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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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They can probably recruit plenty of subjects from longtime residents of Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA, and Ipswich, MA, USA, where the disease started to take hold. This is good stuff. I hope they make it through efficacy (Phase 2) and safety (Phase 3) trials with good results.

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

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I actually had Lyme disease when i was younger. Curiously enough, i didn't get the somewhat common rash after the tick bite, but instead it was discovered later, as a part of blood testing. I was submitted to that after my relatives had concerns about how lethargic i was being, as well as because i was experiencing joint pain, which the blood test later seemed to confirm. If i recall correctly, i was given antibiotic…

In a side note I usually read that those rashes are only present in 30% of cases or so. Probably good advice to get checked out if you suspect an infection. Multiple times, if necessary, as the testing also doesn't appear to have a high degree of accuracy.

Yeah, got lyme disease one month ago and there was no rashes as well. Good idea is to send the tick to laboratory for testing, it will take quite some time (week or two) but better than nothing.

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

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post #7

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

Imagine a vaccine against various cancers!

People have been working on cancer vaccines for a long time actually, it's just so hard.

- https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-cancerbio-...

- https://www.jimmunol.org/content/200/2/443

- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6382/1355

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

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post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, if you're onboard with previous typical vaccination, but hesitant to jump on board with mRNA treatments, what are you? Does that now fall under "anti-vax" in internet lingo? Is wise to group everyone under one umbrella term?

What's the point in differentiating? They at best deluded themselves with a slightly different brand of anti-vax propaganda. Do we need a separate term?

So there's no possible valid logic for not wanting an mRNA vaccine. It's all completely "delusion" stemming from propaganda? Anyone who does not have complete faith at this point is in the wrong?

Am I understanding you correctly?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a totally novel virus. The reason why vaccines were developed within days of isolating the virus is because SARS-COV-2 is not that different from SARS-COV-1 and all the vaccine research efforts carried over. What was pathetic was the federal coordination - hesitation on travel restrictions, CDC response, recommendations against PPE… Lessons that could have been learned even from the 1918 pandemic were painfully i…

It's not surprising when you look at who was running the federal government at the time. If it wasn't a shitshow, there would have been something wrong in the universe.

You have no idea what you're talking about:

- Trump started the travel ban, which the Dems and CCP called racist

- Trump funded the vaccines we have now

- Fauci said not to wear masks and covered up NIH funding of the Wuhan labs. He's aligned with the Dems and CCP

- the CDC goofed up corona tests for 6 weeks

Marxists made corona political, thanks to ignorant people like you.

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

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Which part do want proof of? Google "ticks in ontario increasing" for literally dozens of references. The "probably climate change" is supposition, hence the "probably" disclaimer, but a lot of those references above blame "milder winters" or climate change directly.

>The "probably climate change" is supposition, hence the "probably" Then maybe just leave it out next time. I'm tired of people claiming climate change is responsible with no data to back it up for every natural event. That's no better than someone claiming global warming doesn't exist because they have a cold week of snow.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/ticks-spreadi...

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publ...

Here are a few sources with two mins of Googling.

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