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An unreleased Lyme disease vaccine Is already sparking false conspiracy theories (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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In April, the MAHA Mom Coalition, an organization that claims it advocates for “parental rights, holistic health, clean food & water, and medical freedom,” put out an unusual call. They wanted to talk to the farmers who’d been finding mysterious boxes of ticks in their fields—farmers and boxes that, by every available indication, don’t seem to exist.

“Can anybody reading this right now validate this?” the MAHA Mom Coalition wrote on their Instagram page. “We’d love to connect with and speak to these farmers!!”

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[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

True facts about ticks.

I wish they covered how this vaccine worked a little more closely. Ticks avoid capture by using their saliva to numb the skin where they implant so that they can feed on you. The vaccine just targets the effectiveness of the saliva to make it useless, so the tick still bites you, but you can detect it and pull the tick off before the bacteria that causes Lyme disease takes effect. If you watch the video above, it explains why it takes time for that to happen.

There are theories that the compound in tick saliva that tricks your body into not feeling the bite or sending white blood cells to attack the area immediately actually mimics the way that cancer hides from the body by hiding from your immune system. Coming up with a vaccine that could render their saliva useless could also help with certain types of cancer including colon cancer. Limiting this vaccine actually could limit long term cancer vaccine research.