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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks (www.newsweek.com)

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Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks::Researchers have developed a way to vaccinate people such that the ticks that cause Lyme disease cannot be colonized by the bacteria that cause the disease.

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[-] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Peer-reviewed publication link

It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the publication link

Edit: pertinently, I’m not 100% sure that’s the same publication, as there doesn’t obviously even seem to be a journal with the title Microbiota (their citation)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Drives me fucking mad. I’m convinced that a lot of articles just read other news outlets articles and regurgitate it.

There’s almost never source material cited. I agree, should be illegal.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

This feels oddly fake. No journal of that name, nothing on INRAE (the research institute claimed to have published this). AI generated news? I wouldn't doubt it. I know that Chat-GPT is very good at making fake scientific summaries (complete with fake references using real names in the field) why not fake science news? Also, the vaccine is for the tick.. Not for us to use against the tick. For the tick..

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Found it, real paper, wrong journal. Horrible article by Newsweek. https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-023-01599-7

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Please just let me go to my local CVS and get this. I've considered trying to trick a vet into giving me the one they give dogs (that was originally developed and used for humans but taken off the market for total bullshit reasons) but easier said than done.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

I've considered trying to trick a vet into giving me the one they give dogs (that was originally developed and used for humans but taken off the market for total bullshit reasons) but easier said than done.

"My dog is very sensitive, please set the syringe here..."

"Sir, this is your own arm."

"Whaaaatt?! Really?!! Hahahaha, how could that happen hahahh. Now do it."

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

ITT: People who didn't read the article and realize this is a vaccine they inject the ticks with and is more about proving how the disease works in the ticks gut biome than any human trials. We've had human vaccines for many years, but they were pulled from the market. Yet dogs can get a vaccine today.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For those that spend a lot of time outdoors this is a good thing. I know if at least one influencer that almost died due to Lyme desease. She just released av update video on it.

https://youtu.be/tCYpw9cnD7Y

I definitely worry about it but love being out in the woods. Sounds like a good option to me.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

oh no not an influencer

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

2 days ago we pulled 12 ticks off our son and 34 off our dog after a forest walk. My brother in law got a bullseye last week and is being treated for to. This would change everything!!!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Lyme vaccines for veterinary use have been around for ages. Why has it taken so long for human Lyme vaccines?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

There used to be a vaccine approved for human use, but it was discontinued because it wasn't profitable.

Yay capitalism.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

As my vet described it: stuff that can cause cancer on a 15-20 year timescale is a lot less of a big deal for dogs than it is people.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep it's due to capitalism. It wasn't profitable to develop treatments for ticks or even mites.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The ticks were horrible last year for me, even had to be treated for Lyme disease. Glad they're making progress on this.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This makes no sense.. by the way vaccines for Lyme have been around for 10yrs. This doesn't make sense unless you can mass vaccinate ticks.

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