“Lyme is treatable, and most people who are infected recover after a month of antibiotics if the disease is caught early.”
The catch is “caught early.” A Runner’s World executive went three months without a diagnosis and has had Lyme four times since. The new shot puts antibodies in your blood so the tick swallows them when it bites. The first human trial has 60 people. Cases have climbed sharply for a decade while the cure stayed a month of pills and hope.