Old military biological warfare gone rogue, true story. dates back to the 30:s and here we are.

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@Nor_Way, I haven't seen this film but I believe part of the problem is that it used to be more localized, so it was generally ignored for a long while by the brunt of doctors who've never seen or heard of it, and when testing was costly for those who had seen it. I'm from central PA and I know a few people who got it in the 70s/80s and have chronic symptoms because it wasn't treated at all, one person who got it in the 90s and was treated too late due to cost but has reduced symptoms and has to watch her diet, etc., then younger folks who got it in the 2000s and received treatments of antibiotics right away and never developed symptoms. So maybe not so much suppressed—though I'd guess cost plus commonality played a large part in some of that—but more ignored or brushed off...until it became pretty rampant in certain parts of the country. My examples are anecdotal for sure, but awareness of it seems to have improved drastically here over the past few decades. Either way, I agree with the others: ticks are nasty creatures.

"Suppressed scientific research" sounds like a wild conspiracy to me. If you can show real repeatable results over placebo or small random deviations you will get it published for sure.

'accidentally' released from Plumb Island by project paperclip 'scientists'... not dissimilar to the 'Wuhan flu' thing we just went through :)