As Lyme disease cases increase, so does promise of a new vaccine

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and although cases have steadily increased — and are estimated to be significantly undercounted — there is no vaccine to prevent it.
“The prevalence of Lyme disease has been dramatically increasing, and the geography has been as well,” Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, MBA, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told Healio | Infectious Disease News.
“It used to be quite a New England, upper Mid-Atlantic and upper Midwest disease,

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and although cases have steadily increased — and are estimated to be significantly undercounted — there is no vaccine to prevent it.
“The prevalence of Lyme disease has been dramatically increasing, and the geography has been as well,” Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, MBA, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told Healio | Infectious Disease News.
“It used to be quite a New England, upper Mid-Atlantic and upper Midwest disease,