Vaccinating Mice May Help Fight Lyme Disease
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Vaccinating mice against Lyme disease might help protect people against the infection, which is often spread from mice to humans, researchers said.
It would be necessary to develop an oral vaccine, probably in mouse bait, the researchers reported in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“This strategy could have significant implications, not only for preventing Lyme disease, but for preventing other vector-borne diseases as well, including plague and West Nile virus,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
