Vector-borne and tick-borne infections like Lyme disease have been rising sharply in recent years.
  • antbricks@lemmy.todayEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    My area needs this sooooo bad. We have one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the country. Unfortunately, Alpha-gal disease is now also in this area, so even with this vaccine, every family walk even near the woods or fields still has to be followed with full body and hair inspections. Every time. So many ticks… Ugh.

    • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      Here it’s Lyme and tick-borne encephalitis. You can get vaccinated against the latter but a lot of people don’t bother or don’t know. And we have a LOT of ticks.

    • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      You need more urban foxes to prevent the spread of rodents and wolves to prevent the spread of deer. Both of those predators can curb or slow the spread of ticks and tick-borne diseases. A lot of rodents serve as tick highways to spread into new areas, which is how the lone star ticks are starting to really make their way into new regions.

      CWD, a prion disease, is spreading through deer and elk out here in the west, but wolves are immune to it and other diseases.

        • Mpatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          False opossums the ugly fucks, so ugly that its cute. don’t actively feed on ticks. Just what ever ones they find on themselves at the time.

      • vimmiewimmie@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        This is relating to requesting additional clinical trials, but maybe I don’t understand?

        Could you elaborate?

        Edit: looks like it’s actually a request for approval for commercialization/use of the vaccine. Not sure what I was doing when I looked the first time.

        And the article linked in the OP states:

        "Pfizer said it will seek regulatory approval for a Lyme disease vaccine candidate despite failing a late-stage trial.

        Pfizer said not enough people contracted Lyme disease to be confident in the results, but cited “strong efficacy” for its decision to move forward."

        Which is sort of different wording of what the OP does still say, so, yeah, some doubt’s about it. I can see some desire to have additional studies at least.