Vaccines

This section covers vaccines, including traditional approaches and emerging strategies like anti-tick vaccines that target the tick itself rather than the diseases it carries. Explore the current state of vaccine research and development across different types and applications.

In this section

  • Anti-Tick Vaccines: Targeting the Tick, Not the Pathogen — This article explains the anti-tick vaccine approach — vaccines that target proteins in the tick itself, not the pathogens it carries — and surveys where the research stands. It describes the historical veterinary reference point, the categories of tick proteins under investigation as vaccine antigens, the experimental results to date across cattle, rodent, and rabbit models, and the obstacles that have kept anti-tick vaccines out of human use.
  • The Policy Failure — why vaccines and other solutions have not been deployed at population scale; this article covers vaccine development history, pipeline status, efficacy data, and barriers to availability
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