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- From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Lyme vacine statis needed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.163302.37858@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:33:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.213044.664@news.wesleyan.edu>
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- Ruth Ginzberg (RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu) wrote:
- : In <C1H0B6.H8q@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> time@coos.dartmouth.edu writes:
- :
- : > I know this comes up fairly often, but I don't recall what was said
- : > about the statis of a vacine is. My husband and I are going to be building
- : > a house on Nantucket Is.this spring and I would like the protection for us,
- : > the kids, and our dog if it is available and effective.
- :
- :
- : Unfortunately, this vaccine is not available for humans. However, new researc
- : from the Yale/New-Haven Lyme Disease clinic indicates that even if you are
- : bitten by a tick that IS infected with Lyme Disease, your chance of catching
- : the disease is only 1%. This is low enough that they don't even give
- : prophylactic antibiotics for tick bites any more, even in this endemic area.
- : They wait until you actually have Symptoms before they treat, now. BTW, some
-
- Sorry, folks, the Yale study is not the only one.
- A University of Denver study, published in the same journal as the Yale one (N
- Eng J Med), concluded that prophylactic treatment *is* indicated for tick
- bites in endemic areas.
-
- The Yale study is simply biased to the viewpoint of the Yale LD folks. This
- is the way they protect their NIH grants (i.e. Don't panic the public).
-
- If you want more complete information on LD, not just the crap that Yale
- releases on the AP wires, subscribe to the LymeNet newsletter.
- (This is not a personal attact on the pervious posters - They just read the
- news reports they are given).
-
- (It's time for the shameless plug)
-
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- In the body of the memo, write subscribe LymeNet-L <Your Real Name>
-
- : study locally showed that in some communities around here (I think Nantucket
- : Island was one of the studied areas) as many as 50% of adults show evidence of
- : exposure to Lyme Disease. But not nearly that many become ill from it. So th
-
- What the new research is showing is the your genetic make-up influences how
- you will react to the LD bacteria. Just becuase you don't violently develop
- symptoms, doesn't mean you're not infected. It's just dormant. There is *no*
- telling what will happen to these people in time. The best thing to do would
- be to kill the bug in the first place.
-
- BTW, prophylactic LD treatment is cheap ... $15-$35.
-
- Nantucket is not endemnic, it's hyper-endemic.
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