27 Aug 50 Years Since the Discovery of Lyme Disease: Why Awareness Still Matters
This year marks 50 years since Lyme was discovered (1975-76) in Lyme, Connecticut, USA. It then took until 1981 for a certain Dr Willy Burgdorfer, researching Rocky-Mountain Spotted Fever, to connect the disease to a bacterium (burgdorferi), causing Lyme. His name was immortalised in recognition of his research...