A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon
If approved, the shot would be the first vaccine for Lyme disease in nearly three decades
Publisher: Science News
How a new Lyme vaccine for mice may protect people
Biologist Maria Gomes-Solecki co-led the early development of the new mouse vaccine. Her team distributed an early version of the vaccine to areas in upstate New York from 2007 to 2011. B. burgdorferi has a two-year life cycle in ticks. This and other factors mean it takes time to see meaningful reductions in infections, says Gomes-Solecki, of… Read More