Kris Newby
@krisnewby.bsky.social
Investigations into medical mysteries.
Medical-Science Writer | BITTEN Author |
@UnderOurSkin Sr Producer |
Contributor @StanMedMag @Epic @Voxdotcom @LitHub
http://krisnewby.substack.com | https://linktr.ee/krisnewby
Medical-Science Writer | BITTEN Author |
@UnderOurSkin Sr Producer |
Contributor @StanMedMag @Epic @Voxdotcom @LitHub
http://krisnewby.substack.com | https://linktr.ee/krisnewby
I’m 20 years on the other side of two devastating tick-borne diseases—Lyme and babesiosis—and the experience changed the course of my life and work. Join me in a 56-min. podcast (#85) with talented Marc Vigliotti, host of the "All Across America," where I discuss my healing journey. buff.ly/GHExjBp
October 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’m 20 years on the other side of two devastating tick-borne diseases—Lyme and babesiosis—and the experience changed the course of my life and work. Join me in a 56-min. podcast (#85) with talented Marc Vigliotti, host of the "All Across America," where I discuss my healing journey. buff.ly/GHExjBp
The Kindle version of BITTEN is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time! NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says: “It's an incredible, infuriating, well-written book worth your time.”
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October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Kindle version of BITTEN is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time! NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says: “It's an incredible, infuriating, well-written book worth your time.”
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Yesterday the CIA told me that they *might* release my MKNAOMI document request on 12 March 2027—8 years, 7 months, & 11 days since submission. MKNAOMI was the ultra-secret Cold War biological warfare program run by the CIA and the Army’s Special Operations Division.
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yesterday the CIA told me that they *might* release my MKNAOMI document request on 12 March 2027—8 years, 7 months, & 11 days since submission. MKNAOMI was the ultra-secret Cold War biological warfare program run by the CIA and the Army’s Special Operations Division.
Inside the haunting story of a teenager’s overnight descent into madness—and his parents' search for answers. This medical mystery, deleted from Vox after a regime change, reveals the hidden links between infection and mental illness. #PANS #OCD #schizophrenia
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August 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Inside the haunting story of a teenager’s overnight descent into madness—and his parents' search for answers. This medical mystery, deleted from Vox after a regime change, reveals the hidden links between infection and mental illness. #PANS #OCD #schizophrenia
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The Sunday @nytimes lists "Bitten," "Deep Places," and "Sick" as must-reads on Lyme disease! @DouthatNYT @PKhakpour
August 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Sunday @nytimes lists "Bitten," "Deep Places," and "Sick" as must-reads on Lyme disease! @DouthatNYT @PKhakpour
How Lyme disease almost killed me, and how this struggle motivated me to produce a documentary and write a book to help others. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing my story. michellekatz.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
The Hidden History of Lyme with author Kris Newby
A mix of Cold War intrigue, secret government experiments, and one woman’s battle with a disease no one wants to touch.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
How Lyme disease almost killed me, and how this struggle motivated me to produce a documentary and write a book to help others. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing my story. michellekatz.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
Dr. Burrascano has treated over 15,000 patients with tick-borne diseases. (His protocol cured my chronic case.) This fascinating discussion with @danaparish offers valuable tips on diagnosing and treating #Lyme, # Babesia, and #Bartonella. buff.ly/2ZvErMy
July 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Dr. Burrascano has treated over 15,000 patients with tick-borne diseases. (His protocol cured my chronic case.) This fascinating discussion with @danaparish offers valuable tips on diagnosing and treating #Lyme, # Babesia, and #Bartonella. buff.ly/2ZvErMy
The "Ticktective" podcast series from @BayAreaLyme is a great resource for learning more about tick diseases. Here's my interview with @DanaParish: tinyurl.com/ycyzfcv5
Ticktective with Dana Parish: Stealth Invader: Unveiling Lyme's Hidden Past - Bay Area Lyme Foundation
Kris NewbyKris Newby is an award-winning medical science writer and the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary UNDER OUR SKIN, which was a 2010 Oscar semifinalist. Her book BITTEN: The…
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July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The "Ticktective" podcast series from @BayAreaLyme is a great resource for learning more about tick diseases. Here's my interview with @DanaParish: tinyurl.com/ycyzfcv5
What was tick researcher Willy Burgdorfer thinking when they took this photo? This 2020 "Martha's Vineyard magazine" Q&A covers my #Lyme nightmare and the US tick weaponization program.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What was tick researcher Willy Burgdorfer thinking when they took this photo? This 2020 "Martha's Vineyard magazine" Q&A covers my #Lyme nightmare and the US tick weaponization program.
