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2023-11-02 10:14:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: CCE99210565B83B52E5C458BC2710D0218EB21A797635DD6AFE111A72EA29664
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What came to be known as Lyme Disease, named for the town Lyme Mass., in 1976, is actually an ancient bacterium in North America, exacerbated over time by deforestation. The Yale school of public health found it to be approx. 60,000 years old. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ancient-history-of-lyme-disease-in-north-america-revealed-with-bacterial-genomes/#:~:text=A%20team%20of%20researchers%20led,before%20the%20arrival%20of%20humans.
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