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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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I don’t care if this is don’t peer reviewed yet or not.
This is HUGE in terms of future potential.
Within our lifetime we will have so many advances in terms of vaccines and drugs to prevent mass debilitating and death diseases, due to new technologies available.
Woo! Let’s go science?
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!!!
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.
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.
Is your stance really to go all in on treatment over prevention?
Not for all ailments, but for this yes.
I recommend checking out the CDC information or numerous other studies on Lyme disease and taking your own position rather than blindly excepting a random article on social media as truth and the only acceptable opinion.
Detection and treatment of Lyme is notoriously difficult. Why would you not prefer a preventive solution?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as the saying goes.
Bc despite their claim, op is antivax. There’s no other explanation
Thanks, but I’d rather just not get Lyme Disease
The fact that they put effort into making a vaccine makes it pretty clear what the medical community’s position is.
People often forget what the medical research and medical authorities say are not always the same.
See heart disease for another one of these fun ones.
I suggest you read the research papers on Lyme and form your own decision too. The CDC is hardly comprehensive.
Like the fact that the infection can actually remain dormant and undetectable in people for long periods of time.
I’m also pretty sure the estimates on number of people who get Lyme per year vary wildly depending on who you want to believe.
Actually here is the cdc saying 476k
Anyways. Lyme is a tricky one because not everyone has a reaction and it’s impossible to say how many people are carrying it dormant.
I see the points you’re making.
I still disagree with your position.
If the vast majority of people also disagree with you, would you still hold your position on this?
This is an idiotic argument. Lyme disease can cause extensive and chronic suffering. A cold is rarely fatal, but if you were going to live for a year with one, you’d probably be miserable.
Anything that can make a positive change in our lives should be regarded as exactly that. Yes, there are other problems out there, but sometimes we need to invest into smaller ones to better how we are able to deal with the larger ones. Disease research and study is a perfect example of this, as better understanding builds a pathway to future successes.
I’m actually impressed by how bad of a take this is. Well done.
This is the dumbest opinion I’ve read in a while. I know three people with Lyme disease. One of them is a kid whose face drops on one side if they get too tired. And they are tired all the time because of having Lyme disease.
Dude this is incoherent
My wife has suffered from post Lyme disease effects for the last decade. Yes we need a vaccine for this.
We’re kinda past the point where ONLY lethal diseases need to be prevented, yeah?
Just because it probably won’t kill you doesn’t mean it doesn’t lead to debilitating health issues, which we could solve for if we simply vaccinate against it. Let the anti-vaxxers take their lives in to their own hands, but don’t stop medical advancement because of them, for fucks sake.
This comment ignores that not all vaccines are prophylactic. Often times a vaccine can be administered after infection to cure or suppress symptoms of the disease. Rabies vaccine is exactly this. This comment is unhinged levels of not understanding the importance of this scientific achievement.
Tell that to the friend of mine who died from lymes disease after a years of horrible pain.
As someone who plays the check all my skin game when I go outside and pull off at least 4 nymphs… yes
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.
Wow lol, did not expect this inane hot take
Nice try, I know all about the new and improved nanobots /s
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.
7-27 was 3 days ago. That’s old to you? I highly doubt that anything about this story has changed over the weekend…
