Figure 2. Average cost effectiveness of vaccinating a person
against Lyme disease with changes in the cost of vaccination,
probabilities of identifying and treating early Lyme disease,
and probabilities of contracting Lyme disease. A negative value
indicates that vaccinating a person will result in a net cost to
society, while a positive value indicates a net savings to
society. The results shown are the means from Monte Carlo
simulations (see Table 1 and text for further details). Vaccine
assumed 85% effective (Table 1). The opinions expressed by
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