From Medical Express: A Lyme Vaccine is in Late-Stage Trials. Could an Anti-Tick Vaccine be Next?

October 28, 2024 Lyme Disease, Public Health, Vector-borne disease

A Lyme vaccine is in late-stage trials. Could an anti-tick vaccine be next?

By Cynthia McCormick Hibbert, July 1, 2024

Deer Tick (adult female); Ixodes scapularis
Blacklegged Tick or Deer Tick (adult female). Photo: Griffin Dill.

As a vaccine against Lyme disease enters late-stage clinical trials, scientists around the globe are already looking beyond Lyme and exploring the possibility of an anti-tick vaccine that could effectively protect against all kinds of tick-borne diseases.

The research centers around a weird—and some would say wonderful—phenomenon called acquired tick resistance (ATR).

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