{"items": [{"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699302450162", "anchor": "fb-699302450162", "service": "fb", "text": "I'd back that Kickstarter", "timestamp": "1418305806"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699303612832", "anchor": "fb-699303612832", "service": "fb", "text": "MA tried to get permission to make the vaccine at (I believe) BU but couldn't get the necessary permissions.", "timestamp": "1418306864"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699303727602", "anchor": "fb-699303727602", "service": "fb", "text": "Kiran when? If the patent expired a few months ago you wouldn't need to get permission, would you? The FDA never retracted its approval...", "timestamp": "1418306935"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699304156742", "anchor": "fb-699304156742", "service": "fb", "text": "Not sure; I read about it a few years ago but as you might imagine getting a search to hit all the relevant terms is well nigh impossible (Google 'verbatim' search hasn't worked for years.) ah, it was only a proposal in 2012.

\"At a hearing last summer, of the Massachusetts Lyme Disease Commission, veterinarian Sam Telford suggested the state license GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s FDA-approved vaccine. He suggested that it could be produced at a state lab, but Glaxo has not said if they\u2019d jump on board, no doubt waiting to hear from their lawyers.\"

\"Telford arguess the state could make it at the UMass Biologics Laboratory in Jamaica Plain, a facility that has made other vaccines before. GlaxoSmithKline would not say whether it would consider such an option.\"

While looking for that I found news of a possible new vaccine.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01504347", "timestamp": "1418307356"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699304381292", "anchor": "fb-699304381292", "service": "fb", "text": "I've heard the vaccine for dogs is actually the same as the one for humans, but I don't know if this is true.", "timestamp": "1418307510"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699304530992", "anchor": "fb-699304530992", "service": "fb", "text": "From a Nature article, new to me:

\"Allen Steere, who had led the clinical trial, and his colleagues at Yale published a separate paper. The team had found that a portion of OspA looks very similar to lymphocyte function\u2013associated antigen 1 (LFA-1), a human protein involved in the body's immune response. They posited that this mimicry might explain why a small fraction of genetically susceptible people who seem to have been cured of B. burgdorferi infection continue to show symptoms of arthritis. Once the OspA is gone, the immune system mistakenly begins attacking LFA-1, triggering Lyme arthritis.\"

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n7/full/nm0714-698.html", "timestamp": "1418307675"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699305279492", "anchor": "fb-699305279492", "service": "fb", "text": "Kiran I heard the same about the dogs' vaccine (I think it was an NPR segment).", "timestamp": "1418308314"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112938759017605010116", "anchor": "gp-1418309272924", "service": "gp", "text": "I don't have a FB account so can't join the comment thread there, but I found the NPR article that talks about humans receiving the canine vaccine:\u00a0\nhttp://www.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine", "timestamp": 1418309272}, {"author": "Theresa", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699314021972", "anchor": "fb-699314021972", "service": "fb", "text": "tagging Sandy ...", "timestamp": "1418314936"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1418322742376", "service": "gp", "text": "@Chris\n\u00a0I see \"I\u2019m personally aware of individuals, who in desperation have gone to veterinarians and remarkably convinced the veterinarian to inject them with the canine vaccine\" but\u00a0I can't find anyone saying the canine vaccine is the same thing as the human one.", "timestamp": 1418322742}, {"author": "Vince", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699347689502", "anchor": "fb-699347689502", "service": "fb", "text": "There was a vaccine for a tick bite
Similar in function to lymphocyte
The patients injected
Were sometimes infected
And felt worse than the well by a far sight.", "timestamp": "1418338418"}, {"author": "Susan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699352270322", "anchor": "fb-699352270322", "service": "fb", "text": "Food for thought. Thanks.", "timestamp": "1418341680"}, {"author": "Jeannine", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699508716802", "anchor": "fb-699508716802", "service": "fb", "text": "I didn't even know about the vaccine, and have friends who have/are really suffering from Lyme. Did you know that Lyme is also transmitted like an STD? So people can have it without ever having been bitten by a tick.", "timestamp": "1418438820"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699508761712", "anchor": "fb-699508761712", "service": "fb", "text": "I've heard it can be but I'm betting it's rare.", "timestamp": "1418438867"}, {"author": "Sandy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699746819642", "anchor": "fb-699746819642", "service": "fb", "text": "One of the issues with a Lyme vaccine is that it doesn't protect against the myriad of co-infections also carried by the tick. They REALLY screwed up with the last vaccine and there was a lot of shady stuff going on. Also - they need to stop saying things like, \"seem to be cured\" because it has been PROVEN that the Borrelia bacteria can hide in cyst forms, cell-wall deficient forms and in bio-film so that once the antibiotics are stopped, they can resume the infection. The IDSA Guidelines are defunct as they have expired. The only up-to-date diagnostic and treatment guidelines are those of ILADS (www.ilads.org) yet most doctors are not aware of this.", "timestamp": "1418593352"}, {"author": "Sandy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/699302026012?comment_id=699747333612", "anchor": "fb-699747333612", "service": "fb", "text": "Lyme is often treated incompletely with 10 days or 2 weeks of abx. The symptoms subside for a while and then may return with a vengeance and may become chronic. Then the very same doctor who facilitated the development of the chronic disease will deny that such a thing exists so you are screwed. This has happened to SO many and will continue to happen until doctors (and their patients) wake up.", "timestamp": "1418593596"}]}