Congress gets a little ticked at 25-year lab tests
An absolutely true news item: The U.S. House of Representatives is seeking to investigate whether the Department of Defense used biowarfare laboratories for the possible "weaponization" of disease-carrying ticks between 1950-1975.
Classified Summary from Project Lyme, Phase One, dated Jan. 12, 1950, submitted from Biowarfare Lab 7-G at Fort Detrick, Md.:
Methodology: Pursuant to DOD directives, approximately 177 live adult ticks were collected as potential candidates for war-time weaponization.
Sterile tweezers were used to capture
