Weaponized ticks: Investigation ordered into whether insects were used as biological weapons - CNNPolitics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/lyme-disease-amendment-investigation/index.html
In an amendment passed last week, the House calls for the Defense Department’s Inspector General to look at whether any such experiments were done between the years 1950 and 1975.
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During the amendment’s debate, Smith said Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases were “exploding” in the US and that “Americans have a right to know whether any of this is true.”