A U.S. senator is seeking information on the spike in disease rates reported in a U.S. military database. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked Unissant, the company that manages the military’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), for details on how the firm runs the system. According to the database, there were spikes in various diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The military has acknowledged the figures but alleges the rise in diagnoses actually stems from an under-reporting of data in previous years. The military “has taken DMED offline to identify and correct the root-cause of the data corruption,” a spokesperson told The Epoch Times in February. Johnson was told shortly after that the military created and preserved a full backup of the DMED in response to a preservation request, but the military has largely failed to provide adequate responses to three letters sent to Department of Defense (DoD) officials, the senator said. Because of the …