10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Measles vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Tetanus vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

@luckytran

Selfishly, I wish-beyond-wish that there were some tick-disease vaccines out there:

Many colleagues / families of colleagues in the NYC area have been taken out by:
Lyme
&
Babesiosis

@atthenius
I remember a friend in NYC getting Lyme disease over 30 years ago. Don't know if they got it in NYC.

I was from upstate NY and was already familiar with checking for fleas and ticks to avoid it.

If there are no vaccines I hope the detection and treatment has improved.

@luckytran

@mdd @atthenius @luckytran

Lyme Disease is caused by a bacterium. Vaccines are effective in virus antibody production, not so much bacteriae.

'As of 2023, clinical trials of proposed human vaccines for Lyme disease were being carried out, but no vaccine was available. A vaccine, LYMERix, was produced, but discontinued in 2002 due to insufficient demand. There are several vaccines for the prevention of Lyme disease in dogs' 🙄 -see canine hemangiosarcoma - Retrievers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

Lyme disease - Wikipedia

@aquarius1842 @mdd @atthenius @luckytran thank anti-vaxxers and similar grifters for the downfall of Lymerix, because they started suing and saying they had problems from it, without evidence and despite the FDA/CDC *looking* for evidence. [Same Wikipedia article, under Vaccination -> lymerix]
@aquarius1842 @mdd @atthenius @luckytran which has been said multiple times up and down thread, now that i look. We're all grumpy about it.