The law essentially immunizes any individual or entity engaged in business, services, activities or accommodations because they are not liable unless the injured party can prove with clear and convincing evidence that the individual or entity engaged in recklessness or willful misconduct
The Lyme disease vaccine LYMErix (Tribune News Service)
Published May 16. 2021 12:01AM
Dr. Vijay K. Sikand
May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month, timed to coincide with the emergence of ticks with warmer spring weather. A record number of ticks that transmit several infectious diseases are expected in Connecticut this year, including babesiosis, anaplasmosis and others. The Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven tracks ticks and is already recording about 40 % more than the same period last year, another consequence of global warming.
Pandemic weary Connecticut residents with cabin fever, many fully Covid-vaccinated, are venturing out to tick habitats in backyards, woods, and other environments where roam the white-tailed deer and white-footed mice that host the ticks. None of these folks are vaccinated against Lyme disease, though many of their dogs are.
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