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Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon?
sciencehabit writes: Two groups of researchers have created vaccines that may lead to a universal flu shot that could protect against every type of flu. Every year millions get a flu shot but with thousands of strains that mutate and evolve across seasons, no one shot can protect against them all. Sciencemag reports on the research: "When the teams vaccinated mice, both groups saw full protection against H5N1, a lethal influenza strain distantly related to H1N1. In both studies, mice that did not receive the stem-derived vaccine died, but vaccinated mice all survived. In further experiments, the nanoparticle-anchoring vaccine showed partial protection in ferrets, whereas the other vaccine showed partial protection in monkeys. Two of the six vaccinated ferrets fell ill and died, compared with a 100% mortality rate for the unvaccinated ferrets. None of the monkeys died, but those that were vaccinated had significantly lower fevers than their nonvaccinated companions."
The take away for me: being a lab animal sucks.
nothing's gonna change my world
Here they come
How can a serious research have n=6? While I understand the problem with monkeys, one would expect at least 30 ferret subjects for some statistical significance...
Isn't the flu like Pokemon? Gotta catch 'em all!
Sure, having universal flu protection would be nice. But I don't know how I would feel about having THAT many autisms injected into me.
Bathroom humor is just shit.
I've been using the already existing one with a 75% success rate over 4 years. It's called wash your damn hands and don't touch your nose while in public.
It's the mixture of animals (pigs mostly), birds and people in close proximity that is the source of the flu.
I doubt a universal vaccine will be developed, given the variations amongst all the inputs.
However, (another vaccine) is correct. You can reduce your infection rate by at least 50 percent just by washing your hands (it's the scrubbing action and the use of water and soap or alcohol that does it) and covering your nose area when you sneeze (sleeve, tissue, hands that you wash after but remember you touch doorknobs.
I find small kids defeat most screening methods, in which case you really should have taken the vaccine.
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Universally stupid and a waste of time/money/pain.
We already have vitamin D which is very effective against seasonal viruses like the flu.
Of course the problem is that this cannot be patented
I've been waiting for this for several years - after reading of similar (perhaps the same) work in Europe.
As with this story, they went after a "conserved region" on one of the critical viral proteins. This is a region that doesn't change substantially as the virus evolves, because it's the way it has to be for the virus to work, so viruses with changes to this part generally don't reproduce . (The bulk of the antibody-accessible portion of the virus is structural or "deliberate" camouflage, and mutates rapidly, which is why the viruses and ordinary vaccines keep changing.)
They cloned the conserved region onto a plasmid and made a strain of bacteria that pumped out the artificial antigen by the bucketful, suitable for making vaccine on industrial scale.
Story was they got one that worked for ALL the "A" strains of influenza. But they were having a hard time doing the same for "B" strains and didn't want to go for approval and production until they had a mix that could get them both.
Perhaps this story explains the problem with the B strains - and announces the solution?
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In other news, AIDS 2.0 will be on the horizon now as "science" continues to manufacture "bugs" for vaccine testing. http://www.originofaids.com/ar...
Sure, having universal flu protection would be nice. But I don't know how I would feel about having THAT many autisms injected into me.
Ha ha. But seriously... As I understand it:
A large number of researchers (many funded by sources with no connection to drug companies) attempted to reproduce the research claiming to find a link between vaccinations and autism. They were not able to do so.
It was discovered that the original researcher who claimed the connection was funded by a consortium of trial lawyers.
The journal (BMJ), in which the original research was published, retracted it, investigated the study, and concluded that the author had "misrepresented or altered" the medical histories of the 12 subjects in question, in what appears to be a deliberate hoax.
More in this CNN article.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Do me a favour when this vaccine is out.. don't give it to any member of PETA or animal rights group or all other sods who keep pushing against animal testing.
To the claim that there are no black sheep. The finding of a SINGLE black sheep is enough. No need to find more. You really do need to engage your brain rather than try to show off your "statistics" skills "learned" by reading slashdot posters without comprehension of the background and make a complete ass of yourself.
Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon?
If it is, that's a stupid place to put it. I'll never get there!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
But only as long as they like the claims. Remember: the original fraudulent piker who produced this paper "proving" autism from vaccines was lauded as a well respected doctor and the paper produced in a well respected journal, therefore should be believed to be proven.
It was only when the "establishment" that they previously relied upon to bolster the "facts" of the claim found it was bollocks did they no longer trust or put weight behind the establishment.
You'll not deniers do this often. Whatever they are in denial about. "Hey, this authority says X, like us!" (like the authority), "Hah! Your authority is not science!" (don't like authority), and the change can easily be with the same authority.
1) Animals don't react the same way to drugs or so-called 'vaccines' as humans do, hence all this research is irrelevant to humans.
2) There is no such thing as 'vaccination', Jenner was a fraudster. Anybody willing to bet £100,000 that this 'vaccine' will actually work as advertised? I thought not. Like all the other so-called 'flu vaccines', it won't work. Guaranteed. Come back here in a year or so when they release it, and it fails.
http://www.whale.to/v/hadwen1.html
No
raspy breathing
difficulty walking in a straight line
skin and eye discoloration
bodily odor problems
increased appetite...for human flesh
I'm quite sure the people in Alpha Centauri don't want our cavemen medicine.