I know that your lab
helped develop the first
Lyme disease vaccine for dogs.
How far are we from a
vaccine for humans?
There have been vaccines
for humans.
The original LYMERix vaccine
was offered for a while
and then taken off the market.
There have been other attempts
at developing similar vaccines.
There are pros and cons
for the different
vaccine strategies being used
both in animals and humans.
Our hope and our work is
trying to find a effective
protective vaccination
that can be used in humans
that would function in
more or less the same
sort of way as a vaccine
that a person might get
one time, or even perhaps
once a season, and then
provide protection going into
the whole rest of that year
or that season.
Some progress has
been made on that.
Lots of dead ends.
It's a hard area of work.