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Ticks and Lyme disease bacteria with us since the Ice Age
Until now, scientists have known little about the evolutionary history of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. This lack of knowledge “limits our ability to track and predict the direction of ongoing spread and implement public health interventions,” state the authors of a new study “Genomic insights into the ancient spread of Lyme disease across North America.” [1]