It was sometime after the New Year when, feeling better but hardly well after initial treatment for Lyme disease, that I drove a mile down my hill for a latte at Starbucks and my appointment with ...

Benach worked with renowned National Institutes of Health researcher Willy Burgdorfer who isolated the bacteria later named for him, Borrelia burgdorferi, from Shelter Island ticks in 1981.

"The bacteria that causes Lyme Disease ," he said, "was identified here in the early 1980's, by Willy Burgdorfer, and the people that he worked with." But the root of all those discoveries began ...

In 1981, scientist Willy Burgdorfer connected the symptoms to tick bites and named the bacterium after himself. Ötzi is, by far, the earliest known human infected. The first step in DNA analysis is to ...

In 1906, Dr. Howard Ricketts revealed ticks were the cause. In the 1980s, Dr. Willy Burgdorfer was working at Rocky Mountain Labs with colleagues when they identified ticks from the East Coast as ...

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 ...

B burgdorferi was first identified at RML in 1982 and is named after medical entomologist Willy Burgdorfer, one of the scientists credited with its discovery. On the left is the common wood tick ...

Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for the disease. Lyme disease bacteria was discovered by Willy Burgdorfer in the US in 1980. The name Lyme comes from an eponymous US town in Connecticut which was a ...

Newby: Yeah, we took like Himmler's, good ideas and General Ishii, good ideas, and supersized them. So the main subject of my book, Willy Burgdorfer, was brought over from Switzerland because he was ...