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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks (www.newsweek.com)

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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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[-] al_ways_gone@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

This vaccine may not even be used on humans. It could also be used on other hosts of ticks and may lead to a potential future where the disease gets eradicated.

It's always easy to say it's not important until you're affected yourself.

[-] rev@ihax0r.com 0 points 1 year ago

This right here is very interesting.

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