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Vaccination Is Effective Preventive Medicine.(for Lyme disease)

Vaccine Weekly

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A review of medical literature published in the July 2001 edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings reports that vaccination is an effective and demonstrated method to prevent Lyme disease and the best evidence supports prevention efforts focused on practices that encourage immunization, Lyme disease awareness, and possibly treatment of deer.

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States and an emerging infectious disease of worldwide importance.

Healthy People 2010, an initiative designating the U.S. public health goals, established prevention of Lyme disease a priority. Its goal is that by 2010 the cases in endemic states will be reduced by 44%.

Gregory Poland, MD, a Mayo Clinic vaccine specialist, reviewed a wide range of clinical trials, ...

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