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Discovery

• Relapsing fever has been described since the days of Hippocrates in ancient Greeks.
• After an outbreak in Edinburgh during 1843-8, relapsing fever was given its name
• The association between the bite of soft ticks and relapsing fever was made by David Livingstone in 1857.
• The association between spirochetes and the development of relapsing fever first described by Otto Obermeier in 1873
• The transmission of relapsing fever through tick bite discovered by Münch in 1874.