just in from my local vet in Toulouse France south, for rabies jab for my pup...i asked and he agreed there is a new vaccine just out...here anyhows...for LIME disease...you get it in woods usually...humans get it and like malaria it can kick off again...parasitical i think. there is a VACCINE for pups over 3 months old just out here that i am having done on Saturday. now my surveyor cadastre back in Lithuania of my land told me he suffers from this thing...part of occupational hasard of a land surveyor no doubt...and i don't know if humans can be innoculated against it...need to find out...asked my vet to ask too...

TIC parasite vaccine also to be done in a month. this is a disease inside tic parasites that vet told me can destroy red blood cells ...tics are very common in France...so i am having that done too.

Sadly we have such beaurocracy here in the UK with regard to licenced drugs, that it will be a long time before it would be approved for use here. But if it works, and there are no side effects or problems with it, then anyone who travels to France with their dog, could get the vaccine done there. Lyme disease is becoming much more common in the UK, someone I know on another site has been diagnosed with it after being unwell for several years.

that is a shame...because when i spoke to this human i mentioned and learnt of this disease then for the frist time i thought how aweful a recurring disease...and he said...a country man that it was on the increase too ! i say...if like malaria and it is painful this man told me...then VACCINATE !

Sadly we have such beaurocracy here in the UK with regard to licenced drugs, that it will be a long time before it would be approved for use here

I actually think it is a good thing that it takes a while for any drug to be licensed here in the UK. It does  prevent the legal sale of many medicines from dubious sources and there are a huge number of those that are freely available in other parts of the world but have not had all the necessary tests needed to study long term effects.

But if it works, and there are no side effects or problems with it

That is why the drugs take a long time to license here - trials have to be run to see if long term effects or cumulative ones are worse than the disease they are meant to protect against. I personally would rather wait for all the testing to be done and accept that this will take years to do than run the risk of the cure being worse than the disease.

My OH was involved with the trialling of a drug for cancer - in some cancers it was proven to slow down the growth rate of tumours but in his particular case it was found that although it did slow down the growth rate in some areas it was unable to act upon tumours that developed in the brain. As the drug had some very difficult side effects it was decided that that particular drug was only  suitable for some types of cancer because not all areas could be accessed by the drug and the side effects suffered were just as detrimental as the disease it was hoping to alleviate.