{"id":1203,"date":"2026-06-05T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:26","slug":"could-a-tick-borne-meat-allergy-be-a-bioweapon-we-tried-finding-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Could A Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Be A Bioweapon? We Tried Finding Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <p>Weary from a long hike, you eat a hearty steak and climb into bed. Three hours later, you bolt up, gasping for breath. Stomach in knots, chest tight, you look down and discover you\u2019re covered in rashes.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1200\">6 Republicans Defy GOP Leadership By Locking Arms With Democrats To Push For More Ukraine Funding<\/a><\/p> <p>At least 15,000 people are diagnosedwith a tick-borne allergy to red meat called alpha-gal syndrome each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The\u00a0rise in diagnoses in just a decade has fueled online theories about Bill Gates, boxes of suspiciously placed ticks, and a quest for meat-free, bug-eating subjugation.<\/p><div><div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Microsoft co-founder and Chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates attends a session during the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore on May 5, 2025. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-1202\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee6cac589c26978a7c243b61803ca76e-1024x439.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee6cac589c26978a7c243b61803ca76e-1024x439.webp 1024w, https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee6cac589c26978a7c243b61803ca76e-300x129.webp 300w, https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee6cac589c26978a7c243b61803ca76e-768x329.webp 768w, https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee6cac589c26978a7c243b61803ca76e.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div><p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is pictured in Singapore in May 2025. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div> <p>Gates does support gene drives, efforts to divert insect species onto different branches of the evolutionary tree through the release of genetically modified insects. But alpha-gal is spread primarily by lone star ticks, while the Gates Foundation has supported research in Africa with engineered Southern cattle ticks, a species that has never been shown to bite people and has been largely eradicated in the U.S. since 1943. The foundation didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p> <p>However, theories about the nefarious tick bombs have a grip on thousands of Americans, and for good reason. Some underlying suspicions, about academics who support the spread of alpha-gal and about manmade tick-borne diseases, have some merit.<\/p> <p>First, a recent academic paper indeed made the case for intentionally spreading alpha-gal in order to curb red meat consumption.<\/p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <p>Second, the spread of the lone star tick beyond its native ecosystem and difficult to detect and treat tick-borne diseases may indeed have something to do with human experimentation, according to a journalist who has spent two decades investigating them.<\/p> <p>Congressional watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they will begin work in the coming months on a review of the U.S. bug bioweapon program for publication in December 2027.<\/p> <div><div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8637992\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8637992\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109-620x410.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109-620x410.png 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=181,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109-181x120.png 181w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109-1536x1015.png 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=818,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-165109.png 818w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div><p>(Credit: Tick-Borne Disease Working Group Report To Congress, 2022)<\/p><\/div> <h3>\u2018Beneficial Bloodsuckers\u2019<\/h3> <p>An academic paper explores the idea of deliberately releasing ticks that could spread an allergy to meat, but amid fierce backlash, including some violent threats, the authors\u00a0now stress the paper is merely a thought experiment.<\/p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <p>Two medical ethicists with the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine explored the idea in a  titled \u201cBeneficial Bloodsuckers,\u201d saying alpha-gal could serve as a \u201cmoral bioenhancer.\u201d<\/p> <p>\u201cOur main conclusion is that we should promote a particular tickborne syndrome: alpha\u2010gal syndrome (AGS),\u201d the paper reads. \u201cToday we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation.\u201d<\/p> <div><div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8637969\" class=\"wp-image-8637969\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/37660399101_7a6b1f52e7_3k-620x620.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/37660399101_7a6b1f52e7_3k-620x620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=120,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/37660399101_7a6b1f52e7_3k-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/37660399101_7a6b1f52e7_3k-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/37660399101_7a6b1f52e7_3k-1536x1536.jpg 1280w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div><p>(Photo credit: Flickr, Jeremy Soto)<\/p><\/div> <p>The authors did not respond to requests for interviews. But the school sent a statement defending the article as a hypothetical thought experiment rather than a public health recommendation, stating that no practical research activity is being conducted on this subject, and reaffirming its commitment to academic freedom.