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2024-08-12 10:46:08 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B40A19D6CD8D60CBB7FC0B5908B8A3993C8BF498D5C2BA63D7574AFB27FB7686
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Lyme bacterium have lived in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1976 if such a strain of the bacterium came out of the lab, there would be evidence for a single source for Lyme disease 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. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/no-lyme-diease-is-not-an-escaped-military-bioweapon-despite-what-conspiracy-theorists-say/2019/08/09/5bbd85fa-afe4-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html https://now.tufts.edu/2019/07/18/lyme-bacterium-predates-us-lab-conspiracy-theorists-say-unleashed-ticks-public
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