Ebola Vaccine Passes Initial Human Tests

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com has an article about the first successful tests of an Ebola vaccine on human subjects." From the article: "Nabel and colleagues at the NIH's Vaccine Research Center developed a vaccine made of DNA strands that encode three Ebola proteins. They boosted that vaccine with a weakened cold-related virus, and the combination protected monkeys exposed to Ebola. The first human testing looked just at the vaccine's DNA portion; the full combination will be tested later. At a microbiology meeting in Washington on Friday, Nabel and colleagues reported seeing no worrisome side effects when comparing six people given dummy shots with 21 volunteers given increasing doses of the DNA vaccine."

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Rainbow Six

[ender06]

that ruins the entire book. reading about someone crashing and bleeding out just isn't the same when you know there's a vaccine. wonder if it would work on the Shiva virus.

Re:Rainbow Six

[Anonymous Coward]

Shiva is an interesting deity... The Significance of Shiva's Dance

"This cosmic dance of Shiva is called 'Anandatandava,' meaning the Dance of Bliss, and symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birth and death. The dance is a pictorial allegory of the five principle manifestations of eternal energy -- creation, destruction, preservation, salvation, and illusion. According to Coomerswamy, the dance of Shiva also represents his five activities: 'Shrishti' (creation, evolution); 'Sthiti' (preservation, support); 'Samhara' (destruction, evolution); 'Tirobhava' (illusion); and 'Anugraha' (release, emancipation, grace). The overall temper of the image is paradoxical, uniting the inner tranquillity, and outside activity of Shiva.

But the interesting deitic interplay is between Shiva and Kali... "The goddess Kali is somewhat distinctive from the other popular Hindu goddesses. Her name is translated as "she who is black" or "the black one" (Kinsley 1993: 134). She is a goddess who is usually depicted in relation to violent battles, in which her passions have arrived at a tremendous intensity. In situations such as these, it generally appears that Kali is expressing the "wrath of the divine" through acts of severe violence. Kali is often described as drinking the hot blood of her victims and then dancing out of control - threatening to destroy the cosmos itself (1993: 134). In appearance and function, Kali symbolizes uncontrollability that neither humans nor the male gods can overcome. Kali's appearance has been represented by various images over the years. Perhaps Kinsley describes her best when he states:

Her hair is disheveled, her eyes red and fierce, she has fangs and a long lolling tongue, her lips are often smeared with blood, her breasts are long and pendulous, her stomach is sunken, and her figure is generously gaunt. She is naked but for several characteristic ornaments: a necklace of skulls or freshly cut heads, a girdle of severed arms, and infant corpses as earrings. She is usually said to have four arms. In the upper left hand, she holds a bloodied cleaver, in her lower left, a freshly cut severed head; her upper right hand makes the sign "fear not," and her lower right hand, the sign of one who confers boons (Kinsley 1996: 77)."

The dance of Kali at the end of time is danced upon the body of Shiva. The wildness of her dance tears the universe apart and brings about the death of Shiva.

Would make one hell of a ballet.

FagorUz

[Anonymous Coward]

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