Vector-borne and tick-borne infections like Lyme disease have been rising sharply in recent years.
  • antbricks@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    My area needs this sooooo bad. We have one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the country. Unfortunately, Alpha-gal disease is now also in this area, so even with this vaccine, every family walk even near the woods or fields still has to be followed with full body and hair inspections. Every time. So many ticks… Ugh.

    • starlinguk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      Here it’s Lyme and tick-borne encephalitis. You can get vaccinated against the latter but a lot of people don’t bother or don’t know. And we have a LOT of ticks.