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Did the U.S. Invent Lyme Disease in the 1960s?
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- erentz 7y agoNo. > the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1976 https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651 https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651