"Kennedy has spread misinformation about the deadliest and most debilitating diseases of the modern era."
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has argued that Lyme disease was cooked up by the American military in a Long Island laboratory in the 1950s.
It’s a debunked conspiracy theory that Kennedy has repeated in campaign events and on his podcast in the months before being named by President-elect Donald Trump to oversee national health policy.
In his telling, the tick-borne illness, which can cause debilitating pain and facial paralysis if untreated, was created as a military bioweapon at the Department of Homeland Security’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center. The facility opened in 1954 and is situated across Long Island Sound from the area of Connecticut where Lyme was discovered in the 1970s. ...
In reality, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease has been circulating in North American forests for at least 60,000 years. And the ticks that carry the disease today have been around for at least 99 million years, according to specimens that were preserved in amber when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth."
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