PING!....................
I’m not certain, but the photo looks like a dog tick, which is not an ixodid and therefore does not transmit Lyme.
There was a Lyme vaccine trial at Johns Hopkins in the 1990’s. I knew someone in the trial. A young man in his 20s in good health. He took the vaccine and got Lyme Disease. Last I heard, which was a few years after that, he was very sick with arthritis and other problems from the vaccine induced Lyme Disease. No thanks. Mot for me or pets.
Odd this came out right now.
A ‘rice bowl’ stunt????
Why do I say that?
Locally Mt Spurr, a local suddenly volcano went to “yellow alert” status, right *after* Trump started chain sawing the FedGov budget.
Our Senators immediately started bucking for sperate funding the Volcano Center. Now that it looks like the funding will come thru — we now get “maybe Spurr isn’t all the active...
Yup - all I see is a rice bowl scam....
how bout they kill off the ticks infected to begin with, instead of jabbing more people?
I got a classic bullseye bruise symptomatic of a tick bite. I went to a doctor and got a blood test. His receptionist, not him, tells me she looked at the results and I don’t have lymes. One week later, I wake up with the left side of my face paralyzed. I go to another doctor and the first thing he asks me is ‘have you had a tick bite’. I told him I was tested for lymes and it came back clean. He says ‘You have Bell’s palsy which is a side effect of lymes disease, and we’re going to test you again’. They did and it came back positive. They put me on a strong antibiotic regimen. I asked if the paralysis would go away. He said it could go away in 2 weeks, or 6 months or never, as it was impossible to predict. Two weeks to the day, I woke up without the paralysis thank God.
I would like to see a vaccine against ticks, potentially stopping many tick-borne diseases.
My body killed ticks for a while, and I’ve read about a few other people who did this.
Here’s some killer T cells with your dinner, tick, bwa ha ha ha.
Or whatever the mechanism is.
Some tick-borne diseases transmit in minutes, not hours like Lyme, so probably it wouldn’t be fast enough there.
The immune reaction at least lets you know you have a tick to remove, even if it doesn’t kill it. No under the radar little bloodsuckers.
I’ll take my chances with Lyme disease
They’ve been supposedly trying out a vaccine in the ne. That was about 8 10 years or so ago- never heard if it was successful or not. Would be huge if it is successful as many people have outside jobs, and lots of folks just love the outdoors. Would be nice to not have to worry about tick bites like the good old days when kids could p,ay outside without fear of lymes or o e of the other tick infections. Growing up we never even heard of lymes disease. Now just going in a yard for a barbecue can ruin a person’s life if they get it and don’t realize it.
BTTT