had equipped ticks with pathogens to cause “severe disabilities, illnesses or even deaths in the case of potential enemies,” said the politician Smith.

Whether it will really come to the investigation, is unclear. The request was added to a draft law on defence tasks, which must be with the Version from the Senate in the line.

Lyme disease is caused by various species of Borrelia bacteria that can be found in the gut of the tick. The tick begins to suck blood, Hiking glands the Borrelia bacteria in their saliva and can be transmitted with the saliva on the Engraved. Until it comes to pass, however, for several hours. Therefore, a rapid removal of the tick can prevent infection. According to estimates, 60,000 to 200,000 people are infected in Germany about a tick bite with Lyme disease.