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The absence of a vaccine is a tragedy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-disease-vaccine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-diseas

The absence of a vaccine is a tragedy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-disease-vaccine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/health/lyme-disease-vacci.... There is some progress: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/20/lyme-disease-is-solution-on-way https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/20/lyme-disease..., but: "The current leader is Vienna-based biotech Valneva, which is developing a vaccine that can protect against all six most common strains of Lyme disease in the northern hemisphere, and is currently in an ongoing Phase II clinical trial. If everything goes according to plan, this vaccine could be licensed commercially in five years."

jasonhansel 7y ago
As that article mentions, there already is a vaccine (LYMERix). It hasn't been widely deployed, largely thanks to anti-vaccine paranoia.
- foobiekr 7y ago
  And the fact that a subset of the population turns out to have a genotype that made Lymerix a problem for them; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ But characterizing the people who claimed exactly these symptoms after getting the vaccine as crazy anti-vaxxers because science is easier.
galangalalgol 7y ago
there is some postulation that the unrecognized chronic Lyme condition is an autoimmune response that lingers after the infection is gone. I so, I don't know if I want to be an early adopter of that vaccine.