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Topic: New Lyme Vaccine?

mobfarias
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Member # 13000

posted

I was just at the Dr. office reading through the June/July 2008 copy of Outdoor Life and read an article about a new Lyme Vaccine. It sounded more like a treatment than a Vaccine though.

Its an injection of Doxy that has been modified to be released over 20 days. It has been 100% effective in Mice. It says in the article that oral treatment with Doxy is 20 to 30% effective in preventing the illness. It is being developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, CO. They are currently working on different delivery methods such as patches.

Anyone hear anything about this?

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adamm
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posted

The concept of this as prophylaxis is utterly absurd; this term

denotes a protective measure to be taken before any

disease is present, and the only thing said treatment could be

used for

is dealing with an already-established infection. Additionally, I'm sure it's more or less

equivalent to the official "early-Lyme treatment" currently recommended by the IDSA

(which virtually never works in humans.)

It is nice that they're finally admitting that their

currently

recommended "prophylactic" treatment doesn't work, though. If this

doesn't

get at least someone ****ed I might actually be

surprised...

God--guess you have to be an encephalitis sufferer to have

any sense these days [bonk]

[ 14. August 2008, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: adamm ]

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NJLyme82
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Member # 15683

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Maybe I'm thinking abut this too simplistically, but they are willing to give long term antibiotics to people who DON'T have Lyme.

But they still refuse long term abx to people who DO have signs of chronic infection?

Maybe its a question of dosing, but still, WTF?

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I was diagnosed with and treated for late stage Lyme in 1991 with 6 weeks of doxycycline. Initially felt better, but then developed health problems that last until today.

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