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by bhouston 19 hours ago
We need a vaccine for Lyme disease, it would be a lot more effective than paying $3K per kilometre of path per year.
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One existed, it was pulled from the market in the early 2000s. There's still a dog one, and there is at least one which is in late stage trials in the US today.
Thanks to barratry the one developed in the 90s was pulled from the market on spurious grounds:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/

The good news is that there’s a promising new one in the pipeline but Lyme is only one of the diseases which ticks spread:

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

It will be good to have, but it will make people more negligent, as there exist lots of bad tick based diseases, not just Lyme.