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Lyme on the brink – the battle for a vaccine

June 13, 2014geeky science & health stuff, Homeantigens, bacterium, Baxter Healthcare, bioengineering, Borrelia burgdorferi, Brookhaven Institute, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, chimeric, class action lawsuit, deerticks, FDA, gene-splicing, GlaxoSmithKline, Ixodes scapularis, Lyme disease, LYMErix, multivalent, OspA, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, Phase I trials, side effects, SmithKline Beecham, spirochete, Stony Brook University, vaccine

By Ned White

A Lyme vaccine for dogs, but not for us. Why not? What happened? And what’s happening now? There’s movement afoot, and significant progress, but we’ll still have to wait…

The tick-borne Powassan virus – you don’t want it

May 30, 2014geeky science & health stuff, HomeArboNET, arbovirus, blacklegged tick, CDC, CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, deerticks, Dr. Marc Fischer, Dr. Sheila Pinette, encephalitis, fatal disease, Lyme disease, Lyn Snow, Maine CDC, Maine Medical Center, permethrin, Powassan virus, prevention, public health, surveillance, ticks, University of Maine

By Ned White

No joke or food this week: the tick-borne Powassan virus may be around us, and it’s as bad as a virus can be. You don’t want it.

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Tag Archives: deerticks

Lyme on the brink – the battle for a vaccine

The tick-borne Powassan virus – you don’t want it

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