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Shame the vaccine they made for it got largely stopped by antivaxers https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/20/lyme-disease...

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They still produce it for dogs...

This may or may not be obvious, but the Lyme vaccine for dogs is not the same as the discontinued one for humans. So it's (unfortunately) not a simple case of rebranding/repackaging the vaccine they're already producing for human use.

This is well known in parts of europe. Strange that the US doesn't know about it?

Just how many antivaxers are there on HN? My comment from a few days ago was also severely downvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487229

I have no ide3a, there should be few, as it takes a special kind of intellectual failure to subscribe & promote such packs of falsehoods about both science and history, much based on a fraudulent study that caused the author to be stripped of his degree & Med license. [1][2]

Perhaps more importantly, it needs to be understood that anti-vaxxers are A) freeloading on the herd immunity created and maintained by the smarter people, and B) are directly endangering the set of people who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons -- they are literally a death threat to many.

Much of this is also people falling for weaponized Russian dezinformatsiya, a very cheap way to both sow discontent, conflict, and illness in their adversaries [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield [2] https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20190304/larges... [3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/09/in-the-united-states-ru...

There are plenty of further resources on all of these topics; this is merely a start

Gosh - I had no idea about the Russian thing. You'd think they could do something more constructive with themselves.

You might think, but the Russians have been the world champions of espionage & subterfuge for at least a century. It is an enormous return on investment to deploy a few inexpensive resources and create havoc in your adversaries. Moreover, it is a win-even-if-you-lose situation; you don't need to get everyone to believe your dezinformatsiya (disinformation), you accomplish much even if people simply throw up their hands and say they don't know what to believe. The same with pushing extreme points of view in politics or hoaxes -- it pushes people to disconnect from their society, weakening that society.

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