Was Lyme disease spread as a bioweapon? No, that theory is Pants on Fire!

Tucker Carlson stated on May 9, 2024 in an Instagram post: Lyme Disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs. But this is a "Pants on Fire" theory!

The Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, has existed for at least 60,000 years, long before the United States’ biological weapons program began in 1942. Lyme became endemic in the U.S. in the 1970s because of changing environmental factors, not because of bioweapons research.