5ciFiGirl

5ciFiGirl, 4 days ago

@AndrewHenry

A friend who is a doctor (and is NOT anti-vaxx) explained the problem with Lyme vaccine:

The Lyme bacteria itself does not do most of the damage. It hides in joints and nerves, and resembles those tissues. When the antibodies attack, they can't tell the difference and attack the body itself.

The quicker the antibiotic, the less antibodies you have to make, the better.

So the vaccine is just the damaging antibodies, without getting infected! 😯

@grivettcarnac @futurebird

5ciFiGirl, 4 days ago

@AndrewHenry

This is rather different than most vaccines.

(And also why a second infection is worse than the first.)

@grivettcarnac @futurebird