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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Summer Vaccine of the Future

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

LYMErix, the first vaccine against Lyme, was pulled from the market amid poor sales and pressure from the public. Now, over 20 years later, a new vaccine is in late-stage trials.

Guest: Cassandra Willyard

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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1:07.8

Science journalist Cassandra Willier has written a lot about Lyme disease over the years.

1:12.7

So when her seven-year-old daughter was recently bitten by a tick, she went into action mode.

1:17.6

And I couldn't totally tell whether it was a black-legged tick or whether it was a wood tick

1:26.2

because it was so little, but I thought, oh, it's really little and it sort of looks like a black

1:30.6

-legged tick to me. A black-legged tick. Also known as a deer tick is the kind of tick that can carry

1:36.8

Lyme. And so I pulled it out. I have a little device called a tick key that's meant for pulling

1:43.1

them out. And I thought, you know, I just don't want to worry about it. And so I shipped the tick off

1:53.4

to a lab where they assess whether the tick carries the Lyme bacteria or not. And it was clean. So it

2:01.8

was all good. I spend a lot of time in the Catskill Mountains and there are a lot of ticks there

2:07.2

and there's a decent amount of Lyme there. And it is not at all uncommon for us to

2:12.2

pull a tick off of someone, some member of the family, and actually put it in a little baggy and

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