U.S. Military funded research to weaponize ticks with deadly pathogens since the Cold War Era

"I spent over a decade in the biological weapons program as a contractor to Fort Detrick working on weaponizing fleas, ticks and mosquitoes"

A key bioweapons researcher says past government experiments involving disease-laden ticks had a massive role in ongoing health crises and might still be!

The organism in question is rickettsia, the same one that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the most deadly tick-borne disease in the US, a germ actively being weaponized by the U.S. military, with efforts to stuff it into ticks

Researchers spent over a decade in the biological weapons program, contracting for Fort Detrick, focused on weaponizing fleas, ticks and mosquitoes through mass production

This included stuffing fleas with the plague, mosquitoes with the deadly Trinidad virus and ticks with diseases like relapsing fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, rabies and leptospirosis