Events
Early 1970's: Groups of children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut were suffering from health complications that could not be explained.Mid 1970's: Researchers could describe signs and symptoms and called the disease Lyme. Still unsure of the cause.1981: Willy Burgdorfer discovered the connection between the deer tick and Lyme disease. Also discovered that the bacteria carried by ticks, spirochete, caused Lyme.1982: Spirochete is named Borrelia burgdorferi after Willy Burgdorfer.1987: Lyme disease became a reportable disease.1997: First Lyme disease vaccine became available.1998: Lyme disease was made laboratory reportable.2001: Vaccine is withdrawn from the market by manufacturer.2012: Lyme disease was named one of the top ten notifiable diseases by the CDC.
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