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If a Lyme disease vaccine gets approved, how would it go over? We asked hunters

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Drugmakers are developing a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that infects thousands of Americans yearly. Rural hunters, who face elevated tick exposure, would be key to the vaccine's success. But according to NPR, widespread vaccine skepticism in those communities could pose a significant challenge to uptake.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/27/nx-s1-5859907/lyme-disease...

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