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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons Hardcover – May 14 2019

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    336 pages
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    May 14 2019
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Full of fascinating and sometimes-disturbing information, little of which is widely known. — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover from: Newby had joined the ranks of the 400,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year.

As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.

In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims—from tours of biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research—all the while uncovering darker truths about Burgdorfer. It also leads Newby to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.

A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Wave; 1st edition (May 14 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 006289627X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062896278
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.77 x 22.86 cm
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Kris Newby is the author of the book “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.”

BOOK HONORS

2020: International Book Award Winner in Narrative Non-Fiction

2020: Nautilus Silver Book Award in Journalism & Investigative Reporting

2019: #1 best book in public health by BookAuthority

2019: Bookworm best books of 2019

2019: Kirkus starred review

2019: STAT's 23 best health and science books to read this summer (BITTEN #8)

2019: Stanford Medicine best reads of 2019

2019: Amazon bestseller in three categories

As a science writer at Stanford University for nearly a decade, she won several national writing awards for her character-driven, long form stories, including:

---2015 Gold Award for Periodical Staff Writing for “Immune system disruption: The search for answers,” the story of a young woman felled by chronic fatigue syndrome in Stanford Medicine Magazine.

---2015 Long Reads’ Weekly Top Five for the article “Rocket Men: Analyzing the breath of critically ill children at warp speed” in Stanford Medicine Magazine.

---2014 AAMC Writing Award for Excellence, CASE Gold Award, & Long Reads’ Weekly Top Five for the article “Against the Odds: A Band of Rebels Fights to Save Health Care” in Stanford Medicine Magazine.

She was the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary “Under Our Skin,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was nominated as an Academy Award semifinalist in 2010, and went on to win 20 documentary film awards.

She was also a finalist for the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Golden Padlock Award for her persistence in hounding the Centers for Disease Control to release emails that illuminated financial conflicts of the CDC and the authors of the Infectious Disease Society of America’s 2006 Lyme Guidelines. (It took 5.5 years for the CDC to release the emails, one of the longest delays in the agency’s history.)

Newby has two degrees in engineering, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Stanford University. She spent more than a decade as a freelance writer working for magazines and tech companies such as Apple Computer, Microsoft and Netscape. She lives in Palo Alto, CA, with her husband.

Official author page: www.krisnewby.com

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