The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently issued a Conditional Licensure for a novel oral vaccine against the wildlife spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease.
Announced by US Biologic, Inc. on May 9, 2023, this innovative Borrelia Burgdorferi Bacterin vaccine is spray-coated onto pellets that mice consume.
As the expression goes, if you give a mouse a vaccine….. good things happen!
The only known vector of Lyme disease is blacklegged ticks, which are infected primarily by feeding on mammals, particularly white-footed mice.
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