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Under our skin

By James Swan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, July 21, 2008

In the early 1970s, a Connecticut mother, Polly Murray, called attention to clusters of mysterious "juvenile arthritis" — an illness that manifested as aches, pains, fever, fatigue, joint problems, etc. which at that time had an unknown cause — among New England children. Ultimately the "juvenile arthritis" clusters were named "Lyme Disease," after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where the problem was first identified. In 1981, Dr. Willy Bergdorfer discovered that Lyme Disease was caused by ...

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