Comment by bsaul
4 years ago
Strangely, i know someone from lithuania that told me her whole family got vaccinated against lyme.
Does a working vaccine already exists ?
4 years ago
Strangely, i know someone from lithuania that told me her whole family got vaccinated against lyme.
Does a working vaccine already exists ?
Probably got the tick encephalitis vaccine, which is common in Northern Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis_vaccin...
I know plenty of people have gotten their dogs vaccinated against lyme disease, but to my knowledge it's not been approved for use on humans.
When tick season is at its height here in Eastern Canada my friends and I joke that we should try to bribe a vet into giving us the shot...
Properly a misunderstand. There are other tickborne viruses, and some of them have vaccines. Lithuania is one of the countries with the highest rate of TBE.
There is none. There are other diseases you can get from ticks, such as encephalitis, and there is a vaccine for it, so maybe the friend mixed the two up.
Or they got the Lyme vaccine a couple decades ago.
> In 1998, the FDA approved a new recombinant Lyme vaccine, LYMErix™, which reduced new infections in vaccinated adults by nearly 80%. Just 3 years later, the manufacturer voluntarily withdrew its product from the market amidst media coverage, fears of vaccine side-effects, and declining sales.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
>fears of vaccine side-effects
Actual vaccine side effects and law suits. They settled for millions.
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> and declining sales
The real reason