Iceman may have suffered from Lyme disease

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 14:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The 5,300-year-old ice mummy dubbed Otzi, discovered in the Eastern Alps about 20 years ago, appears to have had the oldest known case of Lyme disease, new genetic analysis has revealed.

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