<\/p> <p>\u201cThe article stipulates, for the sake of argument, that eating mammalian meat is morally wrong. It does not defend that premise. It asks only what would follow if the premise were granted,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cThought experiments are a long-established and legitimate philosophical method.\u201d<\/p> <p>\u201cBecause the reasoning is conditional on a premise taken as given, it cannot fairly be read as a public health nor policy recommendation,\u201d the statement continues.<\/p> <p>The idea appeared in Bioethics, a journal affiliated with the longstanding International Association of Bioethics and published by Wiley-Blackwell, the third most prolific academic publisher in the world.<\/p> <div><div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 12: Steaks are displayed at a grocery store on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Prices of clothing, food, gas and cars are just a few of the items that are hitting Americans' pocketbooks despite historically low unemployment. Giving hope to economists, some key inflation indicators have finally begun to slow in April. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8077048\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8077048\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299-620x266.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299-620x266.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=279,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299-1536x660.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1200,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1396919018-scaled-e1712151811299.jpg 1200w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div><p>Steaks are displayed at a grocery store in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div> <p>Still, the idea of spreading alpha-gal syndrome to reduce meat consumption is \u201cabsolutely outside the mainstream\u201d of medical ethics, New York University Center for Bioethics President Michael Liao told the DCNF in an interview.<\/p> <p>\u201cFor anything that is involuntary and irreversible, the threshold becomes really, really high, and I don\u2019t think we\u2019re justified in doing something like that,\u201d he said.<\/p> <p>The idea has sometimes been attributed to Liao, but a closer inspection of his writing reveals that he has called for less drastic and voluntary measures: for example, a patch to induce changes that make meat taste more unpleasant if one feels so ethically inclined.<\/p> <p>Though his writing embraces the idea of \u201chuman engineering\u201d \u2014 even genetically creating smaller, less resource-intensive children \u2014 Liao writes that each of these would be a \u201cvoluntary activity \u2013 possibly supported by incentives such as tax breaks or sponsored health care \u2013 rather than a coerced, mandatory activity.\u201d<\/p> <p>Liao said comments he made in a viral video have been misinterpreted to mean he endorses the involuntary spread of alpha-gal through tick bites.<\/p> <p>\u201cI understand why people are outraged,\u201d he said. \u201cIf those comments represented the entirety of my true views, that would indeed be outrageous.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1198\">Chilling Video Of Stabbing Victim Bleeding Out In Handcuffs Shows United Kingdom\u2019s Wretched Decline<\/a><\/p> <h3>Cold War Tick Bombs<\/h3> <p>A tick bomb may sound plausible to many Americans because the U.S. government conducted thousands of experiments using ticks and other critters to transmit biological agents from the 1950s through the early 1960s, according to investigative journalist Kris Newby.<\/p> <p>Newby has explored the possibility that some tick-borne illnesses that persist today could be connected to this work.<\/p> <p>The U.S. entomological bioweapons project, nearly as large as the Manhattan Project, centered at the U.S. Army lab at Fort Detrick and involved research labs across the country: at Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana; at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah; and at Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, a few miles from Old Lyme, Connecticut, for which Lyme disease is named.<\/p> <div><div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8638000\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8638000\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c-620x413.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=180,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c-1536x1024.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=799,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/49455514766_c816290ef0_c.jpg 799w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div><p>Historic abandoned U.S. Army buildings on Plum Island. (Photo credit: Flickr)<\/p><\/div> <p>It is possible that these experiments helped to widen the geographic reach of the aggressive lone star tick that spreads alpha-gal from their native habitat in Texas to across the northeast, Newby has reported.<\/p> <p>\u201cThe tick problem is so big, you don\u2019t need to release boxes of them to sell a Pfizer vaccine,\u201d Newby said in an interview with the DCNF in reference to online theories about manufactured demand for a vaccine in development for Lyme.<\/p> <p>Operation Mongoose, the CIA\u2019s effort to overthrow the Castro regime, involved a botched mission to disperse infected ticks over Cuban sugar fields<strong>,<\/strong> Newby found.<\/p> <p>But did the U.S. bioweapons project also inadvertently release infected ticks in the U.S.?