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Lyme disease is set to explode and we still don’t have a vaccine
newscientist.com ^ | March 29, 2017 | Chelsea Whyte

Posted on 04/04/2017 7:45:08 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

A new prediction says 2017 and 2018 will see major Lyme disease outbreaks in new areas.
This could lead to lifelong health consequences, so where's the vaccine?

Thanks to a changing climate it could be one of the worst on record: the ticks that carry the disease have been found in places where it has never before been a problem
– and where most people don’t know how to respond.
The danger zone isn’t confined to the US: similar signs are flagging potential outbreaks in Europe. Polish researchers predict a major outbreak there in 2018.

In theory, Ostfeld’s early warning system gives public health officials a two-year window to prepare.
In many other cases, this would be enough time to roll out a vaccination programme.
But there is no human vaccine for Lyme disease. Why not?
And what can you do to protect yourself in the meantime?

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bacteria; fakescience; lyme; vaccine
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

you can’t blame them after having seen what true epidemics can do- people are naturally afraid of things they can’t control because they don’t understand how to-


21 posted on 04/04/2017 9:22:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Lyme Disease
22 posted on 04/04/2017 9:22:35 AM PDT by SC DOC
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To: Bob434

Faggots and blacks live in cities with few tics or lyme. It’s a rural white man’s disease for the most part, so no vaccine is needed.


23 posted on 04/04/2017 9:23:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DocRock

there are several pretty bad things you can get from ticks- lyme is the most well known of the bunch


24 posted on 04/04/2017 9:23:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I believe that we already have a solution for insects carrying diseases - DDT


25 posted on 04/04/2017 9:29:21 AM PDT by taxcontrol (,)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Lyme disease is set to explode and we still don’t have a vaccine
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Lyme disease was created here —> Plum Island Animal Disease Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center


26 posted on 04/04/2017 9:29:28 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Sounds a lot like MS doesn’t it....and they have no clue what causes that.


27 posted on 04/04/2017 9:34:23 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Thanks to a changing climate warm winter it could be one of the worst on record:

There, fixed it.

28 posted on 04/04/2017 10:37:27 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: dangerdoc

“Bambi is the enemy.”

Yep, that is the key to solving it. Once we let the deer population explode in the Northeast, millions of people got infected (or will get infected).

Obviously the solution is easy - take down the deer.


29 posted on 04/04/2017 10:38:13 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Find A Lyme-Literate Doctor
30 posted on 04/04/2017 10:39:44 AM PDT by blam
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Things transmitted by parasites can be tough to vaccinate against. That direct introduction to the blood stream makes them come in strong. Also 300,000 people ain’t actually that much in a land of 320 million.


31 posted on 04/04/2017 10:45:03 AM PDT by discostu (Stand up and be counted, for what you are about to receive.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

so wait...is the sky falling or not ?


32 posted on 04/04/2017 10:45:24 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

PFL


33 posted on 04/04/2017 10:46:07 AM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: stylin19a

The sky is not falling, but this is a real problem for people that work or play outdoors.


34 posted on 04/04/2017 11:24:36 AM PDT by dangerdoc (disgruntled)
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To: Abby4116

Lyme is relatively easy to treat if caught fairly early - often it does give a distinctive bulls-eye rash as an additional clue.

Good luck finding that bulls-eye if it’s under your hair or on your backside. I sure never found one.


35 posted on 04/04/2017 4:29:56 PM PDT by SovereignVA
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Thanks to a changing climate ...

Thanks to that statement everything in this article is now in doubt.

36 posted on 04/04/2017 8:47:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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