Lyme Disease and the Iceman

by Dave Cottrell

Someone has made a very valid point in reply to a post I made on a social media site, about the  book, “Lab 257,” (which suggests that Bb, the Lyme bacteria, is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism just like myoplasma incognitus and HHV 6), that Lyme disease was discovered in the Iceman, whose mummified remains were discovered sticking out of a receding glacier, high in the Italian Alps.  The Iceman has been dead for a very long time, certainly since before the glacier formed.  Therefore, Lyme disease is not new, as so many claim, but very, very old.

This true, but with notable exceptions.

Burrelia is what they found in the Iceman’s tissues, and of course, that bacteria has been around for a very long time, certainly as evidenced by the Iceman, but also as found in studies even in the late 1800s. The problem is when they began to call the Iceman’s disease “Lyme disease.”  Lyme disease was originally called that when there suddenly appeared a large group of children in the area of Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut with very unusual rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.

What was observed in Lyme, CT, was something so unusual and unique that they gave it the name, Lyme disease, not knowing what organism caused it or whether it was a virus or a bacterium, or if, in fact, it was an organism at all.

That was in the early 1970s. In 1981, Dr. Willy Burgdorfer finally isolated the spirochete that caused the disease, hence the name, Burrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (or Bb), which is a unique strain with many differences from the two common North American Burrelias, and again from the European strains.

All strains of Burrelia cause health problems in humans, but the one that has spread out from Lyme, Connecticut, is particularly virulent, and appears to be rapidly mutating into other strains.

What is very intriguing about Bb is where it was first found and named, Old Lyme, Connecticut. That particular town is right across Long Island Sound from Plum Island, an “agricultural research facility,” run by (BIG SHOCK!!) the US military.

What is the US military doing running an agricultural research facility? Why was the first scientist there when it was founded at the end of the second world war a Nazi scientist whose work was in vector borne diseases used in biological warfare? Is it just a coincidence that one of the vectors he was very interested in for delivering biological payloads was the lowly tick?