Your dog can be vaccinated against the tick-borne Lyme disease, but you can’t. And it’s long past time for that to change, argues vaccine researcher and developer Stanley Plotkin. After all, we had one once. Plotkin says we should apply the lessons we learned from its failure.
Every year, an estimated 300,000 people develop Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi carried by blacklegged ticks. Although the most common symptoms are fever, headache, fatigue and a rash, Lyme disease can become much more serious if it’s not treated with antibiotics.
