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I know that your lab

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helped develop the first

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Lyme disease vaccine for dogs.

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How far are we from a

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vaccine for humans?

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There have been vaccines

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for humans.

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The original LYMERix vaccine

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was offered for a while

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and then taken off the market.

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There have been other attempts

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at developing similar vaccines.

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There are pros and cons

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for the different

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vaccine strategies being used

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both in animals and humans.

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Our hope and our work is

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trying to find a effective

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protective vaccination

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that can be used in humans

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that would function in

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more or less the same

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sort of way as a vaccine

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that a person might get

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one time, or even perhaps

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once a season, and then

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provide protection going into

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the whole rest of that year

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or that season.

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Some progress has

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been made on that.

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Lots of dead ends.

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It's a hard area of work.