No.<p>> the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1976<p><a href="https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651" rel="nofollow">https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651</a>