The author identifies some very interesting things.
Just to clear up one thing. Lyme Disease is not new.
Recognizing Lyme Disease is new. The disease itself has been around for thousands of years.
Burgdorfer discovered the bacterium which carries the disease in 1981. 1981. The author wants us to believe it was known about in the 1960s. It is the sort of temporal anomaly which is not supportive of the author’s other claims.
The author would be more believable if he had mentioned the year the vector for the disease was found.
Ticks and Lyme disease have been around for thousands of years. In fact, a recent autopsy on a 5,300-year-old mummy indicated the presence of the bacteria which causes Lyme disease. A German physician, Alfred Buchwald, first described the chronic skin rash, or erythema migrans, of what is now known to be Lyme disease more than 130 years ago. However, Lyme disease was only recognized in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. And the bacteria that causes it—Borrelia burgdorferi—wasn’t officially classified until 1981.
- History of Lyme Disease