Re: please help! bad situation... Did anyone see Nova last night on the Ice Man and Lyme?

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> > > Last night NOVA on PBS aired a program about the 5,000 year old Ice Man.

> > Scientists briefly thawed out the Ice Man to do tests on him. They

> > determined that he had arthritis and heart disease and was in his early

> > forties. His stomach contents revealed a natural diet with some grain that

> > was related to wheat. The most interesting fact though was the DNA which

> > was extracted from a thigh bone to avoid any foreign DNA contamination which

> > was only 97% pure the other 3% was from another DNA source. The scientists

> > determined that the DNA was Borrelia and that the ice man had Lyme disease

> > he also showed evidence of joint damage. This proves that the Lyme bacteria

> > has been around a very long time. However, this is not to say that the

> > Borrelia Bacteria that is infecting people today has not been weaponized by

> > scientists on Plum Island to be more difficult to eradicate. Another point

> > of interest was the fact that the scientists could not understand why given

> > the fact that the Ice man ate a very natural diet that he would have heart

> > disease. I can't believe that the scientists did not make the correlation

> > between Lyme and the Ice man's heart disease. It just goes to show how

> > little science really understands about Lyme and it's potential to do more

> > then just cause arthritis.

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