Vaccines, Better Tests Are Coming for Lyme Disease

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This may be one of the last few summers that people will need to mostly depend on doing tick checks as the best defense against getting Lymedisease. Vaccines, better tests are coming.

, fatigue, and skin rash, but they can worsen to become issues with joints, the nervous system, and the heart, the CDC says.

Ticks are more active during warmer months, and the current ways to prevent Lyme disease are to wear insect repellent and remove ticks promptly, according to the CDC. There is no definitive count of how many cases of Lyme disease occur annually because testing can be a challenge. But one , which was based on insurance claims data, showed that 476,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease annually. is underway in which scientists are seeking ways to detect active Lyme disease infections in people.

Lyme disease vaccines have been available for dogs for years, and a human version was FDA-approved in 1998. But the company that made the human vaccine pulled it from the market 3 years later, after "The primary reason is there was immense anti-vaccine sentiment about the vaccine, much like we had with

 

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