Lyme Disease
Is Immunization Economically Practical?
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 3rd, 2001
The answer appears to be yes - if an area is endemic for the parasitic infection.
Researchers investigated whether the cost of large-scale Lyme disease vaccination is worthwhile in terms of quality of life gained due to disease avoidance.
"We developed a decision-analytic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of vaccination compared with no vaccination in individuals living in endemic areas of Lyme disease," reported N.A. Shadick and colleagues at Brigham and Women's...
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