What’s troubling, or at least puzzling, about the Lyme-tick story is that Willy Burgdorfer, the Swiss-born scientist who in 1982 discovered the causative agent of the disease and gave it its scientific name, Borrelia burgdorferi, was himself a germ warrior. … Burgdorfer worked at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, which had a research contract with Camp Detrick.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 176