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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks
(www.newsweek.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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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.
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.
This right here is very interesting.