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It's too bad LYMErix was taken off the market due to anti-vaccine marketing in the 90s...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

Surprised this isn't well known. I found out on my own a few months ago and nobody I've talked to about it since knew that this was available.

I would definitely pay money for this if they brought it back. Probably up to hundreds of dollars.

If you pay close attention to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ you’ll note that a portion of the population does appear to have a genotype that makes people susceptible to arthritis which is exactly the symptoms that the initial negative response to Lymerix claimed.

I wish there was a Lyme vaccine but imho the case of Lymerix is closer to Rotashield than an innocent victim of anti-vaxxers.

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