[DSH]

All they needed to do was submit a FOIA request to Plum Island, New York for the full recipe.

Exactly right. The borrelia bacterium that causes Lyme disease was weaponized by the U.S. government in conjunction with the military's biowarfare program. Kris Newby's Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons (2019) lays it out, chapter and verse.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yep

[Eagles6]

Bttt