It turns out that the famous 5,300-year old "Iceman" found frozen in retreating glacial ice 10,500 feet up along the Swiss-Italian border in 1991, had Lyme disease.
Perhaps most surprising, researchers found the genetic footprint of bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi in his DNA—making the Iceman the earliest known human infected by the bug that causes Lyme disease.
I am still a bit skeptical of the diagnosis, but let's assume it's right.
What it underscores is how far we have come as a species.
Today, Lyme disease is easily treatable with doxycycline.
If your dog has the disease and is asymptomatic (i.e. not lame), there is no treatment needed at all, and if the dog is lame, an order of doxycline from Amazon (sold as Bird-biotic) will treat your dog without a visit to the veterinarian. Just follow the directions here.
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