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Re:The Lyme Wars (2013) by mrfusion on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:19PM (#8489238)
Does anyone know why we don't develop an immunity to lyme disease after being infected once?
Re:The Lyme Wars (2013) by cjcole on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:30PM (#8489307)
I was diagnosed with and treated for Lyme a few years ago.

At the time, my physician mentioned that a previous infection would provide "a limited immunity" (exact quote).

Since then, I've had two bulls-eyes but no symptoms (oblig anecdata).

It appears that you develop an immunity only to particular strains of the bug:

http://iai.asm.org/content/early/2014/01/07/IAI.01451-13

Re:The Lyme Wars (2013) by Lambdanaut on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:54PM (#8489924)
They drill into crevices in muscle tissue and are able to avoid the lymphocytes. It's hard to effectively become immune.