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@whiskeysailor Fact check (after my reading the one article linked below): kindasorta.

TLDR: "Anti-vaccine forces claimed it was dangerous, tanked its popularity and sued it out of existence after just a few years on the market." (It's slightly more complicated.)

Two other points of interest:

There ARE vaccines available for dogs.

"Members of a CDC advisory committee disparagingly called it a “yuppie vaccine” for affluent suburbanites ... Lyme was seen as a champagne problem: a mild, treatable disease that affected a small number of people only in certain—wealthy—regions." This is interesting because we so often hear about industry developing boner pills for rich white men rather than curing, e.g., malaria.

time.com/6073576/lyme-disease-
QT: skull.website/@whiskeysailor/1

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