Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again
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#2If you're a hiker, permethrin. Spray down your socks, pants, shirts. Let it dry. You're good to go for a dozen outings. Non toxic to humans, and orderless.
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#3I wonder how widespread Lyme Disease has to get before the economic incentives to develop a new vaccine reach a tipping point.
There used to be a vaccine but it was discontinued because of insufficient demand.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-v...
"In April 2002, GSK announced that even with the incidence of Lyme disease continuing to rise, sales for LYMErix declined from about 1.5 million doses in 1999 to a projected 10,000 doses in 2002."
How do we square this with the number of cases rising so much over the last few years?
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#5Fingers crossed there will be a vaccine back in production within a couple years.
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#6I wonder how widespread Lyme Disease has to get before the economic incentives to develop a new vaccine reach a tipping point. There used to be a vaccine but it was discontinued because of insufficient demand. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-v... "In April 2002, GSK announced that even with the incidence of Lyme disease continuing to rise, sales for LYMErix declined from about 1.5 million d…
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#8If you're a hiker, permethrin. Spray down your socks, pants, shirts. Let it dry. You're good to go for a dozen outings. Non toxic to humans, and orderless.
according to wikipedia permethrin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin
kills bees...
Re: Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again
#9I wonder how widespread Lyme Disease has to get before the economic incentives to develop a new vaccine reach a tipping point. There used to be a vaccine but it was discontinued because of insufficient demand. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-v... "In April 2002, GSK announced that even with the incidence of Lyme disease continuing to rise, sales for LYMErix declined from about 1.5 million d…
Strangely enough you can get your dog vaccinated but not yourself.
>As of December 2016, a Phase I clinical trial was announced for a new candidate vaccine developed by the French company Valneva. The vaccine is similar to the SmithKlineBeecham product, but the vaccine is multivalent, targeting six Borrelia OspA serotypes. The trial will test vaccine safety, and a later Phase II trial will test efficacy.[xi] Baxter, an Austrian company, had previously tested another vaccine candidate in a combined Phase I/II trial, but the company seems to have abandoned development.[xii]
Re: Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again
#10I wonder how widespread Lyme Disease has to get before the economic incentives to develop a new vaccine reach a tipping point. There used to be a vaccine but it was discontinued because of insufficient demand. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-v... "In April 2002, GSK announced that even with the incidence of Lyme disease continuing to rise, sales for LYMErix declined from about 1.5 million d…
LYMErix suffered from actual or imagined side-effects that led to lawsuits, which were a factor in GSK discontinuing it. From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
"Spawned by the press coverage of vaccine risks and the ongoing litigation, vaccine sales fell off dramatically in 2001. "
there's at least one new vaccine in development http://www.valneva.com/en/rd/vla15