Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born researcher who gained international recognition for discovering the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, died Monday of complications of Parkinson’s disease in ...

At a government lab in Montana, Willy Burgdorfer typed a letter to a colleague, reporting that blood from Lyme patients showed “very strong reactions” on a test for an obscure, tick-borne ...

HAMILTON – To the world, Willy Burgdorfer will always be remembered as the scientist who discovered the cause of Lyme disease. In Hamilton, the former Rocky Mountain Laboratories scientist will ...

A spokesman at the Daly-Leach Chapel said Wilhelm "Willy" Burgdorfer died from complications of Parkinson's disease Monday in Hamilton. He was 89. Burgdorfer was educated in Switzerland.

He was born June 27, 1925, in Basel, Switzerland, the son of Karl and Else Burgdorfer. Willy was raised in Basel. He received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in zoology, parasitology and ...

Willy Burgdorfer inoculating ticks at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montanain, 1954 Credit: Photo: AP Photo/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Willy Burgdorfer,who has died ...

NEW YORK — Willy Burgdorfer, a medical entomologist who in 1982 identified the cause of what had been a mysterious affliction, Lyme disease, died on Monday at a hospital in Hamilton, Mont.

Dr. Willy Burgdorfer was 89. The Swiss-born medical entomologist called Hamilton home for more than 60 years. He spent decades researching connections between animal and human diseases caused by ...

At a government lab in Montana, Willy Burgdorfer typed a letter to a colleague, reporting that blood from Lyme patients showed “very strong reactions” on a test for an obscure, tick-borne ...