Do you support Lyme vaccines?
Yes - 0.0% - 0 votes
No - 33.3% - 1 votes
It depends on it's efficacy - 66.7% - 2 votes
Posted 5/10/2019 10:44 AM (GMT -5)
I had no idea about the controversy surrounding vaccines. I told a Lyme advocate that I'd talked to this group and she got really upset.
She said "Any vaccine they develop will be strain specific and there are over 300 known strains of Bb. Also, a vaccine will not protect against any other tickborne diseases/viruses/parasites transmitted in a bite along with Lyme!
Hence, this group going to Europe to find out more about the clinical trial?
Also, some of the Lyme guideline authors have patents on the darn vaccine – it is all about big money for the guideline authors!
Have you read the US lawsuit that was filed against the IDSA, 7 of the Lyme guideline authors and 8 US insurance companies – the details of profiteering are disgusting!"
Some of the IDSA Lyme Guideline authors not only have patents on the biological components of the standard LD test. I didn't realize the $$$ behind every Lyme test, and how some tests are discredited, because of money.
Some guideline authors have patents on the biological components of potential vaccines or have been paid to do vaccine “research”.
These are of course severe financial conflicts of interest for anyone to have who is also an author of treatment and testing guidelines and against medical ethics.
"The Attorney General of Connecticut filed an antitrust lawsuit against the IDSA and the guideline authors in 2008. Unfortunately, they settled out of court and the details of their conflicts of interest were not made public.
The IDSA and guideline authors were so outraged they wrote the highly offensive paper they published in the NEJM slamming patients and their treating physicians and re-iterating that there is no persistence of infection.
How did an op-ed get published in a leading medical journal? Because the lead Lyme guideline author, Gary P. Wormser, was on the NEJM editorial board.
A great many of the IDSA Lyme papers published in leading journals are nothing more than opinion pieces or literature reviews (cherry picked of course)."
So I went into this consultation ignorant. I thought a vaccine wasn't great because their are too many strains of Lyme, but there are so many more reasons why, in reality, it could be a terrible thing.
What do you think? Do you think a vaccine against Lyme would be a good thing, given the people we have working on it are largely influenced by money?