For those who think that vaccination is not necessary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitisTick-borne encephalitis is one of deadliest viral infections in 21st century. Due to climate change, it spreads quickly and this proccess is irreversible since it's nearly impossible to sanitize infected areas. For example, 20 years ago nobody heared about tick-borne encephalitis in Romania or Moscow region. But now it's here and slowly moves to west. Little by little it conquers new territories in Austria, Germany and other countries.
That wouldn't be a problem if effective vaccine would have existed. Unfortunately, there is no such one. People from accross the globe spent years trying to create attenuated strain of the virus, but they came to conclusion that it's impossible. So, only inactivated vaccines are available, and their protection level is very limited. You have to revaccinate every 3 years in order to keep protective level of antibodies.
Ah yes. Ticks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6gCqulCok What a surprise to see them lending a hand to the force vaccination for all pro-vax movement.
I live in a rural area and get tick bites multiple times per year. Twice I've gotten flu-like symptoms after a tick bite and both times have taken a short course of antibiotics just in case.
My mom got the classic bulls-eye rash and the 'medical professional' still refused to treat it as potential lyme since there were 'only 8 reports' in the state. When Mom insisted, the lady got terribly upset and practically through the antibiotic prescription at her. On her way out the door my mom said 'I'm sure you are going to report this as a potential case, right?' just to further piss the 'doctor' off.
The good news is that since we are all going to die from global climate change brought on by cow farts, ticks can also make people allergic to red meat. Here's a 'mainstream' story about that (though the 'conspiracy theory' explorations of same contain a lot more actual scientific information.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nndLZSMpuQ CBS has it pegged as a double-bite transferring some natural meat sugars. Ya, I'm sure that's what it is...
Dear antivaccinators, giving the lethality rate and complications into account, your extinction is only a matter of time. This planet will become uncapable of supporting your life quite soon.
It is fairly easy to see the next few moves in this chess game.
The next move is that the pro-vax forces will be spreading around certain diseases that they claim to have a solution for and say "See, told you so. Now we need force vaccination."
The anti-vaxxer counter-play will be to analyze the genetic material and see if it happens to stem from a strain out of Fort Detrick or some such.
A wild-card will be whistle-blowers who's conscience has been pushed beyond the breaking point. Also how effectively the 'open source' scientific establishment can muster the resources to use state-of-the-art analytical equipment. Also how effective the recent clamp-down on the free flow of information by Google et-al turns out to be.
The Plumb Island crew have been severely hampered in their lyme project because people with money have gotten ill and have contributed lots of money to independent research and lab facilities. The 'open source' understanding of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium and associated weaponized biological agents is actually fairly well understood at this point for those who care to look.