The Kenora district has one of the highest rates of Lyme disease, but new stats show it’s becoming more of a problem across Canada.
According to the Public Health Agency, there were 1,500 cases last year and they expect those numbers to keep growing.
To fight the spread of the disease, a European company, Valneva, is currently working on VLA15, which if all testing goes well, will hit the market in five years.
Valneva says they are in phase two of testing.
The new vaccine would prevent six strains of Lyme disease.