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What Lurks in the Grass: The exquisite anatomical design that enables ticks to suck your blood. #Lyme #Ticks
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June 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What Lurks in the Grass: The exquisite anatomical design that enables ticks to suck your blood. #Lyme #Ticks
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@NPR reports that this could be a bad year for ticks, highlighting the vigilant need for tick checking. But even those doing everything right are still at risk, as @krisnewby explains in a 2022 talk with @camforum. Watch here: bit.ly/3RWiwu6 #lymedisease #ticks #news
June 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@NPR reports that this could be a bad year for ticks, highlighting the vigilant need for tick checking. But even those doing everything right are still at risk, as @krisnewby explains in a 2022 talk with @camforum. Watch here: bit.ly/3RWiwu6 #lymedisease #ticks #news
How one tick bite can derail your life. I loved sharing my story with @TheWarNerd military historians, who never ask questions like, “But how could the military keep the tick weaponization program secret for so long?” Stay away from the tall grass, my friends. www.krisnewby.com/media/radio-... #Lyme
Radio War Nerd #190 — Ticks, Lyme Disease & Secret Biological Warfare Programs — Kris Newby
A 25+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode #190 with guest Kris Newby, author of "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons" — a remarkable & blood-curdling book about…
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June 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How one tick bite can derail your life. I loved sharing my story with @TheWarNerd military historians, who never ask questions like, “But how could the military keep the tick weaponization program secret for so long?” Stay away from the tall grass, my friends. www.krisnewby.com/media/radio-... #Lyme
Thomas Mather @thetickguy reports a near-record high for submissions to #TickSpotters in May. Read "The Rise of the Lone Star Tick," to learn how Army-funded releases of radioactive ticks may have contributed to an epidemic of tick-borne diseases.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thomas Mather @thetickguy reports a near-record high for submissions to #TickSpotters in May. Read "The Rise of the Lone Star Tick," to learn how Army-funded releases of radioactive ticks may have contributed to an epidemic of tick-borne diseases.
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Theft from the Hot Zone: When a Ft. Detrick researcher flew to NYC with a deadly virus sample in his pocket. Larceny of biological select agents with no jail time. open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
@NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy @SharylAttkisson @alisonannyoung @MKortepeter @danaparish
@NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy @SharylAttkisson @alisonannyoung @MKortepeter @danaparish
May 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Theft from the Hot Zone: When a Ft. Detrick researcher flew to NYC with a deadly virus sample in his pocket. Larceny of biological select agents with no jail time. open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
@NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy @SharylAttkisson @alisonannyoung @MKortepeter @danaparish
@NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy @SharylAttkisson @alisonannyoung @MKortepeter @danaparish
Discover how the U.S. military transformed ticks into stealth weapons during the Cold War. Could these experimental eight-legged agents be behind today's surge in dangerous tick-borne illnesses? #LymeDisease krisnewby.substack.com/p/tick-weapo...
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Discover how the U.S. military transformed ticks into stealth weapons during the Cold War. Could these experimental eight-legged agents be behind today's surge in dangerous tick-borne illnesses? #LymeDisease krisnewby.substack.com/p/tick-weapo...
HHS LEAK: A “pre-decisional” HHS budget defunds CDC programs focused on minorities, tribes, rural health, #ME/CFS, #AIDS, and #Lyme disease. Read about the Lyme cuts here: open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
HHS Budget Proposal Guts the CDC and its Lyme Programs
Programs focused on minorities, tribes, rural health, ME/CFS, and HIV/AIDS are also on the chopping block.
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April 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
HHS LEAK: A “pre-decisional” HHS budget defunds CDC programs focused on minorities, tribes, rural health, #ME/CFS, #AIDS, and #Lyme disease. Read about the Lyme cuts here: open.substack.com/pub/krisnewb...
With 500K new #Lyme cases/year & no new treatment studies in 20+ years, it's time for researchers with new ideas and more funding. @SenBlumenthal @DrJBhattacharya @RobertKennedyJr
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
With 500K new #Lyme cases/year & no new treatment studies in 20+ years, it's time for researchers with new ideas and more funding. @SenBlumenthal @DrJBhattacharya @RobertKennedyJr
The new batch of JFK Files includes references to the CIA poisoning sugar shipments, in addition to dropping infected ticks on sugarcane workers, as detailed in my book BITTEN. krisnewby.substack.com/p/operation-...
