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2023-12-28 10:13:04 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0032E08E955D38BC7F84F1A765C08B457597E90C9F8174F330697F7062ACE65C
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No, lyme disease was not created by a secret government program in the 1950s to weaponize ticks. Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the 1950s 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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