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.
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No dog also gets a pill every months and it makes her blood toxic to tics so we just pull dead tics off her. They die before they can regurgitate and get the dog sick.
Both exist. The vaccine is different from the Frontline/nexgard treatments.
They can still get a Lyme vaccine.
It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the link
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.
Please just let me go to my local CVS and get this. I've considered trying to trick a vet into giving me the one they give dogs (that was originally developed and used for humans but taken off the market for total bullshit reasons) but easier said than done.
I've considered trying to trick a vet into giving me the one they give dogs (that was originally developed and used for humans but taken off the market for total bullshit reasons) but easier said than done.
"My dog is very sensitive, please set the syringe here..."
"Sir, this is your own arm."
"Whaaaatt?! Really?!! Hahahaha, how could that happen hahahh. Now do it."
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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.
I definitely worry about it but love being out in the woods. Sounds like a good option to me.
oh no not an influencer
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This feels oddly fake. No journal of that name, nothing on INRAE (the research institute claimed to have published this). AI generated news? I wouldn't doubt it. I know that Chat-GPT is very good at making fake scientific summaries (complete with fake references using real names in the field) why not fake science news? Also, the vaccine is for the tick.. Not for us to use against the tick. For the tick..
Found it, real paper, wrong journal. Horrible article by Newsweek. https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01599-7
Thank you.
Newsweek makes USA Today look like the Atlantic. Apparently they don't use fact checkers!
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.
There used to be a vaccine approved for human use, but it was discontinued because it wasn't profitable.
Yay capitalism.
Yep it's due to capitalism. It wasn't profitable to develop treatments for ticks or even mites.
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Nice try, I know all about the new and improved nanobots /s
This makes no sense.. by the way vaccines for Lyme have been around for 10yrs. This doesn't make sense unless you can mass vaccinate ticks.
Going through Lyme right now, it sucks. It’s not the worst I have felt, but the duration is very annoying. I can’t properly workout and walk my dog as often because of muscle aches.
2 days ago we pulled 12 ticks off our son and 34 off our dog after a forest walk. My brother in law got a bullseye last week and is being treated for to. This would change everything!!!
The ticks were horrible last year for me, even had to be treated for Lyme disease. Glad they're making progress on this.
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