—JFK Assassination Records, Case no. NW 54214, CoID: 32424914, rel. 09-13-2017
—JFK Assassination Records, Case no. NW 54214, CoID: 32424914, rel. 09-13-2017
March 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The new batch of JFK Files includes references to the CIA poisoning sugar shipments, in addition to dropping infected ticks on sugarcane workers, as detailed in my book BITTEN. krisnewby.substack.com/p/operation-...
—JFK Assassination Records, Case no. NW 54214, CoID: 32424914, rel. 09-13-2017
—JFK Assassination Records, Case no. NW 54214, CoID: 32424914, rel. 09-13-2017
Read "A Band of Rebels Fights to Save Health Care,” for an inspirational story about how a team of young doctors tried to make health care better & more affordable.” @StanMedMag #cancer
Against the odds - A band of rebels fights to save health care - 2012 FALL - Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford University School of Medicine
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March 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Read "A Band of Rebels Fights to Save Health Care,” for an inspirational story about how a team of young doctors tried to make health care better & more affordable.” @StanMedMag #cancer
Thank you, @DrJBhattacharya, for your review of BITTEN, & good luck with your NIH director nomination. It offers hope to #Lyme patients to know that someone at the helm of our premier research institution will understand their challenges in getting diagnosed and treated. buff.ly/41jNAt2
March 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thank you, @DrJBhattacharya, for your review of BITTEN, & good luck with your NIH director nomination. It offers hope to #Lyme patients to know that someone at the helm of our premier research institution will understand their challenges in getting diagnosed and treated. buff.ly/41jNAt2
It took Jennifer @writerjcrystal 8 yrs to receive a diagnosis of #Lyme+co-infections. Her memoir "One Tick Stopped the Clock" is a story of perseverance and hope. And why are there still no effective tests & treatments for a disease identified in 1981? Her story on Tick Boot Camp:
Episode 452: One Tick Stopped the Clock - an interview with Lyme Disease Author Jennifer Crystal - Tick Boot Camp
In this powerful episode of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast, Jennifer Crystal shares her journey of surviving and thriving after Lyme disease changed her life.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It took Jennifer @writerjcrystal 8 yrs to receive a diagnosis of #Lyme+co-infections. Her memoir "One Tick Stopped the Clock" is a story of perseverance and hope. And why are there still no effective tests & treatments for a disease identified in 1981? Her story on Tick Boot Camp:
Bioweapons and the Korean War: An interview with Jeffrey Kaye, who lays out the evidence for U.S. bioweapons use during this war, including dropping cholera-laced feathers, plague-infected rodents, and spider bombs on China and Korea.
Bioweapons and the Korean War
An interview with Jeffrey Kaye, who lays out the evidence for U.S. bioweapons use during the Korean War.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Bioweapons and the Korean War: An interview with Jeffrey Kaye, who lays out the evidence for U.S. bioweapons use during this war, including dropping cholera-laced feathers, plague-infected rodents, and spider bombs on China and Korea.
I'll be on "Full Measure" Sunday morning, discussing “Bitten” & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, hosted by amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of “Follow the Science.” How to watch:https://buff.ly/3Xao5HV
February 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'll be on "Full Measure" Sunday morning, discussing “Bitten” & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, hosted by amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of “Follow the Science.” How to watch:https://buff.ly/3Xao5HV
An interview about “Bitten” & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, with amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of “Follow the Science.”
277. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast · Episode
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February 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
An interview about “Bitten” & how to protect your family from #Lyme & tick diseases, with amazing journalist @SharylAttkisson, author of “Follow the Science.”
I’m overjoyed that our new HHS leader understands the devastating impact of chronic #Lyme. Please prioritize better tests & treatments—and declassify the 50yo bug-borne weapons documents so that we know what engineered germs/ticks were released in which locations. @RobertKennedyJr
Bioweapons and Lyme Disease with Kris Newby
Podcast Episode · RFK Jr Podcast · 01/19/2024 · 43m
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February 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m overjoyed that our new HHS leader understands the devastating impact of chronic #Lyme. Please prioritize better tests & treatments—and declassify the 50yo bug-borne weapons documents so that we know what engineered germs/ticks were released in which locations. @RobertKennedyJr