#portondown — Public Fediverse posts

Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory.

My research took me into the heart of the mystery, as I studied its extensive historical archive. The reality was not as I expected.

I came across no aliens, but I did discover records of experiments that ran from the ordinary, through to the bizarre. And sadly, in one isolated case, the lethal.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250220-inside-porton-down-what-i-learned-during-three-years-at-the-uks-most-secretive-chemical-weapons-laboratory?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#PortonDown #ChemicalWeapons #History #Weapons #Longread

‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/07/id-never-been-bitten-by-a-tick-before-why-the-little-blood-sucking-pest-is-getting-us-into-a-panic

#Ticks
#UKHealthSecurityAgency
#PortonDown
#LymeDisease
#Highlands
#Exmoor
#NewForest
#PostTreatmentLymeDiseaseSyndrome
#Borrelia
#Encephalitis
#AlphaGalSyndrome
#Rickettsiosis
#Babesiosis
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#RockyMountainSpottedFever
#SFTS
#Powassan
#Anaplasmosis
#AustralianParalysis

‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/07/id-never-been-bitten-by-a-tick-before-why-the-little-blood-sucking-pest-is-getting-us-into-a-panic

#Ticks
#UKHealthSecurityAgency
#PortonDown
#LymeDisease
#Highlands
#Exmoor
#NewForest
#PostTreatmentLymeDiseaseSyndrome
#Borrelia
#Encephalitis
#AlphaGalSyndrome
#Rickettsiosis
#Babesiosis
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#RockyMountainSpottedFever
#SFTS
#Powassan
#Anaplasmosis
#AustralianParalysis

‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/07/id-never-been-bitten-by-a-tick-before-why-the-little-blood-sucking-pest-is-getting-us-into-a-panic

#Ticks
#UKHealthSecurityAgency
#PortonDown
#LymeDisease
#Highlands
#Exmoor
#NewForest
#PostTreatmentLymeDiseaseSyndrome
#Borrelia
#Encephalitis
#AlphaGalSyndrome
#Rickettsiosis
#Babesiosis
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#RockyMountainSpottedFever
#SFTS
#Powassan
#Anaplasmosis
#AustralianParalysis

‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/07/id-never-been-bitten-by-a-tick-before-why-the-little-blood-sucking-pest-is-getting-us-into-a-panic

#Ticks
#UKHealthSecurityAgency
#PortonDown
#LymeDisease
#Highlands
#Exmoor
#NewForest
#PostTreatmentLymeDiseaseSyndrome
#Borrelia
#Encephalitis
#AlphaGalSyndrome
#Rickettsiosis
#Babesiosis
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#RockyMountainSpottedFever
#SFTS
#Powassan
#Anaplasmosis
#AustralianParalysis

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-08-07/inside-new-vaccine-centre-where-scientists-work-to-fend-off-disease-x
#PortonDown
#DiseaseX
#ResearchForVaccine