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.
Peer-reviewed publication link
It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the publication link
Edit: pertinently, I’m not 100% sure that’s the same publication, as there doesn’t obviously even seem to be a journal with the title Microbiota (their citation)
Drives me fucking mad. I’m convinced that a lot of articles just read other news outlets articles and regurgitate it.
There’s almost never source material cited. I agree, should be illegal.
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.
Why were they pulled from the market?
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.
Is your stance really to go all in on treatment over prevention?
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.
Detection and treatment of Lyme is notoriously difficult. Why would you not prefer a preventive solution?
Bc despite their claim, op is antivax. There’s no other explanation
Watching anti-science folks here get downvoted to oblivion feels good
Lyme vaccines for veterinary use have been around for ages. Why has it taken so long for human Lyme vaccines?
As my vet described it: stuff that can cause cancer on a 15-20 year timescale is a lot less of a big deal for dogs than it is people.
