Dr Willy Burgdorfer - Lyme Disease Pioneer - discovered Borrelia burgdorferi (1932-2014)

Interview with Dr Burgdorfer

Photo Credit: NIH retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyatnih/33713226946/

Dr. Willy Burgdorfer was best known for discovering the spiral-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which was named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor. 

The u-tube video below is footage from the documentary on Lyme disease - UNDER OUR SKIN.

'The controversy in Lyme disease research is a shameful affair. And I say that because the whole thing is politically tainted. Money goes to people who have, for the past 30 years, produced the same thing—nothing.  Serology has to be started again from scratch with people who don't know beforehand the results of their research. There are lots of physicians around who wouldn’t touch a Lyme disease patient. They tell the nurse, “You tell the guy to get out of here. I don’t want to see him.” That is shameful. So [this] shame includes physicians who don’t even have the courage to tell a patient, “You have Lyme disease and I don’t know anything about it.” ​

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Extended Trailer to 'Under our Skin' - Lyme Documentary

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