# KunstlerCast 423 —  Dr. Meryl Nass on the Echoes of Covid and Medicine's Nervous Breakdown

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Published: 2025-05-03T17:14:00+00:00
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## Resource

Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician and was the first person in the world to prove that an epidemic (anthrax in Rhodesia) was due to biological warfare, in 1992. She has given 6 Congressional testimonies regarding anthrax, biological warfare, Gulf War syndrome and vaccine safety, and has consulted for the Cuban Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the Director of National Intelligence. She blogs at Meryls Chaos Newsletter on Substack The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

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