The immunization you can now give your puppy is essentially this original [LYMErix] vaccine, says Stanley Plotkin, a professor and consultant who literally wrote the book on vaccines, and whose son almost died from cardiac Lyme disease.
But we’d need a lot more detail and confirmation than just ‘a second-hand claim from an expert that they’re “essentially” the same’.
Fwiw, I self-administered dog Lymerix and I’m doing fine.
Zooming out a bit, if you asked people living here for reasons why they’d consider moving away, Lyme disease would be like #200 on the list. Maybe they’re wildly wrong, but I feel it’s a bit like the people who wouldn’t move to California because of earthquakes. There’s an inside/outside view disconnect.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/dogs-can-be-vaccinated-against-lyme-disease-humans-cant/ says:
But we’d need a lot more detail and confirmation than just ‘a second-hand claim from an expert that they’re “essentially” the same’.
Fwiw, I self-administered dog Lymerix and I’m doing fine.
Zooming out a bit, if you asked people living here for reasons why they’d consider moving away, Lyme disease would be like #200 on the list. Maybe they’re wildly wrong, but I feel it’s a bit like the people who wouldn’t move to California because of earthquakes. There’s an inside/outside view disconnect.