this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
71 points (100.0% liked)

Good News Everyone

1015 readers
14 users here now

A place to post good news and prevent doom scrolling!

Rules for now:

  1. posts must link from a reliable news source
  2. no reposts
  3. paywalled articles must be made available
  4. avoid politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
can@sh.itjust.works
71
Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 1 year ago by PigglyWiggly@sh.itjust.works to c/goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2379797

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] snota@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Kind of an odd second order vaccination. You get vaccinated but can still catch Lyme. it would prevent the tick carrying Lyme in the future though, at least that's how I understood it.