Vijay Sikand

It can have adverse consequences, which may be serious and untreatable or become chronic.

And now we have a vaccine that is safe and effective in preventing it.

What can we do except for give this to the American people?

There were some dark clouds on the horizon.

There were unanswered questions.

So here...

This researcher had his license stripped from him at the end of the day.

He had the black eye, the journal had the black eye, but the damage was done.

So we had a perfect storm back then.

Wait a minute.

How do you guys know that it's vaccine safe?

Look at that MMR.

We read about it in the paper.

One of the things that people were worried about with the Lyme disease vaccine was whether it might cause an unusual form of arthritis related to autoimmunity.

After approval, one and a half million people received the Lyme vaccine over the following three years, two or three years.

What happens afterwards?

The manufacturer actually collected a large amount of data on the people who received the vaccine after it was approved.

A day didn't go by where I didn't get contact from one of the national or international media asking to talk about that vaccine that we heard might be causing arthritis or other autoimmune problems.

That's a good question because these patients covered the whole spectrum.

We had patients who said...