Comment by locallost
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
There were lawsuits and they found it safest to settle, but that doesn't mean the complaints had statistical validity. According to the paper I posted, the FDA found no evidence of the vaccine causing harm.
Even if harm had occurred, it would have to be weighed against the risk of harm from Lyme disease.
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> and declining sales
The real reason