'My hope is, this jump starts a very aggressive effort to find a cure and see how this is growing.”
Asbury Park PressASBURY PARK, N.J. – People suffering from Lyme disease could be closer to knowing whether the chronic illness impacting an estimated 300,000 or more people started off as a U.S. biological weapon.
The House of Representatives added a Smith amendment to a federal defense spending bill that would require the Department of Defense's Inspector General to investigate whether the military, between 1950 and 1975, experimented with ticks and other insects to be used as biological weapons. Smith's push for the federal investigation began after reading"Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons," by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America has declined to recognize chronic Lyme disease in its clinical practice guidelines, leaving sufferers to find"Lyme-friendly" doctors, which is not easy.
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