# Lyme disease vaccine in late-stage trials would be first in 20 years

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/lyme-disease-vaccine-in-late-stage-trials-would-be-first-in-20-years/
- Published: 2022-08-11T09:00:51-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image: Deer tick &#8211; Ixodes scapularis. Image credit: US federal government Center for Disease Control (CDC) &#8211; Public Domain. Article by Andrew Jeong. The Washington Post &#8211; August 9, 2022. Pfizer and French pharmaceutical company Valneva are enlisting 6,000 people for a late-stage clinical trial that will test a vaccine designed to protect against the tick-borne Lyme disease, the drugmakers said Monday. If development of the vaccine is successful, it could become the first federally approved inoculation against Lyme [&#8230;] Click here to view original web page at www.washingtonpost.com
