Lyme Disease Vaccines Deserve A Second Look

think-outside-the-box-300x2311Lyme Disease Vaccines Deserve A Second Look

A decade after a vaccine for Lyme disease was pulled from the market amid poor sales and public controversy, New Englanders need to ask: How long should we allow a largely preventable disease to continue unabated? In most years, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 20,000 cases of the tick-borne bacterial infection are diagnosed in the United States. A vaccine would be especially useful in New England, the mid-Atlantic states, Minnesota, and Wisconsin — which account for more than 94 percent of all Lyme disease cases. Yet as WBUR reported in a recent series on Lyme disease, dogs can be vaccinated against Lyme disease, but people cannot. Read more.

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