US Military Rickettsia – Tick-Borne Disease
Tucker Carlson: Pardon my ignorance, what is the disease you described, the other one, rickettsia?
Journalist Kris Newby: So it’s a rickettsia. It is the same organism that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and that’s the most deadly tick-borne disease in the United States. It also was a germ that was being weaponized by the U.S. military at the time and they tried to stuff it in ticks.
What is Tick Weaponization
Journalist Kris Newby: So in the interviews with Willie, what he said was, I spent over a decade in the biological weapons program, a contractor to Fort Detrick, working on weaponizing fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, trying to mass produce them, stuffing fleas with the plague, stuffing mosquitoes with deadly Trinidad virus, and then stuffing ticks with either deadly or incapacitating diseases like relapsing fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, rabies, leptospirosis, which is another spirochete. So it’s just like Dr. Strangelove trying to make new diseases, mixing bacteria and virus in ticks with the intent of, this is the perfect stealth weapon.
Tick Disease Weapon – It’s the Poor Man’s Nuke.
Journalist Kris Newby: You drop these insects on an enemy, it weakens the population, it ties up the medical resources, but doesn’t destroy infrastructure like a nuclear bomb would. In one report from a bean counter in the military, they said, tularemia, which is tick-borne tularemia, also rabbit fever, we can kill 10,000 people at $1.33 a life. So anyways, there was more to tick-borne diseases than we realized, and I began suspecting that Willie was right, given this context.
Tucker Carlson: It’s hard to digest all of this. It’s just so evil. It’s hard to believe it could happen in the United States. I think you’re right that it did, and maybe still happening.
