Cremation is considerably cheaper than an open funeral. The average cost, according to the Cremation Association of North America, is $1,650, which includes a memorial service. Without the memorial service, an average cremation is $725.
Using a strategy modeled after the LYMERix vaccine, which was pulled from the market in 2002 after four years of sales for allegedly causing damaging side effects, Gomes-Solecki and her team developed an oral solution with a different target: the white-footed mice.
Though LYMErix was the first and last Lyme disease vaccine approved by the FDA, it was not the only one being developed. Around the same time SKB created LYMErix, Pasteur Merieux Connaught also manufactured its own vaccine based on OspA.