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We need a vaccine for Lyme disease, it would be a lot more effective than paying $3K per kilometre of path per year.
by bhouston 4mo ago
We need a vaccine for Lyme disease, it would be a lot more effective than paying $3K per kilometre of path per year.
- DGAP 4mo agoOne existed, it was pulled from the market in the early 2000s. There's still a dog one, and there is at least one which is in late stage trials in the US today.
- acdha 4mo agoThanks to barratry the one developed in the 90s was pulled from the market on spurious grounds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/ The good news is that there’s a promising new one in the pipeline but Lyme is only one of the diseases which ticks spread: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-valneva-announce-lyme-disease-vaccine-candidate https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
- OutOfHere 4mo agoIt will be good to have, but it will make people more negligent, as there exist lots of bad tick based diseases, not just Lyme.