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I wonder if this might be effective as a treatment for chronic Lyme sufferers as well as a preventative measure.

• PragmaticPulp 5y ago
  Unfortunately it won’t, as Chronic Lyme is most likely lingering damage triggered by the initial infection rather than an actual ongoing infection. There are some people who believe that chronic Lyme is caused by persistent hidden infections, but you have to cherry-pick a lot of evidence and ignore a lot of contradictory evidence to arrive at that conclusion. Regardless, it seems unlikely that the vaccine would help if the infection had some mechanism to hide from the immune system anyway, as they claim.
  • darkerside 5y ago
    Can you share what kind of evidence is typically cherry picked or ignored in service of that conclusion? Genuinely curious. If the infection does have that mechanism, would that invalidate the idea that a vaccine would be at all helpful?
    • CountDrewku 5y ago
      Not sure if there's evidence for that but it's much more likely to be the case. There's no solid evidence "chronic lyme" exists either. The only "doctor's" you'll see treating it are typically into the naturopathic stuff and all other sorts of unproven treatments for things the medical community doesn't even agree exist.
      • darkerside 5y ago
        It's funny how it sometimes happens that the scientific or medical community makes a decision. I'm not quite sure how it happens, but once it's done, you need an overwhelming amount of evidence to overturn it. Much more than if the decision had never been made in the first place. Who makes these decisions, and on what grounds? I honestly don't know. Edit: But my theory is that it's based on informal groupthink.
• M2Ys4U 5y ago
  "chronic lyme disease" doesn't exist, so probably not...
  • darkerside 5y ago
    PTLDS then