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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks::Researchers have developed a way to vaccinate people such that the ticks that cause Lyme disease cannot be colonized by the bacteria that cause the disease.

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ITT: People who didn't read the article and realize this is a vaccine they inject the ticks with and is more about proving how the disease works in the ticks gut biome than any human trials. We've had human vaccines for many years, but they were pulled from the market. Yet dogs can get a vaccine today.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No dog also gets a pill every months and it makes her blood toxic to tics so we just pull dead tics off her. They die before they can regurgitate and get the dog sick.

[–] jerkjaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's be real here. Do we really need a vaccine for this? An estimated 200k people get this per year. It is almost never fatal. People can go years without even knowing or being diagnosed with Lyme disease.

I am not anti-vax, but A LOT of people clearly are. Maybe we should spend more time focusing on treatment or symptom reduction for those afflicted than vaccines and prevention for all people over non life threatening diseases.

[–] uberkalden@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is your stance really to go all in on treatment over prevention?

[–] jerkjaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not for all ailments, but for this yes.

I recommend checking out the CDC information or numerous other studies on Lyme disease and taking your own position rather than blindly excepting a random article on social media as truth and the only acceptable opinion.

[–] deranger@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Detection and treatment of Lyme is notoriously difficult. Why would you not prefer a preventive solution?

[–] crimroy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bc despite their claim, op is antivax. There's no other explanation

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Watching anti-science folks here get downvoted to oblivion feels goodGandalf gif where he tells the Barlog to go back to the shadows.