Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS)
Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2018
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On Vaccination
Lemons and Lyme
Stanley A Plotkin
Extract
The world is a curious place, as you may have noticed, or, more accurately, people have curious opinions. One might think that a disease that is estimated to occur in more than 300000 people each year would be one that everybody would like to prevent [1], but that is not the case for Lyme disease, which, in this country, is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto.Figure 1 shows the geographical distribution of cases [1]. It is odd that there is a lobby against the development and deployment of a vaccine against the disease by people who…