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| Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes |
| 2009-11-18 |
| A-Pee article. Rest at link. Lots of good stuff re vaccines, Chuck Simmins! :-) Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. How about stupidity? Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five years ago, when so many companies had abandoned the vaccine business that half the U.S. supply of flu shots was lost because of contamination at one of the two manufacturers left. Vaccines are no longer a sleepy, low-profit niche in a booming drug industry. Today, they're starting to give ailing pharmaceutical makers a shot in the arm. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #8 Apparently malaria is extremely hard to make a vaccine for. Malaria Capers |
| Posted by: James 2009-11-18 23:48 |
| #7 Everything is airborne in India, Jame, as far as I can tell. The wonder is he didn't come down with something even more interesting. It's also possible I was misinformed -- Mr. Wife's colleagues called me up every day he was in the hospital to lie most comfortingly about his condition until the day they sent him home. It was only late he let slip about the palm-sized insects climbing up the walls of his room and the necessity that his colleagues purchase needles and medicines at reputable outside pharmacies lest he get the watered down stuff and the floor sharps. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-18 21:39 |
| #6 The only problem he had in India was amoebic dysentary, and it's assumed he got that by breathing the wrong particle of dust. I was under the impression that amoebic dysentery was contracted through ingestion of amoebae in water? Cannot be airborne? |
| Posted by: Jame_Retief 2009-11-18 20:37 |
| #5 Much of Malaria would be gone now --- if we hadn't banned DDT based on hype and hysteria. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-18 20:29 |
| #4 I'd be happy to pay out of pocket for a vaccine that prevented Alzheimer's. I'm sure the Gates Foundation would be pleased to pony up for a malaria vaccine to be distributed throughout Africa. I quite firmly believe Mr. Wife's company would have been equally pleased to cover malaria and traveller's diarrhea inoculations before sending him off to the interesting places in his passports; they covered yellow fever in 1986. He would have been more effective -- and his mother wouldn't have looked at me so accusingly when he came back from Egypt so very much thinner and faintly green about the gills. That was how he learnt never to eat meat or drink unbottled water in 3rd world countries, especially at the expensive hotel's restaurant on Friday. Except India. The only problem he had in India was amoebic dysentary, and it's assumed he got that by breathing the wrong particle of dust. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-18 19:18 |
| #3 However if OBumbleCare passes - you can kiss it all goodbye. Bumble will ration it here and give it away to our enemies (as a |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-18 18:32 |
| #2 Stupidity, apparently, is either genetic in origin, or caused by the environment (long-term exposure to left-leaning "edumacashional" techniques, living in a heavily Democrat urban craphole, getting most of your information from the NY Slimes, etc.) Vaccines aren't the solution for those factors. However, if the health care bills pass Congress, it is unlikely that any of the options proven to mitigate those factors (such as the experimental surgery to remove one's head from deep inside one's colon) will be covered. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-18 16:51 |
| #1 Did I miss definitive proof that Alzheimer's is virally induced? I've googled some risk-factor assocation results with one of the herpes viruses, but nothing definitive. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-11-18 16:20 |