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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. bioweapons scientist, Willy Burgdorfer, credited in 1982 with discovering the cause of Lyme disease, may have put the diseases into ticks 30 years earlier. And his report on the cause of ...

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None of us knew – until 1981, when the late Willy Burgdorfer, a medical entomologist, made his serendipitous discovery. Burgdorfer’s discovery of the Lyme bacterium Burgdorfer had done his graduate ...

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.

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 ...

None of us knew—until 1981, when the late Willy Burgdorfer, a medical entomologist, made his serendipitous discovery. Burgdorfer’s discovery of the Lyme bacterium Burgdorfer had done his ...