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Posted by LDFL (Member # 32100) on :

Fun Fact:
Researchers found footprints of B. burgdorferi in the DNA of the 5,000 year old Iceman found in the Otztal Alps of Italy.
(Nov. 2011 natioanl Geographic)

Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :

We had an article posted on this a couple weeks ago, and we said that previously we thought the oldest known human to be infected was Tincup!!!

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

I'm SURE it was Tincup!! [Cool]

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

LD,

Thanks for sharing that fact. I finally got to see the real article in the publication, and it was interesting.

BTW- Welcome to LymeNet!

And if you don't mind, please cover your eyes for just a moment.

I am sure you don't want to see what I am getting ready to do to the two moderators that posted above about me being THAT old.

It won't be pretty!

[lol]

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

Threats, mere threats. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by paulieinct (Member # 17514) on :

This is a HUGE discovery. First, it means that Lyme is not a new disease, but has been infecting humans for at least thousands of years. If people have been getting sick from borrelia burgdorferi for eons, what were they being diagnosed with prior to Willy Burgdorfer's identification of the organism? Answer: ABL, Anything But Lyme, same thing they are getting diagnosed with today, i.e. arthritis, gout, MS, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's, depression, insanity......

Secondly, of the billions of humans that have lived and died on this planet only one cadaver has survived from antiquity and it had Lyme Disease. Clearly, Lyme was a common affliction of mankind.

I believe it will turn out that B. burgdorferi and coinfections have been the cause of a multitude of chronic diseases affecting humans from time immemorial.

Posted by LAXlover (Member # 25518) on :

thanks....VERY INTERESTING!!!!