A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the secret surrounding perhaps one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time-Lyme disease-and of Willy Burgdorfer, the person who discovered the microbe behind it, uncovering his secret function in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying queries about the genesis from the epidemic of tick-borne illnesses affecting millions of Americans today.

While on vacation about Martha’s Vineyard, Kris about Bitten: The Secret Background of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite transformed her life forever, pulling her in to the abyss of the devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover: Newby experienced become one of the 300,000 People in america who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year.

As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its own patients thus mistreated. This pursuit led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who exposed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons through the Frosty War, and believed which the Lyme epidemic was began by a military experiment gone wrong.

In an excellent, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten will take readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists carrying out cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. In addition, it potential clients her to unpleasant questions about why Lyme could be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so hesitant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.

A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll about us, upending much of what we should believe we realize about it.