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The 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...
Possessing that protein made possible the creation of a vaccine, which when injected into laboratory mice, protected 95 percent of the animals against Lyme disease infection. The body's immune system should react to the protein as it would the bacteria, but without any of the harmful effects of the...
The medical community was so excited about the prospect of a vaccine against Lyme disease that the Yale and Harvard researchers won backing from the Smith-Kline and Beecham pharmaceuticals company.
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.
At a Nantucket Rotary Club meeting in June, Telford announced his plans to test the vaccine on the island. He said he needed 500 volunteers to test the vaccine and another 500 to take a placebo. But so far, he has received fewer than 30 responses.