Hey everybody today we're going to talk about Plum Island the military laboratory 257 and the origins of Lyme disease and the origins of the tick infestation, of several tick infestations around our country.

And my guest is Chris Newby, who is an award-winning medical science writer and senior producer of the Lyme Disease documentary Under Our Skin, which premiered at the

Tribeca Film Festival and was a 2010 Oscars semi-finalists.

Her book, Bitten, The Secret History of Biological Weapons

and Lyme Disease has won three international book awards

for journalism and

narrative non-fiction she has two engineering degrees and has worked as a science

technology writer for Stanford Medical School for Apple and for

other Silicon Valley companies and Chris has spent two decades studying

Lyme disease after she herself contracted Lyme disease and has spent a lot of time studying the Plum Island lab.

And so welcome to the show, Chris.

Thank you very much.

I'm excited about talking to you about this.

By the way, there's another terrific book by Michael Carroll who spent

himself a very, very excellent book on origins of Lyme disease and on Blum Island and the other other

disease that may or may not but that are likely to have come from Blum Island

including West Nile virus and a bunch of other diseases that are associated

with that area around Long Island and Connecticut. So anyway, let's talk about it. Let's talk about your experience and then what you found on, you know, in your research about on my island and about the tick infestation.

Yeah, so it started with my family getting my on my

island and about the tick infestation. Yeah, so it started with my family getting Lyme disease, my husband and I, and then it took us a year.

What year, what year was at?

2002. Massachusetts was number two for Lyme disease.

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