Did a Nazi come over to Plum Island and put Lyme Disease in a tick and set it free?

The sugestion that anyone, least of all a Nazi from outside the country, intentionally release Lyme disease is ridiculous.

Lyme disease has been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years - in both North America and in Europe.

What may be the first detailed description of what is now known as Lyme disease can be found in the writings of Reverend Dr John Walker in 1764. The 2010 autopsy of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy, revealed the presence of the DNA sequence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, making him the earliest known human with that disease