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USA CDC : Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, Present, and Future

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[CanLyme note: The argument to market a vaccine anytime soon is weak.  Until many eyes have had a chance to review the data, primarily including the patient’s experts, no vaccine should be introduced… and if it is, it will fail because of broken trust.]
Published on Jul 30, 2015

A Lyme disease vaccine is no longer available. The vaccine manufacturer discontinued production in 2002, citing insufficient consumer demand. This webinar contains presentations that describe the need for a new Lyme disease vaccine; the types of vaccines that are under investigation; and why the previous Lyme disease vaccine failed ….

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  1. The CDC may be doing this for public relations. Perhaps they feel a little bruised from the weight of the attacks from those that hold the heterodox views. Interesting that they call for less hubris as if to prepare people for a possible change in approach.

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