Tennessee-based company is awarded a $1 million grant for their development of vaccination pellets that can be spread in backyards or campgrounds that inoculate mice when consumed, breaking down the chain of (Lyme disease) transmission. “We can prevent the disease so you don’t have to spend all the money on diagnosis and cures and treatments and everything downstream,” Kauffman said. “You can do it extremely efficiently on the front end. ... We are starting with Lyme disease, but you can actually address a host of diseases that come from wildlife like mice.”
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:08:06 +0000