The Spread of Ticks and TBDs: Nudging Nature?

https://krisnewby.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-lone-star-tick

"During the last half-century, lone star ticks have rapidly spread from their original territory in the Southeastern U.S. While some researchers attribute this to climate change and shifting land-use patterns [1], I propose that there could be another factor behind this expansion — Army-funded experiments in the late 1960s, where hundreds of thousands of radioactive ticks were released on the Atlantic Bird Flyway. In this series of experiments, a Geiger-counter-like device was used to track how far radioactive ticks crept or traveled by deer or birds over months to years, presumably useful information if the military was using infected ticks as weapons."

"From 1967-1969, Daniel E. Sonenshine, PhD, an associate professor of parasitology at Old Dominion College and a contractor to the Army’s biological weapons program, raised hundreds of thousands of ticks and released them in Montpelier and Newport News, Virginia, as well as in two canyons near Hamilton, Montana.[3] With help from the Atomic Energy Commission, he also refined a technique for tracking the migration patterns of ticks in the wild by making the ticks radioactive."

"NIH scientist Willy Burgdorfer, also a bioweapons contractor, sent him ticks from his collection at Rocky Mountain Laboratory and taught him how to breed large quantities.[4] "