<\/p> <p>\u201cIt\u2019s hubris to think we can weaponize living things and not have them come back to bite us,\u201d Newby wrote in her 2019 book \u201cBitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.\u201d<\/p> <p>Army scientist Willy Burgdorfer cryptically acknowledged in an interview with Newby that the\u00a0tick bioweapons program had unintended consequences, possibly an accidental release, but did not provide many details. Newby spent five years digging into Burgdorfer\u2019s files but did not fully resolve the matter. Her research did unearth papers in which Burgdorfer said the blood of Lyme disease patients reacted strongly to a bacteria he called the Swiss Agent before it disappeared from the medical literature.<\/p> <p>Newby said in an interview with the DCNF that she would not dismiss the idea that alpha-gal could be an unpredicted downstream impact of the U.S. biological weapons program such as the open air release of irradiated ticks. However the origins of alpha-gal remain uncertain.<\/p> <p>More answers about the bug bioweapons of the 1950s and 1960s may be coming through the new GAO report.<\/p> <p>Inspired by Newby\u2019s book, and after pressing the issue for six years, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith finally secured the requirement that the congressional watchdog investigate in the 2026 defense spending bill. The provision requires the GAO to complete the research within about two years.<\/p> <p>\u201cA comprehensive, nonpartisan report on whether the Cold War-era Department of Defense\u2019s bioweapons program contributed to the proliferation of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases will only assist in our search for answers\u2014and hopefully, a cure\u2014for these mysterious and debilitating illnesses,\u201d Smith said in a statement to the DCNF. \u201cIf the GAO report shows that the U.S. government did not play a role in the explosion of this tick-borne epidemic, we turn the page.\u201d<\/p> <p>Newby told the DCNF that classified Fort Detrick files may shed light on the matter, but accessing them requires a high-ranking military officer \u201cwith a lot of stars on their shoulders.\u201d Other records can be found at Dugway.<\/p> <div><div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FREDERICK, MD - AUGUST 01: A sign at the Veterans Gate at Fort Detrick Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is shown August 1, 2008 in Frederick, Maryland. Earlier this week Fort Detrick employee Bruce Ivins, a former researcher at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, committed suicide after learning investigators were going to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attack. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7164792\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7164792\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-82148656-scaled-e1617798644834-620x267.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=620,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-82148656-scaled-e1617798644834-620x267.jpg 620w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=279,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-82148656-scaled-e1617798644834-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=768,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-82148656-scaled-e1617798644834-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/images.dailycaller.com\/image\/width=1280,height=2499,fit=inside,format=webp,f=auto\/https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-82148656-scaled-e1617798644834-1536x661.jpg 1280w\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/>\n<\/div><p>A sign at the Veterans Gate at Fort Detrick Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is shown August 1, 2008 in Frederick, Maryland. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div> <p>Tufts Prof. Sam Telford III, the director of a National Institutes of Health high security lab and prominent critic of Newby\u2019s work, dismissed \u201cinsane conspiracy theories\u201d in an email to the DCNF.<\/p> <p>He dismisses the idea that alpha-gal could be an unpredicted externality of the U.S. bioweapons program. Scientists still do not understand how alpha-gal syndrome occurs, so it would be difficult for one to manufacture the effect, Telford argued.<\/p> <p>\u201cWe do not know what it is that the Lone star tick does to make alpha gal appear to be foreign to us and stimulate an IgE [immune system] response. So if we don\u2019t understand this, how on earth can we modify a tick to induce it?\u201d he wrote in the email.<\/p> <p>Greater transparency may help resolve the dispute over whether the government\u2019s bioweapons program contributed to the proliferation of Lyme, alpha-gal, or other tick-borne diseases.<\/p> <p>\u201cWe have the data, it\u2019s just locked in a library in Detrick,\u201d Newby said.<\/p> <p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1196\">Airliner\u2019s Nose Gear \u2018Unexpectedly Retracts\u2019 At Airport, Injuring Multiple People<\/a><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories about the nefarious tick bombs have a grip on thousands of Americans, and for good reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1604,1605,1606,1607,1608,1609,1610,1611,510,1612,1613,1614,1615,751,1068,1481],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-alpha-gal","tag-army","tag-bio-labs","tag-bioweapon","tag-chris-smith","tag-classified-documents","tag-classified-information","tag-cold-war","tag-congress","tag-fort-detrick","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-diseases","tag-national-institutes-of-health","tag-pentagon","tag-richard-nixon","tag-usda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could A Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Be A Bioweapon? 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