Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by thatcat 1765 days ago
Though it's not available in the US.
2 comments

The FDA has licensed a vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/tickborne-encephalitis

The disease appears to be a problem mainly in Europe and Asia, but if you're planning a camping trip in those areas it looks like you can ask a doctor for the vaccine. You also can get the disease from unpasteurized dairy products.

From the Wikipedia article about that disease [1] it seams the disease isn't prevent in the US, so it wouldn't make sense to get vaccinated against it there (like European people who aren't vaccinated against yellow fever by default).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis

Lyme disease is not the same as tick-borne encephalitis. Lymerix was a vaccine approved by FDA in US in 1998 because lyme is pretty common in Appalachia, but it was taken off the market. Dogs are recommended to receive a lyme vaccine here, but it's not available to people.