Nasty doesn’t quite cover it. Lyme disease can be downright debilitating for some. The fatigue and pain can become so severe that sufferers become suicidal. Treatment has improved over the years, but there’s no substitute for prevention.
I was fine but one of the guys in the office wound up crippled so bad, he had to stop working.
It was an eye-opener.
I’ve read that its very hard to diagnose also. Good to here there is a vaccine.
I live a little SW of Boston.
The wooden lot behind my house is LOADED with ticks.
Made the mistake of going back there 2 summers ago to clean up a bit.
Even a few days later i would still find one of those nasty bloodsuckers stuck on me somewhere..The woman next door caught the Lime a while back and i believe it ended up ruining her life.
Been that way around here for years now.
Don’t remember ever getting infested with ticks when i was a kid though.
i wonder what happened..
Worth remembering there was a human Lyme vaccine in the late 90s, but was pulled from the market after 3 years due to the small market and "side-effects", aka lawyers. Fortunately my dogs are able to keep their vaccinations up, they have vets but no lawyers. If I recall I got two of the three shots. There was a second vaccine approved as well, but never brought to market.
There is already a vaccine for Lyme disease but it was withdrawn from the market about 20 years ago due to it not being profitable for the manufacturer.
That’s a vaccine I’d be willing to line up for. In the meantime, I’ll keep dabbing on the rose geranium oil.
Had lyme disease a few years back and it caused heart palpitations so bad that I passed out driving. Recovered a few seconds later and pulled over where I passed out again on the wheel.
Thank goodness I caught it early and was treated with strong meds and it was cleared up. Don’t catch it early and it’s with you for life.
My buddy had partial paralysis from it. Doctor didn’t know what it was and when I told him it could be Lyme disease and he should be tested for it the doctor went ballistic asking where my medical degree was. In the end my friend demanded it and it was Lyme. He still owes me a steak dinner. He fully recovered.
Various doctors said my CIDP was in their mind caused by Lyme disease. Multiple tests later and no titer for it. So they have no clue.
Ticks are nasty buggers.
Excellent news, but misleading title...
New Vaccine Developed By Massachusetts’ Doctor May Prevent Lyme Disease In Humans
Long overdue... Have a wonderful CT niece who suffered the ravages of the disease since the 1960's when doctors used to diagnose it as dozens of other diseases...
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“Lyme” Disease?
that’s RASSSCCCCIIIIST against Lymons!
How Dare They!
If WuHu Flu is out, ChiCom Corona, Panda Sniffles or all other descriptives are out too, why not use a general, non-descriptive, non-discriminatory “Covid-349” or something less offensive?
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Ivermectin is very effective against Lyme
This will be great news if in all pans out in the clinical trials.
It’s all about the deer:
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/15651/
“The finding shows that the ongoing Lyme disease epidemic was not sparked by a recent introduction of the bacterium or an evolutionary change—such as a mutation that made the bacterium more readily transmissible. It is tied to the ecological transformation of much of North America. Specifically, forest fragmentation and the population explosion of deer in the last century have created optimal conditions for the spread of ticks and triggered this ongoing epidemic ....
“The Lyme disease bacterium has long been endemic,” she said. “But the deforestation and subsequent suburbanization of much of New England and the Midwest created conditions for deer ticks—and the Lyme disease bacterium—to thrive.”
That’s one vaccine I WOULD take, once proven to be effective. It’s quite prevalent in Wisconsin, as well. D@mn our beautiful forests and woodlands! ;)
Lost a really great 5 year old Labrador Retriever to Lyme Disease. In Labs it effects their kidneys, and of course once she displayed symptoms, it was too late. :(
And I did everything for her - flea and tick goop, flea baths, nightly Tick Checks. I never found a tick on that dog. Ever. And she slept with me, too.
Re: clinical trial on 66 human subjects
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I’m wondering...after they give them the vaccine shot, how do they know if it works?
Do they send them out into the woods where the ticks are, or just try to actively infect them with it...
The wife of a friend of our son caught Lyme disease several years ago.......the disease wasted her.......she was in her 30’s, had a small child and is now practically an invalid
They are raising money to try an experimental drug on her
There already is a Vaccine for Lyme.
You just aren’t allowed to get it but your dog can.
It is the same vaccine that was developed for and works in, humans.
If you wanted to thank someone for preventing you from getting it, thank a lawyer. Three minor reactions to the Vaccine got it was yanked and they quickly switched over to aiming it at pets.
It’s well known around here in NJ that if you work with brush and such, you get a sympathetic Vet to provide it to you.
I’ve had Lyme disease three times now. The first time with chills and fever worse than any other illness, the second two times with big red bullseye rashes that warned me to start antibiotics before I got really sick.
So if the real thing doesn’t give immunity, how does a vaccine?
How about working on immunity against ticks? For a few years, ticks that bit me died and I’ve heard of someone else whose immune system killed ticks.
I don’t know how well that would protect against tick-borne illness, but it is very satisfactory.