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Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

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Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

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Prepare to read the headline "mRNA vaccine trial for " a lot in the future. My guess is that they are going to produce mRNA versions of basically any vaccine (and then some) in the future. The nice thing about the technology seems to be that you only need to exchange the mRNA payload while the surrounding delivery method can be reused. That makes it not only a fast method to create a vaccine but a very convenient way…

We should not call them vaccines, they work totally different. These are gene treatments.

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nothing compared to the other tick disease: tick borne encephalitis. Thankfully there's a vaccine against that

Is that the one that makes you deathly allergic to beef or something?

Nope, you are thinking about alpha-gal allergy there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy

They are talking about TBE (also known as "FSME" in german speaking countries) instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfounded claims from 100s of people developing imaginary autoimmune disorders? Mind you people are still getting compensated in court for autoimmune disorders arising from the Hep-B vaccine, even though no causal link was found. Just yesterday I had to accompany my sister to the phlebologist, because of severe side-effects from Pfizer, he told us he was seeing troves of patients for similar reasons even though offic…

"These claims were investigated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, which found no connection between the vaccine and the autoimmune complaints."

That's already written in the comment I replied to.

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nothing compared to the other tick disease: tick borne encephalitis. Thankfully there's a vaccine against that

Is that the one that makes you deathly allergic to beef or something?

What joke is this?

I am vaccinated against this form of tick born disease but of course I am not allergic to beef.

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

#46
post #7

Why is it a vaccine? Are there going to be vaccine for everything in the future?

Should we have a vaccine for addictions? alcoholism? drug use? eating? Eg: Give it early in people's lives, that the first time they drink even a little alcohol, it should produce such (non life threatening) symptoms - terrible taste, throw up etc, they would not touch it again, and therefore won't be addicted?

I had all those symptoms when I drank my first beer and still learned to love it. You can overcome everything if you really want to.

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

#47

Prepare to read the headline "mRNA vaccine trial for " a lot in the future. My guess is that they are going to produce mRNA versions of basically any vaccine (and then some) in the future. The nice thing about the technology seems to be that you only need to exchange the mRNA payload while the surrounding delivery method can be reused. That makes it not only a fast method to create a vaccine but a very convenient way…

We should not call them vaccines, they work totally different. These are gene treatments.

Shhhhh... don't want to scare people!

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

#48

Prepare to read the headline "mRNA vaccine trial for " a lot in the future. My guess is that they are going to produce mRNA versions of basically any vaccine (and then some) in the future. The nice thing about the technology seems to be that you only need to exchange the mRNA payload while the surrounding delivery method can be reused. That makes it not only a fast method to create a vaccine but a very convenient way…

Does anyone know why they haven't released a Delta varient vaccine? Is seems that it would just involved we changing the mRNA sequence in a computer at the factor, but I'm really just guessing. Also maybe it is considered a whole new vaccineand needs to go through approval again.

Because it means rerunning the trials again.

These requirements will have to be loosened for anti-Covid vaccines. They are tailored to other diseases, but SARS-CoV-2 mutates too fast. The flu vaccine has an exception, too, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to prepare the correct vaccine (against the expected dominant strain) on time.

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

#49

Prepare to read the headline "mRNA vaccine trial for " a lot in the future. My guess is that they are going to produce mRNA versions of basically any vaccine (and then some) in the future. The nice thing about the technology seems to be that you only need to exchange the mRNA payload while the surrounding delivery method can be reused. That makes it not only a fast method to create a vaccine but a very convenient way…

We should not call them vaccines, they work totally different. These are gene treatments.

What makes them not vaccines?

Re: Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

#50
Emphasis should be on tick-bite prevention. I have never had live tick on me and have been literally wallowing on all tick-infested areas of northern hemisphere. They just die. Most probably just drop off, but sometimes there is dead tick only slightly attached. Looks like they die on first drop of blood.
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