Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
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Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
Fortunately early course of antibiotics has an extremely good success rate against the bacteria - but if it’s undetected it’s much less effective when you get more serious symptoms months later.
Ticks spreading borreliosis are a very common in Northern Europe, you can protect yourself with clothing and thorough check every time you’ve been in long grass or forested areas - but some bites still go unnoticed, this vaccine is fantastic news
I had to eat antibiotics for 3 months.
Despite having Lyme disease I am not protected. If a vaccine comes In will take it without hesitation.
Now we need to find a way to prevent Lone Star ticks from making us allergic to meat. It's a big deal where I live.
The ticks are not likely something we can vaccinate against, since the mechanism involves the tick priming our immune system to attack innocuous animal carbohydrates present in meat.
You can not escape them. They will come for you.
A Vaccine for Lyme Disease is in its Final Clinical Trial (August 9, 2022) : https://text.npr.org/1116500921
I wish there were more text News sites.
A List Of Text-Only News Sites : https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
The key word there is "serious".
There were adverse events. There were no serious adverse events (SAEs).
Any insect that sucks your blood falls into the same terrible category: tse tse fly, mosquito, kissing bugs.
That rather suggests an address entry error, not (what I can only infer) is a lack of nearby study sites error.
If you're not near a site for this study, you might also try the Valor study: https://www.valorlymestudy.com/
I am not a doctor, and I cannot speak to the relative merits of one over the other. I'm also too far from either to participate :-/
Corresponding Phase 2 trial here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03769194
With Lymerix, the upsides of the vaccine vastly outweighed the downsides for people who live in areas with Lyme-carrying ticks, (especially those who spend significant time outdoors), but for most of the population it was pure downsides.
It's a damn shame that antivaxers were about to get it taken off the market entirely because it would have helped a lot of people.
The profoundly idiotic weaponized use of the word antivaxer will be an embarrassment for decades to come.
“Damn antivaxers!”
“But they have all their recommended vaccinations and only were injured with myocarditis on their second COVID Booster”.
“…damn antivaxers!”
If these people got COVID boosters taken away from everyone, I would absolutely say "damn antivaxers."
A COVID booster has legitimate risks and doesn't make sense for everyone. Any Lyme vaccine will be similar.
But they absolutely make sense for some people, and people should be able to make the choice with their doctor to get one.
Unfortunately governments can't stay away from the idea of forcing everyone to vaccinate in reach herd immunity, a concept that seems to appear and disappear depending on what public health wants you to do today. How many people have to take it to reach this threshold? Nobody knows because the people who are supposed to know what it is make it up in order to generate compliance (Fauci admitted to doing this in the New York Times).
For people to start trusting vaccines again, they need to be treated like any other drug. The idea of policy-created herd immunity is attractive but too destructive to tolerate. Once governments think they have a magic policy solution to a problem they can't resist pushing it regardless of consequences.
Both of them did not even noticed when the tick bitten them and got through quite a long period of no symptoms.
After this events I am seriously afraid of lyme - as a knowledge worker this is like a death sentence.
I would say yes, but only on case by case basis - it's recommended for people who work around and in forests (forest rangers, holiday camp caretakers etc.).
I believe TCE is far more rare so the vaccine is not so important for regular people as vaccine for lyme would be (if I read stats correctly there is two orders of magnitude difference between them - 200 cases per year for TCE versus 20000 for lyme)
I guess it exists anywhere the ticks do.
> Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
Not obligatorily, AFIK. But I, personally, got my vaccine some years ago.
Seems like poland really is a danger zone..
There was this guy that was locally known gangsta-like alcoholic - this whole thing taking place in small town, gangsters life style were scaled down to the size of the town. He lived in apartment in residential estates near one of my best friends (hence I know the story). One day, after some big party, he got so drunk that while getting home by foot, he fell asleep in some gutter (or rather trench full of grass).
Next day, after regaining consciousness, he found more than 30 ticks stuck all over his body. Being gangsta and all around tough he just removed those and failed to go to doctor in time.
Only after some serious symptoms started to appear he managed to get to hospital but it was to late - the damage was done. He lived about few months after this and died because his nervous system was so devastated that there was no way to for doctors to help him.
Does a working vaccine already exists ?
> 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.
The real reason
Actual vaccine side effects and law suits. They settled for millions.
Even if harm had occurred, it would have to be weighed against the risk of harm from Lyme disease.
They settled to silence anyone that had adverse events and made them sign non disclosure agreements as part of the payout.
I trust the FDA as far as I can throw them. Suspected they were dirty for a long time and COVID proved it. To me they are an arm of the pharmaceutical industry which does everything in its power to suppress and sanction alternative medicine. Big pharma considers anything other than drug interventions or vaccines "competition".
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis_vaccin...
Your doctor friend might have been referring to "chronic Lyme" which is a very divisive issue. There are quack docs who will tell you you have it when you don't, there are docs who will angrily tell you there's no such thing, and then there are docs who wince a little a mutter about how there are things we don't know enough about.