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One study published in the journal Experimental and Applied Acarology in 2020 showed that oral vaccines deposited throughout 32 residential properties in Redding, Connecticut led to a significant decrease in infected mice, falling 24% in one year. Another study with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Dutchess County showed a 74% decrease throughout the…

Listen to the WTBQ radio interview with Chris Przybyszewski, President of US Biologic, as he discusses Lyme disease, the LymeShield System and additional proven integrated tick management tools to control disease in the environment.

Neil Strebig – Memphis Commercial Appeal – December 12, 2023  Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett made a brief visit in Memphis last week.  On Dec. 4, Hargett met with leadership at US Biologic inside their Memphis manufacturing facility at Agricenter International near Shelby Farms Park.  “We want Memphis to thrive,” Hargett said.  The discussion…

AGAWAM, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – The first Lyme disease vaccine licensed for mice has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help prevent the disease’s spread and a local exterminator will be one of the first to give it a try. “People don’t realize that they are the largest mover of Lyme disease in…

On one wall in the modest office of Maria Gomes-Solecki, DVM, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, hangs a framed letter that is the culmination of more than 20 years of work. Dated April 27, the letter is from the U.S. Department of…

According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 476,000 people in the U.S. contract Lyme disease every year. Climate change and human encroachment into wilderness areas means ticks and the disease-causing bacteria they carry are becoming more common. Dr. Linden Hu, an immunology professor and co-director of the Lyme Disease Initiative at Tufts…

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has conditionally licensed an oral vaccine designed to limit the spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The vaccine is sprayed onto pellets and distributed in natural settings to be consumed by mice. Lyme disease is the nation’s most common vectorborne disease, and the US Centers…

MEMPHIS (Precision Vaccinations) The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently issued a Conditional Licensure for a novel oral vaccine against the wildlife spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease. Announced by US Biologic, Inc. on May 9, 2023, this innovative Borrelia Burgdorferi Bacterin vaccine is spray-coated onto pellets that mice consume. As the expression goes, if you give a mouse a vaccine…..…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – US Biologic, a leading global entity in the development, commercialization, and distribution of orally delivered vaccines, announces USDA Conditional Licensure of its novel oral vaccine against the wildlife spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, the number one vector-borne disease in the U.S. The only known vector is the…

Let’s begin with a blacklegged tick. At the risk of anthropomorphizing, we’ll call him Hank. A fledgling tick, Hank is a larva, and to move into the next stage of his life cycle, a nymph, he needs a meal — specifically, a blood meal. So, young Hank, ever determined, latches on to a white-footed mouse —…