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.
Ixodes scapularis saliva components that elicit responses associated with acquired tick-resistance
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31924502/