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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 —…

Dr. Jolieke G. van Oosterwijk, US Biologic Chief Scientific Officer, presented key findings on a chewable flu vaccine that US Biologic is developing in partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe) as part of its Beyond the Needle program. The presentation was held at the…

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Dr. Jolieke van Oosterwijk, Chief Scientific Officer with US Biologic, who highlights the Memphis-based company developing groundbreaking orally delivered vaccines, changing global disease prevention and allowing safe, effective, and cost-efficient delivery of preventative interventions to wildlife, companion animals, food animals, and humans. During the interview, Jolieke discusses how they…

US Biologic’s CSO, Dr. Jolieke G. van Oosterwijk, presented at the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, D.C. Dr. van Oosterwijk discussed “using zoonotic disease surveillance to guide oral vaccine design” and presented the methods US Biologic uses to prevent pandemic-level diseases. In her talk, Dr. van Oosterwijk explained to the audience the unique nature of oral…

“Other ticks, such as lone star ticks, carry diseases, too, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis and tularemia; yet we know even less about where these ticks are or how their populations are changing.” Full article

“The spread of Lyme disease has followed that of deer ticks. The incidence of Lyme has more than doubled over the past two decades. In 2016, federal health officials reported 36,429 new cases, and the illness has reached far beyond endemic areas in the Northeast to points west, south and north.” Full article

“For the first time in 50 years, a new tick species has arrived in the United States — one that in its Asian home range carries fearsome diseases. The Asian long-horned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, is spreading rapidly along the Eastern Seaboard. It has been found in seven states and in the heavily populated suburbs of…