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...NANTUCKET, Mass.--Harvard School of Public health researchers believe they may have found the cure for Lyme disease, the infection which has stricken nearly 20 percent of this island's year-round population...
...only treatment currently available for Lyme disease, which is caused by a spirochete, a type of bacteria, is antibiotics, typically amoxicillin. Telford's effort to bring the Lyme disease vaccine trial to Nantucket began several years ago with a phone call from Yale University researchers who told him: "We have a vaccine which works...
That second phase found Telford in Nantucket, where he has been plucking ticks from field mice for the last 10 years. Despite some doubts, Telford says he could think of no better place than Nantucket, plagued by the disease, to test the vaccine...
Cape Cod offers nearly 300 miles of coastlinedotted with an array of quaint fishing villagesand rocky beaches. Ferries to Martha's Vineyardand Nantucket leave daily. A trip to the islandsrequires a little planning, some extra cash, ahard to get reservation and a tolerance fortourists but it's well worth the effort. Whitesand, clear surf and gray-shingled cottages withwidow's walks on the rooves all abound on theislands...
...generally finessed its transgressions. The public has never learned the full story of what happened when Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick, when David Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach hotel, or when Joe Kennedy's jeep overturned on Nantucket and crippled a young girl for life. Last week, as the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith began in West Palm Beach with interviews of prospective jurors, the Kennedy family could count on two of its traditional assets. It has a good legal team (at least $1 million of the Kennedy...