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What Next TBD: The Summer Vaccine of the Future

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash UK slash AI for people. Science journalist Cassandra Williard has written a lot about

0:37.4

Lyme disease over the years.

0:39.0

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

0:44.6

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

0:53.6

But I thought, oh, it's really little,

0:55.6

and it sort of looks like a black-legged tick to me.

0:58.5

A black-legged tick, also known as a deer tick, is the kind of tick that can carry lime.

1:03.9

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

1:14.7

And I thought, you know, I just don't want to worry about it. And so I shipped the tick off to a lab where they assess whether

1:22.3

the tick carries the Lyme bacteria or not. And it was clean. So it was all good. I spend a lot of time in the Catskill

1:31.3

Mountains, and there are a lot of ticks there, and there's a decent amount of lime there,

1:35.3

and it is not at all uncommon for us to pull a tick off of someone, some member of the family,

1:42.6

and actually put it in a little baggy and put it in the

1:45.6

freezer should we need to ship it off to a lab. So hearing that you did that, I'm like, oh,

1:50.7

okay, yeah, that sounds normal. Yeah. And if that sounds extreme to you, it's worth considering

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