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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee 1 points 1 year ago

Nice try, I know all about the new and improved nanobots /s

[–] PotjiePig -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This L4sBot reposts way too much old content from Reddit. Do we really just want to populate Lemmy with old content? It's really killing this sub for me.

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[+] jerkjaguar -214 points 1 year ago (40 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For those that spend a lot of time outdoors this is a good thing. I know if at least one influencer that almost died due to Lyme desease. She just released av update video on it.

https://youtu.be/tCYpw9cnD7Y

I definitely worry about it but love being out in the woods. Sounds like a good option to me.

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[–] surewhynotlem 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Some people who get it really suffer.

Also, if the accountants and bean counters at the pharma company think they can make enough money to recover costs, maybe they know more about the demand and importance than us. Just a thought.

[–] oblique_strategies 2 points 1 year ago

Wow lol, did not expect this inane hot take

[–] unphazed 2 points 1 year ago

As someone who plays the check all my skin game when I go outside and pull off at least 4 nymphs... yes