Lyme disease shot inches closer to reality
Phase one clinical trial for a new shot to protect people from Lyme Disease will conclude...
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Phase one clinical trial for a new shot to protect people from Lyme Disease will conclude...
Lyme PrEP, a seasonal shot to prevent Lyme disease developed by MassBiologics at UMass Medical School, has begun enrolling volunteers to evaluate the safety and pharmacology of the treatment.
Initially halted by public fears, a preventive treatment could be here in two years.
click to enlarge Wendy Kagan The deer tick nymph embedded in my daughter’s calf was hardly an invited guest on our summer vacation to Block Island, but there it was. The size of a poppy seed, it could’ve easily escaped attention, yet my 12-year-old has fighter-pilot radar for the potentially disease-toting little buggers. Upon learning that we hadn’t packed our tick tweezers, she dug her fingernails in with gusto, removing most of ...
UPDATED 4:45 PM ET May. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:00 PM ET May. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:00 PM EDT May. 19, 2021 SHARE MASS. - Ticks are no fun and and you can expect to see a lot more of them isn't comforting news. Dr. Mark Klempner, executive vice chancellor for MassBiologics at UMass Medical School said the tick population is growing across the United States. Close to half of a million cases of Lyme disease are reported in the country every year, a number which is also growing. Dr. Klempner developed Lyme P...