Researcher who found cause of Lyme disease dies
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HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — The Swiss-born researcher who gained international recognition for discovering the bacteria that causes Lyme disease has died in western Montana.
A spokesman at the Daly-Leach Chapel said Wilhelm "Willy" Burgdorfer died from complications of Parkinson's disease Monday in Hamilton. He was 89.
Burgdorfer was educated in Switzerland. He went to the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton as a research fellow in 1951 and joined the staff as a medical entomologist six years later.
He spent decades researching the connections between animal and human diseases caused by the bites of fleas, ticks and mosquitoes.
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This 1954 photo provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows Willy Burgdorfer inoculating ticks at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Mont. Burgdorfer, the Swiss-born researcher who gained international recognition for discovering the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, has died in western Montana. A spokesman at the Daly-Leach Chapel said Wilhelm {201c}Willy{201d} Burgdorfer died from complications of Parkinson{2019}s disease Monday, Nov. 17, 2014 in Hamilton, Mont. He was 89. (AP Photo/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
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